NY Post
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is jumping into the hotly contested Queens District Attorney’s race and holding a fundraiser for local machine favorite, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz.
The three-term governor is hopping into the race after Democratic freshman and socialist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backed public defender Tiffany Caban, giving the one-time longshot a major boost — and setting up a proxy battle between two of New York’s top political figures.
Cuomo’s political operation declined comment.
Katz said in a statement, “I’m proud to have Governor Cuomo’s support at this critical level.”
Neither would provide more details about the event, which is set for June 10 at an undisclosed Manhattan locale.
I can't tell what's more insulting and off-putting, the fact that they are holding a fundraiser for a Queens election in Manhattan or that the venue or even location of the event is being kept a secret despite this major endorsement.
What exactly is Cuomo's "political operation"?
Update:
Melinda Katz and her allies/endorsers are using sexual identity politics, misogyny accusations and Donald Trump comparisons to undermine Greg Lasak's D.A. campaign in a letter distributed by Katz' campaign.
21 comments:
Melinda Katz has proven to be a hard working public servant. That being said, she lacks to criminal justice experience needed by the people of Queens. Greg Lasak has the right temperament and far and away the most experience to become our next District Attorney.
I've seen the mailer, no sexist attacks, just the plain truth. Melinda has never stepped foot in a criminal court - period. Why is everybody so bent on getting her elected? Is it because she won't go after them?
What a joke that letter is. Having two do nothing elected officials from the SE Queens area (Hyndman & Adams)give their take. In the meantime, their areas they represent are some of the worst as far as quality of life and neither has done nothing to make it better, in fact it just gets worse and they help to engage along with others in that area with environmental racism. This bullshit identity politics by the Democrats is why we have an incompetent, corrupt president in the White House now. When will the Democrats learn, this crap loses the MAJOR elections. By the way Lasak is not attacking women, he is attacking do nothing elected officials like Katz. So I guess in the day and age if you attack a female politician on her lack of experience or record, that is attacking women. This is what the bullshit "woke" movement has created, CRAP.
Notice there are no specifics in the letter, just general attacks on Lasak. What exactly did he say?
I would rather have an experienced judge that knows the court system as our new District Attorney rather than a political hack who knows nothing about the Queens Criminal Court System. Greg Lasak has my vote. He is also against closing Rikers and wants to fix it rather than replace it.
I got Lasak's mailer. It's not misogynistic at all. It's merely stating facts - Melinda Katz does not possess the resume to be the next Queens DA. Most of the candidates are the same. My guess is she will win the primary now that the Governor is behind her. My guess is Lancman will drop out and endorse her, and it will become a contest between her and Cabran. Lasak unfortunately is white and a man, two characteristics that are basically a death knell in a Democratic Primary
Looks like the Katz camp is getting nervous. Does this attack mean their internal research is showing Lasak is in the lead? I sure hope so.
LASAK FOR QUEENS DA!
Harry Binham IV
Melinda was loyal to CLaire.
She suffered medically.
I respect her and feel sorry for her.
Leave her alone.
Anon #2:
From the tone of your comment, I can see you haven't left the Democrat Party but the Democrat Party surely has left you. Practically speaking, the party you belong to no longer exists in reality; it only exists in your imagination. The party is now a concoction of competing tribes that will cannibalize each other until the whole thing ultimately collapses. Also, White Christian ethnics and Jews are no longer welcome in the jackass party. As far as corruption is concerned, Trump is a babe in the woods compared to your boy Meeks and those other SE Queens Dems that have been victimizing their own people for decades. So you see, the Democrats have nothing to "learn" from your wise counsel. Identity politics and the "woke" movement, etc. are a Democrat party construct. Lasak is being attacked mainly because he is a straight White male and there is increasingly no room for such creatures in the Democrat Party today. That's why millions of them crossed over to our side in the last presidential election and helped elect one of the greatest Presidents in history. And it's going to happen again in 2020. MAGA.
Harry Bingham IV
We need to get rid of both of them. They are full of crap.
Between the ravaging hyper-corruption of City Hall and the decades of New York State rot, erosion and party-machine-failed, establishment-rigged entrenchment throughout Albany's decaying corridors of never-ending corruption, graft and greed, Mario's equally, diabolically filthy, crooked and corrupt son has ravaged and tonsured New York State so completely, that this openly practicing government gangster-thug now DEVALUES honesty itself!
Want to know why bullets are flying in public and private places of business? No social contract with We, the People, all of whom are left to rot in virtual adversity, beggary, obscurity, quiet desperation and PUBLIC SQUALOR - versus THEIR PRIVATE SPLENDOR and UNJUST ENRICHMENT, whilst living (and feeding), off of the human misery of their epic, government, humanitarian, ecological, fiscal and spiritual fail that only keeps getting worse by the hour——and, the ever languishing public be damned! How BOTH of these lethal scourges, 'Gargoyle Andy' and Melinda 'Alley Katz' STILL haven't been remanded to federal lockup for life is a testament to how criminally broken and insane this two-party-machine-failed duopoly is (and, it always HAS been)!
❝Nobody in the world, nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.❞ ——Assata Shakur
❝The system cannot be fixed by the system.❞ ——Tom Morello
❝If voting was any good, they wouldn’t let us do it.❞ ——Mark Twain
❝It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his paycheck demands that he NOT understand it.❞ ——Upton Sinclair
❝Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and trying to deny that we’re the ones who securely tied the knot.❞ ——Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Nobody has ever CHANGED the MAFIA——by JOINING IT!
What? WHAT?? THIS IS NEW
The question is whether there are still enough old guard White Democrats left that will turn out for Lasak. Cabran is taking votes that would normally have went to Katz in the pre AOC world. If Lancman doesn't drop out, he will also siphon votes from Katz. This creates a narrow window where Lasak has a chance if the old guard is still numerous enough and turns out. What is very clear is that the good old days of clubby "no-dissension" Queens Democrats are over. Tribal factions are now a reality. Juat like the Queens Republicans destroyed themselves with their North/South feud, it looks like the beginning of and East/West feud of their own. To top it off, Meeks is a corrupt self- centered idiot who will undoubtedly leave the party worse off when he leaves.
If Katz doesn't win, the days of the Dem machine are numbered.
Harry Bingham IV
Between the ravaging hyper-corruption of City Hall and the decades of New York State rot, erosion and party-machine-failed, establishment-rigged entrenchment throughout Albany's decaying corridors of never-ending corruption, graft and greed, Mario's equally, diabolically filthy, crooked and corrupt son has ravaged and tonsured New York State so completely, that this openly practicing government gangster-thug now DEVALUES honesty itself!
Want to know why bullets are flying in public and private places of business? No social contract with We, the People, all of whom are left to rot in virtual adversity, beggary, obscurity, quiet desperation and PUBLIC SQUALOR - versus THEIR PRIVATE SPLENDOR and UNJUST ENRICHMENT, whilst living (and feeding), off of the human misery of their epic, government, humanitarian, ecological, fiscal and spiritual fail that only keeps getting worse by the hour——and, the ever languishing public be damned! How BOTH of these lethal scourges, 'Gargoyle Andy' and Melinda 'Alley Katz' STILL haven't been remanded to federal lockup for life is a testament to how criminally broken and insane this two-party-machine-failed duopoly is (and, it always HAS been)!
❝Nobody in the world, nobody in history has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.❞ ——Assata Shakur
❝The system cannot be fixed by the system.❞ ——Tom Morello
❝If voting was any good, they wouldn’t let us do it.❞ ——Mark Twain
❝It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his paycheck demands that he NOT understand it.❞ ——Upton Sinclair
❝Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and trying to deny that we’re the ones who securely tied the knot.❞ ——Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Nobody has ever CHANGED the MAFIA——by JOINING IT!
What? WHAT?? THIS IS NEW
Hmmnnn..A bogus attack on Lasak, and then bogus claims of an endorsement from Barnwell, and then a contradictory and possibly bogus endorsement claim with regard to the
Queensbridge tenant leader. Methinks the Katz camp is getting nervous.
LASAK 2020
Harry Bingham IV
She needs a bigger paycheck to support Sliwas two sons. Always said there is something wrong with her.
Another reason to vote for Lasak. I was planning to vote for him anyway!
Isn’t she a gay single mother? Oh,that was a different campaign.
Judge Lasak is the only tough on crime candidate in race. He could have made a fortune in private practice years ago but chose public service instead. Never left Queens, never left public service.
VOTE LASAK for DA in Democrat Primary!
Harry Bingham IV
The Queens Democratic Party: DINO Democratic in name only
Damned if I know, but they sure make a cute couple!
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