#JuanAnon post mortem

Yesterday we saw Borough President Donovan Richards expose himself as a sore winner. Today, let's highlight a sore loser.

This was published on social media after the June 22nd election by 30th District City Council candidate Juan Ardila:

Well first off, it looks like Holden absolutely slayed you in the absentee ballot count because his lead over you grew to more than 900 votes from 541:

Middle Village receives the most resources? What proof is there of that? Maybe you can point us to where you found this evidence so this injustice can be corrected. Or maybe you're saying this because you don't know where the district actually begins and ends...

Now, if by "failing to reach these voters in a meaningful way" you mean you marched through their neighborhood with a bunch of out-of-district gentrifiers so you could scream "racism" after your opponent introduced legislation to repeal an unconstitutional law, you'd be correct. That's a really big reason why you lost, along with cheering on the ripping of American flags off houses. It also didn't help that you enlisted snarky gentrifier bros to run your campaign and they expressed repeated disdain for older home-owners who have lived there for decades. The most avoidable mistake was your campaign manager sending out a fact-challenged email expressing support for noise. If you had been paying any kind of attention, you would have realized this was the number one quality of life issue throughout Queens for most of the spring.

Blaming your loss on gerrymandering is a stretch because the last redistricting was approved by the Dept of Justice during the Obama administration. (Literally the commission drew the lines the current way to protect the interests of Latinos in neighboring districts because so many gentrifiers moved into Bushwick.) Saying the will of 90% of the people is being ignored is an obvious falsehood since more people district-wide voted for the other guy.

Also, it goes without saying that crying discrimination when you have racist, sexist and homophobic crap on your own social media makes you look like a big hypocrite. When no one has ever heard of you, that's a pretty rough way to introduce yourself to the electorate.

But what probably brought it home for Holden was your complete silence on vandalism at the church that many in the district are members of (including you), the defacement of the Queens Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and repeated attacks on the Asian community who naturally backed Holden in large numbers. The incumbent outshined you on every issue in the last few weeks of the campaign - and got legislation passed, to boot - while you were busy taking selfies.

But, hey, it's not all doom and gloom. Your former boss, Brad Pander, is probably hiring.