Himu might be getting his way in New York, more progressives rather than right-wing losers like Hochul and Adams:
Jay Jacobs, the state party chairman, is now the target of ire from both progressive and moderate Democrats. Several prominent politicians, including City Comptroller Brad Lander and Liz Krueger, one of the highest-ranking state senators, have called for his ouster. All ideological factions crave competence, and Jacobs has not delivered on even this most basic front.
Hochul said last week she is sticking with Jacobs, who was a holdover from the Cuomo years and maintained a close relationship with the disgraced former governor. Political observers in the state don’t expect Jacobs to last deep into 2023 — the holiday season, or shortly after, might be the preferred time to dump him — but the beleaguered party chair is as much a symptom of the New York Democratic debacle as he is its cause. It’s easy enough to understand the anger at Jacobs: He simultaneously chairs the Nassau County Democratic Party, which oversaw enormous losses for the House, state senate, and county level. All the Democratic gains of the Trump era have been erased, and the suburb, just to the east of Queens, is now deep red. Republicans haven’t been this dominant on Long Island in decades.
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Jacobs has spent much of his time as party chair — he’s held the job in two different instances now — blaming Democratic losses on outspoken progressives. He once compared India Walton, the Black democratic socialist who won the primary for mayor of Buffalo, to David Duke. Even Establishment-aligned operatives have grown tired of Jacobs’s act. In part this is simply because the state party offers very little in the way of organization or assistance, and there’s a growing consensus in Democratic circles that Hochul must move on from Jacobs. The left-wing Working Families Party has stood out because it did undertake a visible get-out-the-vote push to boost its own party and get Hochul re-elected. The contrast between the WFP and Jacobs’s moribund apparatus was telling.
Beyond Jacobs, Democratic machines have atrophied on the county level, particularly in New York City. The Brooklyn Democratic Party, riven by infighting, could barely mobilize as Republicans swept a large stretch of southern Brooklyn. The Queens Democratic Party is hardly more active or better suited to repel Republicans.
Many Democrats blame party chair Jay Jacobs, an Andrew Cuomo holdover that Hochul should have replaced. The centrist Jacobs has cozied up to Republicans, spent party money challenging progressive Democrats in primaries, and refused to endorse the progressive Democratic victor, India Walton, in the primary for Buffalo mayor last year. More than 1,000 New York Democratic leaders, mostly on the left, have demanded that Hochul fire Jacobs; she insists she will not.
“I know that there are lots of people that think I’m the worst person in the world,” Jacobs said after the dimensions of the party’s losses were becoming clear. “But the truth is I’m probably only in third or fourth place.” He might be right; he has competition.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Sean Patrick Maloney has maybe come in for the worst criticism—including this piece by our own Alexis Grenell, and this one by Slate’s Alexander Sammon. Maloney chased popular first-term progressive Mondaire Jones out of his own district—to be fair, redistricting put both of them in the same district, but Jones had represented most of it. Instead of challenging the man who controlled the party’s coffers in a primary, Jones decamped to a Brooklyn/Lower Manhattan district where he didn’t live, and came in third.
But you know who’s rarely mentioned as a Democrat partly to blame for the disaster? Former representative Tom Suozzi, who gave up his Long Island seat to run a lurid, sexist campaign against Hochul, depicting her as soft on crime as well as not quite up to the job. Suozzi lost that race, badly, and Democrats lost his House seat last week. He almost single-handedly validated the “New York is a hellhole of crime” attack that Zeldin went on to use against Hochul. It didn’t work on Hochul statewide, but it did work on Long Island and in Rockland County, where the House Democrats lost seats they probably could have won. Similar bogus crime attacks fell short in Michigan, California, and Pennsylvania, but somehow found their mark in the Empire State.
Someone who deserves blame too is New York’s Democratic mayor, the night-clubbing, crypto-boosting, ethics-rules-challenging Eric Adams. New York’s second Black mayor likewise took office blaming fellow Democrats for what did feel, for a while, like a scary post-pandemic wave of crime and disorder. He called on Democrats to scrap a bail reform law that made it easier for certain low-income nonviolent defendants to go home without onerous bail requirements; wealthier defendants were able to pay to go free before their trials. He criticized a fellow Black Democrat, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, before he’d effectively taken control of his office, creating the storyline that progressive bail reform plus a justice-minded district attorney made New York City a hellscape.
Then he authored an op-ed in USA Today Monday blaming Democrats for “ignoring [working people] who are deeply concerned about the economy, crime and inflation.” You can’t say Adams lacks chutzpah.
Speaking of chutzpah, all of those men are blaming New York progressives for the lost House seats, for pulling the party too far to the left. The truth is, the party lost seats in what were the hotbeds of white backlash in the 1960s, Long Island and Rockland County. (I know. I grew up in Nassau County.) They were afraid of dark Gotham—dark in many senses of the word. Social change and a diversifying population left more of them open to Democrats over the years. Now Democratic leaders like Adams and Suozzi have stoked that fear of dark Gotham again. Good work, guys. Your left-bashing won’t work. There’s too much evidence of your incompetence and fealty to the party’s centrist, moneyed donors for serious-minded people to believe your blame game.
This article is infuriating.
Not sticking to the facts you filthy leftist media puppet (not you, Benji, but the writer) is precisely why I dropped out of Graduate School for Journalism.
Claims:
1. imaginary crime. Compares places like Michigan to Empire state conveniently forgetting NYC's:a. population density
b. foot traffic
c. lack of car ownership
d. reliance on public transportation
Meanwhile, in Reality Land:
Since the beginning of the pandemic, New York City hate crimes have been on a steady rise. Already this year, they are up nearly 16% year to date over 2021, according to NYPD data.
In an effort to stop the kind of attacks that have left minority communities across the city on edge, the city’s most recent budget invests a record $1.7 million in the Manhattan district attorney’s Hate Crimes Unit.
Officials say the money is necessary to support outreach and to hire staff to do the extensive research required to prosecute hate crimes cases.
The hate crimes docket is at an all-time high for the DA’s office, at 99 cases, according to officials. That number reflects the current number of open cases, meaning it includes cases initiated this year or in a previous year.
“We’re in a historic moment and we want to meet the need that we're seeing certainly for this office,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in an interview.
Although hate crimes have increased citywide over the past two years, Manhattan has seen some of the highest numbers of hate crimes citywide.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/08/24/city-provides--historic--funding-for-manhattan-d-a--hate-crimes-unitYeah, things are good in NYC.
So much so, they've had to include Hate Crime warnings in the subway platforms since this massive uptick.
LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- The crime statistics for New York City are out, and they're staggering, with overall crime up nearly 60% compared to this time last year.
Nicole Robinson waited for her uptown train Thursday night, 16 feet from the edge of the platform. And she wasn't alone.
"I don't feel safe anymore. I really don't feel safe. I would rather take the bus for two hours, versus taking the train for 45 minutes," subway rider Nicole Robinson said.
Despite the NYPD's stepped-up enforcement, many New Yorkers are still deeply worried about crime, both in the subways and on the streets.
Last month, overall crime in New York went up 59% over the same period in 2021.
https://abc7ny.com/new-york-city-crime-statistics-subway/11618737/Yeah, I guess it's in New Yorkers imagination that crime isn't up. It's in my former roommates imagination that they have created self defense classes to empower themselves in a time of growing violence against Asian women. Complete imagination.
2. That the red wave in New York is isolated to Nassau and Rockland Counties. Yet in the very article that was written, the author even admits that Republicans have completely dominated South Brooklyn. You can see this spread westward towards Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, beyond the confines of Italian-American and Russian-American strangleholds like Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Benson Hurst, Sheepshead Bay, and Midwood of south BK into full on Mexican and Asian American territory of western BK.
The author claims racism and a fear of a "Dark Gotham" as if people's concerns are entirely imaginary and inherently racist.
Also note that this outright falsehood of a quote specifically ignores that the entire state is facing a red shift.
Claim of WACISM because of the red shift is utterly preposterous.
3. Ignores the impact of draconian New York Covid policies.I don't feel like I need to expand upon this but NY Democrats are fascists.
I looked up the author and he strikes me as the type has his butt hole stretched by his Doorman in his UWS apartment overlooking Central Park. I looked up his accolades and his alma mater is NYU and Stonybrook. Given the views expressed I'm surprised there isn't a Columbia in there. Probably has a car too and doesn't take the subway or else, he'd know what's up.
