“Ordinary people get one vote. Billionaires get the opportunity to spend as much as they want to elect the candidates they want,” [Senator Bernie] Sanders said, decrying the influence of super PACs that can accept unlimited political donations. “That is the context in which this election is taking place.”
[Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), meanwhile, cast the race as one that “mirrors what we are up against nationally, both an authoritarian criminal presidency, fueled by corruption and bigotry and an ascendant right-wing extremist movement,” as well as the “insufficient, eroded, bygone political establishment, this time in the form of Andrew Cuomo.”
I highly recommend watching AOC’s speech, she was amazing, truly inspirational.
Technically, voting has already started.
Go. Cuomo!
Just…go.
Always nice when you can find an excuse to wear the same dress twice
taxeatftfy.
I feel like they probably would taste nice. Maybe composting them would be better
If we can convince them they taste like foie gras, maybe they’ll eat themselves…
If they can afford to buy Trump gifts, they can afford to pay taxes.
Zohran said it best in the debate, they’re spending more money to smear him than they would be paying in extra taxes if he won.
it was a pretty damn good and powerful speech.
but also, these events are the least of things politically. they don’t really tell you anything new. It felt like a bit of a victory lap.
It’s pretty clear Cuomo has not a snowballs chance in hell and also with turnout so far this is going to be a kind of stunning defeat that won’t be forgotten any time soon.
I expect plenty to say things along the line of “but that’s new york” when it comes to replicating the plays we saw here, and sure there is some of that.
yet to see what this does for other insurgents. polling this week will show if Platner, who is taking the same tack, takes a haircut from tattoo gate. Then you have Abugazalla, fatah, Ruwa romman, many others watching how this unfolded very closely.
the playbook is straight word. Identify a small set of straightforward, understandable issue (rent, transportation, cost of food). Laser focus on them. Stay focused as the hits come.
the outcome of tattoo gate will also be a bit telling. If Platner shakes it off and continues to surge. he was still +30 in polling which was conducted last week after the scandal erupted. it’s clear that some people in Maine see this as obviously coming from DNC leadership in Schumer’s attempt to tip the scales towards a corporatist. My intuition is that more than anything, Mainers hate the idea that Washington gets to pick their candidate for them, so I think the oppo will have backfired. Schumer might actually be one of the least popular politicians of all time and is a poison pill.
