How They Stop Us—sometimes. not every time
You may have heard that a NYC Council seat in Queens was open and that Bernie had endorsed one of the 7 candidates. Five out of the seven candidates were South Asian American. One was Black and one was white.
The white guy had held the seat before and was running to regain it. His name is Jim Gennaro
Bernie’s candidate is Moumita. Here’s how it went:
I know the type is small but maybe you can see that Jim Gennaro ran away with the race. They won’t need our new ranked voting system this time as over 50% gives you a first round win.
Moumita came in second with about 16% of the vote.
This is how an AOC type effort was defeated in NYC on Tuesday.
I should mention that this flood the field tactic failed miserably against Jumaane Williams who was a very well known and popular candidate. The DNC tried it again against Ritchie Torres and it failed. Third time lucky, I guess.
This is the Tweet I needed. Please ignore the Errol Louis one above. Sorry for the mess.
Not the best time for an election. In the middle of the winter and pandemic, and right after a major snowstorm.
The good news is that in June, there will be another primary for the next term.
Ranked choice voting should help with this flooding the field tactic, which works by diluting the vote of certain ethnic groups. With RCV, assumably, those voters will vote for other candidates from that group until one emerges as the leader. That works only if the favored establishment candidate is kept below the 50% threshold though, which didn’t happen here.
right! Instead, all the South Asian candidates eliminated themselves and the four others.
That’s exactly how Bernie was shut out of the Democratic Primary. A crowded field through the first part, in more left leaning states, followed by a glut in mostly conservative Southern states. The field drops out heading into the conservative glut, allowing all of those people who will never elect a Democrat in the general election, to choose our candidate for us.
Or their candidate, for them, as the case may be.
T and R, NYCVG!!❄️☮️😊👍
Not being from NYC I find this tidbit interesting.
https://nyccfb.info/VSApps/IndependentSpenderSummary.aspx?spender_id=Z117&as_election_cycle=2021A&cand_name=Common%20Sense%20NYC,%20Inc.
The information is not easily transferred so you have to click on the link.
But it does appear to be heavy handed with regards to a council seat.🤔
they spent almost as much as they spent supporting Gennaro in opposing Moumita? wow.
Yes. That’s the big story.
worked on Bernie. T&R!