Ayo: The New York Democratic Party is pouring money into a primary race in NY-16 to attempt to remove progressive representative Jamaal Bowman from office and replace him with a centrist hack named George Latimer. This is what democrats do instead of fighting republicans.

The New York Democratic Party is pouring money into a primary race in NY-16 to attempt to remove progressive representative Jamaal Bowman from office and replace him with a centrist hack named George Latimer. This is what democrats do instead of fighting republicans.

The liberals will get in your face and tell you “you don’t vote in local elections,” but as a matter of fact, we DO vote in local elections. And our own party spends money to try to undermine and overthrow our decisions.

Man, I've had people try it and Dems don't even run locally around here!

Ooof. They just don’t bother:(

Liberals: get out and vote if you don’t like it. Liberals: No, not like that!!

what? accepting what what's been said as true: they're spending money to persuade other people in the district to vote, not saying "the primary doesn't matter and we're just going to pick someone else to be the D candidate." there are other Democrats in the district who also vote!

why did they pick the black guy to spend up big against hmmm?

He's lying.

Cynthia McKinney showed us what the democrats think of grassroots candidates who are too progressive for the Hildog caucus

Yeah, I love voting locally and trying to parse the least worst Republican to vote for. 🤷‍♂️

Clinton endorsing the old yt guy 🤡

Remember the time Rep Omar let on that AIPAC exists and Dem leadership threw together a public shaming in like ten minutes.

They thought they were going to ruin her but it turns out that normal people also don’t like the AIPAC

Honestly it’s less about AIPAC specifically than how fast Dem leadership gets creative and savvy when they encounter a fight they think is important. They could have been pushing Republicans into Kobayashi Maru votes constantly since 2018, but that’s not as important as smacking down progressives.

They successfully took out a progressive in the Oregon primary this year. Spent obscene money

That prople still think national Dems are progressive is laughable. Cultish behavior.

Entire House Democratic Leadership Backs Anti-Choice Cuellar in 2024 Run | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.org "It's galling to see leadership muster behind Cuellar, of all people at all times," said one advocate.

Endorsing Cuellar was inexcusable, but the same leadership is endorsing Bowman. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Bowman endorsed by Jeffries, Dem House leaders in re-election bidny1.com Bowman is facing a primary challenge from George Latimer.

Source?

What???? Wait, do you seriously not know what is happening in NY-16 I’m not a journalist, I am not a political pundit. I’m a normal person in NY-16

I think the ask for source here is regarding your claim that the state party itself is pouring money in for the competitor

Come ON.

that's a pretty big claim! hillary endorsing latimer - although out of touch and odious - isnt the same as the state party financially supporting a primary challenger

which to be clear, the state party isn't allowed to be doing that by normal rules

Jay Jacobs, chairperson for the New York Democratic Party, donated to George Latimer's campaign, but not to Bowman. I know this doesn't fit your glib narrative—but "staying silent" is in fact a political position.

They just let anybody call themselves a journalist, huh?

Remember two years ago when he got suspended from the Post for being sexist on main?

thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Bowman fights for his political life in high-voltage New York primarythehill.com Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) is fighting for political survival in the ugliest Democratic primary of the cycle, as his political future — and the party’s progressive power — hang in the balance. The…

Ritchie Torres (NY15 / D-NY) is threatening to endorse against Bowman instead of "staying out of it" as he claims he always does. AIPAC has dumped 1.2 million into Latimer's account to oust Bowman. Democracy Engine, INC. PAC (headed by former DNC finance chair Zucker) $278k to Latimer.

Meanwhile Bowman's only taken in 4.2 million in campaign finance to Latimer's 5.7 million. And they've gotten the unions to back Latimer instead of Bowman.

This is about AIPAC pouring money into Latimer's campaign, which everyone who follows this knew about already and is distinct from Ayo's claim (you guys are really bad at this btw).

I am not a politician. I am not a journalist. I am a FURIOUS VOTER

All these "care about being furious at the right people" don't get the people to be furious at *IS* the party who's aware SuperPAC funding that's traditionally saved for the general election is being used to target incumbents who spoke up against the genocide. Like AIPAC's $100m spend in PRIMARIES.

They think i don’t know what a PAC and a Super PAC are. They assume I fell off the back of the turnip wagon

None of these people give a fuck about how you feel if you don't feel exactly like you're told to VBNMW and STFU

Nah, you're absolute shit at this btw. I'm literally a board member of a PAC and understand how this works. You're doing a bad job of reading since unions shifting to back Latimer as well as AIPAC and several other Dem PACs have realigned away from Bowman to Latimer is a telltale sign.

“With Trump on the ballot, we need strong, principled Democrats in Congress more than ever. In Congress, LatimerforNY will protect abortion rights, stand up to the NRA, and fight for President Biden’s agenda—just like he’s always done.” - Hillary Clinton after Latimer claimed Bowman aligns with MTG

Since we can't bring up Clinton backing Cuellar against Cisneros and Clinton backing Brown against Turner. Or point out that when traditionally Democrat aligned SuperPACs start funding PRIMARY CANDIDATES to unseat seated Representatives, they do it in collaboration with the party.

lol Clinton supporting [name] should really be enough of a sign

sick burn

www.politico.com/news/2024/06...

Hillary Clinton endorses George Latimer in challenge to unseat Jamaal Bowmanwww.politico.com Nod from Democratic heavyweight comes as Bowman’s reelection prospects look increasingly grim.

Clinton is a Democrat, but she's not running the party. Her endorsement is a private matter and has nothing to do with whatever the Party might be doing.

Yes, yes, Hillary is just a smol bean

You're doing the waffles/pancakes thing. If you think she's running the party in NY, you must also think she ran child trafficking ring out of a pizza joint.

No, I sure don’t think that

womp, womp

This article says nothing about the state party funding Latimer.

Dude appears to be nothing more than a misinformation machine

I’d like to see the sourcing here too

The homie @marisakabas.bsky.social has been reporting on this

Thanks