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New York Democratic Chairman Won’t Endorse Mamdani for Mayor (www.nytimes.com)

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The chairman of the New York State Democratic Party said on Thursday that he would not support Zohran Mamdani, his party’s nominee for mayor of New York City, citing fundamental disagreements over Israel and democratic socialism.

The position puts the chairman, Jay Jacobs, directly at odds with both Democratic primary voters and Gov. Kathy Hochul, his de facto boss, who endorsed Mr. Mamdani on Sunday despite her own differences with the nominee.

Mr. Jacobs, a moderate from Long Island, was so opposed to the governor’s endorsement that he told associates in recent days that he would sooner resign as chairman than back Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state lawmaker and democratic socialist, according to people who spoke with the chairman.

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[-] [email protected] 101 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sounds like someone isn't a good fit for that position. Get rid of Jacobs

[-] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Saw someone on bluesky put it best:

Jay Jacobs is the most useless man in the NY Democratic party, and that is saying something.

He’s a big part of why the Dems don’t have the House this term.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

He does seem to be kind of bad at politics. Hochul just showed him how to thread the needle, he could have followed her lead.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Hochul just showed him how to acquiesce to public sentiment in the same way a windsock acquiesces to the wind. It is entirely impossible to pretend there was any level of shrewdness or political aptitude in Hochul’s tepid and tardy endorsement.

The only difference here is that Hochul could lose her job due to voters thinking she’s an idiot, while Jacobs is not actually accountable in any meaningful way to the voting public.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Hochul can see which way the wind is blowing and adapt, this guy can't or won't. He sucks at politics worse than Hochul is my only point.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Radicalize the moderates !

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sorry, but income disparity might now be the second greatest problem in America only being overshot by the willful unchecked support of fascism taking root in everything. Even if we dissolved the income disparity, there’s a real fucking problem with hate and that hate and power will ultimately make income disparity happen again (if solved), or become even worse!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Would be hilarious if a mamdani landslide would trigger the end of the two party system as we know it.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Fuckwits like this are how we wound up with a second Trump term. Resign if you’re gonna be in disagreement with what the people want.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

Here are his endorsements from his official page. I love that Bernie is first:

https://www.zohranfornyc.com/endorsements

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

He should post a public page of people who have refused to endorse him too.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I'd like a comprehensive list of who to donate to the opposition of.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I'm more impressed by the number of unions.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

So on one hand we have democrats trying to subpoena the FCC chair and getting shot down, and on the other we have democrats actively fighting against what's best for New York. They can't decide whether to shit or go blind, so they close one eye and fart, getting precisely nowhere in the process. I hate that we don't have a truly left-leaning party in this country, just fascists and people on the right that call themselves liberals.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

Do the dems want to win the midterms?

Their popularity is down since the election.

How fucking hard is it to listen to what the voters say they want?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

How fucking hard is it to listen to what the voters say they want?

It's in direct opposition to the strings attached to large donors' bribes, so it's very fucking hard indeed.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Well it would help if people, ya know, voted.

Mamdani is where he is because a ton of people actually got off their asses and voted. Perhaps we should do more of that so we can get rid of the useless people like this party chairman.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Mamdani is where he is because he was out there getting support for his progressive platform and making voting feel like it matters. I strongly doubt somewhere like Los Angeles or Seattle would react differently to a candidate like Mamdani showing up, but they just don't.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

"Yeah, but something happening half a world away with a group of people I don't really care about is in conflict with my projected values, so I'll probably give up my right to affect the outcome of the one thing that I can directly influence, to stop a convicted felon from taking control of a country I say I really care about, but in reality, my actions say otherwise.

So there's that, I guess. Maybe I'll sit it out again."

No, I don't understand it either.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Actions speak louder than words, and their actions support the fascists.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Let him resign then!

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Resign then, dumbass.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

resign

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Centrists, both rank and file and leadership, apparently don't care about Vote Blue No Matter Who. I sure hope this lesson will be taken to heart by progressives out there.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Hope there is a wave locally and the left creates its own "MAGA" but actually progressive and want to help Americans.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Great example of party unity.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

US Democrats are so fucking corrupt.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

And stupid. And cowardly.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

He would rather resign? Sounds good. He sounds incredibly ineffective and out of his element.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Bought and paid for establishment pigfucker.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

~~Blue No Matter Who!~~ Independents are Good too!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Remember, primaries are your only chance to disagree. In the general, vote blue no matter who!

Am I doing this right, liberals?

[-] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Vote blue if you don't want the Republican to win, but here I'd actually prefer Curtis Sliwa. (Not that he has any chance of winning.)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Hint: Don't out yourself as a fascist while saying stupid things.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Its always from shitjustworks

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Fire the cuck.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We really need to break away from using the dem brand as a signal of who to support. Help each other do the work to know candidate's beleifs and vision, their history, their goals and their capabilities. There is no reason to not know in detail the candidates that embody what we believe in and which do not. We can easily wikipage an entire fucking dossier on each one if we wanted to.

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