[QUOTE]Democrat Christine Pellegrino defeated Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday in the 9th Assembly District special election as the progressive and union-backed candidate pulled off an upset victory for the heavily Republican seat.
“This is a thunderbolt of resistance,” said Pellegrino, who becomes the first Democrat to hold the Assembly seat. “This is for all the supporters and voters who understand a strong progressive agenda is the way forward in New York.”
[B]With all precincts reporting, Pellegrino won 58 percent of the vote to Gargiulo’s 42 percent,[/B] according to Suffolk and Nassau boards of election results posted Tuesday night.
The liberal wing of the Democratic Party and Working Families Party had invested heavily in the seat left vacant when Assemb. Joseph Saladino was appointed Oyster Bay supervisor. [B]President Donald Trump had won the district with 60 percent of the vote.[/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]The win will have little bearing on the makeup of the Assembly, where Democrats hold a comfortable majority, but progressive leaders believed it was a harbinger of a Democratic wave.
“Bold populism that puts working families’ issues front and center. This is how we win in Trump country,” said Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party, Tuesday night. “This is the lesson for Democrats around the country.”[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE][B]Gargiulo wished Pellegrino luck in representing the district.
“We worked hard. I don’t know what happened,” he said.[/B]
Typically, Democrats would hardly compete in the 9th, a horseshoe-shaped district on the Nassau-Suffolk county line that includes Massapequa, West Babylon, Babylon Village, West Islip and West Bay Shore.
But Democrats say that in a low-turnout special election with progressives and union members galvanized by opposition to Trump, they had hope.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/in-upset-democrat-pellegrino-wins-9th-district-assembly-seat-1.13656477"]http://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/in-upset-democrat-pellegrino-wins-9th-district-assembly-seat-1.13656477[/URL]
Reddit informs me that Republican Joseph Saladino last won this district +37 points (!), which makes this win a +51 net point flip (!!!) towards Democrats
Just doing a bit of lookup, the district in terms of recent elections has had a similar dropping trend. Went from 80% in 2012 to 60% in 2014 and seems to just be freediving. Sorta what happens in heavy union areas of Long Island. It's sorta inevitable that a creep will occur from surrounding population areas that are near NYC.
If it didn't occur this year, it would of more then likely dipped below 50% in the special election in 2018.
While I was checking her website and her page on Our Revolution website. (Plus just make sure she isn't fake progressive and I never heard her until now)
She supported get money out of politics as one of her main issues and who knew about that.
[URL="http://pellegrinoforassembly.com/"]http://pellegrinoforassembly.com/[/URL]
[URL="https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/christine-pellegrino/"]https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/christine-pellegrino/[/URL]
All it takes is local organizing. If people can band together and get their local corporately owned garbage politician out, Congress will be filled with room for politicians that truly listen to constituents like Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul. Your district is the most important political facet you can help change.
Fucking awesome!
"The Blue Tide is coming...."
[QUOTE=Uber22;52269594]"The Blue Tide is coming...."[/QUOTE]
Make it more of "Bernie Tide is coming" because technically she and others are real left leaning grassroots candidates than others candidates that party gets.
[QUOTE=antair;52269116]All it takes is local organizing. If people can band together and get their local corporately owned garbage politician out, Congress will be filled with room for politicians that truly listen to constituents like Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul. Your district is the most important political facet you can help change.[/QUOTE]
not to disparage you but rand paul doesn't want to help people, he's the most ideological libertarian in congress and has consistently worked to make this country a land of every-man-for-himself
hopefully this and more keep coming in and come 2018 the house flips hard democrat. if the dems control the purse strings then maybe we can get bipartisan for once
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