• Live in Queens, NY? You might be running for office! Check today!
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/nyregion/queens-candidates-nominated-without-knowing.html#click=https://t.co/ljFgUKdbYJ This much is certain: Helen Gambichler is running for office. She is the Queens Democratic Party bosses’ nominee for a spot on a little-known body called the Democratic County Committee. ... There is just one problem: Ms. Gambichler, a 72-year-old retired court clerk, did not know she was running for anything. Nor does she wish to run. “I have no idea what that’s about,” she said. She had been nominated, without her knowledge, by the borough’s Democratic Party leadership, which is struggling to maintain control after the longtime Queens party chairman, Representative Joseph Crowley, was trounced by the left-leaning insurgent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a June Congressional primary that sent tremors through the Democratic establishment nationwide. Ms. Gambichler is hardly alone. The New York Times called dozens of the Queens party machine’s nominees for county committee. The candidates for 21 seats were running without their consent. Most of these candidates did not know they were running at all until a reporter told them; two, including Ms. Gambichler, found out when they got letters from the city Board of Elections showing how their names would appear on the Sept. 13 primary ballot. Only four candidates The Times spoke to said they were running on purpose. ... One nominee, Arlene Dudkin-Sachs, 76, said she had moved to Florida two and a half years ago. But it turns out she is already on the committee, having been the machine candidate in 2016, too. TLDR it looks like the Queens Democratic Party is literally nominating random people to try to defeat progressive activists
I mean they can just say they don't want to run to people lol, how do they expect this to have success? They're not incumbents they're literal randoms.
Actually one of them is an incumbent. She just happens to also be a random living in Florida who had this happen to her before. And won.
The Democratic party isn't much different from the Republican party in this way, a shifting voterbase is becoming a threat to the old ways, and they're resorting to dirty tactics to prevent it. Although with the Republicans they're united under fear and nationalism against the Left, whereas the Left is fighting itself.
Well more Clintonian/Obamaian Centrists vs Anti-Establishment Bernie Leftists like “Radical economically” Progressives, Social Democrats or real post-capitalist Democratic Socialists.
These are the very extremes of the parties though. Like there's almost nowhere where this sort of big boss party mentality even works let alone has survived this long.
The only person who can be trusted to lead is the one with no desire for power!
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