Brooklyn Democratic Party hacks support of Zohran – Latest News
We needed to chuckle when everybody current tried to spin this week’s Brooklyn stop on Zohran Mamdani’s “Five Boroughs Against Trump” tour as a dramatic show of Democratic Party unity, when it was plainly nothing more than an alliance of comfort with the Kings County’s most distinguished Dems conspicuously absent.
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams insisted that the media needed to “understand what’s going on right now, because I don’t think this group of people agree about nothing” — but they nonetheless don’t.
Williams and different radicals (together with supposed reformers) had been basking within the glow of fellow-traveler Mamdani’s major triumph, however the machine politicians like Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermalyne, the county Democratic boss, had been simply attempting to make sure their bread will nonetheless be buttered.
Bichotte Hermalyne and her allies had endorsed ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo within the major, clearly as a result of he appeared the sure winner, however Andrew’s political corpse wasn’t even cold when she introduced in a NY1 News interview her support for Mamdani within the basic election.
Beyond different patronage, she and her “regular” Democrats are doubtless additionally hoping to cut some deal that nabs their faction the City Council speakership subsequent yr as a reward for leaping so rapidly behind Mamdani.
Not all pols are that squalid: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and different notable Brooklyn Dems very a lot didn’t end up for the “unity” farce.
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Then again, Jeffries and Schumer are literally working ceaselessly to counter Trump, not simply posturing about it to allow them to keep away from addressing different points.
The level is that these politicians (like others throughout city) are “uniting” behind Mamdani as a result of it serves their factional pursuits, not as a result of they assume he’ll be good for town.
The Democrats who actually care about New York are conspicuous by their silence.
