What do you think of DSA endorsing a candidate in easten Queens in Council District 23 for next year. Doesn't Steve Behar have more credibility as a progressive that can work with the community in that part of Queens?
Ross - great article. Happy to add that DSA South Brooklyn successfully worked hard on the state assembly race for Marcella Mityanes and now we’re sending a DSA-endorsed, affordable housing activist to state assembly next year. Her victory shows that even in a pandemic, voters do want real things, like housing, and Medicare, and voters are all too eager to overthrow mediocre incumbents, they just need to be given the opportunity to vote for somebody real.
NYC DSA has been in electoral politics for decades (and as DSOC). Years ago we in the NYC Local in fact identified four council candidates, and they were elected in the early 90s,. Before that we participated in the election of Ruth Messinger (a member), David Dinkins, Jerry Nadler for Assembly (who was a DSOC member) , Major Owens for U.S. House (a member) from Brooklyn, state senate challengers to sitting Republicans, A-G Robert Abrams, incubating Lambda Ind Dems, were active in the labor-connected Majority Coalition, in in trying to elect more progressive District Leaders, and at the tail-end of the old NDC, there was DSOC/DSA activism. Some of us acted as out card-carrying DSA members in several Dem clubs and were elected officers. DSA electoral activity is not new on the local or national level.
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What do you think of DSA endorsing a candidate in easten Queens in Council District 23 for next year. Doesn't Steve Behar have more credibility as a progressive that can work with the community in that part of Queens?
Ross - great article. Happy to add that DSA South Brooklyn successfully worked hard on the state assembly race for Marcella Mityanes and now we’re sending a DSA-endorsed, affordable housing activist to state assembly next year. Her victory shows that even in a pandemic, voters do want real things, like housing, and Medicare, and voters are all too eager to overthrow mediocre incumbents, they just need to be given the opportunity to vote for somebody real.
NYC DSA has been in electoral politics for decades (and as DSOC). Years ago we in the NYC Local in fact identified four council candidates, and they were elected in the early 90s,. Before that we participated in the election of Ruth Messinger (a member), David Dinkins, Jerry Nadler for Assembly (who was a DSOC member) , Major Owens for U.S. House (a member) from Brooklyn, state senate challengers to sitting Republicans, A-G Robert Abrams, incubating Lambda Ind Dems, were active in the labor-connected Majority Coalition, in in trying to elect more progressive District Leaders, and at the tail-end of the old NDC, there was DSOC/DSA activism. Some of us acted as out card-carrying DSA members in several Dem clubs and were elected officers. DSA electoral activity is not new on the local or national level.