Nadler challenger targets him on Trump impeachment

[babylonsister]

And whoosh! Down the drain goes Boylan's hopes and dreams.


Nadler challenger targets him on Trump impeachment
By ERIN DURKIN
07/23/2019 05:00 AM EDT


NEW YORK — Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has done everything short of publicly calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment since Democrats unleashed their oversight arsenal on the president earlier this year.

But Lindsey Boylan, a former New York state official who’s giving the liberal stalwart from Manhattan’s West Side one of his toughest primary fights in decades, says that’s not enough.

While Nadler has pushed his party leadership behind the scenes to move on impeachment, Boylan is aiming squarely at Nadler’s reluctance to publicly support an official House inquiry against Trump — and she’s using the issue to great effect. The 35-year-old candidate took in $264,657 in donations in the second quarter of this year, the most among the growing crop of primary challengers looking to unseat members of Congress around New York City.

The challenge to Nadler comes as many long-time members of Congress fend off attacks from their left — a trend that began when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toppled Joe Crowley in his Queens-Bronx district last year, upending the dynamics of New York politics.

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https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2019/07/23/nadler-challenger-looks-to-make-him-face-of-inaction-on-impeaching-trump-1114295

[sharedvalues]

1. This is a really good way to pull Dems left. Carry On, Boylan

[uponit7771]

7. +1, 100% agree

[pnwmom]

28. Nadler's already informed the court that he's begun an impeachment investigation.

So this is a really good way to help Trump.

[George II]

32. How is she going to pull a strongly liberal district "left"? If she wins, which is highly unlikely..

...Nadler has been primaried before and gotten about 80% of the votes, the Democrats would lose a very experienced, talented member who is Chairman of the most powerful committee in the House.

Do you really want to lose that? Would her winning be worth losing that? What do you actually know about her?

[still_one]

2. The justice democrats no doubt have their hands in tis bulllshit.

Like 2000 and 2016, they are doing their best to hurt us in 2020

[sharedvalues]

9. Pull Dems left. Justice Dems are doing a great job!!

[still_one]

11. Of losing elections. Out of 79 candidates they endorsed in the midterms, only 7 won in the GE

a pretty dismal showing at best, and it looks like their Queens district attorney election is a loser for them too

Challenging Jerry Nadler, says everything about them

[sharedvalues]

12. 7 candidates won!. When was last time Dems were pulled left effectively?

They have been hugely successful given how the campaign finance rules are stacked for the wealthy and stacked against them.

[George II]

22. Of those seven, three were incumbents and one ran unopposed. All seven were in BLUE districts....

Their candidates didn't flip a single district, they were NOT part of the "Blue wave".

Some of our candidates who WERE in the "Blue wave" defeated JD candidates in their primaries.

And let's not forget the 72 JD candidates who lost. If I did a "good job" like that I'd be fired.

[still_one]

27. Exactly George. The blue wave wasn't carried by the so-called "justice democrats". It was carried

by Democrats

[sharedvalues]

37. "Pull Democrats left"

That happens in blue districts, by definition.

[UniteFightBack]

13. This. nt

[NewJeffCT]

3. If Justice Democrats really wanted to move the party left

why not challenge moderate Democrats in blue districts? Seth Moulton, Henry Cuellar, etc

[UniteFightBack]

14. If they really wanted to move the party left they would attack only pukes. We have our own

tea party.....the latte party and I don't like it.

[DFW]

18. To think that defeating Republicans is the main goal of these people

That sounds like a major distraction. If I were working for the RNC, I would spend a fortune promoting that line—and the RNC just happens to have a fortune to spend.

[DFW]

4. Last time, Jerry's primary challenge was from the right. Now the left?

Two years ago, Jerry told me some orthodox group in his district was primarying him, and it was the first primary challenge he had in years. Now that he is in probably the most powerful position in the House he‘ll ever have, someone from the „left“ wants to knock him out? Sounds like the best way to weaken the Judiciary Committee‘s clout. Send in a neophyte with no experience and no Seniority to replace one of our smartest, most experienced members. And they have raised a quarter million already? Maybe so, but not from Democrats, and not in Jerry‘s district. Plus, this time, Jerry knows what to do about it. So why attack him in the primary this time? Nuisance distraction financed by Republicans who want him to have less time to concentrate on Trump, that‘s why.

[sharedvalues]

10. It fights complacency. It's a good thing.

Dems have to be a little scared that they’ll be voted out from the left if they don’t pay attention to the Dem base.

Lighting a little fire under people’s butts is never a bad thing.

[DFW]

16. Tell me you know Jerry and still think that

Otherwise, since I have known Jerry for many years, I will say that such a statement applied to him is so much garbage, and is a disservice to his district and the people who live there.

[sharedvalues]

19. I like Rep Nadler; but this is not personal.

It is about getting millennials involved in politics.

[George II]

23. It boggles my mind that they're going after Nadler, Engel, and maybe even Jeffries.

In his last several elections, Nadler has won with 82.1%, 78.1%, 78.7%, 69.8%, and 79.7%.

Maybe they think they can take the voters and the Democrats by surprise with the strange double primary in New York like they did last year? Voters are now well aware of the fact that the congressional primaries are in JUNE, not September.

[DFW]

34. Jerry's numbers in the general, as well as his actions in Congress, speak for themselves.

Any attempt to knock him out is serving Republican interests only.

My bet is that that is the origin of most of the money against him is from those same interests.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Why do smell borscht?

[Trumpocalypse]

6. Here is a map of Nadler's district

Talk about gerrymandering. LOL!

[Me.]

8. I Smell JUstice Dems In All This

They are targeting NY DEms.

“Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the fourth highest ranking Democrat in the House, is also a potential target for a primary challenge. Politico reported last year that Ocasio-Cortez was eyeing Jeffries as a target for a primary challenge. Jeffries is considered to be a potential future speaker of the House — as was Crowley. New York Rep. Gregory Meeks may also face as a primary challenge.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-democrats-face-primary-challenges-from-progressive-candidates-2019-07-13/

Who, I ask, put her in charge and why doesn't she target the Cons?

[sharedvalues]

20. Read on Jeffries

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d2cb605e4b032ea741220ad


After Ocasio-Cortez ousted Crowley, House Democrats selected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as caucus chair, the fifth-ranking slot in House leadership. Jeffries has a modestly liberal voting record, but he’s a dedicated machine man with a more conservative record than his opponent in the leadership contest, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). True to the New York machine playbook, Jeffries courts large campaign contributions from wealthy individuals and corporate Political Action Committees. And his district, like Ocasio-Cortez’s, includes parts of Queens.

Jeffries controls the @HouseDemocrats Twitter handle that attacked Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff over the weekend. His spokesman Michael Hardaway confirmed to the Daily Beast that the tweet was not an accident, but the caucus did not respond to an inquiry from HuffPost. The contours of the situation are clear. Threatened by Ocasio-Cortez’s national rise within the party, her opponents in the New York machine are trying to take her down ― whatever the consequences for Democratic policy priorities.

[Me.]

21. Frankly For The Divisivess AOC's Millionaire,

part owner of a $billion dollar business, has caused such as calling Rep. Davids a racist, I have no respect for him. And having listened to Rep. Jeffries speak and defend the Dem House over the last few weeks find I am very impressed by him and not at all surprised he has been tapped for leadership. In addition, her COS put together a PAC then converted it to an LLC thus avoiding all transparency. These people, who by their own writings, want to burn the House down, make me very suspicious about the lengths they will go to to achieve their aims. And, I don't believe there is any altruism to their pitch, just self-interest.

[George II]

24. That's the guy (the Chief of Staff) who proudly sports t-shirts with the portrait....

....of a Nazi collaborator who fought against and killed Americans in India during WWII.

He's also the guy who put candidates up against Lacy Clay (who won easily) and Sharice Davids (who won easily and flipped her Kansas district) and others.

He's also the guy who solicits contributions for Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress and then shifts the money to Brand New Congress LLC, who doesn't have to reveal any financial information to the FEC.

He spent the beginning of his career working for a hedge fund on Wall Street, and then worked for several years in Silicone Valley. He's no friend of working class Americans.

Interesting how successful and very popular Democrats are discredited as part the "New York machine".

[still_one]

29. no doubt some who like to keep those facts under the cover so to speak

[George II]

33. And the response to those facts? Crickets!

[sharedvalues]

36. See below.

The article contains facts about Hakeem Jeffries.

[sharedvalues]

35. The useful information in the article was about Hakeem Jeffries.

[UniteFightBack]

15. Talk about a circular firing squad. I'm disgusted. nt

[DFW]

17. More like fifth columnists

Infiltrate and destroy from within

[BlueIdaho]

25. I'm not interested in Democrat's defeating Democrats

I’m interested in Democrat’s defeating republicans in 2020.

[jalan48]

26. If impeachment is what the residents of the district want they will vote for Boylan. After all,

we're constantly being told other Reps can't support impeachment because their voters oppose it.

[George II]

30. She'd better not run as a "grassroots progressive". So far she's received contributions from....

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...162 people. 78 of them (48%) have contributed $1,000 or more, and 41 (25%) have already maxed out at $5600 or $2800.

[Gothmog]

31. Is this another Just Us Democratic candidate?