PSA: New Yorkers today is Primary

[whistler162]

day for candidates for Congressional Representative from your district, if there are multiple candidates.

http://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/nycs-june-28-primary-election-dummies for NYC but the essentials hold true statewide.

[PJMcK]

1. On my way to vote...

..as soon as I finish my coffee!

[Her Sister]

2. Yes Voting later this morning !

Good to remind NYers! Thanks!

[Eric J in MN]

3. Please vote for Zephyr Teachout if you're in NY-19.

She's endorsed both by prominent HRC supporter Charles Schumer and by Bernie Sanders.

[JudyM]

5. She would be a superb addition to congress.

[Her Sister]

6. Sanders raising funds against gay congressional candidates ~ like Will Yandik in NY-19

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/04/14/sanders-raising-funds-against-gay-congressional-candidates/

According to the Huffington Post, the fundraising email isn’t the first time two of these three candidates have worked with the Sanders campaign. Both Flores and Jayapal introduced the presidential candidate during rallies in their respective home states of Nevada and Washington. Flores also appeared in an advertisement for Sanders that ran before the Nevada caucuses.

But two of these three candidates are seeking to defeat openly gay contenders seeking the Democratic nomination to run for Congress. As of right now, a total of seven lawmakers serving in the Congress are openly gay, lesbian or bisexual, or slightly more than 1 percent of the legislative body. That’s short of the estimated 3.5 percent of the U.S. population as a whole who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, according to the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. (Transgender people make up an estimated one-third of one percent of the U.S. population, but no member of Congress, nor any member of a state legislature, is openly transgender.)


Teachout is running against Will Yandik, an openly gay farmer and Livingston deputy town supervisor who recently had a child with his same-sex spouse. Their primary is on June 28, weeks after the presidential contest on Tuesday.

[Ash_F]

8. Let's remember the issues

"Teachout favors a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour. Yandik favors increasing the current $7.25 an hour federal minimum wage but hasn’t decided on the best rate nationally."
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/2016/06/24/teachout-yandik-face-off-democratic-primary/86288124/

[Her Sister]

11. Here you go plus a debate between the two:

Time Warner Cable News Hosts NY-19 Democratic Primary Debate
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/capital-region/politics/2016/06/15/ny19-democratic-primary-debate-061516.html


http://www.zephyrteachoutforcongress.com/issues

http://will4congress.com/issues/

[Ash_F]

12. Thanks. I see that Yandik has also not come out against fracking. Teachout has.

Fracking and the Fight for 15 are two major issues.

[Ash_F]

13. Yandik has also not come out against TPP or for universal background checks. Teachout has.

[Her Sister]

14. Watch the Debate: Yandik opposes TPP

In any case as fellow democrats we don't necessarily agree on all issues or on what issues we find more important!

[Her Sister]

16. As a gun owner Yandik's for universal background checks and closing showroom loopholes plus

he's very knowledgeable and specific on the issue probably because he's a gun owner and grew up so. Lots of people are in this area.
He's also for banning Fracking as he explains he did as Mayor in the debate.

The debate answers a lot of these issues and questions.

Plus the anti-Israel BDS question which is important in this area but Teachout dodged answering.

[Ash_F]

19. He did not put either of these on his website so...

I would need to see a clearer commitment.

EDIT - I meant regarding UBC's and TPP. I saw that he was against the loophole, but the UBC's is the big issue.

[Her Sister]

20. In any case votes being counted now. Teachout will probably win.

[Ash_F]

21. Looks like she did.

She picked winning positions across the board. Good for her.

[Her Sister]

23. She had name recognition since losing to Cuomo.

Not many people voting. Plus Yanndik had little exposure.

Both Candidates had similar positions across the board.

She won. Congrats to her!

[Ash_F]

24. Not supporting Fight for 15, opposing fracking or TPP does not make them similar

Not in New York where these are hot button issues.

[Her Sister]

25. Teachout, Yandik Sing Similar Tune in Congressional Primary Debate

Teachout, Yandik Sing Similar Tune in Congressional Primary Debate
http://www.twcnews.com/nys/capital-region/decision-2016/2016/06/15/teachout--yandik-debate-in-19th-district-race.html

and at a different time:

Zephyr Teachout, Will Yandik find a lot to agree on at Democratic congressional debate
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20160607/zephyr-teachout-will-yandik-find-a-lot-to-agree-on-at-democratic-congressional-debate

In any case I voted for Yandic, yesterday. She won. This is a battleground district, so we'll see in November.

[Ash_F]

28. The Republicans have raised twice as much as her.

[Her Sister]

30. Results:

https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_19th_Congressional_District_election,_2016

[Ash_F]

31. Higher Dem turnout is promising.

It seems like in the rest of the battlegrounds, Republicans have had higher turnout this year.

Some say primary turnout has nothing to do with the GE but I don't know.

[Her Sister]

32. I believe the losing Republican Heany lost because he ran ads aligning himself with TRUMP!!!!

[Ash_F]

33. That's a lot of production value for 4 thousand votes

[Her Sister]

34. I live with my Republican sister so I get 1st hand view of REpublican mentality which weirds me out

She is voting against Trump in the general but sometimes the way she describes Trump makes me feel like she understands something I am not getting about him. I want to go and choke her neck when I hear too much empathy for the bullshit. But she did vote for Kasich in the Primary here in NY! So letting her live!

In any case she's voting for HRC in the General. Guess Trump is just gross at the end of the day. So all good.

[LiberalFighter]

4. How many elections does New York have in a year?

[Her Sister]

7. Really a lot!

All kinds and types!

[LiberalFighter]

10. Are they able to reduce the number?

I'm in Indiana and there are only 2 every year except for the year after a Presidential election.

In Wisconsin they have up to 3 elections I think. They have a spring election, fall primary, and the general.

[Retrograde]

15. They can go the California route

and put as many contests and issues as they can on one ballot and only do two - a primary and a general- in major election years. Many CA cities have even moved local elections to even-numbered years so they don't have to run separate elections. The downside is that we end up with long ballots (my personal best(?) ran to 7 pages, but there were a lot of propositions that year) and potentially a long time to count and check everything, especially if the state is liberal about mail-in and provisional ballots.

This year we're planning on 2 elections - the one we just had, and the one in November. Last year my district didn't have any. Again, there's a potential downside in that without regular reminders some people seem to forget how they're registered or how to vote, or claim the whole process is set up specifically to annoy them.

[Her Sister]

27. People at my polling place were bored bored bored!

Me and my Republican sister went to vote and proceeded to just chat afterwards with them and they thanked us for coming for almost no one had- this was at 5pm!

It was funny to them that me and my sister were just on opposite sides: Republican and Democrat.

Edit: Republican sister voting for HRC in the General!

[Her Sister]

9. Feels like more than this:

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY - You must be registered to the party holding a primary in order to be eligible to vote
March 25 – Last day to register with the BOE to be eligible to vote in the Presidential Primary
April 19 – ELECTION DAY – Polls will be open from 12 Noon to 9 PM


FEDERAL PRIMARY - For members of the US Senate and House of Representatives
June 3 – Last day to register with the BOE to be eligible to vote in the Federal Primary
June 28 – ELECTION DAY – Polls will be open from 12 Noon to 9 PM


STATE AND LOCAL PRIMARY – (Offices to be determined)
Aug 19 – Last day to register with the BOE to be eligible to vote on Primary day
September 13 – ELECTION DAY – Polls will be open from 12 Noon to 9 PM


GENERAL ELECTION – PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
October 14 – Last day to register with the BOE in order to vote on Election Day
November 8 - ELECTION DAY . Polls will be open from 6 AM to 9 PM

[whistler162]

17. Fairly sure that is what the next election is voting on.

[Eric J in MN]

22. NY has 4 this year

Pres primary
Congressional primary
Local primary
General election

[Her Sister]

29. Yep, we're having one per season!

[bigwillq]

18. Kick (nt)

[Her Sister]

36. Ms. Teachout was recruited by the Working Families Party, a group of unions and liberal activists

Ms. Teachout, 42, who grew up in Vermont and worked on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign, was recruited by the Working Families Party, a group of unions and liberal activists that was considering withholding its backing from Mr. Cuomo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/nyregion/cuomo-and-hochul-win-new-york-primary.html