Chris Hayes On Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney's 'Egregious Political Malpractice - All In - MSNBC

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13. you do not have to live in your district to represent it, and with the new map, 85% of the 17th

is STILL areas that Mondaire Jones represents now.

Sean Patrick Maloney the Problem Solver centrist, is trying to bigfoot Jones, the co-first ever gay black male member of Congress (tied with Ritchie Torres, normally a very laid-back man, who is accusing Maloney of racism).

Maloney is also the chairman of the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee), so there are large conflicts of interest at play as well.

The redrawn 18th still has large parts of Maloney's 18th now, and he should stay and run there. His home is barely inside the new lines of the 17th according to MSNBC. I think that was done on purpose by that POS Special Master map drawer to cause Dem chaos.

Not only is Maloney's power play a really divisive bad bad look, but it could cost us a seat (and remove an incumbent as well, if he takes out Jones) if a Rethug wins the vacated 18th.

It is a total bullshit move by Maloney, and he has enraged both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus (the single biggest Dem caucus in Congress with 98 members), which is hardly what you want from the head of the DCCC.

That SHIT map also is causing other huge issues with other incumbents now having to run against each other, including the likely next Speaker (or Minority Leader) Hakeem Jeffries vs Yvette Clarke (so another loss of a black House Dem either way) and then old power players Carolyn Maloney going against Jerrold Nadler.

It is a shitshow.