Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Thu 04/25/2024 View Wed 04/24/2024 View Tue 04/23/2024 View Mon 04/22/2024 View Sun 04/21/2024 View Sat 04/20/2024 View Fri 04/19/2024
2020-08-05 Home Front: Politix
Cuomo beats back ‘surprise’ AOC challenge to lead NY delegation to DNC
[NYPOST] Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo easily defeated Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
Tuesday in a surprise challenge to determine who will head New York’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, wehite supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat...
chairman Jay Jacobs — a Cuomo ally — fumed that he was "blindsided" when a motion was made to nominate AOC to head the delegation during an online Democratic Committee meeting.

Still, Cuomo received 218 votes compared to the 34 votes gleaned by the first-term congresswoman,
*Snicker* Overweening pride smashed.
who represents portions of Queens and The Bronx, Jacobs said

"It was a bad performance. AOC got 13 percent of the vote. She did vote for herself," Jacobs said following the meeting.

Jacobs said he was disappointed because he wanted party unity before heading into the convention, which takes place in Milwaukee Aug. 17-20, though the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic has scaled back in-person events.

"It surprised me. I was blindsided by it. It was bad faith," Jacobs said.



Posted by Fred 2020-08-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 At least he didn't "Beat off a strong challenger..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-05 05:46||   2020-08-05 05:46|| Front Page Top

#2 So they are, after all, going to have a convention? Will they let Joe out of his basement for this event?
Posted by warthogswife 2020-08-05 13:24||   2020-08-05 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 He His puppeteers announced today he wasn't going to travel there. Still in teh basement
Posted by Frank G 2020-08-05 13:30||   2020-08-05 13:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Only 'cause he can't find his way out, Frank.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-08-05 13:52||   2020-08-05 13:52|| Front Page Top

#5 To a large extent, this election will be mask / quarantine religionists against the rest.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-05 16:02||   2020-08-05 16:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Orange man wins, we will be told religion was ignored and we are all damned...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-05 16:05||   2020-08-05 16:05|| Front Page Top

09:43 Skidmark
09:40 Skidmark
09:39 Raj
09:37 Skidmark
09:32 Super Hose
09:31 Skidmark
09:30 Rex Mundi
09:24 Raj
09:23 MikeKozlowski
09:14 trailing wife
09:04 M. Murcek
08:45 Procopius2k
08:42 Skidmark
08:41 Galactic+Coordinator+and+Company6935
08:38 Skidmark
08:31 Skidmark
08:25 Skidmark
08:16 Xyz
08:12 Skidmark
08:10 Besoeker
08:07 trailing wife
08:06 Besoeker
08:03 Skidmark
08:03 Besoeker









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com