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As he experiences his first week in Congress, Jamaal Bowman will start on a path to do everything he suggests that Rep. Eliot L. Engel failed to do and perhaps even obstructed.
To blame Engel for destructive social conditions in the Bronx or elsewhere in America, even by implication, exposes how clueless Bowman is about the obstacles that Engel faced and now Bowman himself will face in the next two years.
Touting himself as a progressive candidate, Bowman ousted Engel in the Democratic primary last June, ending Engel’s 32-year run representing his district, which now comprises Riverdale and other sections of the Bronx and part of Westchester County.