Confusion After New York Democrats Facebook Page Endorses Brooklyn Council Candidate
City Council candidate Steven Patzer (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)
The Facebook page is called “New York Democrats.” Its profile picture is an official-looking blue “D,” and its administrator posts multiple times per day, updating its roughly 1,800 followers on political events and legislators’ birthdays.
In late December, the page made an announcement:
“The New York Democrats facebook group proudly endorses Steven D. Patzer for candidate for city council District 47,” a post from December 27th said. The post highlighted Patzer’s community service during the coronavirus pandemic, and said “there wasn’t a grandma or grandpa in his district that was without a number to call when they were homebound.”
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 - 6:10 am
Updated at 1:10 p.m. to clarify Jennie Bacon sent the statement as corresponding secretary for the St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee.
St. Lawrence County Democrats are endorsing statewide calls for North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik’s resignation.
On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Jennie Bacon, corresponding secretary for the county Democratic Committee and a Democratic State Committee member representing the 116th District, emailed a statement from Jay S. Jacobs, chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, to the local press.
Bacon, is also St. Lawrence County Democratic Election Commissioner, but she did not send the statement in that capacity.
Here’s What New York Democrat Party Boss Thinks of an AOC Primary Challenge Against Chuck Schumer Posted By Ruth King on December 28th, 2020
Jay Jacobs, chairman of the New York State Democratic Committee, made it clear where he stands when it comes to rumors of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) preparing a primary challenge against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“I think it would be a primary driven by ambition more than by need,” Jacobs told the New York Post.
Rumors have circulated for months that AOC will attempt to unseat Sen. Schumer in 2022, but Jacobs told The Post that such a primary challenge between Ocasio-Cortez and Schumer would be a loss in more ways than one.
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On Sunday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) led a group of Republicans in suing Vice President Mike Pence in order to empower Pence to overturn the Electoral College vote in favor of Joe Biden and give President Donald Trump a second term. Gohmert’s lawsuit asks the court to strike down the 1887 Electoral Count Act as unconstitutional, enabling Pence to select which slate of electors he will count from each state. Some Republicans in contested swing states have formed their own slates of electors and claimed to cast Electoral College votes for Trump.
On January 6, 2021, Pence will meet before Congress to count the Electoral College votes and finalize Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. While there are serious concerns about fraud and irregularities in the presidential election, team Trump’s lawsuits have failed to
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The New York congresswoman, a frequent critic of the party’s centrist wing who unseated a longtime incumbent in the Democratic primary to win her seat in 2018, has not directly expressed a desire to challenge Schumer.
She told Politico in April that she didn t know whether she would ever mount such a challenge. President Trump
More recently, in October, Ocasio-Cortez told Vanity Fair, “I don’t know if I’m really going to be staying in the House forever, or if I do stay in the House, what that would look like. I don’t see myself really staying where I’m at for the rest of my life.”