{"id":176451,"date":"2020-06-13T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/13\/times-endorses-jamaal-bowman\/"},"modified":"2020-06-13T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T23:03:00","slug":"times-endorses-jamaal-bowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/13\/times-endorses-jamaal-bowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Endorses Jamaal Bowman"},"content":{"rendered":"
The New York Times just announced its Congressional endorsements, and they just endorsed Jamaal Bowman over incumbent Eliot Engel<\/a>:<\/div>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

DISTRICT 16 (northern parts of the Bronx and southern half of Westchester County, including Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, New Rochelle and Rye): The current representative \u2014 Eliot Engel \u2014 has been in Congress since 1989, and his connections to the district seem to have frayed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was criticized for not returning home even as the coronavirus raged through communities he represents, particularly New Rochelle. When he did return for this race, he was caught on a hot mic<\/a> pushing for a chance to speak during a protest rally, saying, \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have a primary, I wouldn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

His main challenger is Jamaal Bowman<\/a>, an educator for more than 20 years and a fierce advocate for public schools. Mr. Bowman helped found a public middle school in the Bronx, the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action<\/a>, and promises to work for all of the district, including sections he says have been neglected during Mr. Engel\u2019s time in Congress.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bowman says he wants to see the United States adopt a kind of Marshall Plan for climate change, jobs, housing and education. \u201cWe need political imagination,\u201d he said. In a district that needs new energy, Mr. Bowman will bring it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m beginning to think that Bowman is less of a long shot than I thought when I wrote about this 11 days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s important to remember that primary challenges are important even when they fail, and a relatively low success rate is a given.<\/p>\n

Dan Lipinski has already been taken out this election cycle, and if Engel is taken down, it will put fear in the hearts of a lot of Democratic Party incumbents.<\/p>\n

Good.<\/p>\n

H\/T Diane Ravitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times just announced its Congressional endorsements, and they just endorsed Jamaal Bowman over incumbent Eliot Engel: \u2026\u2026\u2026 DISTRICT 16 (northern parts of the Bronx and southern half of Westchester County, including Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, New Rochelle and Rye): The current representative \u2014 Eliot Engel \u2014 has been in Congress since 1989, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,375,550,385],"class_list":["post-176451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-endorsement","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}