{"id":176490,"date":"2020-06-04T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/04\/similar-political-dynamics-lets-hope-for-a-similar-results\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:25:00","slug":"similar-political-dynamics-lets-hope-for-a-similar-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/04\/similar-political-dynamics-lets-hope-for-a-similar-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Similar Political Dynamics, Let&#8217;s Hope for a Similar Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/ocasio-cortez-backs-primary-challenger-of-long-serving-house-democratic-committee-chairman\/2020\/06\/04\/c0a89a06-a64a-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html\">has endorsed Jamaal Bowman in his primary challenge to Eliot Engel<\/a>, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>All things considered, Engle is a prime candidate for &#8220;termination with extreme prejudice&#8221; by his constituents.<\/p>\n<p>His district, one of the hardest hit by Covid-19 in the district, is right next to AOC&#8217;s, and Engel has been almost completely absent from it for decades, so it&#8217;s no surprise that he is vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Here is hoping that this challenge gets another old party hack out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), in her latest break with party leaders, has endorsed a Democratic primary challenger to Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), a long-serving committee chairman who represents a district adjacent to hers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a series of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez announced her support for Engel\u2019s leading challenger, middle-school principal Jamaal Bowman, whose message of generational change has echoed that of Ocasio-Cortez ahead of her 2018 upset of a long-serving Democratic incumbent.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is serving his 16th term in the House.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He has reported raising more than $1.6 million through March \u2014 about three times as much as Bowman \u2014 but is facing a spirited June 23 primary amid criticism that he has not spent enough time in the district.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Tuesday, Engel generated headlines after he repeatedly asked to speak at a Bronx news conference on protests over the killing by Minneapolis police of George Floyd, then said near a live microphone, \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have a primary, I wouldn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed two other challengers to House Democrats in this year\u2019s elections. Business executive and activist Marie Newman defeated Rep. Daniel Lipinski in an Illinois district south of Chicago, while Rep. Henry Cuellar defeated Jessica Cisneros, an immigration attorney backed by Ocasio-Cortez.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is hoping that Engel gets a well deserved retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The geriatric leadership of the House Democrats need to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed Jamaal Bowman in his primary challenge to Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. All things considered, Engle is a prime candidate for &#8220;termination with extreme prejudice&#8221; by his constituents. His district, one of the hardest hit by Covid-19 in the district, is right next to AOC&#8217;s, and Engel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,374],"class_list":["post-176490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176490"}],"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=176490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}