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What Happened at County Committee? Looking at the Data, Part II: The Count
Working for a more progressive Brooklyn
New Kings Democrats
October 10th, 2018
Democrats Turned Up in Record Numbers. But One Man Held All the Power.
At a Brooklyn Democratic county committee meeting, progressives tried to exert muscle, but 500 proxy votes ensured wins for the county boss.
NYTimes
September 30th, 2018
How The 'Sham' Sausage Gets Made Inside The Brooklyn Democratic County Committee
Beneath the surface, control of the county committee meeting had already been determined by how many county committee members had signed over their votes to faction leaders.
Gothamist
September 28th, 2018
Manipulative Mailer Angers Reformers Ahead of Brooklyn Democratic Meeting
'It is entirely unacceptable to sign my name to a letter, and purport it to be from me, and send it to my county committee members asking for them to give a proxy [vote] to Frank Seddio.'
Gothamist
September 25th, 2018
Fight the Democratic machines: Insurgents are democratizing the party; New Yorkers should join them - NY Daily News
If we’re lucky, the same progressive wind that swept away nearly all of the state senators of the former Independent Democratic Conference...
nydailynews.com
September 25th, 2018
Brooklyn Democratic party boss under fire for misleading letters as proxy battle heats up - NY Daily News
Members of the Brooklyn Democratic County Committee received phone calls, door-knocks and mailings this week urging them to turn over their votes by proxy to party boss Frank Seddio — including letters bearing the names of elected officials and district leaders who say they didn’t sign them.
nydailynews.com
September 22nd, 2018
Ask A Reporter: What's Up With NYC's County Committees?
County committees set the rules for political parties, elect leadership and determine the local party's budget. They also choose which candidates to run in a special election. So how can you get involved?
Gothamist
September 20th, 2018
Now take on the anti-democratic Democrats - NY Daily News
Progressive New York Democrats celebrating the stunning primary election defeats of a half dozen state Senators who caucused with Republicans and a Brooklyn machine stalwart had better steel themselves to take on the appallingly undemocratic local Democratic Party itself.
nydailynews.com
September 14th, 2018
Progressives Take On New York’s Democratic Machine In Historic Primary
From governor to state Senate and even party committees, the Empire State’s old party bosses are on the defensive.
HuffPost
September 12th, 2018
Trying to join Queens county committee
One New Yorker tries to engage in the lowest level of city politics, is stymied.
am New York
September 4th, 2018
Trying to join Queens county committee
One New Yorker tries to engage in the lowest level of city politics, is stymied.
am New York
September 4th, 2018
Queens Dems under fire from new faces
The leadership of the Queens County Democratic Party is denying allegations that it is running candidates for the Democratic County Committee who have no idea that they’re on the ballot, including one who allegedly has been registered to vote in Florida for nearly two years.But one of the surprised candidates contacted by the Chronicle confirmed the story first reported by The New York Times; candidates seeking election without the party endorsement are miffed; and the city’s Board of Elections isn’t talking at all.
Queens Chronicle
August 30th, 2018
How a Political Machine Works: 21 People Running for Office, Unaware
In Queens, Democratic bosses run candidates without their consent for a board that sets party policy, even as reformers get kicked off the ballot.
NYTimes
August 24th, 2018
Brooklyn Dems call out Sen. Felder
Brooklyn Democratic County Committee member Ernest Skinner says he has delivered over 20 signed and notarized affidavits from registered Democrats in State Sen. Simcha Felder’s district and a letter to Brooklyn Democratic Party Chair Frank Seddio asking that Felder be removed from the Democratic Party for what Skinner described as Felder’s “lack of sympathy and loyalty to the party.”
Caribbean Life
July 21st, 2018
Primary lessons for Democratic Party bosses: Let fair competition for nominations rule - NY Daily News
The stunning victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Queens Democratic Party boss Rep. Joe Crowley has led some to celebrate the end of party machine-dominated politics in New York City.
nydailynews.com
July 17th, 2018
Have we seen the last of Joe Crowley?
Rep. Joseph Crowley lost his re-election bid in a stunning fashion. But he hasn’t lost it all.
CSNY
July 12th, 2018
OCASIO-CORTEZ’s coattails — The Bronx Machine’s election post-mortem meeting — CUOMO and NIXON in Brooklyn — New York City’s overlooked minority
07/05/2018 07:20 AM EDT
POLITICO
July 5th, 2018
A New York City County Committee Member Launches User Friendly Website for First Time Accessibility to Community Politics
NEW YORK CITY, NY – 06-28-2018 (Press Release Jet) — The purpose of the NYC County Committee is to contribute to the creation of the Democratic party’s unified platform, organize local …
The Daily Telescope
June 29th, 2018
This day in 1918 in the Record: June 29
Saturday, June 29, 1918. Arrangements reportedly were made yesterday for “the silencing of George T. Morris should be become obstreperous or even insistent” at today’s meeting of the Rensselaer County Republican committee, but the
Lifestyle The Record
June 29th, 2018
Ghosts in the Queens machine: Rep. Joe Crowley's profiteering political partners - NY Daily News
The national implications of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory over Rep. Joe Crowley are easy to discern. A former organizer with the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, she’s part of a rising tide of progressive millennial activists who are bringing their hopes, values
nydailynews.com
June 28th, 2018
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