An exclusive analysis from Judge John H. Wilson, (ret.)
From 1999 until 2018, Democrat Joseph Crowley served as a Congressman for New York, first in the 7th District, and then, after redistricting in 2012, he served the 14th District, which was spread across parts of Queens and the Bronx. Joe Crowley was not a conservative democrat; according to his campaign website “(a)s Chairman of the Democratic Caucus, I’m focused on organizing resistance to the extreme GOP agenda that is threatening our middle class. Congress should be working on increasing access to health care and housing, protecting seniors’ hard-earned benefits, and creating greater opportunity for students and families.” Crowley also had endorsements from such left-leaning groups as “NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood” as well as “Courage to Fight Gun Violence and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.”
Yet, despite these liberal bona fides, in 2018, Crowley lost the Democratic primary to new-comer Alexandria Ocasio Cortes. Not content to be “focused on organizing resistance to the extreme GOP agenda,” as Crowley was, Ocasio Cortes has broader ambitions; “Our campaign is fighting for a powerful set of policies that will reshape our economy, minimize inequality and reverse the effects of climate change…and we’re not stopping there – our platform calls for federal limits on rent increases, transformative criminal justice reform, Medicare for ALL and tuition-free public college.”
Since her election, Ocasio Cortes has been something of an outsider, an extremist even by New York’s far-left standards. However, Ms Ocasio Cortes now has an ally in New York’s Congressional delegation.
Eliot Engel served as “Chairman on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He also serve(d) on the Energy and Commerce Committee including the Subcommittee on Health. He is the founder and (former) Co-Chair of the House Energy and National Security Caucus…He also (sat) on the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, the Bipartisan Task Force for Combatting Anti-Semitism, the HIV/AIDS Caucus, the Long Island Sound Caucus, and the Animal Protection Caucus, among others.”
Engel served in the House of Representatives for 16 terms, over 32 years – yet he lost the Democratic primary to former middle school principal Jaamal Bowman. Recognizing Bowman as a potential comrade, Ocasio Cortes broke with the New York Democratic organization to endorse Bowman to replace Engel. For his part, upon his election, Bowman wasted no time signaling his “progressive” ideals. “I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name. We’ve moved from physical chattel enslavement and physical racial segregation to a plantation economic system.”
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Refusing to acknowledge the obvious trend here, Bloomberg minimizes the appeal of Bowman and Ocasio Cortes, stating their appeal is “concentrated in the Northeast and a few other big cities…elsewhere the Democratic majority in the House depends on the votes of members elected from moderate districts.”
But the organization that supported the candidacies of both Ocasio Cortes and Bowman, Justice Democrats, has big plans. According to their website, “Our goal is to build a mission-driven caucus in Congress…who will represent our communities…and fight for bold, progressive solutions to our current crisis.” That “mission” and those “progressive solutions?’ “Cancel Student Debt,” “Federal Jobs guarantee,” “Free public college and trade school,” “Secure a living wage,” “Housing as a human right,” and a “Third Reconstruction,” described as the creation of “a national Truth and Reconciliation Commission to lead our nation through a process that investigates the generational harms caused by slavery and Jim Crow and propose necessary reparations.”
Judge Wilson’s analysis concludes tomorrow.
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