Well, he grew up in Westchester County. How about running for NY governor? He’d be a definite improvement over Cuomo.
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That’s not a bad idea. I think Mario Cuomo did the same thing.
There’s no way Cuomo runs again. He’s despised upstate. Call it a day. There’s a good chance the governorship goes red.
What do you think of Buffalo’s new socialist mayor?
Is that a rhetorical question? 
One never knows! I know little about her.
Waiting for the pudding.
Democrats use “socialist” (and, more commonly, “progressive”) the way Republicans were using “tea party” a few years ago, before they took up “nationalist” or “MAGA” or whatever it is this week. None of these labels means what it says — they all mean “untainted,” “hardline,” and “pure of heart.” They are markers of political-purity culture, one more superfluous indicator that American political identities have taken on the character of religions.
India Walton seems comfortable enough with the label “socialist,” although you will find examples of others describing her that way much more easily than you will find examples of her describing herself that way. And her campaign was supported by the Democratic Socialists of America. But other than a go-nowhere proposal to create a publicly owned bank and some familiar rent-control nonsense, there isn’t much real socialism on her agenda, which is mainly bog-standard progressive stuff — outmoded angst about “food deserts,” hilarious question-begging (she promises to make decisions based on “diversity and inclusion rather than political patronage”), handouts for “arts” organizations (about that “patronage,” Your Honor . . . ), etc. She also proposes to “establish Buffalo as an international destination for arts and culture,” a fantasy that is even more ridiculous than it was when the mayor of Philadelphia was promising the same thing to his city 20 years ago.
Mayor Walton probably won’t be bringing a lot of socialism to Buffalo. And that’s a good thing — it already has more socialism than it can take. Its most prominent government-run enterprises — its schools — are “failure factories” whose leaders actually brag about having a one-in-four high-school-dropout rate, which is, in fairness, an improvement on one in three. The city’s poverty rate is above 30 percent, its median household income is less than half that of Denver or Austin, and less than 60 percent of its adult population is in the workforce. Which is to say that Buffalo has kept its big-city problems even as it has lost its big-city status.
What Buffalo needs is not socialism — it is realism . Maybe India Walton can muster up some of that.
Good lucky!
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As long as they don’t touch Beef on Weck and Buffalo Wings. I’m good.
I’ve always wanted a beef on weck. I will get over there pretty soon.
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The NYC Dem primary vote tabulation just keeps getting more and more out there.
Looking incompetent only strengthens their resolve for more federal government reach arounds.
Yang/Gabbard 2024!
I think you got the order wrong.
Since preferential voting won’t likely happen outside of party primaries except for a very few states, becoming an independent won’t really help his political career. It might help him with appearing neutral as a pundit or continuing to fund raise for whatever…
If he foresees a third party, that’s newsworthy; the money will follow.
Maybe, but without preferential voting and/or mixed-member proportional representation, it’s all meaningless after 2 election cycles. Voters will quickly realize voting for the third candidate ensures the victory of the party they dislike the most. That’s the ugly mathematical truth of the first past the post voting system we have now.
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He tweeted that he’s going to be an independent for one day or something.
Cause he’s starting his own party.
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He knows:
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Andrew Yang Forms ‘Inclusive’ 3rd Party
Key principles include universal basic income and ‘grace and tolerance’
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