{"id":1732491,"date":"2022-11-09T17:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732491"},"modified":"2022-11-09T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:17:49","slug":"rep-ocasio-cortez-blasts-new-york-state-democratic-party-leadership-as-gop-makes-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-ocasio-cortez-blasts-new-york-state-democratic-party-leadership-as-gop-makes-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Blasts New York State Democratic Party Leadership As GOP Makes Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-ocasio-cortez-blasts-new-york-state-democratic-party-leadership-as-gop-makes-gains%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732491&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized New York State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic<\/a> Party leadership on Wednesday after results revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a> was moving toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The New York congresswoman was reacting to an image from The New York Times, which revealed that New York has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianpmangan\/status\/1590228057021116416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved<\/a> more Republican in regions across the state since the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYS Dem party leadership, which was gutted under Cuomo, stuffed with lobbyists, works to boost GOP, and failed to pass a basic state ballot measure to protect NY redistricting, must be accountable.<\/p>\n<p>I called for Jay Jacob\u2019s resignation a year ago and I still hold that position. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WM6BJUw4do\">https:\/\/t.co\/WM6BJUw4do<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1590356796618993664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNYS Dem party leadership, which was gutted under Cuomo, stuffed with lobbyists, works to boost GOP, and failed to pass a basic state ballot measure to protect NY redistricting, must be accountable,\u201d the congresswoman tweeted. \u201cI called for Jay Jacob\u2019s resignation a year ago and I still hold that position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jay Jacobs currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydems.org\/about\/leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serves<\/a> as the Chair of the New York State Democratic Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Ocasio-Cortez also tweeted a link to an article about Jacobs from last year when he and other top Democrats in the state had not endorsed a candidate in the Buffalo mayoral election. Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive Democrats had thrown their support behind India Walton, who was a Democratic Socialist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jacobs pointed out that it wouldn\u2019t matter who received endorsements because a Democrat would win the race no matter what because there was no Republican on the ballot. He went on to say that a party doesn\u2019t have to endorse a candidate simply because he or she is successful in a primary. He provided a hypothetical <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/morganfmckay\/status\/1450163231591473154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1450163510562988044%7Ctwgr%5E9c11ceb143dde5aa6c5bdb9f9fcd0a88c089f7d1%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&#038;ref_url=https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2021\/10\/19\/ny-democratic-chair-jay-jacobs-under-fire-for-david-dukes-analogy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">situation<\/a> of if former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke won a New York Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\u201cLet\u2019s take a scenario, very different, where David Duke, you remember him, the grand wizard of the KKK, he moves to New York, he becomes a Democrat, he runs for mayor in the city of Rochester, which is a low primary turnout and he wins the Democratic line. I have to endorse David Duke? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cNow, of course, India Walton is not in the same category, but it just leads you to that question, is it a must? It\u2019s not a must. It\u2019s something you choose to do. That\u2019s why it\u2019s an endorsement. Otherwise, they call it something else, like a requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Jacobs was criticized for his comparison and politicians even came out saying he should step down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jacobs later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2021\/10\/19\/ny-democratic-chair-jay-jacobs-under-fire-for-david-dukes-analogy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized<\/a> in a statement, saying,\u00a0\u201cUsing an extreme example of David Duke winning a primary, to make a logical point, even with stating twice the specific qualification that India Walton, was in a different category, was wrong. I should have used a different example, and for that, I apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted about the David Duke scandal, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1590358383919476737?s=20&#038;t=XohyHRMiaLqKSrH5wpHbAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a>, \u201cAfter leading the party to a catastrophic ballot measure loss that would\u2019ve saved Dem House seats, the party chair (Jacobs) compared a Black woman Dem nominee to the KKK. He was protected. Last night\u2019s underperformance is a consequence of that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLast night\u2019s NY underperformance is a testament to years of prioritizing calcified machine politics and favoring over performance, strategy, &#038; organizing. To win from here, Jacobs must go and we must recenter the party to better value community leadership and small-d democracy,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1590359514913845249?s=20&#038;t=XohyHRMiaLqKSrH5wpHbAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last night\u2019s NY underperformance is a testament to years of prioritizing calcified machine politics and favoring over performance, strategy, &#038; organizing.<\/p>\n<p>To win from here, Jacobs must go and we must recenter the party to better value community leadership and small-d democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1590359514913845249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Ocasio-Cortez saw a victory in her own race this election cycle as she secured another term as the Democratic congresswoman from New York\u2019s fourteenth district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized New York State Democratic Party leadership on Wednesday after results revealed that New York was moving toward the Republican Party. The New York congresswoman was reacting to an image from The New York Times, which revealed that New York has moved more Republican in regions across the state since the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1732494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}