{"id":1764953,"date":"2022-12-06T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764953"},"modified":"2022-12-06T14:04:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:04:30","slug":"dem-disenchanted-nyc-councilman-leaves-party-over-far-left-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-disenchanted-nyc-councilman-leaves-party-over-far-left-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Disenchanted: NYC Councilman Leaves Party Over Far-Left Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fdem-disenchanted-nyc-councilman-leaves-party-over-far-left-policies%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=1764953&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democrats are making &#8216;everybody less safe,&#8217; says Councilman Ari Kagan<\/p>\n<p>    New York City councilman Ari Kagan (R.) \/ Facebook   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/anna-allen\/\" title=\"Posts by Anna Allen\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Anna Allen<\/a> \u2022 December 6, 2022 1:50 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Disenchanted with Democrats&#8217; far-left soft-on-crime policies, a New York City councilman announced Monday that he is switching to the Republican Party, the\u00a0<em>New York Post\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/05\/new-lines-push-nyc-democrat-ari-kagan-to-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bensonhurst councilman Ari Kagan, who began his first term in office in January, is abandoning the Democratic Party, which he says is responsible for New York City&#8217;s crime surge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe right now, the Democratic Party is doing everything possible in New York City to make everybody less safe,&#8221; he said. Kagan, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/brooklyn-ari-kagan-switching-gop-challenge-justin-brannan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> Monday, specifically listed the City Council&#8217;s move to bar landlords from requiring criminal background checks on potential tenants and its push to eliminate solitary confinement as examples of Democrats&#8217; failure to address public safety concerns. Democrats have a supermajority on the council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Democratic Party in New York was moving to [the] left at such a speed I couldn&#8217;t keep up,&#8221; said Kagan. &#8220;It&#8217;s not me leaving the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party very quickly started to leave me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crime rates in the city\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kathy-hochul-downplays-new-york-crime-spike-high-profile-instances-create-sense-of-fear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spiked<\/a> 15.2 percent in the last year, a number that Democratic New York governor Kathy Hochul tried to dismiss as just a few &#8220;high-profile instances.&#8221; New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) signed an order last week that allows police to commit potentially dangerous mentally ill people to psychiatric institutions. Liberals <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/new-york-city-mayor-allows-cops-to-detain-and-commit-the-mentally-ill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quickly slammed<\/a> the bill, claiming it would cause &#8220;trauma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every month I found myself, like, \u2018What am I doing in the Democratic Party?'&#8221; Kagan said. &#8220;In my own district, in southern Brooklyn, everywhere I knocked [on] the doors people [were] saying, \u2018When are you switching to the Republican Party?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kagan is launching a general election bid against former ally and fellow councilman Justin Brannan (D.) for a newly redrawn Brooklyn district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disenchanted with Democrats&#8217; far-left soft-on-crime policies, a New York City councilman announced Monday that he is switching to the Republican Party, the\u00a0New York Post\u00a0reported.<br \/>\nThe post Dem Disenchanted: NYC Councilman Leaves Party Over Far-Left Policies appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1764957,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1764953","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}