{"id":2619200,"date":"2026-06-25T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-socialists-dems-are-nominating-in-ny-likely-us-rep-says-shed-abolish-pre-check-nationalize-airline-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:37:16","slug":"here-are-the-socialists-dems-are-nominating-in-ny-likely-us-rep-says-shed-abolish-pre-check-nationalize-airline-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/here-are-the-socialists-dems-are-nominating-in-ny-likely-us-rep-says-shed-abolish-pre-check-nationalize-airline-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Are the Socialists Dems Are Nominating in NY: Likely US Rep Says She&#8217;d &#8216;Abolish Pre-Check,&#8217; Nationalize Airline Industry"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fhere-are-the-socialists-dems-are-nominating-in-ny-likely-us-rep-says-shed-abolish-pre-check-nationalize-airline-industry%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=2619200&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>This article discusses Claire Valdez, a Democratic nominee for New York\u2019s 7th Congressional District, who is associated with Democratic socialism and has recently won her primary election.Her platform includes controversial proposals such as abolishing TSA PreCheck and nationalizing the airline industry, aiming to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-were-in-active-conversation-with-cdc-about-requiring-covid-test-before-domestic-flights\/\" title=\"Buttigieg: We\u2019re In \u2018Active Conversation\u2019 With CDC About Requiring COVID Test Before Domestic Flights\">make air travel<\/a> in the US worse. The piece criticizes her ideas, highlighting the economic and logistical problems of government control over airlines, including costs, inefficiencies, and the impact on air travel. It also emphasizes that her <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >proposals reverse notable deregulation efforts<\/a> from the Carter era, which helped make flying more affordable. the article portrays Valdez\u2019s policies as regressive and perhaps damaging to American air transportation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Someone who will likely be a U.S. representative for the party of John F. Kennedy for the city where the hellscape known as John F. Kennedy International Airport is based wants you to know that she wants to make your experience at JFK even <em>worse<\/em> than it is now \u2014 because, socialism!<\/p>\n<p>Meet Claire Valdez, the newly minted Democratic nominee for New York\u2019s 7th Congressional District. She\u2019s one of three Democratic socialists endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani who managed to score upsets in Tuesday\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p>Valdez\u2019s win was arguably the least surprising; unlike the other two, she was facing off against an establishment candidate to replace a retiring Democrat in a deep-blue district, not an incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the win that made the fewest headlines on its own, in part because one of the winners endorsed by Mamdani was a former rival of his in the race to secure the Democratic nomination for mayor a year ago, former city comptroller Brad Lander, and the other \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mamdani-backed-candidate-blamed-9-11-american-capitalism-racism-wins-democratic-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darializa Avila Chevalier<\/a> \u2014 holds positions so thoroughly insane they shouldn\u2019t just be politically disqualifying but listed psychiatric conditions in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/federal-appeals-court-rules-transgenderism-protected-disability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DSM-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Valdez has kind of flown under the radar, even though she\u2019ll almost certainly be a congresswoman come next January. Which is problematic, because apparently, one of her signature ideas is to make flying in the United States even worse than it is already.<\/p>\n<p>To anyone who hails from the New York City area, this should also be disqualifying. Between JFK, Newark, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/air-traffic-controller-caught-tape-following-airplane-crash-laguardia-messed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LaGuardia<\/a>, the city that never sleeps has three airports where it seems pretty much everyone working there has found a way to drift off on the job. Not only that, two out of three are decrepit monstrosities and have been since disco was an emergent musical genre \u2014 and the only reason the third isn\u2019t is because, after decades of being the worst of the trio and thoroughly unsuitable for jet-age air travel unless you got knocked on the head and were under the concussed misapprehension that you were flying out of Libya, LaGuardia finally got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portauthoritybuilds.com\/redevelopment\/us\/en\/lga.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major overhaul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, mentioning the mere act of trying to board a flight in NYC\u2019s major airports is possibly the most triggering thing you can tell someone who lives in the area, at least that doesn\u2019t involve a relative or pet dying.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, it\u2019s a bit curious that Valdez\u2019s plan to improve air transport is \u2026 abolishing TSA PreCheck and nationalizing the airline industry. The only reason she won, I can surmise, is that too few people in the 7th Congressional District saw the clip from a podcast named (sigh) \u201cThe B****uation Room\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/si\/podcast\/candidate-corner-claire-valdez-for-ny-7\/id1438285775?i=1000765633902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hot take is that we need to abolish PreCheck,\u201d she said, referring to the TSA program that allows low-risk, pre-vetted travelers to speed through the security process. This makes it easier not only for them, but for everyone else in line.<\/p>\n<p>If \u00a0you\u2019ve ever been in the winding, endless security line at Kennedy, as I was just last week \u2014 which is why this perhaps resonates with me more than the average dimwit socialist winning a Democratic primary \u2014 you know that this program is what the late business efficiency author Stephen Covey liked to call a \u201cwin-win situation.\u201d Not for Valdez, apparently. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mamdanis-socialists-sweep-primaries-started-org-total-eradication-western-civilization-demand-world-without-prisons-called-america-disgrace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soviet New York<\/a>, situation win-win <em>you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse, somehow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got like, a million beefs with the airline industry and the process of having to fly,\u201d Valdez continued. \u201cWe need to, like, nationalize the airline industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Democrat nominee for NY-7 Claire Valdez says she wants to abolish pre-check and nationalize the entire airline industry. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MXnIOwB3P1\">pic.twitter.com\/MXnIOwB3P1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/2069907669578616843?\">June 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can see that even someone willing to host a program titled \u201cThe B****uation Room\u201d was aghast at this, and I\u2019m assuming she hadn\u2019t run the numbers. The market capitalization of just the two biggest American-based carriers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/companiesmarketcap.com\/delta-air-lines\/marketcap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delta<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/companiesmarketcap.com\/united-airlines\/marketcap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United<\/a> \u2014 is well over $100 billion, first off. And that\u2019s just if the government buys these airlines out, which would probably end up being more expensive unless they were seized at gunpoint. (This is unconstitutional, naturally, but I don\u2019t think Valdez has thought that \u2014 or any of this \u2014 through.)<\/p>\n<p>And of course, market cap is hardly the only problem with the government running an airline. There are the associated costs, for one thing. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic, is famous for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/richard_branson_452106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> that \u201cif you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Planes, fuel costs, slots at airports, services, maintenance, catering \u2014 those all now become government responsibilities. And if you think the phenomenon of the government effectively negotiating with itself when public-sector unions, like those that represent teachers or agency staffers, is bad, wait until that spreads to pilots, flight attendants, and ground crew.<\/p>\n<p>And this isn\u2019t even noting the most effective deregulation measure in recent American history, the <a href=\"https:\/\/enotrans.org\/article\/jimmy-carter-1977-1981-transformational-deregulation-of-americas-transportation-system-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Airline Deregulation Act<\/a>, signed into law by (prepared to be shocked) Jimmy Carter\u2019s administration. If you want to have someone to thank for being able to fly affordably, you can thank Mr. Malaise for allowing airlines to not just fly where the government told them they could and what prices they would charge for it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Valdez not only wants to undo the one good piece of President Carter\u2019s agenda, she wants to go one step further by nationalizing American air carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, she might not have been the worst candidate to win a primary on Tuesday. But if Valdez ever gets near real power in the Democratic Party, she\u2019ll have a shot to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-reveals-jimmy-carter-died-happy-man-punch-line-will-stitches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Carter\u2019s<\/a> signature piece of legislation, JFK\u2019s eponymous airport, and every other bit of American air travel exponentially worse. 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