Four-term Democratic state lawmaker Janelle Bynum defeated Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in the highly contested 5th Congressional District race.
Four-term Democratic state lawmaker Janelle Bynum defeated Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in the highly contested 5th Congressional District race.
It’s a long story. The 17th was Mondaire Jones’ district, but after the latest round of redistributing, Maloney decided to switch over, run there, and push Jones out because he thought it was safer than his old seat (the 18th).
Maloney ended up losing to Lawler, while Pat Ryan ran in the 18th and ended up being the only seat in the area that we held in 2022. This all happened while Maloney was head of the D House Re-election Committee.
I live in the 17th and we learned this year that the first paragraph isn't true. He offered the race to Jones but Jones, who didn't actually live in the 17th, chose to run in blue district and pretended he had been pushed out. Anyway, Jones is a weaker candidate than Maloney and would have lost in 2022 as well.
Speaking of the NY metro, congestion pricing is dead as a doornail. Delaying it probably prevented downballot slippage, so Dems will finish the job and kill it. That, combined with bringing the hammer down on fare evaders, is the way to go to fix the bad vibes.
Doesn't help that Hochul is unpopular too. Basically every high profile dem in the NYC metro is unpopular. You'd almost think they wanted us to be out of power.
Four-term Democratic state lawmaker Janelle Bynum defeated Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in the highly contested 5th Congressional District race.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/11/janelle-bynum-wins-race-for-congress-flipping-us-house-seat-from-gop-to-democratic-control.html?utm_campaign=theoregonian_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Terrific news
Between winning this seat and the New York seats, we have almost fully redeemed our deepest embarrassments from 2022. Just waiting for California.
How is Lawler a monument to Maloney's idiocy?
It’s a long story. The 17th was Mondaire Jones’ district, but after the latest round of redistributing, Maloney decided to switch over, run there, and push Jones out because he thought it was safer than his old seat (the 18th).
Maloney ended up losing to Lawler, while Pat Ryan ran in the 18th and ended up being the only seat in the area that we held in 2022. This all happened while Maloney was head of the D House Re-election Committee.
I live in the 17th and we learned this year that the first paragraph isn't true. He offered the race to Jones but Jones, who didn't actually live in the 17th, chose to run in blue district and pretended he had been pushed out. Anyway, Jones is a weaker candidate than Maloney and would have lost in 2022 as well.
Thank you for the correction.
Speaking of the NY metro, congestion pricing is dead as a doornail. Delaying it probably prevented downballot slippage, so Dems will finish the job and kill it. That, combined with bringing the hammer down on fare evaders, is the way to go to fix the bad vibes.
A better way to fix the bad vibes in NY/NJ would be if the face of the party wasn’t Eric Adams and Bob Menendez.
Menendez is a non-factor.
Not going forward, of course - I’m just saying that having all of that out in public probably didn’t do us many favors this year.
Doesn't help that Hochul is unpopular too. Basically every high profile dem in the NYC metro is unpopular. You'd almost think they wanted us to be out of power.