How New York F*cked the Country: New York’s Unelected Leadership Void.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

From failing to run opposition research on the most fraudulent candidate ever to colluding with Republicans on key judgeships, the NY Democratic Party is rife with mediocre careerists more interested in the status quo than winning elections. In this Quickie we offer three stories that demonstrate just how incompetent the NY Dems are and how they’re basically responsible for losing control of the House.

Chapters

Intro: 00:00:18

1. Malfeasance: The Talented Mr. Santos: 00:03:09

2. Malpractice: Absolute Power: 00:08:25

3. Malodorous: Judging by the Judges: 00:14:07

Resources

CNN Politics: House of Representatives Results: GOP wins the majority

The New York Times: Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction.

The New York Times: Democrats Lose Control of N.Y. Election Maps, as Top Court Rejects Appeal

Brennan Center: What Went Wrong with New York’s Redistricting

The Intercept: AOC: The New York State Democratic Party’s Corruption May Have Cost Democrats the House

City & State New York: The 3 nominees progressives won’t tolerate on New York’s highest court

New York Post: Nassau County GOP leader Joseph Cairo’s daughter nominated for NY supreme court

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0:00.0	UNFDR
0:03.0	When the world is a mean and nasty little place
0:08.8	Finding the truth can be a little tricky
0:11.9	Don't go punch yourself in the face
0:14.8	Just listen to an unfucking quickie
0:17.2	Been a while since we hopped in the sack for a quickie unfuckers this one is overdue from the midterms
0:25.8	and frankly i wasn't sure i was going to do it because the moment had passed but news broke in the
0:31.0	times this week that put a fine point on the problem and refocused my hostility this one is a home
0:37.3	game because it's New York
0:38.4	centric and involves people that I actually kind of know. And at the center of the shitstorm
0:42.5	is this guy. India Walton won the Democratic primary in the race for Buffalo mayor over incumbent
0:48.3	Byron Brown. But top moderate Democrats have declined to endorse Walton, who calls herself
0:53.1	a Democratic socialist.
0:54.6	And New York State Democratic Chair Jay Jacobs took it a step further.
0:57.7	Let's take a scenario very different, where David Duke, remember him, the Grand Wizard of the KKK,
1:04.1	he moves to New York, he becomes a Democrat. He runs for mayor in the city of Rochester,
1:08.8	which has a low primary turnout, and he wins the Democratic
1:12.0	line. I have to endorse David Duke? I don't think so. Old news, I know, but worth revisiting to set
1:19.3	the table for this quickie. India Walton won the Buffalo Democratic mayoral primary in 2021.
1:25.7	She lost the general election after receiving zero support from the party in
1:29.7	New York and was outraised four to one as a result. Jay Jacobs, the Democratic leader you just heard
1:35.6	in the clip, refused to endorse or fundraise for Walton because she wasn't a Democrat, even though
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