The chairman of the New York State Democratic Party said on Thursday that he would not support Zohran Mamdani, his party’s nominee for mayor of New York City, citing fundamental disagreements over Israel and democratic socialism.
The position puts the chairman, Jay Jacobs, directly at odds with both Democratic primary voters and Gov. Kathy Hochul, his de facto boss, who endorsed Mr. Mamdani on Sunday despite her own differences with the nominee.
Mr. Jacobs, a moderate from Long Island, was so opposed to the governor’s endorsement that he told associates in recent days that he would sooner resign as chairman than back Mr. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state lawmaker and democratic socialist, according to people who spoke with the chairman.
Sorry, but income disparity might now be the second greatest problem in America only being overshot by the willful unchecked support of fascism taking root in everything. Even if we dissolved the income disparity, there’s a real fucking problem with hate and that hate and power will ultimately make income disparity happen again (if solved), or become even worse!
Would be hilarious if a mamdani landslide would trigger the end of the two party system as we know it.
So on one hand we have democrats trying to subpoena the FCC chair and getting shot down, and on the other we have democrats actively fighting against what’s best for New York. They can’t decide whether to shit or go blind, so they close one eye and fart, getting precisely nowhere in the process. I hate that we don’t have a truly left-leaning party in this country, just fascists and people on the right that call themselves liberals.
Fuckwits like this are how we wound up with a second Trump term. Resign if you’re gonna be in disagreement with what the people want.
Sounds like someone isn’t a good fit for that position. Get rid of Jacobs
Saw someone on bluesky put it best:
Jay Jacobs is the most useless man in the NY Democratic party, and that is saying something.
He’s a big part of why the Dems don’t have the House this term.
He does seem to be kind of bad at politics. Hochul just showed him how to thread the needle, he could have followed her lead.
Hochul just showed him how to acquiesce to public sentiment in the same way a windsock acquiesces to the wind. It is entirely impossible to pretend there was any level of shrewdness or political aptitude in Hochul’s tepid and tardy endorsement.
The only difference here is that Hochul could lose her job due to voters thinking she’s an idiot, while Jacobs is not actually accountable in any meaningful way to the voting public.
Hochul can see which way the wind is blowing and adapt, this guy can’t or won’t. He sucks at politics worse than Hochul is my only point.
Let him resign then!
Here are his endorsements from his official page. I love that Bernie is first:
He should post a public page of people who have refused to endorse him too.
Yeah, I’d like a comprehensive list of who to donate to the opposition of.
I’m more impressed by the number of unions.
resign
Do the dems want to win the midterms?
Their popularity is down since the election.
How fucking hard is it to listen to what the voters say they want?
Actions speak louder than words, and their actions support the fascists.
How fucking hard is it to listen to what the voters say they want?
It’s in direct opposition to the strings attached to large donors’ bribes, so it’s very fucking hard indeed.
Well it would help if people, ya know, voted.
Mamdani is where he is because a ton of people actually got off their asses and voted. Perhaps we should do more of that so we can get rid of the useless people like this party chairman.
"Yeah, but something happening half a world away with a group of people I don’t really care about is in conflict with my projected values, so I’ll probably give up my right to affect the outcome of the one thing that I can directly influence, to stop a convicted felon from taking control of a country I say I really care about, but in reality, my actions say otherwise.
So there’s that, I guess. Maybe I’ll sit it out again."
No, I don’t understand it either.
Mamdani is where he is because he was out there getting support for his progressive platform and making voting feel like it matters. I strongly doubt somewhere like Los Angeles or Seattle would react differently to a candidate like Mamdani showing up, but they just don’t.
Centrists, both rank and file and leadership, apparently don’t care about Vote Blue No Matter Who. I sure hope this lesson will be taken to heart by progressives out there.
Hope there is a wave locally and the left creates its own “MAGA” but actually progressive and want to help Americans.
Resign then, dumbass.
He would rather resign? Sounds good. He sounds incredibly ineffective and out of his element.
Bought and paid for establishment pigfucker.
US Democrats are so fucking corrupt.
And stupid. And cowardly.
Great example of party unity.
