Voting In NYC 06/27/2023

[richardmurray]

I asked prior in this forum if the Black community is to harsh on itself based on the activities of other communities 

 

And tonight it was proven in the voting arena. Media in NYC continuously complained, why is such low turnout in NYC. But everyone knows the answer, it is the same reason why turnout is low across the board, why turnout in south africa went from 99% across the board to between 30% side 10% , why turnout in the USA's Black community went from over 90% of allowed, cause whites always did whatever it took to stop non violent blacks, whose non violence made it easier. Cause the government fails to return an investment on voting. The city council of NYC is impotent when the people need something or dysfunctional to the people's needs with their policy.

You want people to vote, it isn't hard. get results.  But all communities in NYC, ALL communities are not voting in high numbers. I repeat all communities. That isn't because of magic, or the when , it is simple, all people know that voting for these people isn't going to help their community or the city at large.

Ocasio Cortez is a prime example. She won, yes, the white man in that bronx district voting base left the area, age denied their ability to vote, or they died. Communities demographics change in NYC, and always against a communities wishes. But, She hasn't done anything to improve the area. 

Some themes media has talked about is that people like Inez Dikens or Charles Barron have lost but are forgetting that unlike their rivals these are people who actually spent years advocating for rights on the ground before government. People like Kristin Richardson or Yusef Salaam or Ocasio Cortez have not been on the ground and not worked their way up into government. Based on current results, the new breed will be as impotent as the old breed without having a history of actual advocacy while making a lot more money in various ways.

But the biggest takeaway is women. I don't know why or how, but from the female nypd chief to Kristin Richardson to the white woman of south brooklyn to Inez Dikens many women in general and particularly women not white european seem to be having a terrible time in NYC government. The answer must be the environment behind the scenes that the newspapers do not say. 

I will end with a few notes on Kristin Richardson.  

1) Affordable housing in NYC requires a 50,000 earned income which most people in NYC do not afford so saying she opposes affordable housing is false when what is labeled affordable housing isn't affordable. 

2) Union jobs aren't enough for the populace in Harlem. HArlem has circa 100.000 people. I repeat, one hundred thousand people, that is larger than most cities in the United States of America. Harlem has no space to build anything new. Harlem has no regional industry. So, union jobs will not employ the many in shelters or similar in Harlem. 

3) She is a socialist, not a democrat, sequentially she stood alone in the city council.  If you are not a donkey or an elephant, those two parties will restrict your abilities and they will look to criminalize you which was done to her. 

4) Inez Dikens is right, women of color have it rough in NYC government. I don't comprehend all the why, but something is going on behind the scenes, cause way too women of color in general seem to lose in elections in NYC, and I don't buy the fair argument. 

 

 

Kristin Richardson Jordan drops re-election bid in crowded Harlem council race

Embattled City Council Member Kristin Richardson Jordan is dropping her re-election bid in a crowded race for her Central Harlem seat, she announced in an Instagram post Tuesday morning.

“Dear supporters and volunteers, thank you for seeing the true possibility for racial love in the loveless land of politics — it is not easy to do,” Richardson Jordan wrote. “Unfortunately, I’m writing this to inform you that I have decided not to seek re-election and not to commit to another two years.”

“I look forward to finishing out this term,” she added.

Richardson Jordan didn’t immediately respond to a call and message left by a reporter Tuesday morning.

The Democratic socialist council member was first elected in 2020 by just 114 votes over former state Senator and Council Member Bill Perkins — who died Monday night. She was vying to keep her seat against a packed field in the June 27 Democratic primary that includes Assembly Members Inez Dickens (D-Manhattan) and Al Taylor (D-Manhattan) and Yusef Salaam, a member of the Exonerated Five — formerly known as the Central Park Five.

All 51 council seats are up for grabs just two years after the last election, as opposed to the regular four-year council election cycle, because the body’s district maps were redrawn last year following the U.S. Census.

Richardson Jordan appeared to draw such a large number of eager rivals after she vehemently opposed the One45 rezoning in Central Harlem, that would have brought 458 income-restricted “affordable apartments” — making up 50% of the project’s units, to an underused stretch of 145th Street. Following her opposition, the developer backed off of the project and decided to turn the site into a truck stop instead, though he filed to give the rezoning another go in February.

Richardson Jordan’s stance on One45 coupled with several controversial Tweets she authored, including one where she appeared to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and her anti-police stance have drawn ire from more moderate local Democrats and made her appear vulnerable to a primary challenge.

United Brotherhood of Carpenters Executive Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Geiger said it was Richardson Jordan killed her re-election chances when she opposed the One45 development. The union endorsed Taylor’s campaign.

“For once, Council Member Kristen Richardson Jordan is doing the right thing for her constituents,”  Geiger said, in a statement. “While she quit before formally losing her reelection, the message it sends is still the same: you cannot win re-election in New York City if you are against union jobs and affordable housing.”

Dickens, who formerly held the seat from 2006 to 2016, before running for the Assembly, voiced her support for all women of color in government and said Richardson Jordan did the “best she could” for the district.

“I applaud the political participation of all women of color. I started my own political journey as a local organizer and worked my way up to the state legislature, and if there is one thing I have learned it is this: we need women of color in rooms where decisions about our lives are being made,” Dickens said. “I’d like to thank Kristin for her service as [a] council member. She did the best that she could for her community and that is all that anyone can ask of her.”

Salaam, in a statement, also thanked Jordan for her “service and commitment to the Harlem community we call home.”

“This race is about the future of Harlem and I am running because we need real change that lifts up our seniors, gives people opportunities, improves our schools, enhances public safety and creates affordable housing,” he said.

In his own statement, Taylor acknowledged Richardson Jordan’s decision not to seek re-election must not have been easy.

“I give my deep regards to the councilmember for what must have been a difficult and somber decision,” Taylor said. “We run for office because we have a passion and conviction for making things better for our neighbors and communities. I respect her decision and I wish her only the best in the next chapter of her life.”

Progressive Democratic Strategist Camille Rivera, a partner at New Deal Strategies, told amNewYork that while she doesn’t know the exact reasons why Richardson Jordan dropped out, her decision changes the dynamics of the contest. Rivera also said it’s “sad” that another woman of color has decided not to run.

“I think it becomes a race that is more open,” Rivera said. “I do think it’s sad to me, I mean this is another woman of color who has decided not to run. And despite whatever folks have said and not been supportive, she’s always done her best to be on the right side of things … I mean she is a progressive, she is somebody that people did trust, but sometimes the stuff just becomes too much.”

 

URL

https://www.amny.com/politics/kristin-richardson-jordan-drops-re-election-bid-in-crowded-harlem-council-race/

[Stefan]

@richardmurray

Dude, you never lived in NYC. You know nothing about the city. Voter turnout has always been traditionally low in off election years.

What happened? You came across a half ass news story about low voter turnout and decided to plagiarize it to showcase your normally moribund thinking? 

You're the same clown who supported the Subway Terrorist, Frank James. And you did it because you believe Frank James was making NYC Mayor Eric Adams look bad. All terrorists make elected officials look bad.

You've really deluded yourself into thinking you're a writer. But you're not. South Africa has nothing to do with NYC elections. 

Low voter turnout in off-election years in NYC has little to do with White anger over Blacks voting across the country. 

To show everyone just how out of touch you are - you actually missed the REAL NEWS. And that is Yusef Salaam winning the Democratic Primary for a City Council seat representing Harlem. Salaam is one of the exonerated Central Park who was 15 when he was charged with rape and served seven years before finally released from prison. Because of the overwhelming voting edge Dems have in NYC, winning a primary is tantamount to winning election.

Of course, if you knew anything about NYC, you'd already know that. 

Exonerated Central Park Five member wins City Council primary

[Troy]

Wait, @richardmurray all this time I thought you lived or were from Harlem.  I wish more people took your polls.  It may be that you have to have an account to take the poll. I'll lookinto this.

 

Yeah, I saw that Yusef Salaam won the city council seat. I'm not surprised.  He is tall, handsome, and the most articulate of the five guys he got bum rushed with.  Being one of the exonerated gave him some name recognition which helps tremendously -- plus white people love him...

 

I also saw the Bill Perkins died recently -- that news caught me off guard.  I used to see the Brother running in Central Park (interestingly the last time was not too far from where the Central Park Jogger was brutalized).

[richardmurray]

@Troy I am harlem , manhattan, nyc  born and raised and live there. 

ok cool, maybe making the polls open will be cool, if you can allow for members and guest votes to be shown too. 

 

And add the number of votes in harlem of people who were formerly incarcerated. The years of unfair law enforcement created in the black community a large voting block of people who will vote for someone formerly incarcerated.  But, in terms of quality I argue he is low. The why being, the  city council works by committee. I is a legislative body so being elected to it means little if you have no connections. Richardson I think was more honest, but absent connections  being a socialist was isolated and attacked by the donkeys plus elephants. Salaam is not as honest or radical but he is in the donkey fold so he can have a common tenure in the city council but his policy ideas are less radical or honest.

 

yeah circa two years ago, PErkins died. 

 

My point in this post was to reaffirm the continual suggestion by black people that we are worse in many things is a falsehood. Black people's voting turnout is no worse than any other group but black people plus non blacks make it a point to emphasize what we aren't doing even when non blacks are equally inactive. 

[ProfD]

34 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

. Black people's voting turnout is no worse than any other group but black people plus non blacks make it a point to emphasize what we aren't doing even when non blacks are equally inactive. 

The craziest thing is that no other group of people is hounded and insulted about voting more than Black folks.

 

Politicians pander for the Black vote and do nothing tangible for us. 

 

Meanwhile, white, Hispanics and Asians are not badgered into voting and gain the most regardless. 

 

Exhibit A--Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill.  That sh8t shot through Congress like Speedy Gonzalez.

 

Yet, there is no anti-Black Hate Crime Bill.  Black folks are subjected to police brutality and every other aspect of racism white supremacy.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD  What is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA, without stating something Black people already tried? 

I repeat, without stating something Black people already tried and failed to do, what is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA? 

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, richardmurray said:

@ProfD  What is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA, without stating something Black people already tried? 

I repeat, without stating something Black people already tried and failed to do, what is the solution to get positive Black policy in the USA? 

As I've mentioned in several threads, Black folks need to come up with agenda of tangible benefits to which politicians can be held accountable.