I believe Jack referencing " a city turning its back on all but its most privileged and well-connected residents" pretty well explains how most NYC mayors get where they are. An AOC-type breakthrough is almost more impossible for the mayor's office than it is for congressional representative. Joe Crowley was tough enough to get through, …
I believe Jack referencing " a city turning its back on all but its most privileged and well-connected residents" pretty well explains how most NYC mayors get where they are. An AOC-type breakthrough is almost more impossible for the mayor's office than it is for congressional representative. Joe Crowley was tough enough to get through, but that was only one district; the amount of muck a genuinely not-insane person would have to wade through to break the Dem Machine hold on the entire city would be akin to a landslide.
That's not exactly it. It's a few factors. For one thing Staten Island and parts of South Brooklyn are as right wing as anywhere in the Deep South and those parts of the city vote in disproportionate numbers. Those voters are enough to force a fascist cop mayor on the rest of the city a la Adams and Giuliani. Bloomberg was a one off weird situation where a billionaire literally buys himself the mayoralty. That's definitely an "only in New York" kind of thing in that no other city is deemed to be important or valuable enough for that to happen. I don't remember too well but it was a real surprise that Adams won and I think had a lot to do with the peculiarities of how nYC citywide elections work. The liberals/progressives couldn't unite behind a candidate and I think maybe even the first time ever use of ranked choice voting had something to do with it?
I believe Jack referencing " a city turning its back on all but its most privileged and well-connected residents" pretty well explains how most NYC mayors get where they are. An AOC-type breakthrough is almost more impossible for the mayor's office than it is for congressional representative. Joe Crowley was tough enough to get through, but that was only one district; the amount of muck a genuinely not-insane person would have to wade through to break the Dem Machine hold on the entire city would be akin to a landslide.
A depressing summation.
That's not exactly it. It's a few factors. For one thing Staten Island and parts of South Brooklyn are as right wing as anywhere in the Deep South and those parts of the city vote in disproportionate numbers. Those voters are enough to force a fascist cop mayor on the rest of the city a la Adams and Giuliani. Bloomberg was a one off weird situation where a billionaire literally buys himself the mayoralty. That's definitely an "only in New York" kind of thing in that no other city is deemed to be important or valuable enough for that to happen. I don't remember too well but it was a real surprise that Adams won and I think had a lot to do with the peculiarities of how nYC citywide elections work. The liberals/progressives couldn't unite behind a candidate and I think maybe even the first time ever use of ranked choice voting had something to do with it?