Far left triumphant in New York primary: It Was a Slaughter of Establishment Democrats

American Thinker ^ | 09/14/2018 | Rick Moran

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The socialist insurgency against establishment Democrats in New York emerged triumphant as no less than 6 far left candidates defeated establishment Democrats in races for the state senate.

New York Times:

Years of anger at a group of Democratic state senators who had collaborated with Republicans boiled over on Thursday, as primary voters ousted nearly all of them in favor of challengers who had called them traitors and sham progressives.

The losses were not only a resounding upset for the members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who outspent their challengers several times over, but also a sign that the progressive fervor sweeping national politics had hobbled New York’s once-mighty Democratic machine, at least on a local level.

The most high-profile casualty was Senator Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx, the former head of the I.D.C. In that role, he was for years one of Albany’s most powerful players, sharing leadership of the chamber with his counterparts in the Republican conference and participating in the state’s secretive budget negotiations.

But on Thursday, he was defeated by Alessandra Biaggi, a lawyer and former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, after a campaign in which Ms. Biaggi cornered Mr. Klein into spending more than $2 million, an astonishing sum for a state legislative race. (Cynthia Nixon, in her unsuccessful bid against Mr. Cuomo, spent less.)

Two things: First, the victories of socialists rid the Democrats of the last vestige of bi-partisanship in the state senate. This will make Albany an even more unruly place than it already is. Secondly, and most important, the march of socialism in the Democratic party appears to be unstoppable and will make 2020 an Armageddon of sorts between right and left.

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Unlike California and LA and San Francisco, we can’t hope for an earth quake to destroy NYC.

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Bizarre theory by me...so do not quote me....
but is this the way to get rid of the Clinton gang? If you vote out estab. Dems dont the clintons have less people to threaten or blackmail or harm other ways?
Just sayin’.....