Westchester County Executive George Latimer has broad support among the residents of lower Westchester County who have known him to be a tireless advocate for decades. They have adorned their lawns with signs showing their support in his congressional race in New York’s 16th Congressional District which has a Democratic primary on June 25.
But the Latimer signs keep disappearing.
All over White Plains, people are taking down signs for George Latimer, whether they are one feet or ten feet from the curb.
Residents have been taking pictures using cameras as well as capturing stills from video surveillance of people climbing onto lawns and pulling out signs. Seemingly, some of the people removing signs have been from the White Plains Code of Enforcement.
According to a representative in the department, they remove signs when they are located in the city’s “right of way” which can be up to eight feet from the curb.
But the city is doing this very selectively, leaving non-political signs up while taking away George Latimer signs.
Several signs left untouched while Latimer signs were removed from lawn next door which were the same distance from the curb
Some Latimer supporters have had signs taken multiple times and are resorting to nailing their signs onto trees.
Several realtor and construction signs left by city while Latimer signs next door removedLatimer sign nailed to a tree after signs removed several times
The White Plains Code of Enforcement (914) 422-1208, said that they placed all of the removed Latimer signs in the Recycling Center at 85 Gedney Way, but they would not explain why they left so many other non-political signs in place.
Are Jamaal Bowman’s supporters robbing constituents of their free speech rights and stealing Latimer signs? Bowman has long proven himself to be an embarrassment and unfit to serve in Congress and his actions continue to draw the ire of the people in the district. Bowman’s supporters are further fueling anger against the unhinged incumbent.
One of the major primaries being discussed in the media is the race in New York’s 16th Congressional District between Rep. Jamaal Bowman of the far-left “squad” and Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a seasoned progressive. The media has portrayed this as a “microcosm of party split over Israel-Hamas conflict,” but that misses the mark.
This is about NY-16 being redistricted from a mix of northern Bronx and some of lower Westchester in 2020, to a predominantly Westchester district with a nub of the Bronx in Co-op City in 2024.
Bowman won the seat in 2020 securing the seat with many votes from the Bronx and some liberals in Westchester looking for a change and progressive voice. When the 2020 census moved NY-16 into more of a Westchester-focused population in 2022, two Westchester Democratic contenders fought to challenge Bowman, Westchester County Legislature Catherine Parker and Westchester County Legislature Vedat Gashi. Parker and Gashi split the anti-Bowman vote who had proven himself to be a radical with his chant to “Defund the Police” and vote against the Infrastructure Bill and then lying to his constituents that he actually supported it.
As soon as Bowman won the 2022 Democratic primary, people in Westchester started planning on who to run against him. This website, PrimaryBowman.com, posted ideas and articles including Beating Bowman, which called for finding a popular Westchester politician EARLY, to avoid splitting the vote again.
THAT WAS IN SEPTEMBER 2022.
Many local people in Westchester got involved to draft George Latimer to run against Bowman. It was not AIPAC, Democratic Majority for Israel or any other group. It was a grassroot effort of people who thought that Latimer had years of providing quality service to Westchester constituents, and while a liberal, appealed to the more centrist District 16 residents than the extremist Bowman.
The conversations with Latimer began in earnest in April of 2023 and people expected him to make a decision by June. Being a methodical politician, Latimer spent time canvassing the district to see if there was broad support for ousting a sitting Democrat, especially a Black man since Latimer is White. The responses were nearly universal: Bowman is detested in wide swaths of Westchester and politicians and the local Democratic establishment were going to back Latimer.
All of this was months before the barbaric October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel.
Latimer was quick to raise lots of money from inside Westchester, which is more affluent than the Bronx former-constituents who had voted for Bowman in 2020. Latimer raised almost twice as much money as Bowman in both the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. Even more telling, Bowman did not even have 10% of his donations from inside the district.
Sensing his vulnerability, Bowman latched onto the fundraising of Rep. Rashida Tlaib who is hauling in money from pro-Palestinian groups. Running unopposed, she funnels the excess money to Bowman, essentially buying a district hundreds of miles and four states away from her district in Michigan, cashing another anti-Israel vote.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and her tool, Jamaal Bowman
Bowman is faithfully serving his Palestinian money master. He had anti-Zionists at his launch party, voted against Israel in all congressional votes, defended Tlaib’s gross antisemitism on the floor of congress, and refused to loudly condemn antisemitism on college campuses at a congressional hearing. Further, he would not attend a rally when antisemitic graffiti showed up on Jewish stores in his district, nor would he attend Jewish rallies in synagogues.
Latimer attended all of them.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer at a bipartisan Westchester Jewish Council dinner. Bowman was invited and did not attend (Photo: PrimaryBowman.com)
Do Westchester Jews favor Latimer over Bowman because of Israel? Absolutely, but not solely. Bowman has years of earning his disrespect, including collecting a bipartisan censure from congress for pulling a fire alarm.
Bowman’s calling Westchester Jews “racist” for backing a White challenger is offensive and yet another sign of his moral failures. District 16 Jews support neighboring NY-15’s Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Black-Latino gay politician, for standing up the mob destroying property at Columbia University and for inciting violence against Jews, while Bowman supports the anarchists. Lower Westchester elected Mondaire Jones, a Black gay progressive in 2020 when the district lines put lower Westchester into NY-17.
Tweets on April 30, 2024 by Reps. Torres and Bowman about the pro-Hamas / anti-Israel violence at Columbia University
New York’s 16th Congressional District has sought to replace Bowman as their representative since lines were redrawn to cover most of lower Westchester in 2022. Bowman’s latest anti-Israel antics are disgusting appeals to get money from anti-Zionists outside of the district. Even if October 7 never happened, lower Westchester would still rally to unseat the unpopular extremist Bowman.
Members of the far-left “squad” in congress like to portray themselves as for the working people in a grassroots movement fighting against the rich and corporations.
The data of where some of them rake in the money tells a different story.
According to collection records assembled by the non-partisan group OpenSecrets, only two members of the squad did not take most of their contributions from large donors, Ilhan Omar (42.2% from large donors) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (25.6% from large donors). All of the rest went for the big donor checks.
Summer Lee took in the vast majority of her fundraising – a whopping 71.5% – from large contributions. Rashida Tlaib was just behind her at 69.2% and Jamaal Bowman at 64.4%.
It is interesting to look at the overall fundraising for the candidates as well. AOC continues to be the major fundraiser as she’s been for years. However, this year, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are close behind, likely because of Democrats funding the two Muslim members of congress who are upset about the destruction in Gaza (rather than disgust for Hamas). Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley have barely been able to raise any money.
Taking the two charts together points to a frightening realization about Summer Lee and Jamaal Bowman: they’ve raised a small amount of money and it’s mostly coming from major donors. They are essentially “owned” by a few big contributors. For Bowman it’s worse, as most of the contributors are from out of his district.
As the left-wing extremists launch a “Protect the Squad” campaign with appeals for money, keep in mind that Summer Lee and Jamaal Bowman are the embodiment of unpopular, big money politicians who pretend to have the backs and backing of their constituents.
For a detailed review of New York’s Democrat and Republican spending in the 2022 congressional races, click here.
To visit social media during election season is to be barraged by smear campaigns of the extremists. Nowhere is this more apparent than the alt-woke group called Justice Democrats.
Justice Democrats was established to help elect far-left progressives into political office. Rather than form their own party like the Working Families Party with whom they align, they have sought to infiltrate the Democratic Party by ousting moderate Democratic politicians in deeply Democratic congressional districts.
Their poster child is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who was by far the biggest money-hauler in the 2022 election cycle, raising nearly $10 million. She has used her deep pockets to influence other races outside of her district, often being the king-maker alongside the Justice Democrats’ “Dr. Frankenstein.” With eight politicians in Congress now, the alt-left beast is very much “alive” in the Democratic Party.
In contrast to the extremism of the Justice Democrats’ “Squad” which seeks to elect non-White, women and LGBT+ people who seek to dismantle America in a broad redistribution of wealth, there are many political movements which believe that the United States is an amazing country, and support and welcome everyone who empowers America. One of those groups is AIPAC, which seeks to strengthen the U.S.-Israel alliance.
AIPAC supports Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians. It backs progressives, liberals, moderates and conservatives. It has endorsed every type of American that makes up this great country, as long as they believe in the unique greatness here, and want to strengthen it and the U.S.-Israel alliance.
The Justice Democrats in Congress think America is an atrocious, racist and horrible country that must be ripped down. They see Republicans and White men as the embodiment of the system that must be toppled in a broad redistribution of wealth from those pockets of the “patriatchy” to those the enlightened “woke” deem more worthy.
For some reason, those same alt-ledt people who hate America also hate the Jewish State. They believe that Israel is a “White European Settler Colonialist” country in an antisemitic whitewashing of thousands of years of Jewish history and false accounting of the population of Israel which has a plurality of Jews of color.
The Justice Democrats are now pouring millions of dollars into campaigns against AIPAC, rather than promote their candidates.
Justice Democrats has falsely stated that AIPAC is against “Black and Brown progressives” when, in fact, it endorses many, including Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY15) who represents one of the poorest districts in the country.
Justice Democrats unleashed a campaign called RejectAIPAC, and the alt-left politicians they support have leaned into the theme. They are seeking to pressure the United States to stop supporting Israel in its defensive war against the terrorist group Hamas, to enable the antisemitic group to survive the war.
Justice Democrats and sister groups like the Democratic Socialists of America are no longer just anti-White, anti-Republican and anti-America but anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. They have launched a smear campaign against the bipartisan group AIPAC and will certainly come after other pro-America organizations as they seek to tear down America in a campaign to redistribute wealth to the people they consider most worthy.
Incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York’s 16th District is so deeply unpopular that almost every single local Democratic committee has come out in support of his popular opponent in the Democratic primary, Westchester County Executive George Latimer. Bowman’s histrionics, lies, hypocrisy and race-baiting have long made him unpopular among his constituents.
Bowman has continued to ratchet up his insanity, and is now calling his opponent(s) ‘the devil.’
I kid you not.
In an April 6 X/tweet he was proud to post as he walked the streets of Westchester, Bowman screamed at full volume (0:33) “Always remember this. The devil’s a liar!! And will always be a liar!”
Is Bowman accusing mild-mannered, hard-working, progressive Latimer of being the devil? The thousands of people backing Latimer?
Jamaal Bowman is proving every day that he is an unhinged madman who should be removed from public office – and away from children – as quickly as possible. Volunteer and donate to George Latimer here.
Does a democratic society really need to showcase the worst of its citizenry? Do racists and antisemites, celebrants of rapists and murderers, people trying to burn down society, need someone exactly like them sitting in congress?
According to the Anti Defamation League, about 10% of America harbors antisemitic attitudes. Should we seek a congress with 53 antisemites? If the same figure is racist, should we elect 53 members of the KKK into congress?
While democratic societies believe in free speech, we are not called upon to endorse hateful views. We certainly don’t need to elevate people into positions of power which we’ve seen happen across the political spectrum.
One of the worst of the worst is Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York’s 16th District. He’s a compulsive liar, hypocrite, race baiter, protector of rapists and murderers. He’s been censured by a bipartisan House because of his actions, and should have been charged with a felony for deliberately and falsely pulling a fire alarm (which he pleaded down to a misdemeanor to settle the matter quickly).
Bowman is a combination of the worst traits of some of the most hated people in congress including George Santos, Rashida Tlaib and Marjorie Taylor Greene. He’s an embarrassment to his district, congress and the country.
We need a country based on respect and civil discourse. We need representatives in congress who consider the needs of all their constituents. We need to oust those people who are the embodiment of the toxic swamp tearing society apart.
Support Westchester County Executive George Latimer in his effort to unseat the vile instigator of hate that is Jamaal Bowman, in the Democratic Primary on June 25. Volunteer and donate to LatimerForNY.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman is an ongoing embarrassment to Congress and his district in New York’s lower Westchester County.
There have historically been very few members of congress to be publicly and officially censured by a bipartisan vote, and Bowman is a lowlight among them. He intentionally pulled a fire alarm in a government building putting thousands of lives at risk, just to delay a vote in congress. He then lied about it and pleaded to a misdemeanor.
Bowman is seemingly incapable of being embarrassed himself. He is a compulsive liar and hypocrite, even by the standards of D.C. politicians. He slammed members who didn’t vote for the Infrastructure Bill, then voted against it, then lied to his constituents that he actually voted for it, and then smugly took a selfie with extremists members of “the Squad” just as President Biden ridiculed him for taking credit for a bill he rejected.
His constituents have taken notice of Bowman’s histrionics and hyperbole rather than passing legislation that benefits them. While Bowman won the 2022 Democratic primaries in a three-way race, the Democratic establishment has unified in coming out to support his rival, Westchester County Executive George Latimer.
The entire local Democratic establishment has turned on an incumbent in a highly unusual action. They have rallied to Latimer who has made a career delivering actual results for his constituents, rather than behave like Bowman who compulsively runs to Tik Tok to make another incendiary video as if he were a 16-year old hunting for clicks and “likes.”
Latimer’s campaign is “Results, not rhetoric,” which perfectly sums up the race in the Democratic primary to be held on June 25, 2024.
Latimer is actually being diplomatically kind. Bowman is not just a blowhard; he is an embarrassment seeking to inflame the country.
Megilat Esther tells a 2,400 year-old story of a raging antisemite named Haman who managed to obtain power of a king in ancient Persia. With this power, he managed to secure an edict calling for the genocide of the Jews in the kingdom. Fortunately his plan failed, due to people close to the king confronting the plan as well as having a history of doing good works for the emperor. The event is celebrated in the Jewish holiday of Purim, from the Hebrew word pur, meaning lottery, as Haman chose the date for genocide randomly.
There are lessons to be gleaned for diaspora Jewry, and it is the exact opposite of randomness and involves a topic of which many are uncomfortable: power.
There have always been, and will always be, antisemites who seek to kill Jews. What differentiates the rouge madman from a Haman or Hitler is power. Hamas achieved its October 7 barbarity as the democratically-elected majority party in the Palestinian parliament which has had complete rule over Gaza since 2007. Evil ideology plus power is a grave threat to Jews.
Therefore, it is incumbent on Jews to befriend people in power, to keep bad people from obtaining power, and to perform good deeds at all times that benefit society.
In the United States, the broken election system has fostered a political class increasingly made up of extremists. Whether right-wing or left-wing, they often come for Jews. This primary season, it is imperative to support the challengers of the extremist incumbents in congress:
In NY-16, extremist Rep. Jamaal Bowman is being challenged by Westchester County Executive George Latimer. Donate to Latimer here.
In MO-1, extremist Rep. Cori Bush is being challenged by public defender Wesley Bell. Donate to Bell here.
In MN-05, extremist Rep. Ilhan Omar is being challenged by Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels. Donate to Samuels here.
In PA-12, extremist Summer Lee is being challenged by local legislator Bhavini Patel. Donate to Patel here.
There are other extremists like antisemite Rep. Rashida Tlaib in Michigan, but she is running unopposed. It is nevertheless important to share her vile antisemitism and extremism widely, especially as the liberal press gives her a large platform.
Members of the extremist “squad” including Reps. Bowman, Omar, Pressley, Bush, Lee
There is a reason that this war in Israel feels much more frightening for American Jews: your local antisemites feel empowered by an increasingly anti-factual, anti-Jewish school curricula and by shrill antisemites in positions of power. We are not powerless to stem the tide of hatred. Work to get them out of power in the upcoming primaries.
Now that Rep. George Santos is out of Congress, the current most hated representative in New York State is Jamaal Bowman of New York’s 16th District. Censured by a bipartisan Congress for pulling a fire alarm to delay a vote and then lying about it, his antics have long drawn the condemnation of Democrats and Republicans.
He is being challenged by popular Westchester County Executive George Latimer, who comfortably out-raised Bowman in the period ended December 31, 2023, raising $1.4 million with 73% coming from inside the district, while Bowman raised less than half that amount with a paltry 9% from inside the district. Bowman is so unpopular among his constituents, that he has resorted to teaming up with antisemitic money-raising machine Rep. Rashida Tlaib FROM MICHIGAN who is running unopposed, so can transfer all of her externally raised funds to Bowman.
The race is considered among the most watched in the country.
Siena College conducted a poll of likely New York voters from February 12-14, 2024 on a variety of issues. By every category of race, religion and age, New Yorkers were more pessimistic about the country than the state. That says a lot, because Democrats, Republicans and Independents all think that things in New York are getting worse, with Jews being the most angered about the situation in the state.
And it’s not about crime, as Jews were less likely to fear crime than other religious groups. Latinos are the most worried about being attacked.
According to the poll, when it comes to people’s representative in Congress, Democrats and Republicans are, not surprisingly, inclined to vote for the member of their own party. Independents are more likely to vote for the Republican over the Democrat (41% to 30%). The same holds true for people in the suburbs (40% to 37%) and upstate (42% to 40%). A significant percentage of suburban voters – like those in NY-16 – chose “someone else”, perhaps indicating a strong preference to oust their current Congressperson, beyond strict party consideration.
These results are problematic for Bowman. His district includes a large percentage of Latinos who worry about crime and are against his call to “Defund the Police.” Further, more than 2,000 Republicans and independents switched party to Democrats by the February 14 deadline to vote in the primary to be held on June 25, presumably to vote for Latimer.
Bowman now seems to be banking – literally – on Black and Muslim voters and donors.
In a transparent effort to buy votes, Bowman sponsored a resolution to hand $14 TRILLION to Black Americans, or about $333,000 for every Black American.
As part of his alliance with antisemite Rashida Tlaib, Bowman has taken the stage at fundraisers with a variety of antisemites and anti-Zionists including Nada Khader, Norman Finkelstein and several people who support the butchers of the political-terrorist group Hamas.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Rep. Rashida Tlaib shout “Free Palestine” before crowd after the October 7 massacre and mass rape of Israelis by Palestinian Arabs
Perhaps Bowman is looking at a silver-lining for him in the Siena poll which shows liberals more in favor of supporting military aid to Ukraine than to Israel, in N.Y. state, overall. The only place that the trend breaks is in the suburbs and among Jews, a constituent Bowman tossed into the garbage long ago.
Bowman has openly declared war on Jews across America and in his district, with the hope that the beleaguered minority-minority will be drowned by the masses and Gulf petrodollars, as he stokes a campaign based on hatred and divisiveness.
The insidious jihad is growing, and must be turned back now before it overwhelms America.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman is an embarrassment for residents of New York’s 16th congressional district. A repeat liar and hypocrite as well as notorious race baiter, he has been censured by a bipartisan vote in congress for his shenanigans.
But, as a member of the far left-wing “Squad”, he and his powerful allies are trying their best to make him look like a vulnerable Black man being set upon by the powerful Jewish lobby, rather than a radical whom his constituents want to purge.
Consider the far-left wing site Common Dreams. They wrote an article that made it sound like the Israeli government is backing his competitor, George Latimer. “After visiting Israel last week, Westchester County Executive George Latimer on Monday filed paperwork to launch a primary challenge against Democratic New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman, a critic of the Israeli government and its devastating war on the Gaza Strip.”
That’s completely misleading. Latimer had been considering this run for office for a year and just made the announcement after a trip to Israel he took with other politicians from Westchester County where he serves as County Executive.
The anti-Israel left-wing extremist site DemocracyNow ran a piece “AIPAC Throws Millions at Possible Insurgent Campaigns to Unseat Progressive Democrats,” and highlighted “Westchester County Executive George Latimer, who has been courted by AIPAC, announced earlier today he is launching a primary challenge against New York Congressmember Jamaal Bowman.”
That’s also a lie. The people of Westchester County have been looking for someone to replace Bowman whom they feel is unfit to serve in congress for dozens of reasons. This was not an AIPAC-led recruitment.
While that may be partially true, there are thousands of ordinary working class people who support Latimer and want to see Bowman replaced.
Left-wing British paper The Guardiancalled attacks on Bowman as stemming from racism, “another attempt to silence a person of colour.” Yonkers Times echoed the theme offering “Latimer is a 70-year-old white man, while Bowman is a 47-year-old black man. Some progressive democrats in Westchester have questioned Latimer’s attempt to run against an incumbent black democratic congressman.”
That’s outrageous and without any merit. Bowman’s actions are the focus of attempts to remove him from office, not the color of his skin.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer (left), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (right)
The far left-wing is so intent on keeping an unpopular left-wing Squad extremist in office, that it is falsely maligning an experienced progressive politician as a powerful, white racist backed by billionaires and the government of Israel.
That says much more about the negative opinions of the far-left about Whites, Jews and Israel, than it does about the popular progressive George Latimer.
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