redistricting | First One Through

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is not just a favorite of the alt-left; she is the cash register.

In the 2022 election cycle, AOC raised and spent way more than any other candidate running for congress from New York State, a whopping $9.9 million. As the incumbent, she had no primary challenger and easily defeated her Republican challenger in a deeply blue district.

So AOC spends her time and resources to back other far left-wing colleagues in other districts to further empower her and spread her radical policies in districts which do have such values.

She has started in NY District 16, where fellow extremist Jamaal Bowman has a tenuous seat in lower Westchester County, having been bumped out of the Bronx in redistricting last year. She has started with tweets this week to raise money for the unpopular Bowman.

The ad is a long string of lies and misdirection.

AIPAC. Why start an ad against a bipartisan pro-Israel group? Because the essence of what AOC and Bowman represent is hyper-partisan anti-Israel legislation.
Establishment executive. Bowman is the multi-term incumbent! He’s the powerful member of congress whom AOC is trying to reframe as the underdog fighting the “establishment.” It’s code for a race war, where the “establishment executive” is a White man trying to take on a Black man.
Brother in The Bronx. District 16 is 97% comprised of lower Westchester. There is only a small nub of the district in the Bronx. Both AOC and Bowman are wildly out-of-touch with the values of lower Westchester County.
Funneling dark money. It is AOC who is the big megaphone and cash register coming from outside District 16, not AIPAC. AIPAC has many enthusiastic backers in the district.
Target… working class candidates of color. AOC has gone full race war. She accuses the pro-Israel organization of being racist when they are nothing of the sort. AIPAC and its sister group, Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) are anti-Bowman because he stands against Israel not because of his race. Both groups support Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY15) in the neighboring district who is Black, Hispanic and gay. They supported Mondaire Jones who used to represent NY16, who is also Black and gay. They did so because of their pro-Israel records. Vilifying them as racist is not just slander but highlights AOC’s racism against a White person having the temerity to challenge a powerful Black incumbent.
Misleading attack ads. Bowman has a long history of terrible policies, votes and actions in office, all public. Airing his record is a public service (short recap below) and not at all misleading.
Undermine democracy. AOC is using her big name, reach and bags of money to back a candidate in a different district to undermine the will of the people in the district. Who is undermining democracy?
Contribute $5. This is a way of making the movement seem like a working-class, grass roots initiative when it is nothing of the sort. AOC is the money king, deceiving people as she buys another seat in congress to cement her power.

The New York State Independent Redistricting Commission is chaired by Ken Jenkins, a Democrat who lives in NY16. He has been given the green light by the courts to redraw district lines and may do so to put Bowman back in the Bronx where his voice is more in tune with the local choir, and out of lower Westchester which despises his policies.

The essence of AOC and Jamaal Bowman is hyper-partisan, left-wing anti-Israel policies, and they are embarking on a vicious race war to tear down a peaceful multi-ethnic community to maintain their grips on power and money.
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Jamaal Bowman is a Disgrace

A short recap of why Bowman is out of touch with Westchester voters:

Supports “Defund the police”
Supports “Abolishing ICE”
Supports Critical Race Theory in schools
Supports a broad redistribution of wealth, including payments to Black people for historic slavery
Supports packing the Supreme Court
Supports abandoning the electoral college
Lies to constituents about backing the Infrastructure bill
Lies to constituents about mainly taking small donations
Lies to constituents that he brings money into the district when almost all of it went to New York City
Hypocrite attacking fellow Democrats for not backing Infrastructure bill and then he voted against it
Anti-charter schools
Anti-capitalism
Called for taxing unrealized capital gains
Anti- Abraham Accords extending peace in the Middle East
Boycotted liberal Israeli president speech to Congress
Penned resolution to call founding of Israel a “catastrophe”
Blamed USA for the problems in Central America
Strange coziness with the government of China
Backed by extremist alt-left and anti-Israel groups
One of the least partisan members of congress
Contempt for moderate voters
Perpetual race baiter

ACTION ITEM

Email Ken Jenkins at kjenkins@westchestercountyny.gov or call (914) 995-2909 “NY16 does not want Jamaal Bowman as its congressman. Riverdale didn’t want him two years ago either. Do not protect him in redistricting.”