Post by robeiae on May 29, 2021 8:04:07 GMT -5
This is all very weird:
Here's a story: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/dianne-morales-and-the-lefts-implosion-in-nyc-mayoral-race.html
Which is it? Her campaign has a hostile work environment, or it turns out the the latest progressive "It Girl" in NYC is not actually down with the struggle? Or both?
I'm thinking it's mostly about people in her campaign realizing that she's nothing special, but needing a way to ruin her without them looking like total posers (which, of course, most of them are).
Here's a story: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/dianne-morales-and-the-lefts-implosion-in-nyc-mayoral-race.html
On Friday, campaign aides to Dianne Morales, an unabashedly left-wing former nonprofit executive running for mayor, rallied in Bryant Park to protest an organization they described as fostering racism, sexism, and a hostility to unions. It was something many, surely, had done before, many times. But what made them a center of attention on political Twitter all day was that the protest was against the very candidate for whom they worked.
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The walkout, unprecedented in almost any campaign for high office, let alone one for mayor of New York City in the race’s final days, came as there were increasing questions about Morales’s commitment to progressive causes, including the revelation that she had voted for Andrew Cuomo over Cynthia Nixon in 2018 and was a supporter of charter schools. It was revealed that she had bribed a city Department of Environmental Protection inspector over an unpaid water bill, which led to her leaving her post as an official in Mike Bloomberg’s Department of Education. Which led to questions about what, exactly, a self-styled radical was doing working in Mike Bloomberg’s Department of Education, or why, after that, she worked for a nonprofit developer with a history of evictions. Progressive activists began to wonder how Morales, who has over the last few weeks become the “It” candidate of the city’s left, had seemingly missed most of the fights they had been engaged in over the last several years
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The walkout, unprecedented in almost any campaign for high office, let alone one for mayor of New York City in the race’s final days, came as there were increasing questions about Morales’s commitment to progressive causes, including the revelation that she had voted for Andrew Cuomo over Cynthia Nixon in 2018 and was a supporter of charter schools. It was revealed that she had bribed a city Department of Environmental Protection inspector over an unpaid water bill, which led to her leaving her post as an official in Mike Bloomberg’s Department of Education. Which led to questions about what, exactly, a self-styled radical was doing working in Mike Bloomberg’s Department of Education, or why, after that, she worked for a nonprofit developer with a history of evictions. Progressive activists began to wonder how Morales, who has over the last few weeks become the “It” candidate of the city’s left, had seemingly missed most of the fights they had been engaged in over the last several years
I'm thinking it's mostly about people in her campaign realizing that she's nothing special, but needing a way to ruin her without them looking like total posers (which, of course, most of them are).
