In
The Bronx Alessandra
Biaggi
Beats Klein
Amid Bad
Review of UN
and US Mission
Good for
Tacos El
Bronco II
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFTracker Scope
UNITED NATIONS,
September 14 – In US politics,
the upset in June by
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of
Joe Crowley for a House of
Representatives seat in The
Bronx and bits of Queens sent
many to Wikipedia or Google to
look up “Democratic
Socialism.” On September 13
Ocasio-Cortez campaigned in
The Bronx at least in some
places for and with Alessandra
Biaggi, taking on Jeff Klein
for a State Senate.A flier
supporting her said "Klein
Vendio a los Neoyorquinos" on
the "Ley de Votcion Temprana."
Inner City Press, banned by
the UN for the 72d day in a
row, went to the Bronx
intersection of Pelham Parkway
and White Plains Road to cover
Biaggi's campaigning, video here. And hours later Biaggi
declared victory, 55-45, at
the Bronx Ale House. She said,
“This is because of every
single one of you who were
courageous, who saw a vision
as well, who knew that we
could not tolerate Democrats
who would be empowering
Republicans, that that was
intolerable,” she said. “And
we have now cut the head off
the IDC snake.” Klein spent
over $2 million in the race,
while Biaggi had spent only
$244,000 through the end of
August, pursuant to state
Board of Elections campaign
finance disclosures.
Earlier,
Ocasio-Cortez' press list was
told to expect her at Pelham
Parkway between 4:30 and 5 pm.
Inner City Press went, banned
from the UN now for the 72d
day in a row for covering the
corruption on Cameroon
and elsewhere of Secretary
General Antonio Guterres. Up
on under the El train on White
Plains Road the reviews of the
UN and also the US Mission to
the UN weren't very positive.
But where was Ocasio-Cortez?
Biaggi's volunteers handed out
her laminated flier at the
stairs up to the 2 and 5 train
tracks. A couple arrived in a
car with a small sound system.
But still no Ocasio-Cortez.
Finally Biaggi appears,
speaking with people on the
sidewalk and heading south
toward Lydig Avenue.
Inner City Press
did too, launching the
Periscope live-stream
which the UN cited in banning
it for life, and on which the
US Mission's Nikki
Haley, a one time
governor of South Carolina and
seeming to want more, refuses
to answer.
One hopes those who now
represent not only this
district but areas like it can
push to get from the UN less
corruption, or at least an end
to censorship. Politics retail
and wholesale, immunity by the
pound. At Tacos El Bronco II
they serve them for two
dollars, with big green
onions. They get this
reporter's vote. Watch this
site
This was
Ocasio-Cortez' schedule:
10:00 AM -
Parkchester South Condominium,
2059 McGraw Ave, Bronx, NY
10462 (Ocasio-Cortez will cast
her ballot)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - PS 019
Marino Jeantet, 98-02
Roosevelt Ave, Corona, NY
11368 (Ocasio-Cortez will be
joined by Zephyr Teachout and
Jumaane Williams)
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM -
Westchester Square
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Pelham
Parkway
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM - PS 069,
560 Thieriot Ave, Bronx, NY
10473
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - 46th
Street/Bliss Street Station on
the 7 Subway Line
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM - PS 122,
21-21 Ditmars Blvd, Queens, NY
1110
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