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In New York City, The GOP Makes A Stand For Law And Order
In New York City’s one swing congressional district, law and order has become the central issue.
By David Marcus, The Federalist, September 20, 2020
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So it was no wonder that on this past brisk Saturday morning Malliotakis held a rally to back the blue, complete with a bevy of cops in attendance ready to go knock on doors and officials from various police unions making full-throated endorsements. This year, as in other cities, gun violence has spiked in New York City and quality of life crimes are once again becoming a way of life.
The city government’s answer to all of this? Cut the New York Police Department budget by $1 billion because, as City Councilman Joe Borelli put it, there was a Twitter hashtag to defund the police.
Just as law and order has overtaken other issues in the presidential election, so too has it in our races for the House, and NY 11 is a pretty good microcosm of these purple district races. Like many GOP candidates across the nation, Malliotakis wants this issue front and center, and judging from the response of the police unions, they want that too. They want a government that has their back, as Dan Terelli, the recording secretary of the Police Benevolent Association, put it from the podium: “We always told our officers to be safe out there, now we tell them not to get arrested.”
Just like President Trump and many Republicans this year, Malliotakis has scooped up all the police union endorsements, not a small thing in a district known as the home of cops and fireman. It’s where the home of the police chief in “Blue Bloods” is set. But Rose has previously successfully presented himself as a moderate Democrat, a war veteran who even runs a comical ad in which he calls his own party’s Bill de Blasio the worst mayor in history. But on the law and order issue, he has a slight problem.
Back in June, when such was all the rage, Rose partook in a protest march in which demands to defund the NYPD were made and signs saying “Blue Lives Murder” were carried. Sergeants Benevolent Association Ed Mullins criticized the move at the time, saying, “Why is Max Rose indicting every cop in the country right now?”
Rose’s response back in June: “I never thought I’d see the day when the head of the SBA would become a snowflake who needs a safe space.” Given the skyrocketing attacks on police, including assassination attempts since then, Rose might want to rethink that answer.
I guess you could argue that at least he didn’t urge his Twitter followers to bail arsonists out of jail, like Sen. Kamala Harris did, but insulting cops, while maybe a good look back in June, could prove to be an Achilles heel now for Democrats all over the country. “You can’t march with the defund the police crowd and get reelected in this congressional district,” Malliotakis told supporters at the rally. That remains to be seen, but is clearly the approach that she and many Democrats are taking as we edge closer to Nov. 3.
NY11 will tell us a lot about where the country and in particular the Democratic Party is these days. Rose, like Biden, is hoping that a quick pivot back to purporting to support the police will be enough to persuade voters that he is a moderate, not a Staten Island Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That has always been his mission, in fact. It’s hard to believe that marching with anti-police protestors helps with that very much, and it is very unlikely to be forgotten.
This is an important stand for Republicans in New York City, who at present have no representation in Washington DC, but it is also a bellwether for the nation. As the Democratic Party lurches to the left, can self-proclaimed moderates like Rose really convince voters that they are a stabilizing force in the party, not a rubber stamp for leftist craziness? The answer to that question may very well decide the balance of power in the House of Representatives next year.
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12 Comments
3 years ago
#FleeNY !!
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
That’s a great meme … a very good one. When I was on the floor of the Merc (CME leased seat, wish I purchased one), trading predominately the belly market and filling paper … I kept a Ouija board at my stand.
That thing got more stares …. it was hilarious. Magic 8 Balls were overused.
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
AR….it is MY most FERVENT WISH that I want to see Hussein, Hillary & the whole gang….if not hanging at the end of a rope, then being thrown in Gitmo for eight life sentences each….before I die.
If I can’t get MY most fervent wish, why should Darth Vader Ginsburg be able to get hers ????
3 years ago
3 years ago
US Justice Dept To Strip Federal Funds From Cities Allowing Anarchy
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/us-justice-dept-may-strip-federal-funds-from-cities-allowing-anarchy-643042
The US Justice Department on Monday threatened to revoke federal funding to New York City, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, saying the three liberal cities were allowing anarchy and violence on their streets. “We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance,” Attorney General William Barr said in a statement.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Michael Savage has long used the ending ” . . . like a loose tooth” to add to “hanging in the balance.”
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Well it’s good to see Barr actually doing something. Barr does not control purse strings to the states, except for DOJ related matters. But Trump controls those strings.
3 years ago
Disarmed law abiding citizens and defunded law enforcement, sounds like leftist paradise to me. Tyrants dream of a populace beaten down so badly they can’t summon the will to dethrone them…
3 years ago
SIMPLE SOLUTION: secede from NYC.
3 years ago
New York? Hey Isn’t New York that place where law and order is so passé?
Or is it Portland?….or Chicago?….On second thought it’s all three!!!
Hey Barr’s right!
