this is unfortunately sad for people in Queens. Katz is terrible. Her opponent was terrible.
New York polls have closed... and we already have a result! Melinda Katz, the DA of Queens, has just won her primary, the @AP calls. Katz has not been a progressive stalwart to say the least, but she was targeted by a former cop and some police allies like Bill Bratton:
Since barely beating a leftist candidate to become Queens DA in 2019, Katz has stuck to a conventional approach to the office. Still, she has drawn a challenge from former cop George Grasso in the pri...
Voting for DA this election really felt like a rock and a hard place. I do wish we had a better choice this year
who were you hoping to win?
New York stays electing bad people. Not that my own state is doing better.
this was a huge missed opportunity. with a right-winger splitting the vote, a progressive might have had a similar path to victory as Tiffany very almost had. No one came forward/was recruited.
Begging for a choice that doesn't suck (and rarely getting one) seems to be a building block of American politics