The Associated Press called it just after midnight...
Goldman also declared himself the Democratic nominee for the open seat...BREAKING: Daniel Goldman wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New York's 10th Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 12:39 a.m. EDT. https://t.co/2nlgpjiEZK
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 24, 2022
According to published reports, Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou trails by a little over 1,000 votes. She has yet to concede the race, waiting until all the absentee ballots are counted, per Gothamist.#NY10, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I am humbled to be your Democratic nominee for Congress. I have immense respect for the other candidates in the field and look forward to working with them to achieve our shared progressive vision for this city and our democracy.
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) August 24, 2022
The crowded field for the open seat saw Mondaire Jones (18.09%) in third and local City Council member Carlina Rivera (16.87%) in fourth, as City & State reported.
Rivera posted her speech to her supporters from last night...
City & State has more election-night coverage here.
Meanwhile, here's a breakdown of how people voted in the different neighborhoods making up the 10th Congressional District...Still proud, still grateful, still here to serve the communities and the city I love. Thank you. I love you. Pa'lante siempre ✊🏽
— Carlina Rivera 利華娜 (@CarlinaRivera) August 24, 2022
Carlina Rivera: Election Night Remarks https://t.co/KYWVASrXDU
32 comments:
Not surprised. Yuh-Line and Carlina battling against each other split the votes. That extra 4 million Goldman dropped from his own pocket helped too.
de Blasio got less than 1% of the vote LOL
Doesn’t really matter who won. Regarding local elections, these politicians are not working for us. They have their own agenda. Just look at Mayor Adams, who is currently in the studio recording a cover version of I Wanna Rock n Roll All Night And Party Everyday ( on your dime ). Or Gov Hochul, who majored in How To Give Away Other Peoples’s Tax Money To My Rich Friends.
Jefferson Airplane said it best: Have A Revolution
Diversity is great as long as it comes in a white, male, wealthy package.
Super-interesting map of the votes — it would be interesting to see the numbers of votes behind the percentages, eg Carlina got a high proportion of votes in my area but turnout was quite low by the time I voted. The demographics certainly tell a story but of the leading candidates, Dan Goldman (for whom I voted) was the most moderate choice. Couldn’t support Carlina after my experience as her constituent, and Yue-Line was too far left for me. Sort of odd for the rich white guy to be the protest vote, but that’s life in this district for the more old-fashioned liberals I guess.
Tribeca resident Dan Goldman only received 26% of the vote, with the more progressive candidates splitting the rest. If Yuh-Line Niou runs on the Working Families Party line she could still win, but will need plenty of donations to combat Goldmans deep pockets. He was able to buy his way to a win in a low turnout primary but he is has very limited support among the Soho/Tribeca/Wall Street crowd.
Wow, New Yorkers had a chance to send two women to Washington DC to represent them, or a gay black man, a Latino woman or an Asian Woman, but instead picked a rich white guy in Dan Goldman and an old white guy in Jerry Nadler. Nice job New York, next time get off the couch and vote. The illusion of Democracy will continue until morale improves.
I didn’t know I was supposed to vote based on race or gender
So I hear Mr Goldmine interviewed this morning. He's all about continuing his years long battle with DJT down there in DC.
He's not got the message. All that's behind him now. It's about our district now, There are other devils right around here he knows nothing about. Yet.
Like Erik Adams. To work in a district means knowing that district and the movers and shakers within it. He don't know s**t.
@3:58, if you choose your politicians based on the gender or skin color they are born with, we probably aren't voting for the same people, you're right. Absurd.
I voted for Goldman because I have seen the LES/EV go to Sh%@ under those wonderful liberal progressive politicians who do not have a clue of what they are doing.
You don’t have to vote based on race or gender, but if you care about giving historically under-represented groups an opportunity then it is a factor you should consider, or maybe you only believe people like Dan Goldman who was probably literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth and is four generations into all the privilege anyone could possibly hope for, then by all means, continue your support. But, something tells me you’ve never voted for a Democrat of any race, gender or financial standing.
You know he was not running anymore, right?
Carlina had flooded Alphabet City with noise polluting cars blasting salsa and megaphone screaming all week, and still got just 4444 votes in Manhattan.
It’s not about voting for someone because they’re of a different race or gender, it’s about having more diversity in Washington DC, especially when every other major candidate was more qualified than Dan Goldman. At this moment in history when women’s rights and minority rights are under attack, it’s especially important to have more diversity, especially when those people are more qualified than the rich white guy who just wants to buy a seat in Congress. The fact that this still has to be explained to people shows how deep the problem goes.
I don't think you really understand what a congress member job is.
The United States of America has never had a female President, and only one black President in its entire history. This country has always voted for it’s politicians based on their race and gender, and that race and gender has almost always been white and male. But keep pretending that we have always voted for the most qualified people to run our country if that makes you happy, which apparently it does.
So big bucks candidate Dan Goldmine won the Wall Street vote. Good luck to anyone who thinks he’s going to care about the East Village, tenants rights, or the destruction of East River park. We might as well just relocate Goldman Sachs headquarters to St. Mark’s Place right now.
@7:12
> "he’s going to care about the East Village, tenants rights, or the destruction of East River park."
You do realize it's a Federal office? How much say a House member has on outdoor dining sheds, too many liquor licenses or lack of parking is an interesting question. Federal regulation of bike shares? A vote in the House to REPLANT THOSE TREES RIGHT NOW?
Watch instead for performative social justice tweeting and tax protection for corporations. That's the job of a center right Republican who just bought himself a Democratic seat with family money.
Despite pouring $4-5 million into his campaign, Goldman got less than 17,000 votes or around 26%. That's about $300 per vote. Compare this to Yuh-Line Niou, who got many but very small donations, yet almost as many votes. Although absentee ballots have not yet all been counted, it appears that roughly 3/4 of voters preferred some one other than Goldman. Progressive vote was split among several strong candidates. In future primaries, there should be ranked voting to better express voter preferences. For this occasion, Yuh-Line Niou should consider running in the election as WFP candidate or independent. Why Carlina did not get more votes should make her reconsider a tilt toward real estate donations are more important than constituent concerns.
I was a supporter of Yuh-Line when she first ran for the Assembly but she's successively been more absent from the community (e.g., East River Park) and was clearly focused on more national ambitions. For the past two years I've tried contacting her office to advocate for her to sponsor bills in the assembly or to inquire about her stance on issues and never received a return email. Looking at the number of local political clubs that chose not to endorse her I can't be the only one that feels this way. For all those complaining that Jones or another candidate acted as a spoiler, I think the truth is that Yuh-Line spoiled her own chances. If she hadn't moved on from the community more locals would have come out to support her.
Cis white heterosexual men will always have the upper hand in every faucet of life in every society. Whether they are democrat or republican or progressive or conservative, there will always be more space and prominence for them because there is such broad representation and enforcement of who they are as individuals, and collectively, as a group. Minorities, such as women, POC, LGBTQ+, the poor, immigrants, and so on are on a much different, and often arduous path, some more difficult than others, which might make it seem hopeless to many who are voting at the polls desperate for change in our communities. As controversial as this sounds, and as a gay, liberal man, I'd rather take Dan Goldman over Jerry Nadler, who is in my opinion, is past his prime to serve in his position. Goldman is my age and has much time left to elicit something impactful and good for New Yorkers. Nadler is from the silent generation and refuses to step down to allow younger generations such as mine to take over the wing. So many in congress and in the senate such in his age group continue to campaign and seek reelection when what we need is new blood, new insight and new vision to spring forward and progress. I am not an ageist, but a realist. Gen X and millennials need to step up and make our cities and states and the world a better place. In my lifetime, I'd love to see a women president, and if I am being really silly and optimistic, God forbid, a gay president. Can you imagine the backlash? The hatred this country holds for gay people is very real. I am placing my bet on Pete Buttigieg, He is the path for change, inclusivity, and democracy for all. Just my two cents. Thanks for allowing me to opine.
In a multiple way race votes get split in ways not preferred by majorities, with no one really to be 'blamed', but the cure would be a ranked voting process. Politicaaly, Jones should have stayed in Westchester to challenge Sean Maloney, though he may not have succeeded there neither, given Maloney's machine support. But Jones has also the stature to become a successor for Nadler in two years. Comments on Niou are interesting and should be more widely debated and vetted as there can be good and bad reasons for not getting endorsements from certain local organizations.
@5:39 And Yuh-Line had celebrities roaming the neighborhood for her and only got 800 more votes in Manhattan. So what's your point?
Carlina will also be guilty of future flooding because she murdered all the trees which prevent flooding. Being a politician is the one job where you don’t need any experience or qualifications. You just need to possess an inner ability to lie, with greed and power taking over your soul.
To those who don't like it that Goldman won, I can only say that's a far better outcome than if Rivera had won. As far as I can tell, she's mainly in this to see if she can climb the ladder to more power and more money in higher political circles. Maybe if she kept her eye on the ball right here, where she's supposed to represent us, I'd think better of her, but I don't see her as being any more "pure" or idealistic or anything than Goldman.
ANYONE who runs for public office is looking for power; only a few seem to make serving their constituents a priority, IMO.
@9:56- "Men will always have the upper hand on every faucet"
As a straight (mostly), elderly (somewhat), white (I guess), male (I think) I take issue with your comment. I have always had a clear preference for brushed nickel faucets. Stainless- too industrial, black- shows up everything, gold- kind of cool but I'd get bored with it after a couple of years. The only thing I'm pro white about is my tile. Must have white tile in the bath. No exceptions. I'll definitely consider colored fixtures. Those chaps were on to something in the 60s and 70s.
@ 6:40 AM
"I am not an ageist"
You need to re-read your post.
Interesting that my area—Brooklyn Heights—went massively for Goldman (who is person I voted for). Incredible number of mailers received for the various campaigns, including a bunch of negative ones. The paper recycling thanks everyone!
Who are the 477 voters who voted for de Blasio?
Carlina came in 4th! What now that her ties with real estate are out in the open?
Career politician and real estate industry representative Carline Rivera had nothing to lose by running for Congress, as she had her City Council seat to fall back on after the primary.
Just seven months after “winning” reelection in November, Rivera announced in June that she was running for Congress. Is THAT why her constituents voted for her?
According to documents obtained by The SHADOW, in just the month of June alone, Rivera got more than $400,000 from persons in the real estate industry, from developers, to lawyers, to “consultants” (lobbyists), to notorious landlords, to a corrupt ethnic group selling off parcels on South Street that were long-ago designated by the city to be used for housing the elderly and poor in perpetuity to developers, one of whom built an 80-story “luxury” apartment tower. [The whole story is in the new issue of The SHADOW.]
Those “donations” came from those who are looking to invest in a new candidate of a newly created, gerrymandered congressional district, who expect and usually get something in return for their payments. Unlike a candidate with MORALS who would avoid such DIRTY money, Rivera took the money and ran with it.
Rivera is quoted as saying, “I am going to keep serving. I’m a proud public servant — and dammit, I’m good at it!” From what we on the Lower East Side have seen, Rivera serves only HERSELF, her corrupt political clubhouse CODA and the real estate industry that is gentrifying our community.
She and her ilk are UN-deserving of ANY political office they are running for. Wait for the next election coming up — Rivera will be sure to be there.
It’s unfortunate that political races require so much money, which easily corrupts even the best of candidates to some degree. But it seems to me that Goldman’s money, coming from his family’s wealth, is a lot CLEANER than Rivera’s money, coming from those in the real estate industry.
At least Goldman cannot be bought.
Rivera sold herself long ago.
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