Doesn't he live in NYC now?

Plus they have an office in Manhattan according to Google.

Oh, Harlem is in Manhattan..

John Lindsay? LaGuardia?

His first term was elite. His second was ok and his third was a disaster. I was a kid in the 80's, but Koch was supposedly good.

and never been a good judge of character.

I did like his economics though.

and I was quite the happy American under his administration, overall.

Way too Republican-lite for me.

He was good with economics though.

I remember him being basically worshipped at the time. Even through the Lewinsky stuff.

I mean, I was glad to have a Democrat in office.

However, I wasn't happy with him or Biden for
veering right.

I didn't start liking Biden again until he veered
left again much later.

War and NAFTA.

Democrats booted out Al Franken from the Senate for his misguided prank, but will now endorse someone who is accused of doing way worse things than Franken ever did.

Democrats claim of being a big tent doesn't seem to apply to certain people who are too progressive.

We need to go full Bernie progressive or we’re going to be in this funk forever. Thom Hartmann said the other day: we missed our chance to embrace the populist wave back in 2016 and let His Dumbass capitalize on it. Going to the center now is like going to hell.

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... elections. Ask yourself why African-Americans, the most reliable voting bloc in the Democratic party, never embrace Bernie Sanders. They had a chance twice in 2016 and 2020.

I think the moderate approach is what polling shows most centrists and fence-sitters prefer.

No President has done that since him. Imo, he's also the best President in my lifetime.

We already know we can't elect a woman of any color during our lifetime. Bernie himself is too old to run, and even if he were the right age don't believe middle America would allow it to happen.

It seems that anyone who really wants to be elected in the US has to keep their political agenda a total secret, and run as a celebrity a la Ronald Reagan. (Even Chump might be considered a celebrity of sorts.)

We will win from the center and center-left, thank you very much. Vermont politics do not play well in flat, square, flyover states of the heartland. I trust our party's leadership (loyal Democrats) more than I trust non-Democrats and fair-weather part-time Democrats telling Democrats what Democrats "ought to do".

Sit down, shut up and attend a funeral once in a while.

It's a big club and you ain't in it. (George Carlin)

This may or may not be one of the top 5.

Shouldn't Bill be looking out for the legacy of the party instead of playing kingmaker in NYC? Bill ought to be fundraising for the DNC. This is just polarizing.

And in the general election, he's not going to endorse Mayor Adams or Curtis Sliwa either.

Ahh, to be in my mid-20's again...

New, enthusiastic, progressive, and determined is the way now. It is past time to turn this thing over to the next generations with our sincere promise to assist them in any way we can.

is supposed to help the environment by cleaning it up. This recycling is greasy and dirty. The container was never washed and still has muck in it.

The issues of legacy power and who benefits.

take a backseat. And WTAF is he thinking? Endorsing a demonstrably disgusting misogynistic predator?

Sigh. I guess it's back to the future.

so long as they sit in the back row.

This Tuesday will be a secret ballot to elect the ranking member of the House oversight committee. Didn't see who Pelosi endorsed this time, there are 4 candidates.

from the undecideds, so maybe it's a net positive..?

I idolize Bill Clinton.

The 90s were the best years of my life.

... Mamdani still defends the "globalize the intifada" phrase. New York has the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel.

There is a legitimate question whether due in New York City would be safe under Mamdani. If I still lived in New York, I would put Cuomo in a ranked-choice vote. I wouldn't even consider it if Mamdani weren't a factor.

Your Jewish fellow citizens right now are worried that they exist safely as Jews because we are squeeze between Donald Trump and the antisemitic thugs and his administration and people who celebrated the largest massacre of Jews in a single day since the holocaust and don't think it's a big deal when a candidate for mayor of New York City defends rhetoric that calls for the killing of Jews worldwide. Which is why I am now moderate and not progressive.

I'm not Jewish but I grew up in a 2/3rds Jewish neighborhood, and another that was ? %50. And since I'm 72, I am much closer to the experirnces, and feelings of people post-WW2/Hitler than our 30 - 50 yrs old DU'rs.

I didn't rank Mandami at all bc of his statements, including not being able to say that Israel has a right to be a Jewish State, whom I wish would kick out Netanyahu like yrsterday!

Right now, it looks like Cuomo and Zohran are far ahead of the rest.

Much like the Bush family on the right I have had enough of the Clinton family.

Yes, Hillary should have been president.

That being said, they are centrists at best.

Thanks for their efforts. Now, please retire from public life.

How'd that work out?

Idiot voters got their panties in a bunch when the repukes yelled, "A transperson!!!" in a crowded theater. Pretty much how that election went. Stupid f6cking voters. Electing Gov. Dumbkin.

I guess he could have just not endorsed anyone.

n/t

This comes as no surprise. Thanks, President Clinton.

They literally suck the life out of the Democratic Party like vampires. I'm thinking Pelosi, Clyburn, Cuomo, Bill C., Steny Hoyer, the recently deceased Va. congressman Connelly. They need to be more like mentors and help the up-and-coming future leaders. They act more like: batten down the hatches!

Living in NYC, it was an easy choice for me.

The phrasing comes from Lawyers, Guns & Money, but the reasoning from Sam Deutsch's An Urbanist NYC Voter Guide, who suggests a rank of 1. Zellnor Myrie 2. Brad Lander 3. Zohran Mamdani 4. Adrienne Adams - but not Cuomo under any circumstances:

He was accused of sexual harassment, which he denies. Epstein and his clients are in a whole other league.

Purity politics will leave the Democratic party barren. SMH