The Democratic Party will have a candidate in a competitive House seat (NY-19).....
...who garnered 22% of the vote.
I don't object to Primaries. I object to "the more the merrier" Primaries which burn millions that could be used to win a General Election.
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“There are a bunch of viable candidates challenging incumbent Republican Rep. John Faso. Antonio Delgado is an attorney and Rhodes scholar raising a lot of money. Pat Ryan is running on a gun control message. Businessman Brian Flynn is putting a lot of his own money in the race. Gareth Rhodes is a former Andrew Cuomo staffer with the Times’s endorsement. Minister Dave Clegg is a longtime community leader. Former diplomat and CIA officer Jeff Beals and Erin Collier, a former economist in the Obama administration and the only woman in this race, are also running. It’s really wide open.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17503094/new-york-primary-elections-2018-live-results
So far Delgado is ahead w/21%
to my post.
Mahalo for the link and all the info!
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Born and raised in Schenectady, Antonio is a native of upstate New York. His parents worked for General Electric and benefited from a better regional economy. They worked hard to pursue the American Dream of building a better future for Antonio and his little brother. Antonio attended Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York, where he graduated with high honors and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. From there, he went to law school at Harvard, which is where he met his wife Lacey, a native of Woodstock and Kingston.
The values Antonio learned growing up – hard work, discipline, service and character – helped him get a great education, allowed him the opportunity to start his own company, empowering young people to learn through music, and then begin a second career, as an attorney fighting for what’s fair and just.
https://www.delgadoforcongress.com/meetantonio/
looked it up and added it to me post.
Good Luck to Antonio Delgado!
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Born and raised in Schenectady, Antonio is a native of upstate New York. His parents worked for General Electric and benefited from a better regional economy. They worked hard to pursue the American Dream of building a better future for Antonio and his little brother. Antonio attended Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York, where he graduated with high honors and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. From there, he went to law school at Harvard, which is where he met his wife Lacey, a native of Woodstock and Kingston.
The values Antonio learned growing up – hard work, discipline, service and character – helped him get a great education, allowed him the opportunity to start his own company, empowering young people to learn through music, and then begin a second career, as an attorney fighting for what’s fair and just.
https://www.delgadoforcongress.com/meetantonio/
info on Antonio Delgado, NY_20th
Anyhoo, their dad sounds like an incredible man! I hope he's a rising political star!
. . .stay in the political arena, and run for smaller offices (local towns, county positions, state senate/assembly, etc.)
Democrats need to build their bench from the bottom up.
