Pro-business PAC pours $500K into races to re-elect 6 moderate NYC council members

[Kamaji]

Pro-business PAC pours $500K into races to re-elect 6 moderate NYC council members

By Carl Campanile
June 18, 2023

A pro-business Super PAC is shelling out $500,000 down the stretch to help re-elect six moderate or mainstream incumbent Democratic City Council members facing primary-election challenges.

The group Future NYC is pouring dough into races to defend pols Darlene Mealy in Brooklyn, Lynn Schulman, Linda Lee and Shekar Krishnan in Queens and Marjorie Velazquez and Kevin Riley in the Bronx, The Post has learned.

The spending blitz includes mailers, digital ads and get-out-the-vote efforts that covered the start of early voting June 17 and will continue through the June 27 primary election.

The treasurer of Future NYC, Jeff Leb, said the group is supporting Velazquez in District 13 in the Eastern Bronx for standing up to knee-jerk not-in-my-backyard opponents because she backed the rezoning of Bruckner Boulevard in Throggs Neck to build more affordable housing. He said the councilwoman should be rewarded, not  punished, for doing the right thing.

Velázquez is up against Irene Estrada, chairwoman of Bronx Community Board 11, Van Nest neighborhood activist Bernadette Ferrara and Army vet John Perez.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/pro-business-pac-pours-500k-into-races-to-re-elect-6-moderate-nyc-council-members/

[PeteS in CA]

I "get" lesser-of-two-evils thinking, but in the long term that merely slows the progress toward the evil.

[sneakypete]

I "get" lesser-of-two-evils thinking, but in the long term that merely slows the progress toward the evil.

@PeteS in CA

You have to consider things like the nature of the people you are dealing with. IF there is such a critter as an actual conservative in any of  those neighborhoods,he or she is in hiding,and fearing for their lives.

In other words,SOMEBODY IS going to get elected,so why not try to look for the least-leftist candidate running and support them?

No,that is NOT "an answer",but it IS a step in the right direction.

"Better SOMETHING than nothing."