August 9, 2022
NIMVY!!!
When it comes to the voter decision to pick a senator for New York Stateâs newly designated District 59, it’s the company you keep, amirite, Kristen Gonzalez?
As I had attempted to explain to you in person this past Memorial Day on Broadway in Astoria when disability advocate Marc Safman and I had met you by chance during an anti-InnovationQNS canvass: Brad Lander as squad = not my vote.
I remain grateful nonetheless for that opportunity this past May to have been able to express to you my apprehension about your connection to yimby interests and to Democratic Socialists of America, DSA: âentryism!!!!!đ¤đźđŤâ
(And now that weâre in August, my hunch has been proven right.)
You had asked me then for my phone number and said you would call me that following week so we could talk more, an odd declaration which turned out, unsurprisingly, not to be true as my number was instead used via text by your staffer looking for a campaign contribution. Apparently, asking for phone numbers, pledging to personally call and then never following up is your habit (pro-tip: you should break that).
Marc Safman, who has literally drafted bills and developed legislation for handicapped populations, was also promised a phone call from you which also never came. And you should have networked with him, Kristen, I donât understand why you didnât: Marc is well known to many New York City pols and it would have behooved you, as an able-bodied human, to better understand issues concerning this cityâs disabled persons as there are so many of them. They vote, too, you should know.
You then insisted to both Marc and me that you were not aligned to DSA; you had clarified instead that your allegiance was to Working Families Party, WFP.
In retrospect now, that doesnât seem exactly true, does it?
I then asked you that day about your relationship with Open New York and you pretended, very badly (“Open New Yowhat? Ummm who?”), to not know who they are.
(spoiler: Ămilia also loves đŠInnovationQNSđ¨)
Your alleged lack of awareness is inexcusable to me, especially as I presently write this some three months later: how can you not know who Open New York is? Everyone in Western Queens knows about Ben Carlos Thypinâs vanity project cum lobbying organization , most especially political hopefuls.
So why donât you?
Or were you lying when you claimed ONY ignorance?
Why would you lie about something like that? What are you trying to hide?
And as I relayed to you that day, Kristen, I am a nobody, certainly no influencer, and all I can offer to any pertinent political candidate is my one mere vote. My opinion is just my opinion: I remain sure it doesnât count that much at all.
And that Memorial Day, in meeting you, I had just wanted you to be aware of my issue with voting for you: I canât fully trust you because of the company you keep.
I mean, ask your own team.
They hate me.
So I bet they must be relieved my vote wonât sully your tally: thatâs the result they wanted, isnât it? My lost vote is a consequence they themselves created: a happy L they must be thrilled to take, bro.
I prefer that the candidate who does end up receiving my one lowly tiny vote will actually know about Open New York (or at least admit to it, hello) and is already standing up to their shady real estate development machine instead of pretending not to know who they are (Juan Ardila, annnnyone?).
Another covetous machine which makes me similarly nervous is comprised of the ironically self-described âsocialistsâ of DSA leadership, who act more like condescending, arrogant clout-chasers than true embracers of social and economic parity: theyâre too obtuse to comprehend that they publicly present as a small, closed, mocking clique of entitled and excluding fops.
Aka, the literal antithesis of socialism.
Again, not muh vote.
Like many recently disillusioned Queens voters, I acknowledge the membership of DSA is not the same as its leadership: the former reflects a mass of seemingly well-meaning folk while the latter canât stop staring, lovingly and enchanted, at their own reflection.
Because my biggest fear about you is that, like Tiffany CabĂĄn, you wonât listen to your constituency and will instead defer to a limited group of haughty, power-craving asshats who are barely of legal drinking age, and who also donât live in your district, for direction, counsel and validation.
I suspect you wonât serve District 59 at all but instead will solely serve the agenda of the corrupt douche sacs in DSAâs upper tier.
And itâs that presumption of power by DSA flamfluencers which is so off putting, perchance not just to me. Itâs also those deep yimby alliances, the direct and blatant ties to Open New York, which repel thoughtful and educated voters. We deserve better than being ruled by self important popularity hounds looking to unhouse us in the name of social and racial justice.
But, hey, what do I know? Iâm just a simple nobody.
Who wonât be voting for you.
https://twitter.com/escargotpro_/status/1567644365308166147?s=20&t=HPUEm59bpWYK7PA1xog5cw
DSA membership not so much
Itâs the head of the snake you have to worry about, not the bodyâď¸
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