New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed civil rights lawyer Maya Wiley on Saturday in the race for New York City mayor, a sign of growing progressive momentum behind Wiley’s campaign with less than three weeks until the June 22 Democratic primary.
Wiley now has the support of two of the state’s highest profile members of Congress in Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of Queens and the Bronx, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, chair of the House Democratic Caucus.
The decision is likely to help Wiley’s efforts to consolidate city progressives, who had for months been split among Wiley, a former counsel to outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and former nonprofit executive Dianne Morales.
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This is great news. We should go out and vote for her and make her the Mayor. Unzer should pick up and leave New York City, take our tax money, our business money and all else to another state and city. Who will she fleece to pay for her “programs”. I want her to win. The progressive experiment fails when there is no one left to pay for their stupidity.
That’s thus a DOA for me!
One more reason not to vote for Wiley
Another one is that she was part of the De Blasio team.