A newly redrawn congressional map in New York is causing all sorts of drama
on the hill between incumbent Democrats as moderate congressman Sean Patrick Maloney
tries to essentially screw over the progressive in New York Mander Jones.
So the new map was drawn by a court appointed expert after the Democrats
version was deemed unconstitutional by a New York state court.
Now, that version would have gained Democrats three additional
congressional seats in the state of New York.
But less than an hour after the new map became public Maloney, the representative
for New York's 18th district, who also happens to be the D triple C chair.
Announced that he would run in District 17,
which is where Mander Jones currently serves.
So he announced this on Twitter, without giving anyone any notice saying, while
the process to draw these maps without the legislature is against the will of voters.
If the newly announced map, our final maps are finalized,
I will run in New York 17th congressional district.
New York 17 includes my home and
many of the Hudson valley communities I currently represent.
Now, Maloney is the moderate here.
And again, he's gonna be running in the district that's currently
being by represented by progressive Mander Jones.
Now, this is all interesting considering that the D triple C says that it's
all about protecting its incumbents.
But that protection is usually only offered to corporate
members of their party.
>> Yeah, so I'll go a little further.
So first of all, let's just acknowledge that if they had passed
the voting rights bill, none of this would be an issue, okay?
It would have ended gerrymandering completely.
We would have different districts and fair districts.
But of course, as usual, the Democrats didn't pass anything they promised to pass
the voting rights bill didn't pass so that we have this mess on our hands now.
Where they gerrymandering in the courts say you can't gerrymander,
then they're gonna go back to redrawing the maps.
It's total debacle.
But, the biggest part of the story is the one that mainstream press is not
exactly covering.
So to be fair to them,
they're covering the story fairly significantly because it's drama.
It's a soap opera, where Democrats are fighting one another.
And by the way, that's part of why we tell progressives to fight their so
called colleagues, because the press loves that.
But I want you to do it on issues that matter to the American people, $15,
minimum wage, health care, etcetera.
They almost never do that.
Notice now when it's their districts,
all of a sudden everyone in Congress is animated about this.
And even progressive adjacent Congress people not anywhere near the squad,
they're coming out publicly against Maloney.
I've never seen that.
And because they're like wait, if they do it to Mandy Jones, but
they might do it to me all of a sudden, it's about my ass.
Now, they weren't, none of them were anywhere near this animated on
build back better voting rights.
Any of the things that actually affected the voters.
But when it comes to their power, all of a sudden they're all super upset, okay?
So, but overall, I like that they're fighting back,
including people in a broader section of the Democratic Party.
That's a good phenomenon.
So the press is covering all that and credit.
The point we where credit is due, the part they're leaving out is, they keep saying
that Maloney is running in Mandera Jones district because it's slightly safer.
That it's D plus ten instead of D plus eight.
That means the Democrats are favored by ten instead of eight in that district.
No, that's not why he's doing it.
That's a minimal difference.
That makes almost no difference at all.
In fact, if he ran in the other district,
the Democrats could keep that one Mander Jones and Jamaal Bowman.
He's supposed to be the head of electing more Democrats and
he's making it much harder by leaving his old district.
Now, a new Democrat has to come in there and
that it makes it harder to win that district, okay?
So why is he actually doing, cuz they wanna squeeze progressives out.
This way, it's a power play.
You're going to Mondesi in a., okay?
Scenario, you squeeze out Mondale.
And Mondale jones has been a pretty good progressive and
a pretty vocal progressive.
That'd be a nice win for democratic leadership to take out a progressive.
But a better scenario is you force commander Jones to run in Jamal Bowman's
district, which is right next door.
And that way, you're hoping they take out Jamal Bowman,
who's even more progressive and a member of the squad.
So and they would love the idea of two progressives fighting each other.
They salivate at that idea.
Now, what's Maloney's job?
And I mentioned there, D triple C if you're not knee deep in politics,
you might not know what that is.
That's the group that is supposed to raise money from donors
to reelect incumbents and elect new Democrats as well.
>> It seems like there's a conflict of interest at play you go.
>> Now there's two things and one is the conflict of interest,
Maloney is the one gathering all the money, right?
So people are like, okay, wait, this is terrible.
Because you're gonna have an unfair advantage against Mondale chose.
But not only that you're gonna have an unfair advantage because a lot of swing
district, even like some apparently even some moderate Democrats artist at this.
But they can't speak out because Maloney controls the money.
And so if they speak out, Maloney can punish them.
And say even though you're in a close district,
I'm not gonna give you the money because you didn't back me in my power play, okay?
By the way, Chantal Brown did the same exact thing in Cleveland.
She was running the the county party.
She did it against Nina Turner.
So this is an old trick by corporate Democrats, okay?
Now, but there's a second part of it,
which is why is Maloney trying to squeeze out of progressive?
Well, he's Democratic leadership.
They hate progressives.
By the way, progressive in Congress.
When are you going to get it?
They are not your colleagues.
They are literally your opponents.
Yeah, I'm gonna get to a maloney quote, which is unbelievable in a second.
But it's possible that the donors, who hate progressives even more,
why do corporate Democrats hate us?
Because their corporate Democrats, they raise money from corporations.
And corporations, multinational corporations despise progressives.
So it's possible that the donors of the Democratic Party said, no Maloney, you're
to run against the progressive, we wanna take out as many progresses as possible.
Well, eliminating Tina Turner and some of the others.
Now use the money we're giving you, to squeeze out either Mander Jones or
Jamaal Bowman.
So, okay, so can I do the Maloney court?
>> Yeah, do it?
>> Okay, the Maloney quote is maddening.
So, monetary jones explained, and he was very public about it in Congress.
It's so important for Democrats in their etiquette to let you know ahead of time
what you're gonna do, okay?
And they're always talking about colleagues, colleagues, right?
Maloney blindsided him, okay?
Hit him with a two by four came out publicly said I'm running in that
district, okay?
And didn't let Mondo Jones.
So joseph yours Maloney responds this way,
he says from my point of view, I'm just running where I landed.
He said, if someone else is looking at the district as well,
obviously we'll try to try and work through that as colleagues and friends.
Ultimately, this is up to the voters and that's what it should be.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
After you backstab him and hit him with a two by four,
you can't come back with colleagues and friends.
But they think that progressives are dupes.
And by the way, in Congress, I don't know what.
You're supposed to prove him wrong.
For the entire time that the justice Democrats have been in Congress.
Democratic leadership and said, colleagues don't criticize colleagues.
Friends, colleagues.
By the way behind the scenes I know for a fact.
They then say if you ever actually fight for the things you believe in,
will make sure that you don't get committee assignments.
You can never introduce a bill.
What happened to colleagues?
What happened to a friend?
Who says to a friend, I'll never let you introduce a bill.
They're not your goddamn friends or colleagues.
And even after he stabs monetary Jones in the back, he comes out and goes, come on,
let's just settle this like colleagues and friends.
>> So I have a question for you.
Because the threats toward progressives, I think are relevant and substantive, right?
Because if you're progressive, that's prevented from being able to join
committee assignments or introduce legislation.
I mean, you have no power, you're not able to do anything.
So how do progressives fight back?
Like, let's say they accept,
they finally accept that these corporate Democrats are not their friends.
How do they effectively fight back knowing that it's very like,
the threats are real and they will implement what they're threatening.
>> No, they won't actually.
So here's the funny part, okay?
So, the fighting back is super easy.
Honestly, so far, I don't know why they haven't figured it out.
It's maddening.
And again, I'm telling you, I'm not allowed to say who it is,
because it was said to me in confidence.
But I know for a fact, that those threats are issued.
So here's how you fight back.
You just make a public.
You go, that guy right there said, I'm not allowed to introduce bills
if I oppose his bill, and I just have an ideological difference with, right?
What would happen?
All the press would come out and be like, my God,
it's a Democratic infighting infighting.
Everybody covered the story.
They love that soap opera.
And then people are like, wait,
did you really threaten to not introduce his bills?
And then what is that guy gonna do?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I didn't say that.
I don't know. No, of course Jamal.
I mean, >> I mean, look,
it depends on how the corporate press is gonna frame the story.
That's a huge part of it as well.
>> Yeah, of course it is.
But it that's when you say, hey brother, you gonna fight back or
you're just going to bow your head.
Because fighting back is actually you're gonna be shocked to find out,
how easy it is.
The press will yell at me.
Well, you could use press as well and you can make your point.
>> When Trump does it, how buffoonish trump is you have to give him credit for
how he mastered manipulating the media for his own advantage.
>> Yeah, look here I'm defending progress is 100% Maloney,
does not belong in that seat.
He has no business in that seat and he's totally screwing us over.
Mountaineer jones is totally right.
Jamal bowman is totally right.
But I've got to tell progressives at the same time,
we've now said this thousands of times and it is not getting through to them.
They are not your colleagues, they will eliminate you the minute they get
a chance politically, they can't wait to assassinate you.
You think they're your friends or colleagues.
You ought to have your head examined.