NY-15 2020 megathread: Diaz Sr!

[Senator Incitatus]

Is there any evidence that Torres is actually the favorite? Diaz is at least comparably popular in the district and has much, much, much higher name ID.

Most of his higher Name ID is not for the positive... blah blah blah more badger nonsense

This is being pulled out of your great big incoherent behind, as usual. The Diazes are broadly known as popular figures within the Bronx. There's certainly nothing suggesting that his name ID is a negative.

[alancia]

Ruben Diaz Sr. endorsed

[Suburbia]

Diaz Sr.'s son, Ruben Jr. is very socially liberal, compared to his father.

If Ruben Sr. wins in 2020, and Ruben Jr. runs for mayor, it could hurt him with progressive voters in Park Slope, Chelsea, and Williamsburg in September 2021's primary.

[Badger]

Is there any evidence that Torres is actually the favorite? Diaz is at least comparably popular in the district and has much, much, much higher name ID.

Most of his higher Name ID is not for the positive... blah blah blah more badger nonsense

This is being pulled out of your great big incoherent behind, as usual. The Diazes are broadly known as popular figures within the Bronx. There's certainly nothing suggesting that his name ID is a negative.

Secondly, yes Diaz has a constituency there, but if you're talking about higher name recognition it's not because he's got some wildly popular fanbase likes A O C or Beto O'Rourke which may or may not be deep. It is incontrovertible that Diaz is primary claim to fame Beyond any other New York state senator or city councilman is that he is a hard right social conservative in an overwhelmingly Democratic area.

You'd have to be dense to think that his name recognition isn't from being, to put it nicely, controversial.

Have you ever lived a day in your life in the Bronx? I haven't either, but at least demonstrate some Bona fights before you start preaching about big ignorant about what people there believe.

[beesley]

https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/1157392095705030656

[JoeyJoeJoe]

Trivia:  Serrano's predecessor in this district, Robert Garcia actually WAS elected as a Republican.  In the special election to succeed Herman Badillo, Garcia ran on the Republican and Liberal lines.  I believe that he told everyone that he would serve as a Democrat if elected.  So, a Republican winning has happened here.

[Strong Candidate]

https://twitter.com/WillBredderman/status/1162141872850182144

[Strong Candidate]

https://twitter.com/WillBredderman/status/1162141872850182144

For what it's worth, he's no longer running for this seat and is instead aiming to get back into the Assembly.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

[Lisa's voting Biden]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

[Gracile]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

Ritchie Torres is running and he seems to fit that bill.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

You may not like her, but she's incredibly charismatic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3QXIVR0bs. And what exactly has Diaz been doing to fight the problems AOC mentions in her video?

[Zaybay]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

[Yellowhammer]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

If being "charismatic" means coming off as a nasty, mentally ill, pretentious, vindictive attention whore, then AOC totally takes the cake.

[Calthrina950]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

If being "charismatic" means coming off as a nasty, mentally ill, pretentious, vindictive attention whore, then AOC totally takes the cake.

Would not use this language to describe her, but I don't think we need any more AOC types in Congress. Or at the very least, we need to have younger and telegenic politicians who are nevertheless far more knowledgeable in policy and more bipartisan than Ocasio-Cortez herself is.

[Badger]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

If being "charismatic" means coming off as a nasty, mentally ill, pretentious, vindictive attention whore, then AOC totally takes the cake.

Would not use this language to describe her, but I don't think we need any more AOC types in Congress. Or at the very least, we need to have younger and telegenic politicians who are nevertheless far more knowledgeable in policy and more bipartisan than Ocasio-Cortez herself is.

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress. However, she has proven herself very knowledgeable regarding policy. She won me over as an initial skeptic based on her Sterling performance on that front, which she is displayed in committee hearings.

[Young Conservative]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

If being "charismatic" means coming off as a nasty, mentally ill, pretentious, vindictive attention whore, then AOC totally takes the cake.

Would not use this language to describe her, but I don't think we need any more AOC types in Congress. Or at the very least, we need to have younger and telegenic politicians who are nevertheless far more knowledgeable in policy and more bipartisan than Ocasio-Cortez herself is.

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress. However, she has proven herself very knowledgeable regarding policy. She won me over as an initial skeptic based on her Sterling performance on that front, which she is displayed in committee hearings.

lol....suuurrrreee.

[TheSaint250]

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress.

This is literally false lol

[Badger]

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress.

This is literally false lol

Voting records during the Obama Administration demonstrate patently otherwise. " LOL" indeed.

[Badger]

Ruben Diaz!??! Seriously??!? Can't we find a young, progressive, charismatic AOC type to blow him out?

I don't think those two words belong in the same sentence.

If being "charismatic" means coming off as a nasty, mentally ill, pretentious, vindictive attention whore, then AOC totally takes the cake.

Would not use this language to describe her, but I don't think we need any more AOC types in Congress. Or at the very least, we need to have younger and telegenic politicians who are nevertheless far more knowledgeable in policy and more bipartisan than Ocasio-Cortez herself is.

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress. However, she has proven herself very knowledgeable regarding policy. She won me over as an initial skeptic based on her Sterling performance on that front, which she is displayed in committee hearings.

lol....suuurrrreee

Untrue because why again?

[TheSaint250]

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress.

This is literally false lol

Voting records during the Obama Administration demonstrate patently otherwise. " LOL" indeed.

AOC didn’t serve during the Obama Admin. Anyway, this came out a little bit ago:

https://quorum-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/blog/2019-08-20T171215.242336_2019_August_Recess_Report_FINAL.pdf

[Calthrina950]

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress.

This is literally false lol

Indeed. Some of the most bipartisan members of Congress are Republicans. Susan Collins, even with all the hate she's been given by people on this forum and elsewhere, is still by far the most bipartisan member of the Senate, of either party.

[Badger]

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress.

This is literally false lol

Voting records during the Obama Administration demonstrate patently otherwise. " LOL" indeed.

AOC didn’t serve during the Obama Admin. Anyway, this came out a little bit ago:

https://quorum-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/blog/2019-08-20T171215.242336_2019_August_Recess_Report_FINAL.pdf

My point is most Republicans currently in Congress did, and demonstrated throughout that time that they couldn't give two figs about bipartisanship with the majority party.

Regarding your link, what exactly am I supposed to be looking at?

[TheSaint250]

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress.

This is literally false lol

Voting records during the Obama Administration demonstrate patently otherwise. " LOL" indeed.

AOC didn’t serve during the Obama Admin. Anyway, this came out a little bit ago:

https://quorum-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/blog/2019-08-20T171215.242336_2019_August_Recess_Report_FINAL.pdf

My point is most Republicans currently in Congress did, and demonstrated throughout that time that they couldn't give two figs about bipartisanship with the majority party.

Regarding your link, what exactly am I supposed to be looking at?

AOC is regarded as the fourth-least bipartisan freshman representative, with 4% of her bills including Republican cosponsors. The lowest freshman Republican representative on that list is Mark Green at 15%. The lowest Republican in the House on that list is Gary Palmer with 9%.

So to claim that she is “literally” more bipartisan than 90% of Republicans is a false claim at best.

EDIT: I completely misread the whole thing. Very sorry

[Badger]

Agree or disagree with her, and I certainly won't disagree that she is as non bipartisan as Mitch McConnell or literally over 90% of the other republicans in Congress.

This is literally false lol

Voting records during the Obama Administration demonstrate patently otherwise. " LOL" indeed.

AOC didn’t serve during the Obama Admin. Anyway, this came out a little bit ago:

https://quorum-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/blog/2019-08-20T171215.242336_2019_August_Recess_Report_FINAL.pdf

My point is most Republicans currently in Congress did, and demonstrated throughout that time that they couldn't give two figs about bipartisanship with the majority party.

Regarding your link, what exactly am I supposed to be looking at?

AOC is regarded as the fourth-least bipartisan freshman representative, with 4% of her bills including Republican cosponsors. The lowest freshman Republican representative on that list is Mark Green at 15%. The lowest Republican in the House on that list is Gary Palmer with 9%.

So to claim that she is “literally” more bipartisan than 90% of Republicans is a false claim at best.

EDIT: I completely misread the whole thing. Very sorry

No worries. Just the same I don't put much stock into such measurements without peeking under the hood somewhat. Those numbers can be goosed quite a bit, whether intentionally or Not, by a legislator that co-sponsors a lot of legislation to rename local post offices, declare the 4th Monday in November is National asparagus day, honoring Estates local girl scout troop for selling the most cookies of any in the nation, Etc.