Brad Lander lost the mayor’s race. Now he’s coming for Dan Goldman’s congressional seat, and the same left-vs-establishment war is back on June 23
Brad Lander, former NYC comptroller, is mounting a progressive challenge against Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10’s Democratic primary on June 23, reigniting the left-versus-establishment battle in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Brad Lander lost the mayor’s race. Now he’s coming for Dan Goldman’s congressional seat, and the same left-vs-establishment war is back on June 23
Brad Lander, former NYC comptroller, is mounting a progressive challenge against Rep. Dan Goldman in NY-10’s Democratic primary on June 23, reigniting the left-versus-establishment battle in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
If you live in Red Hook, Gowanus, or Sunset Park, you have a second blockbuster primary on your ballot this Tuesday, and it is a rematch of the fight that just consumed the city. Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller who finished third in last year’s mayoral primary, is trying to take a seat in Congress from the man who currently holds it, Representative Dan Goldman.
The district, NY-10, covers downtown Manhattan and a long stretch of brownstone Brooklyn, and it is about as Democratic as districts get, which means Tuesday’s primary, June 23, is the whole game. Lander announced his challenge in December, and he has run hard to Goldman’s left ever since.
His case is blunt. “NY-10 is a progressive district and representative Goldman is out of step with it,” Lander told ABC7. To CBS he was sharper: “My real beef with [Goldman] is that he’s not taking on the wealthy special interests and billionaires.” He has hammered Goldman’s foreign-policy backers, pointing to “AIPAC who are cheerleading Trump in this hideous war,” and framed the race as a “five-alarm fire for our democracy.” He has also said, “Donald Trump is abducting our neighbors.”
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Brad Lander lost the mayor’s race. Now he’s coming for Dan Goldman’s congressional seat, and the same left-vs-establishment war is back on June 23
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