House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks to Glenn Greenwald about
the need for Democratic Party reform, her views on immigration and
criminal justice reform, her approach to “identity politics,” why she
has taken such unusually blunt positions on Israel and Palestine, and
the challenges of running against a machine boss politician.
Her Democratic opponent, Rep. Joseph Crowley, has been in the U.S. House
of Representatives since 1999. It has been 14 years since Crowley has
faced a primary challenge, thus receiving the Democratic Party
nomination automatically every two years since 2004.
Crowley has become the classic New York machine boss, having obtained
both his 1990s seat on the New York City Council and his seat in
Congress through a combination of dynastic politics and machine favors.
But for the people of the 14th Congressional District that Crowley
represents — which covers parts of Queens and the Bronx and is 70
percent nonwhite — it means they have had no Democratic Party
alternative in this Democratic safe district for more than a decade.
All of that changed this year as a result of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
whose primary challenge against Crowley has sparked substantial
excitement within her district and, then, media attention throughout the
country.
Source: The Intercept_
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