NY-17 has been one of the more contentious primaries of this bizarre election cycle, morphing into a bitter proxy war between centrists and progressives
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images “I am a gay guy with an interracial family that won a Trump district. I don’t have the luxury of ignoring people or telling them I know better,” Sean Patrick Maloney says. “I’ve got to listen to what their priorities are and go to work. I’ve won seats five times that way.
But Biaggi, an energetic campaigner, has her own case to make. “I want to be able to fight for the people of New York and the people of this district in the same way that I fought in Albany, because I really feel like there is a void and lack of leadership that needs to be filled with people who actually want to do the job,” Biaggi says, sitting at a Nyack café in the shadow of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Working Families Party are in her corner.
“One of the ways he has failed New York is by abandoning District 18 and running in 17 and pushing out a young, important voice in this party that is still a rising star who matters to changing the dynamic of Washington, because he wanted an easier district to win,” Biaggi says. “That is what represents, I think, the worst of politics. We’re not kings and queens. We are elected by the people to represent their best interest.
As a representative, Maloney has racked up a record that has, at times, drawn the ire of the left. He voted to roll back elements of the Dodd-Frank financial-reform act. He backed the expansion of a fracked-gas facility in his district, angering environmental activists. His DCCC has been under fire for spending big to successfully boost a far-right challenger against Peter Meijer of Michigan, one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump.
“I have done Democratic meetings with him or forums, and whenever I point these things out, he calls me a liar,” Biaggi insists.
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