Liberal Bronx Democratic state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi introduced she is operating for Congress in a brand new gerrymandered third congressional district that takes within the leafy suburbs of Lengthy Island, Queens, Westchester and elements of the Bronx.
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Liberal Bronx Democratic state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi — a champion of “defunding” the police, who as soon as referred to as cops “soulless” — is operating for Congress in a brand new gerrymandered third congressional district that takes within the leafy suburbs of Lengthy Island, Queens, Westchester and elements of the Bronx.
Biaggi’s anti-police funding tweets — lots of which had been scrubbed from her Twitter account however had been captured in display screen grabs — may hang-out her in a district the place many average Democrats assist regulation enforcement.
Even some progressives have deserted the tone-deaf mantra amid a spike in crime in a metropolis led by an ex-cop, Mayor Eric Adams.
“Right now #TeamBiaggi dropped off 550 meals with Rethink Meals NYC to New Yorkers at Occupy CityHall combating for funds justice and defunding the police. Keep secure, and sustain the nice work!#DefundTheNYPD,” Biaggi mentioned in a June 26, 2020 tweet.
On June 6, 2020, she mentioned, “We should defund the police.”
Biaggi then posted a comparability of the fee to the town to pay for NYPD misconduct lawsuits to the potential price ticket of offering free bus service to New Yorkers.
In one other, she in contrast the prices of police riot gear to non-public protecting tools for well being care employees combating the coronavirus pandemic. The congressional candidate additionally posted a narrative on Oct. 30, 2020 about police allegedly beating a black lady throughout a protest.
“The police on this nation are soulless,” Biaggi mentioned.
Biaggi additionally has boasted of her assist for New York’s controversial bail reform regulation, which eradicated money bail for a lot of alleged crimes, permitting defendants to stay free as a substitute of being detained pending crime.
However the senator makes no point out of her assist of defunding police or the bail regulation on her new congressional marketing campaign web site.
However an archived model faraway from her marketing campaign website does point out her assist for the bail regulation and says, “New Yorkers are overpoliced and underprotected: whereas 1000's and 1000's of nonviolent misdemeanors are pushed via the system yearly, shootings and sexual assaults are solved and prosecuted at abysmal ranges.”
Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat who's giving up the congressional seat to run for governor, prompt that Biaggi gained’t be a very good match for the district.
“The folks of my district need a commonsense Democrat who is not going to pander to the left or again all the way down to the correct. I cannot assist anybody who's anti-Israel, supported by the Democratic Socialists, or who sides with the defund the police crowd,” Suozzi instructed The Submit.
Requested about anticipated criticism of her assist for defunding the police and bail reform, Biaggi mentioned, “I'm dedicated to strengthening public security, and each coverage stance I take associated to policing and felony justice reform is rooted in supporting our communities.
“I've labored exhausting to make our communities safer, strengthening gun legal guidelines and defending victims of sexual assault. I’ll proceed to try this in Congress, ensuring police are targeted on violent crime, investing in violence prevention applications, and standing as much as the NRA and Republicans so we are able to lastly crackdown on the move of unlawful weapons into New York.”
Biaggi, 35, is an brisk campaigner. She defeated ex-Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein within the 2018 major. She successfully tied Klein to Donald Trump and the GOP after the Democratic incumbent for years shaped an alliance with Republicans within the state Senate.
She is the granddaughter of the late Congressman Mario Biaggi, a 19-year consultant and adorned ex-cop whose profession led to shame after being convicted in two corruption scandals.
Different Democrats operating for the seat embody PR govt Robert Zimmerman, Nassau County legislator Josh Lafazan, and neighborhood organizer Mellanie D’Arrigo.
George Santos, a financier from Queens, is searching for the Republican nomination.
Biaggi, in an asserting why she’s operating on her web site mentioned, “As a New York State senator, I’ve delivered progressive change in Albany. Now I’m able to do the identical in Washington.
“I'm operating for Congress to guard and defend our democracy, to halt the local weather disaster, to develop our provide of reasonably priced housing, and to rework our authorities and economic system to serve us all. A number of of a very powerful fights in our nation’s historical past are going down in Washington proper now, and I need to be on the frontlines.
Biaggi hailed the passage of an abortion rights regulation, elevated funding for college, voting rights laws and creating billion greenback funds to help hard-hit tenants and undocumented employees throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Biaggi has to surrender a secure state Senate to run for Congress. Bronx Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez is amongst Democrats eyeing Biaggi’s thirty fourth senatorial district seat, together with Councilwoman Marjorie Velazquez and Kate Theobald, chief of workers to Manhattan Councilman Keith Powers, in accordance with Metropolis&State.
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