Whimp Max Rose caved to pressure from the radical left
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COURIER L 42 IFE, OCT. 11-17, 2019
OPINION
Last week, Congressman
Max Rose demonstrated that
he doesn’t have any political
backbone when he folded like a
cheap suit after it was reported
that he had a primary opponent.
After over a year of obfuscation
on his position, Rose gave in to
the pressure of the radical left
to join the impeachment drive
against President Trump.
During his town hall meeting
Rose announced that he now
“fully supports” impeachment
after proclaiming one week earlier
that he would “not let politics
guide his decision.” However,
this is exactly what he did.
Just last month, he wrote an
op-ed explaining why he did not
want to go down the impeachment
road. He said, “I fear the
Democratic Party is now at risk
of...a bait-and-switch mistake by
focusing on impeachment instead
of infrastructure, healthcare
costs, and putting people
to work with livable wages and
benefi ts...pursuing a partisan
impeachment process won’t address
any of those serious issues.
The truth is impeachment
will only tear our country further
apart and we will see no
progress on the enormous challenges
we face as a nation.”
What changed? On October
1st the Staten Island Advance,
which covers most of the congressional
district, reported
that Richard-Oliver Marius
planned to challenge Rose in a
primary. He is a member of the
Democratic Socialists of America
who would come from the
left against Rose because of the
freshman Congressman’s opposition
to impeachment. The
very next day Rose announced
his support for impeachment at
his town hall event.
Now, Oliver-Marius says he
is leaning towards ending his
primary challenge. Mission accomplished
for Rose.
In addition, several progressive
left organizations throughout
the district had been attacking
his anti-impeachment
position and threatened to withhold
their support. In late August,
Fight Back Bay Ridge, a farleft
organization, held a protest
rally outside of Rose’s Brooklyn
district offi ce demanding that
he support impeachment. Their
simple message to Rose was to
support impeachment or lose
their support.
Rose had been trying to walk
a tightrope to continue the moderate
image he has potrayed,
while not upsetting the far-left
wing of his party. In addition
to withholding his support for
impeachment until now, he has
bit his tongue in standing up to
the “The Squad,” a group of four
Congresswomen elected in 2018
that includes Ilhan Omar, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (AOC),
Ayanna Presley, and Rashida
Tlab.
For example, Rose refused to
join the call for Omar (D-MN)
to be removed from the Foreign
Affairs Committee because of
her anti-Semitic record, which
includes saying that support for
Israel in the United States, was
“all about the Benjamins, baby.”
He was also tepid in his response
to her comments that the terrorist
attacks of 9/11was simply an
event in which “some people did
something.”
Throughout his campaign
and early tenure in Congress,
Rose has claimed to be an independent
and not afraid to stand
up to his Democratic leadership
and others in his party. This has
now been proven to be demonstrably
false.
The political question is will
there be enough support from
the AOC wing of the party that
he pandered to with his new impeachment
position to offset the
loss of Republicans and Independents
that fi lled in the oval
for Rose in 2016. Obviously Rose
believes the answer is yes.
Southwest Brooklyn, which
encompasses about a third of
the congressional district, has
become even more Democratic
since I served as the Director of
former Congressman Vito Fossella’s
Bay Ridge offi ce. He represented
this area from 1997-
2009.
Any Republican must overcome
this huge disadvantage in
Brooklyn, but the party’s standard
bearer next year will have
less of an uphill climb to take
back the seat across the Verrazano,
where President Trump
won 57%-40%.
Rose is hoping his current impeachment
stance will increase
his vote margin in Brooklyn to
ensure a second term, while Republicans
see his support for impeachment
and alignment with
Nancy Pelosi and “The Squad”
as a betrayal Will Rose’s victory
in pacifying the left and avoiding
a primary be the cause of his
general election loss?
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