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editorial
The establishment’s hard lesson
Regardless of how the fi nal count turns
out, one thing about the Democratic primary
STORY: Over 40 northeast Queens public schools ranked as top
performers under New York’s ESSA plan
SUMMARY: The State Education Department recognized
44 public schools in northeast Queens as high achieving
institutions under New York’s Every Student Succeeds Act
(ESSA) plan.
REACH: 33,846 people reached (as of 7/1/19)
for Queens district attorney is certain:
Th e political establishment in this
borough was simply outhustled by public
defender Tiff any Cabán’s campaign,
and it’s time for them to learn from the
experience.
One look at some of the maps breaking
down the vote showed just how successful
Cabán’s campaign was in getting
out a huge volume of voters to her side.
She won just six Assembly districts, all of
them located in northwest Queens, and
in numbers that far exceeded the maximum
amount of votes Queens Borough
President Melinda Katz received in any
of the districts she won.
In the 36th District in Astoria and Long
Island City, Cabán won 6,174 of the 8,184
votes cast — an overwhelming 75.4 percent
of the vote. By contrast, Katz performed
her best in the 29th District in
southeast Queens, gaining 3,269 of the
5,757 votes cast — a solid 56.8 percent
of the vote, but nothing close to what her
main opponent achieved.
What did the Cabán campaign do differently
than Team Katz to spark such
success? Th ey went to the very basics of
politics — mobilizing an army of volunteers
to knock on doors and personally
convince people to support their candidate.
Th ey also expanded their reach on
social media and ran a dynamic, ideasbased
campaign that resonated with progressive
voters in northwest Queens.
For better or worse, this voting bloc
must no longer be written off .
THE QUEENS
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In two years, this bloc has vaulted
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to victory
over a long-term Democratic incumbent
Congressman; driven back the deal that
would have allowed Amazon to develop
a new campus in Long Island City; and
is now on the cusp of bringing a 31-yearold
career public defender into power as
Queens’ top prosecutor.
We recognize the concern among moderate
and conservative Democrats across
the borough who wonder if this left ward
shift will bring about problems of its own.
But the establishment should neither
demonize the left nor capitulate to it —
nor should the establishment disappear
from the scene entirely.
Instead, it must retool.
It needs to learn from what the Cabáns
and the Ocasio-Cortezes of the world
have done and adapt accordingly. Get
back to the basics of grassroots campaigning.
Go out in the community and
talk to people, knock on doors, sell practical
and popular ideas for the 21st century.
Call upon new voices in the community,
bring them into the fold, hear their
ideas out. Build a new party platform that
adopts some of the old, some of the new
— but all of what works best for the people
and the community, both now and in
the future.
Queens will always be a Democratic
borough, but if the establishment wants
to continue to defi ne it, then it must
change with the times — or, as evidenced
in the last two years, the times will inevitably
change them.
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