Julie Won has entered ‘The Race‘ to replace Nydia Velazquez as our US Congressperson. She is the third candidate to do so.
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And The Race Is On in Long Island City
PACKERS-Lions -> Chiefs-Cowboys, don’t let anyone tell you things were better in the good ol’ days. That’s 7-hours of meaningful NFL action on Thanksgiving, a day synonymous with non-contenders playing other non-contenders or single-loss teams resting their QB’s. I don’t know what’s worse, a pair of sub-250% teams going into OT, or 1st Q blowouts leading to a relative’s request to ‘put Disney on for the kids.’ This year is different, in politics too.
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There are times in one’s life when people are called upon to make difficult decisions. Sometimes those decisions are wrong, but in the hands of a capable and intelligent person, more often than not they are right. Other times, people choose to not make a decision on an important matter (aka: do nothing). If by doing nothing, this leads to an adverse outcome, it is what I would refer to as an invisible mistake.
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I voted today. Or I should say I went to the election booth only to discover a paucity of choices in Long Island City. Over a third of the job-seekers had zero opposition, and another 50% were against virtually nameless opponents doomed to be crushed. Chuck Schumer vs. Joe Pinion and Nydia Velazquez vs. Juan Pagan might as well be Mike Tyson vs. Alfonso Ratliff.
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Now that NYC Congressional maps have been redrawn and finalized, and candidates have declared in which districts they will run, all seems eerily calm in Long Island City’s new home: District 7.
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