The Latimer campaign’s first mailer is an approachable affair. It capitalizes on the “all politics is local” principle and the Latimer campaign’s very intentionally chosen theme: “real results, not rhetoric.” Nonetheless, the messaging reveals one critical fact and a strategic weakness for the Latimer campaign.
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George Latimer made April 1, 2024 social media posts chastising the movement among some Democrats to cast blank ballots in the April 2nd Presidential primary. That movement, organized by the Working Families Party and others, represents an attempt by some rank-and-file Democrats to protest the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza strip.1
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An original analysis of campaign finance receipts by NewYork16.org gets beneath the surface of the two candidates’ roughly equal fundraising totals.
Continue readingThe Turkish political cartoonist Mikail Çiftçi is careful to draw both Israel government and American flags flying from the back of the tank. His cartoon reflects globally widespread belief about Israel being so closely backed by the United States that an American flag flying from its tank is considered an immediately graspable joke.
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How will the reputations of local politicians, some of whom are holding fast to the Israel government in a time of alleged genocide, age?
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