It is ALL about Democrats in the Big Apple borough of Queens…
The Borough President seeking to move up to District Attorney ….
Her main competition is a 31 year old Latino public defender, Tiffany Caban….
The Borough President, Melinda Katz, is the party candidate….
The race has six candidates…
Results?
Caban, endorsed by Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders comes out ahead by about 1,300 votes…Thge outstanding absentee ballots are about 2,500…But are split between the six running….
Caban is will win the November election in the heavily Democratic boro if she win as expected…
Another chunk of New York moves to the left….
And across the country?
The prosecutor’s in the big cities are moving away from zero-tolerance law enforcement…
It was billed as a contest of criminal justice reformers, a six-way Democratic primary for district attorney in Queens that would soften the tough-on-crime policies that have long typified this working-class borough of New York.
Hours after the polls closed Tuesday, the race seemed too close to call, with Tiffany Cabán, a 31-year-old public defender, holding a narrow lead over Melinda Katz, the Queens borough president.
Ms. Cabán declared victory shortly after 11 p.m., telling the crowd at her watch party, “We did it y’all.” But Ms. Katz did not concede; speaking to her supporters just before 11 p.m., she said that every vote should be counted.
“God willing, I will come out on top,” she said.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Ms. Cabán led Ms. Katz by 1.3 percentage points. Roughly 3,400 absentee ballots have to be counted, with Ms. Cabán’s margin at roughly 1,100 votes. Board of Election officials said the count may not be completed until Wednesday, July 3.
Non-New Yorkers (like me) might not realize that each of the five boroughs elects only two elected borough-wide: Borough President and District Attorney.
(Some judges are also popularly- elected, but their jurisdictions cover either more ground or less ground than a borough. County boundaries also do not conform to the limits of districts that elect City Council members, state legislators or Representatives in Congress. Other offices such as Mayor, Governor or U.S. Senator are elected either city-wide or statewide.)
Yes DSD…
The piece has national significance ….
AOC/Warren/Sanders \ endorsements…
DA’smoviong away from the ‘law and order’ policies