Whatever happened to Mondaire Jones? It looks like he was redistricted and is now in a losing fight for NY-10. But wasn't he a DSA member, or previously endorsed in 2020?
i don't think Mondaire was/is a member, but it's hard to tell with any certainty. you may also be thinking of Jamaal Bowman in NY-16, who was endorsed in 2020 and is a member, but was passed over this year after a spectacularly messy internal feud over him funding Iron Dome and generally appealing to the non-negligible constituency of Zionists in his new district. i elided him from this for both brevity, because i can't hope to do justice to all the stuff surrounding him nor is it a particularly useful thing to even summarize at this point with it behind everyone. (he ultimately got about 55% this year, a weak showing for an incumbent.)
Oh, yeah. I know the Bowman controversy. I don't think I ever knew much about Jones, and someone once described him as a potential Squad member and I thought maybe he was DSA. Or maybe I did get him mixed up with Bowman way back then. There are a lot of DSA adjacent (or former DSA) folks like Jones now, which I suppose is unavoidable. Yeah, I don't think you need to rehash the Bowman stuff since most members have heard about it one way or another. Thanks!
Whatever happened to Mondaire Jones? It looks like he was redistricted and is now in a losing fight for NY-10. But wasn't he a DSA member, or previously endorsed in 2020?
i don't think Mondaire was/is a member, but it's hard to tell with any certainty. you may also be thinking of Jamaal Bowman in NY-16, who was endorsed in 2020 and is a member, but was passed over this year after a spectacularly messy internal feud over him funding Iron Dome and generally appealing to the non-negligible constituency of Zionists in his new district. i elided him from this for both brevity, because i can't hope to do justice to all the stuff surrounding him nor is it a particularly useful thing to even summarize at this point with it behind everyone. (he ultimately got about 55% this year, a weak showing for an incumbent.)
Oh, yeah. I know the Bowman controversy. I don't think I ever knew much about Jones, and someone once described him as a potential Squad member and I thought maybe he was DSA. Or maybe I did get him mixed up with Bowman way back then. There are a lot of DSA adjacent (or former DSA) folks like Jones now, which I suppose is unavoidable. Yeah, I don't think you need to rehash the Bowman stuff since most members have heard about it one way or another. Thanks!