{"id":135510,"date":"2026-02-16T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135510\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:33:20","slug":"brad-lander-is-holds-barred-against-dan-goldman-amid-redistricting-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135510\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Lander is \u2018holds barred\u2019 against Dan Goldman amid redistricting fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former New York City Comptroller and current congressional candidate Brad Lander has found himself in the middle of yet another mid-decade redistricting fight. So he decided to stop by a panel of experts talking about the new \u201credistricting wars\u201d during the annual Caucus Weekend in Albany on Saturday. \u201cI was just looking for some legal advice,\u201d Lander quipped after the panel\u2019s moderator, Democratic consultant Ny Whitaker, pointed him out in the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lander is running for the 10th Congressional District, challenging Rep. Dan Goldman in a Democratic primary. But that race could get upended after a state Supreme Court judge ruled that the neighboring 11th Congressional District violates the state constitution and therefore must be redrawn<\/a>. If the court order is ultimately upheld and the Independent Redistricting Committee redraws the district, Goldman will likely wind up in the new 11th Congressional and take on Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis in a district that leans far more to the right than the one he currently holds. Malliotakis and other Republicans have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to prevent New York from drawing new lines.<\/p>\n

Such a change would leave Lander in a new, but still safely blue, 10th Congressional District with no immediate primary challenger. And Lander is very cognizant of that fact. \u201c(Goldman is) no holds barred against me, but I am holds barred against him,\u201d Lander told City & State. He said he doesn\u2019t want to attack Goldman as part of a primary battle if Goldman winds up running against Malliotakis. \u201cI\u2019m rooting for redistricting because as many problems as I have with Dan Goldman, he\u2019s a lot better than Nicole Malliotakis. \u2026 I look forward to the court letting us know what the district is,\u201d Lander said.<\/p>\n

Goldman\u2019s campaign snapped at Lander\u2019s comment. \u201cBrad knew about the (redistricting) lawsuit before he ran. He was asked to wait but he refused because he needed an off-ramp when Zohran rejected him for a job in City Hall,\u201d Goldman spokesperson Simone Kanter said in a post on X<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cNow he\u2019s looking for an off-ramp for his sputtering campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court case over the 11th Congressional District, brought by Staten Island voters, represents New York Democrats\u2019 foray into the nationwide battle over mid-decade partisan redistricting. It started when President Donald Trump insisted Republicans should hold more seats in Texas given his performance statewide. The Texas legislature immediately moved to redraw congressional lines to maximize Republican influence and minimize the number of seats Democrats could feasibly win. Other red states followed, leading to blue states like California doing the same in retaliation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s state constitution prohibits mid-decade redistricting without a court order, leaving Democrats with little ability to engage in similar efforts to shore up the Democratic presence in Congress. So while the lawsuit of the Staten Island district ostensibly claimed voter disenfranchisement even after intense scrutiny of New York\u2019s lines in multiple lawsuits over the past several years, it actually serves as a thinly veiled attempt by Democrats to make the only seat in New York City held by a Republican more favorable to their party. The plaintiffs in the 11th Congressional District lawsuit are represented by Elias Law Group, which has helped Democrats in redistricting lawsuits across the country<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not a perfect situation \u2013 it’s actually wrongful,\u201d said Jeff Wice, a redistricting expert and professor at New York Law School who spoke as part of the Saturday panel. \u201cBut it\u2019s a political reality because in a zero-sum game, either a Democratic speaker or a Republican speaker will control the House next year, and the two parties are waging, literally, a pitched battle, state by state, district by district, in the trenches.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York City Comptroller and current congressional candidate Brad Lander has found himself in the middle of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19916,8069,57549,57548,5320,3066,57547,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-135510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-2026-congressional-midterm-elections","9":"tag-brad-lander","10":"tag-caucus-weekend","11":"tag-congressional-redistricting","12":"tag-dan-goldman","13":"tag-heard-around-town","14":"tag-independent-redistricting-commission","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-headlines","19":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}