Upper West Side Assemblyman Micah Lasher wants to fight President Donald Trump in Congress with creative legislating.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been one of, if not the, legislature\u2019s leaders on legislation to fight back against Trump,\u201d Lasher said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
There are currently nine Democrats in the crowded primary for New York’s 12th congressional district, covering much of central Manhattan
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\u00a0They include state assemblymen, a city council member, the grandson of JFK, attorneys, a gun control advocate and a nonprofit founder
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Longtime incumbent Rep. Jerry Nadler, the dean of Jewish lawmakers in Congress, announced that\u2019s he\u2019s retiring earlier this year<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Upper East Side assemblyman Alex Bores wants to fight Trump in Congress, regulating Big Tech and social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need leaders that understand the way tech is reshaping power,\u201d Bores said.<\/p>\n
Jack Schlossberg from the Kennedy clan wants to use social media to fight Trump in Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cNews flah! Republicans are lying!\u201d Schlossberg says in a social media video.<\/p>\n
They are all running for New York\u2019s 12th congressional district, anchored in the heart of Manhattan.<\/p>\n
There are currently nine Democrats in the crowded primary, including attorneys, a gun control advocate and a nonprofit founder.<\/p>\n
Longtime incumbent Rep. Jerry Nadler, the dean of Jewish lawmakers in Congress, announced that\u2019s he\u2019s retiring earlier this year.<\/p>\n
He has yet to make an endorsement, but Lasher is Nadler\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first role in government was with his office,\u201d Lasher said.<\/p>\n
The candidates NY1 interviewed all say they are running to refresh the voice of Democratic Party politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also bring to the table a fighting spirit and a strategic creativity that I believe is what Democrats need in this moment to effectively fight back against Trump,\u201d Lasher said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want a new generation of 24\/7, seven day a week energy to the job, and that\u2019s the kind of energy I bring to my current role at the City Council,\u201d West Side City Councilman Erik Bottcher said after becoming the latest to announce his candidacy Friday.<\/p>\n
Schlossberg, who posts about his grandfather, former President John F. Kennedy, uses social media to push a Democratic message, sometimes irreverently.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s as important as the substance of what you\u2019re saying is how you package it. Democrats should be, and have been, more successful doing this, but more creative and doing risks,\u201d Schlossberg said on an interview on MSNBC.<\/p>\n
Opponents like Bores, who worked in tech before politics, saw it differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Schlossberg, he\u2019s been posting on social media, I\u2019ve been legislating about it. I think this district will look for someone with real results,\u201d Bores said.<\/p>\n
And former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have lost the mayoral election, but he performed well within the neighborhoods that make up District 12. However, Cuomo\u2019s spokesman Rich Azzopardi dismissed any rumor Cuomo was interested in running for Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upper West Side Assemblyman Micah Lasher wants to fight President Donald Trump in Congress with creative legislating. \u201cI\u2019ve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[109,25,13408,75,84,83,9,24,12,108,63,87,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-40711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-dan-rivoli","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40711","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=40711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}