It’s time for a change in New York. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been a disaster for her constituents of New York and faces a primary challenge from a relatively unknown Wall Street investor.
The former Wall Street investment banker Marty Dolan has decided to challenge AOC in the Democratic primary rebuking her “radical” policies. The 66-year-old Dolan is calling out AOC for her bad policies and the effects they have had on every day New Yorkers of the 14th Congressional District.
Dolan posted the announcement, “The June 25th, 2024 primary will be a referendum: are we better or worse off from following Radical policies?”
“We are all for the ‘progress’ implied by the word Progressive,” he said. “However, within the Progressive movement, there are Radicals whose influence on the Democratic Party is overweight. The impact in NYC is obvious: bail reform a disaster, the National Guard in the subway, toothpaste locked up in drugstores but criminals running free, scarce resources directed to (non-sanctuary) immigrants coming from all over the world.”
Dolan also was raised in Westchester County like AOC, he is the son of an immigrant Argentinian father who went on to graduate with an MBA from Harvard Business School and ““has worked extensively in the global risk insurance sector,” according to information posted to his campaign website.
His previous experience in politics was a challenger to Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) of the 16th Congressional District.
“I call it a referendum on common sense,” he told Bloomberg News. “There’s a lot of people who, even in Queens and the Bronx, think, ‘What has she done for us?’”
The major issues of his campaign are ” a runaway $34 trillion federal debt and NYC’s 14% marginal tax rate.”
“The Radicals can’t deliver more than breadcrumbs when they ignore that the primary breadwinners are leaving and brush off taxpayer concerns in favor of abstract populist ideologies,” he said in his primary announcement.
“Enough is enough,” Dolan continued. “New Yorkers have seen it all, including scams like the Radicals offer. But we know better that New Yorkers want NYC to be the best city in the best country in the world,” he continued.
Bloomberg Reports:
Dolan’s platform includes plans to advocate for a new federal value-added tax and an additional luxury goods sales tax. The money would be used to reduce the national debt, state pension liabilities and would allow states like New York to lower income taxes. The plan would help New York stave off decades of population loss that have diluted its power and representation in Congress, he argued.
Dolan believes the nation needs to hit the “reset” button trying to fix “income inequality and harmonize regional differences in social policy.”