Establishment Dems dismiss “sour grapes” attempt to sanction mayor who defeated a democratic socialist.
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown infuriated progressives with his winning write-in campaign last week against the democratic socialist who beat him in the primary.
Now prominent left-wing Democrats are calling for the veteran New York mayor’s head, urging Democrats to strip Brown of his position on the Democratic National Committee.
“When you pull a stunt like this, somebody wins a primary, a working-class woman, and you go to every rich donor in both parties to fund a write-in campaign … it’s a disgrace,” said Larry Cohen, chair of the Bernie Sanders-aligned group Our Revolution.
Cohen, a DNC member himself, said he plans to organize an effort to press Democrats to remove Brown from his post on the national committee. And on Monday, India Walton, the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Buffalo mayor, threw her weight behind the move: “Not only do I support the DNC revoking Byron Brown’s post; I believe it would set a dangerous precedent not to,” she said in a statement to POLITICO.
The endeavor, while unlikely to succeed, reflects the extent of lingering tensions between moderate and progressive Democrats following a dismal election for the party last week, in which Democrats lost the governor’s race in Virginia and sweated out Gov. Phil Murphy’s narrow victory in New Jersey. Both flanks of the party immediately blamed the other for the performance — the left claimed former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe was an uninspiring Clinton-world candidate, while centrists lamented a climate of “wokeness” that they said clouded the entire campaign.
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A DNC member said he plans to organize an effort to press Democrats to remove Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown from his post on the Democratic National Committeehttps://t.co/Mx0R1aoUEE
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