In the first test of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political influence in the community that propelled her to become the youngest person ever elected to Congress, the freshman congresswoman is backing Tiffany Cabán.
Just a few days before the Democratic primary on June 25, Tiffany Cabán, one of six Democratic candidates running for district attorney in Queens, New York, spent hours on the streets of Corona, a local neighborhood, joking about her newfound fame in between knocking on doors.
Now, in the first test of Ocasio-Cortez's political influence in the community that propelled her to become the youngest person ever elected to Congress, the freshman congresswoman is backing Cabán, who also boasts the endorsements of two 2020 presidential candidates and progressive icons -- Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
With a platform that largely mirrors Ocasio-Cortez's, the public defender brings her progressive bonafides to campaign events, rallies and canvasses, introducing herself as"queer, Latina, career public defender." "Greg Lasak spent his career putting away violent criminals and exonerating the innocent," campaign chairman Bill Driscoll said in a statement to ABC News."That's why we believe that he'll be elected our next District Attorney tomorrow night. Because this job is too important and can't be treated as a landing pad for term-limited politicians or a launching pad for runs at higher office.
"I just think it was a perfect storm of circumstances," Cabán told ABC News in an interview at her campaign headquarters, above a beauty salon in Jackson Heights."It's communities saying: We're powerful. We can demand change." Cabán was only 3 years old when Brown first became Queens District Attorney in the early 1990s, offering a tough-on-crime approach that she now argues criminalized poverty and wreaked havoc in the borough's minority neighborhoods. . Although she seeks to take his place, Cabán is his opposite in nearly every respect.
Meeks, the current chair of the Queens County Democratic Party who replaced Crowley, added:"If [Warren and Sanders] want to be president for all Americans, I suggest they speak with us before they decide to speak for all of us." While some New Yorkers still embrace the"tough-on-crime" approach, a growing tide of people see it leading to too many poor and minority New Yorkers winding up in prison. In 2013, Mayor Bill de Blasio won in a landslide election on a platform of ending the "tale of two cities" that divided rich and poor New Yorkers, and doing away with stop-and-frisk, a police practice that he said unfairly targeted black and Latino men.
On Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez headlined a rally for Cabán in a park in Queens that also brought together half a dozen progressive office holders under banners that read"People Powered Justice" and"Rage Against the Queens Machine." At the rally on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez said that Cabán would be a"healer" for a population battered by years of aggressive poling that effectively criminalized poverty.
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