Would add just a few things about how we pivoted when Zohran’s Assembly race was disrupted by Covid and we couldn’t knock doors. We’d already knocked hundreds of doors by March 2020 and had made inroads. Mutual aid became important, as you note. Relational organizing became huge, as we leaned on already established networks. We hand wrote thousands of postcards which was a wonderful personal touch. And we chalked all over Astoria. People were confronted by colorful displays of Zohran’s key issues everywhere they went, and in the Spring, and right up until the primary, people were out in numbers and everyone noted the chalkings.
Z and his co-freres jumped on board, or created a new politics, highly effective campaigning, as an elected Albany legislator you disappear, the Speaker/Majority leader rules, takes a decade before you can chair a significant committee, better in the Council, however the Speaker is still the gatekeeper.
And as Z knows actually governing assuages and creates enemies, his decision to flip-flop on mayoral control angered parent advocates… and if he loses Jessica he’s in trouble…
Are we moving to a DSA city? Or, a city fractured?
Would add just a few things about how we pivoted when Zohran’s Assembly race was disrupted by Covid and we couldn’t knock doors. We’d already knocked hundreds of doors by March 2020 and had made inroads. Mutual aid became important, as you note. Relational organizing became huge, as we leaned on already established networks. We hand wrote thousands of postcards which was a wonderful personal touch. And we chalked all over Astoria. People were confronted by colorful displays of Zohran’s key issues everywhere they went, and in the Spring, and right up until the primary, people were out in numbers and everyone noted the chalkings.
DSA not DNC
A great ride through time! !
The Vallone family is Italian, not Greek.
Z and his co-freres jumped on board, or created a new politics, highly effective campaigning, as an elected Albany legislator you disappear, the Speaker/Majority leader rules, takes a decade before you can chair a significant committee, better in the Council, however the Speaker is still the gatekeeper.
And as Z knows actually governing assuages and creates enemies, his decision to flip-flop on mayoral control angered parent advocates… and if he loses Jessica he’s in trouble…
Are we moving to a DSA city? Or, a city fractured?