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Sean Patrick Maloney offered to withdraw from 2022 NY-17 primary, but Mondaire Jones turned him down
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| Contributor | E Pluribus Unum |
| Last Edited | E Pluribus Unum Jun 07, 2024 04:56pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jun 07, 2024 06:00am |
| Description | For the last two years in New York politics, Mondaire Jones has been understood as the spurned ex-congressman caught in the blast radius of former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s ego.
As the story goes, Maloney, then the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, decided that he would rather run in the district represented by Jones than his own, forcing the young Black congressman into a dilemma. He could either stand his ground and fight an expensive primary against one of the most powerful members of his own party or launch a primary challenge against Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a fellow progressive Black congressman who represented the neighboring 16th Congressional District. Since he refused on principle to challenge Bowman, and Maloney insisted on running in NY-17, Jones was forced to move to Brooklyn and run for an open seat in the 10th Congressional District.
But sources with direct knowledge of the Jones campaign’s inner workings told City & State that this narrative is essentially false. In May 2022, as progressives blasted Maloney for forcing Jones out of NY-17, Maloney contacted Jones and offered to pull out of the NY-17 race, only for Jones to turn him down because he preferred to run in a different district. And far from being reluctant to challenge Bowman, Jones was eager to primary his neighbor – at least until internal poll results showed that he had no hope of defeating him. |
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