Rep. Max Rose gives farewell speech on House floor

By artappraiser on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 4:13pm |

By Michael McAuliffe @ NYDailyNews.com, Dec. 3 WITH VIDEO

WASHINGTON — Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) may have gotten hammered in his losing re-election bid for marching in a Black Lives Matter protest, but his farewell message to his soon-to-be former Democratic colleagues in Congress remained: Don’t back down.

Rose lost to Republican N.Y. Assemb. Nicole Malliotakis by more than 6 percentage points, according to results certified Monday, swept away by voters in Staten Island and southwestern Brooklyn who favored President Trump [....]

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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-election-max-rose-farewell-20201203-ejb7357mcrdjzpv5yl4lx54me4-story.html

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"They always say if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. I did better, I have @JoeCunninghamSC." - @MaxRose4NY

: @LACaldwellDC pic.twitter.com/TNYCHcBac6
— Jonas Edwards-Jenks (@Jonas_EJ) December 4, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 4:15pm

everybody finally gets out and votes and we find: it's not the same old same old anymore?

https://t.co/GyX1jLr4vT https://t.co/0U9PfQBCdg
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) December 4, 2020

Edit to add Wasserman's two earlier tweets for context:

And what's even wilder: Staten Island is the only NYC borough that *didn't* swing towards Trump between '16 and '20.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 3, 2020

by artappraiser on Fri, 12/04/2020 - 5:17pm

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