New York state has finally settled on congressional and state Senate district lines and we're here to answer your questions: why are there two primary dates this year? How do you know what district you're voting in? Can things *still* change?
Now what this all means is one part of the process seems to be maybe winding down, but Michael there are still at least two more open court cases that could change things up even more.
The latest ones that they should be aware of this week are two pending lawsuits. One, a group of Republican petitioners will be in a Manhattan courtroom this morning in a case that's trying to throw out the current state Assembly lines and get those primaries moved to either August or September. Beyond more potential change from the courts, these primary contests are getting interesting in and of themselves. For instance, you mentioned the 10th Congressional District, what seems to be attracting a real range of candidates from Mayor Bill de Blasio to freshman and Congressman Mondaire Jones. Isn't Jones' district way up in the Hudson Valley?
Now Bowman, like Jones, is African American, they're both progressives. So when the final maps came out, Jones made his own quick announcement that he too would be running for the New York 10th Congressional District. He is the first openly gay African-American man in Congress, and he talked about the importance of that in terms of LGBTQ+ history. And since members of Congress don't technically need to live in their district, there's nothing stopping Jones from running.
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