Progressive New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi is tripling down on her assertion that members of Congress “past child-bearing age” are too old to effectively fight for abortion rights.
Less than a week out from her high-stakes primary election, progressive New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi is tripling down on her assertion that members of Congress “past child-bearing age” are too old to effectively fight for abortion rights.“At the risk of sounding ageist, it’s still important to ask: when a majority of Congress is past child-bearing age, how fierce can we expect their fight to be?” Biaggi, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Rep.
Galef, 82, said she fought her way into politics at a time where being a woman in office was more of an anomaly—and that she thinks effective policy making benefits from “people of all ages” being in office.Westchester County Democratic Party Chairwoman Suzanne Berger said she knows “many people—men and women—who are offended by it,” but added that she simply doesn’t understand the strategy.
New York political strategist Jennifer Cunningham, who started a public Twitter feud with Biaggi over the tweets, alsothat if Biaggi “had any respect for me - or women over child bearing age - you wouldn’t say it in the first place. Politically, [it’s] also one of the dumbest moves I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe when you’re older you’ll understand.
Biaggi’s progressive supporters feel differently. Sochie Nnaemeka with the New York Working Families Party, told The Daily Beast she believes Biaggi’s built a strong ground game, and that she’s mobilizing voters around the idea of change. Jones chose the latter—opting to run in NY-10’s crowded but open primary. That prompted some immediate backlash to Maloney, the chair of congressional Democrats’ national campaign arm in charge of protecting incumbents, for potentially edging out a young, Black Democrat from a safer path toward re-election.
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