The Leader of the Manhattan Democratic Party is A Lobbyists

A Lobbyist Is Now Running Manhattan's Democratic Party | Village Voice

Keith Wright might have to give up job at lobbying firm - New York Post

Wright works for the lawyer-lobbying firm Davidoff, Hutcher and Citron and is listed on its website as “director of the firm's government relations group” in the New York office focusing on “city and state” issues “as part of a seasoned team of lobbyists.” Former assemblyman Keith Wright joins Davidoff Hutcher & CitronList of Wright's Firm Lobbying Clients

enter Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP * Wright works for the lawyer-lobbying firm Davidoff, Hutcher& Citron and is listed on its website as “director of the firm's government relations group” in the New York office focusing on “city and state” issues “as part of a seasoned team of lobbyists.” A Lobbyist Is Now Running Manhattan's Democratic Party | Village Voice

Both Joe Crowley Brother and the Manhattan Democratic Boss Wright Work for the Lobbyists Firm Davidoff Hutchen and Citron

Last Year Crowley Who Lost to Ocasio-Cortez is Still Party Boss of Queens
How People Close to Joe Crowley Have Gotten Rich While the Queens Boss Has Risen in Congress (NYDN) Sean Crowley serves as a partner at Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP, a powerhouse law firm with offices in Albany, New York City, and Washington, D.C., that advertises its ability to connect clients with congressional leadership. Over the last decade, clients with interests before Congress have retained Sean Crowley through his lobbying firm, paying more than $4.5 million to influence and monitor government policies, according to a review of contracts by The Intercept.Crowley’s Loss Heralds an ‘End of an Era’: Last of the Party Bosses * Ocasio-Cortez backers call on Crowley to resign as party boss * Ghosts in the Queens machine: Rep. Joe Crowley's profiteering political partners

The City's Election System Has Been Taken Over by Special Interests Lobbyists and Their Clients
NYC's government and elections are now controlled by big money and powerful interests, developers, lobbyists-consultants and party bosses. Newspaper no long cover politics. Problems including homelessness, lack of affordable housing closings of small businesses and broken subways have been proliferating for years with solutions. Pay to play corruption is everywhere. Yet it is almost impossible to defeat a Manhattan incumbent elected official. Voters have no clue on how district leaders used to organize their community to protect their communities by pressuring elected officials to fix problems like homelessness. Community involvement is the only way to shift power back to the people. Low Voting Caused by NY’s NY's Election Law has Given New Power to Political Party Machines, and has Empowered A New Political Bosses the New Un-elected Campaign Consultant Lobbyists into A New Pay to Play Tammany Hall Tammany Hall Still Runs NYC's Political Parties in 2019 * Shadow lobbyists Corruption Were At the Center At the Both the Skelos and Silver Convictions

Occupy the Manhattan Democratic Party in 2019

Many Local Activists and People Involved in Their Local Community Groups Do Not Understand How the Effectiveness of Their Causes Will Benefit If Their Add Their Voice Inside the Democratic Party to the Issues They Care About.

Who Should Run for County Committee?
Groups Working for Issues in NYC Should Not Do It As Outsiders in the Democratic Party
-Affordable Housing and Tenant Activists Must Run for County Committee to fight developers influence on elected officials
-Groups fighting against up zoning of their neighborhoods
-People Working for Better Schools Should Also Be Running for County Committee
-Groups fighting for Seniors Should Have their Members Run for County Committee
-Mom and Pop Store Owners Fighting for against rent increase That Drive Them Out of Business
-Groups Seeking to improve the Subways Should Have their Members Run for County Committee
-Neighborhood Associations, Community Board and Precinct Council Members Seeking to Improve Their Community Quality of Life
Groups for the Environment and better Health Care should run for country committee
Run for Your County Committee! - Veterans Alliance

How the County Committee Works

The NY Democratic Party is governed by county committees of citizens who are registered Democrats, from the State Assembly level down to the block you live on. The largest national parties (Democrats and Republicans) are mandated by the NY State to have a committee of party members in each of New York's 62 counties. In NYC, there are separate County Committees for each party in Kings, Queens, Bronx, New York, and Richmond Counties.
County Committee Members Are Elected by Voters In Each of the City's Elections Districts (EDs). There are Almost 10,000 EDs in NYC.

Every two years, Democrats in each Assembly District elect district leaders. Manhattan Assembly District are broken up into parts. Some have 2 part others have up to 5 parts. Each part has a male and Female Elected Leader

Today's District Leaders Choose the Party Boss
Who Serves District Leaders Needs, Not the Communities

OLD TIMES DISTRICT LEADERS benefited their followers in many ways. They got their constituents work, brought their community together at picnics and on steamboat excursions, and, even cared for them when they were sick. The old time district leaders were ready to help their voters in trouble with the representatives of the law. These district leaders thus had a very strong influence over a large class, the members of which were ordinarily decent, hard working people, who worked in various trades, but never got far ahead. The people who at times fell into want, and who sometimes were kinsfolk of semi-criminal type. These voters were apt to regard saloons as their club-houses. Often, the saloons were the headquarters of local political organizations and were the true social centers of neighborhood life.

Old time Tammany Halls' Boss De Sapio lobbied for affordable housing, protecting neighborhoods from developers and for lower subway fairs. Political Boss De Sapio kept his power by delivering votes to politicians. District Leaders in the Tammany Hall era needed to not only deliver government services and jobs to voters in their districts. They also needed to protect their neighborhoods to keep their deliverable votes high, from the developers who were trying to raise rents and displace residents. Today's Gentrification displacement and low voting in local elections created a campaign consultant lobbyists shadow govt that has taken power out of the local community by controlling who gets elected. A cabal of developers, government contractors and unions elect local candidates who then run the government to benefit the groups that helped elect them.

From NY Times

James R. McManus, 84, Last of the Hell's Kitchen Bosses, Dies

District Leaders Today

The District Leaders of today give out poll worker jobs on election day to supporters who collect petitions signatures, putting their district leader and his or her political and judicial candidates on the ballot. Today's district leaders do not advocate for community needs to Democratic elected officials, fail to organize the local get-out-the-vote operation, and do not represent the neighborhood on the county party executive committee like the old time district leaders did. The District Leaders of today neglect basic, grassroots community-building activities and instead focus on getting their favored candidates elected to office, elect judges and increasing their political power to run for higher office. Today very few district leaders face primary and many have been in office for decades. No, Seriously: What’s a District Leader

The Reason Why You're Voting for a Male and a Female District Leader

The New York State primary is on Thursday, September 13th. And you may see candidates running for some lesser-known positions on your ballot, like Male or Female District Leader.
A quick primer: District leaders are unpaid party officials, elected by voters who are registered with their party to oversee the county committee in their assembly district. They aren't legislators, so they don't handle laws. They're mostly in place to run the party's activity in their district.
So why the distinct Male and Female District Leader roles? The reason can be traced back to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League of Women Voters.
Sarah Steiner, an attorney who practices election law, says the two roles were created in 1920, at around the same time as women's suffrage. Eleanor Roosevelt, a vocal advocate for women's rights, had just joined the League of Women Voters. Her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, was running for Vice President (this was before he served as governor of New York). Eleanor Roosevelt believed that women had a crucial role to play in understanding and leading their localities. Steiner says it was largely thanks to Eleanor Roosevelt and the League that this District Leadership role was created for women to gain an entry-level position in political party leadership. "It was her idea, and their idea, that politics ought to be more opened up to women, and that giving women the vote would help the reform of the entire political process," Steiner told WNYC. What if two women want to become district leaders in the same assembly district? Well, there's only room for one. Steiner says she doesn't see that as a limitation of the rule. If anything, it's a good problem to have. "To have an entry level position, a position of some power in the party, of some influence in the party, is a very important thing," Steiner said. "Otherwise we might still be baking cookies instead of making policy." https://www.wnyc.org/story/reason-why-youre-voting-male-and-female-district-leader/

The Manhattan Democrat Party is Controlled by A Lobbyists and Elected Officials, Not the Boroughs Neighbors and Issues Activists

Our Un-Democratic County Committee
The political bosses ensure that a vast number of the seats on the county committee are left unfilled, undermining our goal of broad participation in the county decision-making. These political bosses usurp the power of the county committee by using proxies of county committee members they elect to control what the county committee does. Instead of representing the needs of Brooklyn residents, the county committee operates as a private country club by representing the interests of political bosses.

County Committee Members are Elected by Election Districts

The County Committee
Each election district (or ED) is made up of one to a small number of city blocks. Each ED has two (2) to four (4) seats in the general membership of the county committee; so when all the seats are filled.

6 EASY STEPS TO RUNNING FOR COUNTY COMMITTEE

Occupy the Brooklyn Democratic Party 2018

Step 1: Identify your Assembly District (AD) and your Election District (ED)
(This can easily be done by looking up your address on the NYC Doitt Map or on the BOE’s website) Step 2: Figure out if there is a vacancy. You can reach out to the Board of Elections or your local Democratic County Office. If there is not, you can run in any ED that falls within your AD. Step 3: Calculate how many signatures you need. You will need 5% of the registered democrats in your chosen ED, which usually amounts to 5-60 signatures.
Here are some quick links where you can find the number of registered Democrats in your AD/ED for Manhattan. Step 4: Create your County Committee Petition under your chosen party. You can begin collecting signatures from voters within your party only during petitioning season. Getting signatures outside of that window is illegal.
Petitioning starts on Febuary and ends on ???. Go with a friend. Meet your neighbors. It’ll be fun!
Step 5: Submit those signatures you collected. You will need to create a cover sheet & bind your pages before submitting. You can submit by going to dropping them off to the NYS Board of Elections Office. You can do that between July 9 and July 12. Step 6: If you were running unopposed, congratulations! You are now a county committee person!
If not and you are running against someone, Step 6 means going back to those neighbors and getting them to vote for you in the Primary

Help Create the Democratic Party Platform (currently not being used at all):

Spearhead Ethics Reforms in Both City Hall and Albany
Fight Developers and Up-Zoning Changes
Fight for Mom and Pop Businesses
Push for Better Schools and Health Care
Fight Air Pollution and Traffic Safety/Congestion
Neighborhood Planning and Zoning
Education and Police Oversight
Reduce Sanitation and Parking Tickets
Fight for Low Income Reduced Subway Fairs

Organize local neighborhoods

Select Judicial Candidates

Select the Democratic Party's Nominee in Special Elections

This one is particularly important, since one (1) in three (3) current New York state legislators were chosen in a special election

This is incredibly important considering that one-third of state Assembly members were first sent to Albany through a special election, according to a 2017 report by Citizens Union. In the state senate, 19 percent of lawmakers were initially elected this way.

Up until recently? Show up once every two years and hand the power over to the party boss.

You Need Petitions to Run for County Committee and District Leader

Petitions Start Febuary and Run Through July 12th 2018

How to Run for County Committee
you will only need 3 to 25 signatures from the ED!
5% of the registered Democratic Party Voters in That ED

You could be on the Bronx Democratic County Committee and not even know it

How to Run for District Leader / State Committee
1 male and 1 female from each of the Assembly Districts need only
5% of the registered Party Democratic Voters in that district

To Find out What You Are In Find Your AD and ED
This table shows which Assembly District Part your Election District is in. You can find your AD/ED using your address.
This Table Will Tell You What District You are in

Maps of the Assembly Districts
Look Up What Election and Assembly District You Live in

The Political Bosses Who Run the Board of Election Removed Thousands of Bernie Sanders Voters and Got Away With It

Join Fix NYC to make the Democratic Party and other political parties more inclusive and accessible to the voters. Get your neighbors to represent your block in the democratic party. Fix NYC wants you to run and win a seat in your local Democratic County Committee. Fix NYC plan is to give the County Committee members more power by automatically making them members of their Local Community Boards, replacing appointed members. If you are a member of the Working Families Party or any other political party or not a member of a party, we want you to collect 25 signatures from registered voters to qualify to become a member of the community board. Our goal is to make community boards into Town Halls, where you and your neighbors can reconnect to your local community needs and city wide issues. A.G. Schneiderman Settles BOE Case Without Major Board Reforms

What Happened at County Committee? Looking at the Data, Part II: The Count Kings County Democratic Committee – Time To Engage With Your Members! OPINION

How the county committee got rolled by the machine at the Democratic Party

“The whole system of elections in New York State is rigged,” said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. “Special Elections just exacerbate the existing problems because no one knows it’s happening.” The whole system of choosing a party nominee and getting on the ballot in a Special Election is so complex and inexplicable that even trying to explain it might kill off some of our readers (which we don't want to do; if you want a detailed explanation, you'll have to click here.). Under Albany rules, special elections are rigged. Party bosses pick their nominees who cost to victory in our one party state.

Squadron Departure Spotlights Importance of County Committee

Not-So-Special Elections - Gotham Gazette * How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Candidates in New York - NY Times*It's Party Bosses — Not Voters — Who Often Fill Vacant Seats in the State Legislature * Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Handpicks State Senate Candidate ... * Special Election Spotlights Machine Politics in The Bronx

Special delivery:Time to consign undemocratic boss-driven special elections to history (NYDN Ed) Let these be the last two contests conducted under New York’s grossly undemocratic special election law. That statute cuts out the usual party primaries, thereby empowering Democratic and Republican bosses to put whatever loyal soldiers they choose on the ballot. Voters get no real choice about who represents them — especially in places where one party dominates, as Democrats do in most of New York City.

The District Leaders and Boss Make Up the Executive Committee of the County Committee That Pick Judges

Who Chooses Supreme Court Judges
Judicial Delegates Pick Supreme Court Judges From A Convention Held Right After the Democratic Primary. Who Really Picks New York's Judges? | Brennan Center for Justice

To become a Judicial Delegate you will only need 500 Signatures from your Assembly District! The county committee, district leaders and judicial delegates can appear on the same petition
A Convention Made Up of Winning Judicial Delegates (about a 100 delegates) Meets Once After the Primary to Nominate Supreme Court Judges