The DNC Bylaws Committee just met to prepare the Delegate Selection Plans for 2028.
If you can watch it and analyze the decisions that were made at that meeting, please join our private discussion group.
The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting just took place, and it details the rule changes that the states will need to apply when creating their State Delegate Selection Plans.
You can find the 2024 Delegate Selection Plan link under the “Drafting Docs” column on the Rep My Block website: https://www.repmyblock.org/aoc2028/draft/aoc.
If you watch it and want to discuss your analysis with others, please send me an email at draftaoc2028@join.socialists.us to be added to the Draft AOC listserve.
On a personal note, the reason I have been silent is that I have been focusing on my own congressional campaign in the district next to AOC’s, and I have not had the time to stay on top of AOC2028.
Volunteers to run the entire activist effort around AOC2028.us have been non-existent, and Team AOC has been busy making sure AOC does not speak to me.
This long personal story is to explain why the AOC team does not want to speak to me. According to them, I am toxic.
You be the judge.
The internal political game from within
The AOC and Bernie activists missed all the deadlines, so my enthusiasm for her in 2028 has gone down.
I am running for Congress as a Socialist, and the people who originally put AOC forward decided to back a newcomer in the district in hopes of unseating the current corrupt incumbent.
I bent backward trying to relinquish the AOC2028 group to a committee composed of leftists to organize it, but nobody answered.
In my neighborhood, the two local New York groups that endorsed AOC as one organization, Our Revolution and New York Progressive Action Network, have now endorsed opposing candidates.
In 2023, both organizations parted ways.
Our Revolution relied on NYPAN for its progressive activist network across New York State because NYPAN had connections with unions and elected officials.
Adriano Espaillat has worked closely with the leadership of NYPAN for a long time, so its endorsement naturally went to Adriano Espaillat. This is also very telling about the ideology of the organization and its values.
The same goes for Our Revolution, which followed in the footsteps of Justice Democrats by endorsing Darializa Chevalier.
I am the only candidate who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years. I was born in France but came to the neighborhood where I still live today when I was 3 months old. I then returned to France at age 7 to take advantage of the free education system and came back when I was 16. At 17, I went to study International Relations in Mexico, then Computer Management in Alaska, and later worked in the San Francisco Bay Area until 2001, when I was 29 years old. I spent every summer vacation in New York and the Dominican Republic.
That makes me a New Yorker, though not a native in the traditional sense since I did not attend school here. Justice Democrats decided to endorse a Dominican transplant, which the local voting population does not particularly care about.
As a longtime activist, I know everyone, and as a longtime local Socialist activist, I have had my share of conflicts with liberal activists over policy disagreements.
I have nothing but respect for the work of my left-wing opponents, Darializa Chevalier and Oscar Romero, but in my 20 years of local activism, I have never seen them working behind the scenes on local issues.
It took two years for the Ethics Committee to produce its findings. DSA members will tell you that they filed the complaint that led to the Ethics Committee investigation.
What they will not tell you is that I was the one pestering members every month, such as my fellow Democratic Club member Gabriel Panek, asking him, “Has the Ethics Committee met yet?” His response was always: “I can’t tell you. It’s private.”
My work in the community
My work in the community is well known, whether it is confronting elected officials on behalf of constituents, exposing corruption, or fighting for local issues.
Removing a “Blue Lives Matter” flag from the A train station in Sugar Hill.
Speaking out about homeless services corruption involving the Armory on 168th Street.
Trying to rename Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets as Obama Avenue.
Fighting the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office over attempts to access encrypted cell phones by forcing manufacturers to provide encryption keys.
Opposing efforts to turn our community into a war zone during the Palestinian protests at Columbia University and City College of New York.
Helping create French dual-language schools that were later featured in the podcast Nice White Parents: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html.
I know what it means to be a community leader and to produce results across a wide range of issues, even if many of those results remain unspoken.
AOC 2028 is supposed to bring the entire left together.
I am telling the story so you can refer people to this post if you hear rumors, such as on leftist podcasts: soundcloud.com/theochino/bro-this-bro-is-not-one-of-our-bros-bro.
More than that, I cannot do much more. If I get elected as the less sexy version of AOC, maybe she will finally start listening to me.
You want to know when we'll accept AOC for president. When she comes out and says in camera it's the American people what she said in private in the synagogue. Cuz she is Jewish. Furthermore she needs to say Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people. She needs to say exactly those words or we will not be electing her. It is my opinion that she is a Zionist Israeli plant. I am not alone in this thought. Tell me why she had to say she was Jewish in the synagogue in private but she will not come out and do it in public. Tell me why she will call what's happening in Gaza everything but a genocide. Until she says it is a genocide I will see her as a Zionist.