He’s running to get back into Congress and away from some of his left-wing associations.
Byintroduced himself to New York’s Democratic Establishment by lunging for its jugular. In 2020, he announced what looked like an improbable primary against Nita Lowey, a 30-year House veteran and co-chair of the state’s congressional delegation. Just one cycle prior,had unseated 20-year incumbent Joe Crowley in Queens, and it got Jones’s attention, inspiring him to run his own insurgent campaign in the Hudson Valley.
Three years after he won that race, and after effectively being pushed out of his district only to lose a bid to represent Brooklyn, Jones launched his third bid for Congress with athat shows him in a different light: shaking hands with the police chief of Pound Ridge, who says, “I’ve worked in law enforcement in the Hudson Valley for just about 40 years. We do not get the funding they get in the city. Mondaire Jones listened and funded the police.
In 2017, Jones was scouted as a fresh young talent who could run for the State Senate as a progressive firebrand to primary one of the stale incumbents who made up the Independent Democratic Conference, which teamed up with Republicans in Albany to block progressive legislation. He had a compelling personal story, growing up in public housing as the son of a single mother who suffered from mental illness and relied on her parents, a janitor and housekeeper, to help raise him.
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