Gerald Nadler and Carolyn Maloney, two veteran Democratic Congressional Representatives from NewYork City, face each other in a primary caused by redistricting.
Is this race really necessary?
Click here to read a Yahoo News article about this race.
Then check out my thoughts below.
I have a great idea.
Carolyn Maloney is seventy six years old and has been in Congress since 1993. Gerald Nadler will be seventy five in a few weeks and has been in Congress since 1992, having served fifteen years in the New York State Assembly before coming to Washington.
They have each served thirty years in Congress, they had their moments, their districts were dissolved, now it’s time for them to leave and allow some younger people with new ideas to replace them. It’s not like anyone is so indispensable the country can’t get along without them, certainly no one in Congress.
The top Democratic leadership in the House and Senate are almost exclusively in their seventies and eighties with decades of tenure. The party should be connecting better with young people and working people but they are not. That’s because a septuagenarian and octogenarian leadership is creating a moribund and out-of-touch party that needs to change by getting many more new faces, not recycling old ones.