Congressman Joe Crowley Seems Inclined to Leave his Name on November Ballot for New York U.S. House Seat as the Working Families Nominee

New York Democratic congressman Joe Crowley was defeated for re-election in the Democratic primary on June 26, for New York’s 14th U.S. House district. The winner of the primary is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The Working Families Party, which almost always desires to cross-endorse the Democratic nominee, especially in congressional races, had expected Crowley to win the Democratic primary, so it already nominated Crowley. Now the Working Families Party wants Crowley to withdraw as the WFP nominee, but according to this Vox story, he is not inclined to do so.

The story accurately quotes some experts as saying the only way Crowley can withdraw from the WFP nomination is to be nominated by the WFP for some other office that is up this year, but he doesn’t want to do that. He says it violates the spirit of the election law, because whatever other office he would be nominated for, he would not sincerely want that other office.

The story also quotes Bill Lipton, New York director for the Working Families Party, as saying that Crowley should establish his residence outside New York state, for example Virginia. Lipton is wrong about that. The matter has already been litigated, both in New York and in Texas. A congressional candidate does not lose eligibility by being a resident of another state before the election. The only residence requirement for congress in the U.S. Constitution is residency as of election day. But ballots must be printed well before election day, so moving to another state would not make any candidate ineligible.


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Congressman Joe Crowley Seems Inclined to Leave his Name on November Ballot for New York U.S. House Seat as the Working Families Nominee — 5 Comments

  1. ENDLESS hack machinations in the DARK AGE NY regime of fusion oligarchs and monarchs.

    PR and AppV

  2. Although no one could force Crowley off the ballot by claiming he lived in Virginia, if he voluntarily declared a change of address he would still have time to voluntarily remove his name from the ballot under NY election law. But it really shouldn’t matter. Democrats normally get 75% or more of the vote in that district, so if Crowley doesn’t campaign, or even better urges people to vote Democratic, his mere presence on a third-party line should not make a difference in the outcome.

  3. he cannot quite bring himself to admit that he has been humiliated. He wants one more chance at redemption.

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