DAY THREE - MAX ROSE
Team:
Day three. A little housekeeping first, shall we?
We’ve grown to over 200 participants (thank you for getting the word out!), so as I promised, I’m moving my daily contribution from $50 to $60. (Next bump up for me is at 300.)
Also, our website is up and running – www.sawbuckpatriots.com. Feel free to point curious folks there, link to it on your FaceTwitGram, or just browse over and check it out, mouth agape, as you gaze in wonderment upon my incredible lack of any design skills whatsoever.
Finally, WOW, Susan Collins. People really don’t like you. I heard from more than a dozen of you that you were sending $25, $50, $100 to knock you off rather than the prescribed $10. (Let’s hope it works!)
All right then. Back to our regular programming!
THE SITUATION: New York’s eleventh is a tough place for Democrats to grow a garden. It covers 100% of Staten Island and some of southern Brooklyn. Trump won it by ten points over Clinton in ‘16. It’s got plenty of good folks who used to be call Reagan Democrats living there.
THE COMPETITION: Nicole Malliotakis is a member of the NY State Assembly. She has indeed blazed some trails; first Greek-American woman elected to statewide office in NY, first person of Hispanic descent elected from Staten Island. And she was the Republican nominee for NYC Mayor in the ‘17 race in which DeBlasio won a second term. And she’s one of only two Rs from NYC serving in the Assembly, so we know she can fight. However, she has voted against sanctuary cities, against some vaccination measures, against taxpayer funded abortions, and while she’s backtracked somewhat, she is on the record voting against transgender rights and same-sex marriage. (Narrator voice: Or as we call it ... marriage.)
OUR CANDIDATE: Our third Sawbuck Patriot effort will be on behalf of Max Rose, the freshman Representative from NY-11. In 2018, Rose took on and took down the Republican incumbent, Dan Donovan, beating him by six points in an district considered strong Trump country, represented by Rs for the previous five terms. Since getting elected, and despite his tough district, Max hasn’t Susan Collins’ed it and hidden behind the curtains; he voted for Trump’s impeachment, publicly marched in a protest against police brutality, has said he’d support Rikers Island being closed, and regularly (and publicly!) tangles with Mayor Bill DeBlasio on local funding priority issues. Max is tough – he’s a veteran with Afghanistan combat experience who serves in the Army Reserve, who did pandemic duty as a reservist on Staten Island earlier this year.
Max has demonstrated he can win in this district, but the demographics don’t make his continued incumbency a foregone conclusion. The numbers underline the fact that this race is a toss-up, but with voter education, strong GOTV, the benefit of incumbency, and some ten dollar contributions from the Sawbuck Patriots, the calculator says that Max Rose can win.
Sawbuck Patriots, it’s go time: click HERE and send Max’s campaign $10. Our collective effort will land him $2575 today.
day three: Max Rose | NY-11 | 208 Sawbuck Patriots | $2575 | DONATE
day two: Sara Gideon | Maine Senate | 161 Sawbuck Patriots | $2215 | DONATE
day one: Candace Valenzuela | TX-24 | 109 Sawbuck Patriots | $1410 | DONATE