[rad-green] 'New Day' for Queens Democratic Machine as Sanders and Warren Supporters Defeat Attempt to Ram Through Biden Endorsement

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Dreams          December 30, 2019'New Day' for Queens Democratic Machine as
Sanders and Warren Supporters Defeat Attempt to Ram Through Biden
EndorsementBackers of the 2020 bids of Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren
and Bernie Sanders were "united behind a transparent inclusive process."by
Eoin Higgins, staff writer*

[image: Demonstrators against the Queens County Democratic Party's
secretive endorsement process on Monday forced a delay in choosing a
candidate.]

*Demonstrators against the Queens County Democratic Party's secretive
endorsement process on Monday forced a delay in choosing a candidate.
(Photo: Nina Kulkarni/Twitter
<https://twitter.com/kulkarni_nina/status/1211669959325241346/>)*

An attempt by Queens County Democratic Party leadership to endorse the 2020
presidential bid of former Vice President Joe Biden failed on Monday after
a coalition of activists backing a number of other candidates in the
national primary made their displeasure with the move known by protest.

The scheme to endorse Biden's bid was reportedly led by Rep. Gregory Meeks
(D-N.Y.), who is the leader of the county party. The party is staying
neutral in the race for now.

"Greg Meeks tried to get the Queens machine to back Biden for president,
but couldn't," tweeted
<https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1211679681096933376>   *The *
*Intercept*'s D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim. "New day for the county party."

Queens-based activist Moumita Ahmed, co-founder of the New Reformers, a
Queens-based PAC that works to infuse the Democratic Party with small-"d"
democracy, was at the meeting Monday morning. She said on Twitter that the
effort to stop the Biden endorsement was due to the lack of a "transparent
endorsement process" that brought together supporters of the primary bids
of Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), as well as
businessman Andrew Yang.

"Good job folks!" Ahmed said. "This is what democracy looks like."

New Reformers and Queens County Committee for All called for demonstrations
at the meeting after hearing that the party would attempt to endorse Biden
without a transparent process. There was no agenda for the meeting, leading
the group to question the behavior of the county party.

"The very fact that not even the party's District Leaders are certain of
the agenda of what is ostensibly their own meeting is just the latest
instance of the Queens Democratic Party's current dysfunction and inability
to operate in a transparent, accountable, and democratic fashion," New
Reformers said in a statement.

The demonstrators stood out in the cold to protest the move, calling for a
more inclusive process.

Meeks told <https://twitter.com/DavidFBrand/status/1211680921646223361> *Queens
Daily Eagle* managing editor David Brand after the meeting that the party
will endorse a candidate at a later date, possibly on February 6.

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