2018 General Election Elected 53 — 47
You’ve got to like this guy
Web sites. They don’t usually persuade. Max Rose persuades. He demonstrates a combination of toughness and generosity that I really like. He is a great candidate for Staten Island. He is the only Democratic candidate for this district who has raised a substantial amount of money. He was Chief-of-Staff for a network of New York City healthcare clinics
In a recent public radio interview, a woman said the Democrats most faithful supporters are African American women. She argued that these faithful supporters deserve to be attended to. She was right. Democrats must attend to what the most faithful supporters need and want. But the most faithful are not enough.
These Political Notes are primarily about Democrats who might win. Democrats running against Republican incumbents are the people we need to win. Democrats running in districts that Donald Trump carried are the people we need to win. If these candidates win, Democrats will have the wherewithal to attend to the faithful and the swing districts.
Max Rose https://www.maxroseforcongress.com/is running against a Republican incumbent (the former DA who had no interest in prosecuting Eric Garner’s killer). Trump carried NY 11. The incumbent ran ahead of Trump. Rose’s website begins with a video set in Iraq — far from NY 11. The video begins with stills from shortly after Rose was wounded. A captain, he doesn’t remember getting wounded. He remembers troops carrying him to the helicopter for evacuation. He thanks them. The rest of the video introduces his fiancee, the health care network he lead, and the problems faced by his prospective constituents.
Max Rose received an education from the military. He also received an education at elite institutions (Wesleyan, the London School of Economics, some time at Oxford). Max Rose came back to New York to work in health care. Running for Congress is an extension of his vision of public service.
Max Rose does one truly distinctive thing in his website. He introduces his staff – his Staten Island veteran campaign manager, his finance director whose last campaign was in Montana. He introduces his media, direct mail and polling consultants.
Max Rose introduces us, just a little, to the stuff of politics.He demonstrates a generosity of spirit by sharing information about the work of his candidacy. His military service and his health care work demonstrate toughness and a commitment to address what people need on Staten Island and throughout the country.
Max Rose is clear on the issues, too. Here are his priorities:
Infrastructure: significant 21st century infrastructure investments in smart grid construction, broadband connections, and battery and energy innovations.
Ending the Drug Epidemic: a national commitment to beating opioids on the scale of the [commitment] America made in the fight against HIV/AIDS through … inpatient and outpatient treatment…also primary care and mental health [care]
Protecting our Rights: opposes the ban on transgender soldiers, criminal justice reform [that will have positive effects] on both public safety and the level of trust between law enforcement and the community, fix our broken immigration system
American Leadership: America should lead in solving problems [N]o problem can be solved without America. Under the current administration, trusted allies have been insulted and, even worse, the world has come to doubt that our word is our bond. So, it’s no surprise that our adversaries feel empowered.
Fixing a Broken Economic System: from rigging the tax code to trying to control internet speeds, special interests and monopolies have tried—and succeeded–at putting their bottom line ahead of the American worker, family, and economy
Education: fight to expand vocational education and manufacturing institutes, renewing our commitment to supporting skilled labor.
Health Care: immediate bipartisan steps to improve what works in Obamacare and eliminate what doesn’t –– a public option; giving every American the ability to buy into the same healthcare plan that U.S. senators are offered; lowering the Medicare eligibility age to 55; giving the federal government the authority to negotiate the price of all prescription drugs purchased via Medicare, Medicaid, and the federal exchange; and moving the healthcare system to a focus on achieving outcomes through investments in primary and preventive care.
Tax Reform: a tax system that gives hard working Americans a tax cut, not corporations: raising the long-term capital gains tax rate for the wealthy so that billionaires no longer pay a lower tax rate than firefighters or teachers, raising the floor on the Alternative Minimum Tax – which has hurt middle class families, meaningfully expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to put more money in our wallets, closing loopholes that allow big corporations to dodge taxes and lower the overall corporate tax rate so that small businesses receive a tax cut.
These are Democratic principles we can support. He targets his statements to the people of Staten Island. His positions would help us all — the most faithful Democratic supporters and the ones we need to move to the Democratic column. Max Rose https://www.maxroseforcongress.com/ is a Democratic candidate we can support. Support him. Consider a monthly donation.
