Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is set to face a primary challenger who presents a stark contrast to her “radical” left-wing stances. According to reports on Wednesday, Marty Dolan, a Wall Street investor with an MBA from Harvard University and a New York City upbringing, will be running against the self-proclaimed democratic socialist from New York. Dolan, who is running as a Democrat, wasted no time in criticizing AOC, expressing his desire to bring back rationality to the party. He believes that defeating the three-term “progressive” in the primary is the first step towards achieving this goal.
“I am excited to formally announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for New York’s 14th Congressional District,” Dolan said on his campaign website. “The June 25th, 2024, primary will be a referendum: Are we better or worse off from following radical policies?”
He went onto say that “progressives” like AOC are “radicals whose influence on the Democratic Party is overweight.”
“The impact in NYC is obvious: bail reform a disaster, the National Guard in the subway, toothpaste locked up in drugstores but criminals running free, scarce resources directed to (non-sanctuary) immigrants coming from all over the world,” Dolan said.
“These difficulties must be addressed in the context of a runaway $34 trillion federal debt and NYC’s 14% marginal tax rate,” he added. “Regional tax inequality is far more exaggerated in the USA than in any other country.”
Additionally, he highlighted that over the past few years, the progressive Democratic policies in New York have resulted in more than half a million affluent taxpayers relocating from the city, a situation he deemed as “unsustainable.”
“The radicals can’t deliver more than breadcrumbs when they ignore that the primary breadwinners are leaving and brush off taxpayer concerns in favor of abstract populist ideologies,” Dolan said in a reference to “tax the rich” slogans by AOC and those who agree with her. “Enough is enough!”
The entrepreneur aims to realign the Democratic Party with the original vision of its founders, emphasizing that they have been provided with a blueprint and expressing concern over the party’s deviation from its intended path.
“We also urgently need to ‘reset’ our society’s income inequality and harmonize regional differences in social policy,” Dolan stated. “We call our approach the ‘Hamilton Plan v. 2.0’ in honor of one of our greatest New Yorkers, Alexander Hamilton, who forged the independent colonies into a great republic.”
In reference to radical policies, AOC recently urged Democrats to conduct an “investigation” into the U.S. Supreme Court in the event of regaining a House majority during the upcoming fall. This left-leaning extremist is advocating for her party to vilify the court prior to the 2024 election, aiming to undermine its majority that upholds constitutional principles.
“We need to go after the Supreme Court … and through the Supreme Court, we explore the entire network of issues that are most important to everyday Americans: the influence of dark money in creating a government that works against the American people, the majority of the American people,” she told the Off-Message website.
“The Supreme Court is a political institution, and Chief Justice [John] Roberts may not like to hear that, but he works with them, and he knows,” the congresswoman said. “It’s a political institution that responds to pressure. And absent pressure, they are going to do more of what we saw this week, which is enabling and risking our entire democracy at the behest of Donald Trump and Leonard Leo and the entire network that installed them there. And we have to fight back. We need to show people what they vote for.”