Democratic Rep. Max Rose calls de Blasio worst mayor in history of NYC
Rose: I Have Zero Allegiance To Dems, Support Trump
https://shorefrontnews.com/2020/10/06/max-rose-i-have-zero-allegiance-to-dems-support-trump/
” I have zero allegiance to the Democratic Party, zero,” declared Max Rose to Vanity Fair. The freshman Congressman is running for reelection in a district where President Donald Trump won by 10%, and is more popular today than in 2016. A recent rally for Trump and the Republican Congressional challenger Nicole Malliotakis drew 2,500 visitors and millions of views online.
Rose was one of the last Democratic holdouts during impeachment, going so far as to pen an op-ed in opposition to it. Yet, he proved not strong enough to stand up to his party leadership even when it was obviously against his interest to impeach the President. Had Rose taken a stance and voted against impeachment, he would’ve been a shoe-in today. He didn’t, choosing instead to go on MSNBC to attack the President’s “very clear obstruction” and now despite being an incumbent, he finds himself in the position of an underdog trying to claw back.
Rose repeatedly issued statements in support of Trump and attended his events, followed by press releases that made him sound like the President’s fan boy. Shortly after voting to impeach him, Rose attacked his Republican opponent Nicole Malliotakis for not supporting Trump. The President responded with an endorsement of Malliotakis and a public attack on Congressman Rose that called for his ouster.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/max-rose-donald-trump-house-democrats-impeachment-inquiry
I have zero allegiance to the Democratic Party, zero,” Max Rose says emphatically as we chase a meatball pizza with a few Bud Lights at Denino’s Pizzeria in Elm Park, a postindustrial neighborhood of Staten Island. Rose, of course, had plenty of reasons to distance himself from the party. Last year, the 32-year-old veteran became only the second Democrat since 1981 to win a congressional race in New York’s Trump-friendly 11th district, in large part by pitching himself as a political outsider. “I am a populist,” he tells me, before clarifying that he is of the “non-xenophobic” variety. Days later, he published an op-ed that argued against impeaching Donald Trump.
Rose’s independent streak would be tested, less than a month later, by the unfolding Ukraine scandal. “It shouldn’t be something that anyone wants to do,” he told me Thursday afternoon, explaining why he decided to reverse course and support an impeachment inquiry. It’s also a dangerous choice, for a representative whose district went for Trump by 10 points in 2016, and Rose didn’t come to a conclusion lightly. “I think you know by now that I’m a pretty decisive person.”
Decisiveness—or perhaps more accurately, bluntness—is indeed one of Rose’s more winsome qualities. In the eight hours that I traveled with him around Staten Island last month, I got to see firsthand how Rose charmed the borough: engaging in spirited debate with Republicans at a picnic, calling for a ban on assault weapons in a church, slamming the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “poll-tested bullshit,” laying into fellow New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal as a “socialist lie” and, awkwardly, joining a Zumba class on the FDR Boardwalk. At just five-foot-six, he doesn’t cut a towering figure. But he is a pit bull of a man, emanating a no-holds-barred attitude. A former Army platoon leader who was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for his service in Afghanistan, the freshman Democrat lacks all pretense.
Rep. Max Rose: Why I oppose Trump impeachment
https://www.silive.com/news/2019/09/rep-max-rose-why-i-oppose-trump-impeachment.html
By Max Rose
For the past decade, the American people have been sending a clear and unmistakable message: End the hyper-partisanship and do your jobs. Yet, both parties have taken electoral victories as mandates to ignore that message to do what they want. It must stop.
Republicans across the country ran on a proactive agenda in 2016: To drain the swamp, rebuild our roads and bridges, and protect Social Security and Medicare. What they did instead was pass a trillion-dollar tax cut for the very companies that created the opioid epidemic. I fear the Democratic Party is now at risk of repeating a similar bait-and-switch mistake by focusing on impeachment instead of infrastructure, healthcare costs, and putting people to work with livable wages and benefits.
Let me be clear, we have made real progress this year, including permanently extending and fully funding the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, passing the most sweeping anti-corruption legislation in a generation, and bipartisan gun safety reforms.
But there’s far too much work left to be done and we are in danger of losing the trust of the American people if we choose partisan warfare over improving the lives of hardworking families. I made a promise to my constituents to focus on making their lives better, and I won’t break it.
Max Rose to Run for House, Seeking a Rematch Against Malliotakis
Mr. Rose, a moderate Democrat, lost to Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican, by six percentage points last year in a conservative New York City district that includes Staten Island.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/nyregion/max-rose-congress-malliotakis.html
Max Rose, a moderate Democrat who lost his congressional seat last year amid a resurgence of Republican power in parts of New York, announced on Monday that he was mounting another run for Congress, setting up a national political battleground in New York City.
The race for New York’s 11th Congressional District, currently held by Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican, could be one of the most competitive in the metropolitan area next year, along with possible races on Long Island.
Depending on the contours of the district — which now includes Staten Island and a slice of south Brooklyn — following the redistricting process, the contest may also represent one of the Democrats’ more promising pickup opportunities. The party is straining to maintain its congressional majorities heading into a grueling midterm campaign environment, and a number of Democratic incumbents have decided to retire.
The race may also offer a revealing snapshot of how Democrats in key battlegrounds choose to position themselves, after the Republican Party gained ground over the last year by portraying Democratic candidates as anti-law enforcement.
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