By COLlive reporter
A bissel gelt. That’s what New York City Mayor Bill da Blasio needs to help him qualify to enter the next round of debates between the hopefuls vying to be the Democratic presidential candidate.
De Blasio is racing to meet the requirements of the Democratic National Committee to participate in the televised debate. The threshold is 2% support in opinion polls and 130,000 unique donors from 20 different states.
Candidates that met all requirements are former vice president Joe Biden, NJ Senator Cory Booker, South Bend Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, California Senator Kamala Harris, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, former congressman Beto O’Rourke, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
De Blasio isn’t one of them as he only has 6,700 donors.
According to a report on Politico.com, he reached out to members of the Satmar and frum communities in New York asking them to back him with a minimal donation.
“A fundraising request for 10,000 donors giving just $1 each is circulating online and on WhatsApp among those in the Orthodox Satmar sect, which is prominent in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” Politico reported.
Failing to secure a spot on the national stage would be a blow to his struggling campaign, the website reported, adding that the pitch in Yiddish also implies the donations would yield favorable treatment in the future.
It opens with a donation request on behalf of those “who work together with the faithful askanim who are in constant contact with the government to lobby on a number of issues on behalf of our holy institutions and communities and for individuals who need help and to represent your interests,” according to one translation from a fluent Yiddish speaker.
It says the mayor “personally asked” for the support and then asks donors to extend the request to their wives and adult children, Politico said.
“By donating the dollar you support your needs, the entire ultra-Orthodox public and our rights and needs by answering the call of askanim who need to show that the public recognizes those who understand our interests,” it reads.
Finally, it notes, “with the dollar you do not support his candidacy but you can help get him to the debate.”
not a good idea to be concerned over what other jewish groups are doing or supporting politicians
Satmar is huge. So it does concern everyone. I think
It’s literally in Brooklyn and it’s about our community as Jews and it concerns our mayor.
How much smaller do you need your world to be?
The last thing we need during the 9 days is more machlokes between Jews, especially between satmar and chabad or jews that don’t like diblasio
Wait, I thought they don’t even have smartphones. …how is this circulating in their WhatsApp… 🙂
That’s just for the wives.
Ain’t happening.
Why are satmar pro the dems
Why because the dems are good to them they get freebies and when there are democrat judges they let them off the hook I.e bribery and other things republicans would not let them do.
Everyone including satmar knows that deblassio has a chance of becoming president like a snowflake in the summer. If they give a dollar to him then let them give ten dollars to re-elect Trump.
It is no Big secret that De Blasio is ‘hurting for an office ‘ He if he manages to divide the Jewish community in New York City with his various ‘announcement and shenanigans he will be re-elected . The only way he his and his staff / people / allies by sowing division with thin the already fragmented but stein and un-United population and communities of Jews in the Boroughs and beyond to the Tri-State area . What has he got in the past ther Italioi Cuomo who sits in Albany when not break By his own catholic faiths’ in… Read more »
Let’s put aside the fact that De Blasio is unfit to serve in any public capacity, let alone the presidency. They would actually prefer to give money to this pathetic idiotic human being than to people who actually need it. This is disgusting on many levels. Maybe someone needs to give them a refresher lesson on what tzedaka is?
I dont think they need any lessons in how to give to Tzedaka I think the rest of the world can learn from them
Don’t under estimate Williamsburg. It’s a very smart and efficient way to spend political money. Each person gives one dollar and they bought themselves a mayor. He will not win the nomination. This will have no effect on anything other than him being indebted to Williamsburg While he is still mayor of New York.