Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leads Chuck Schumer by 19 percent in a head-to-head poll for a potential 2028 Democratic Senate primary in New York, a Data for Progress poll of 770 likely voters found with a margin of error of 4 percent. Schumer's performance as Senate Minority Leader this year is widely criticized by Democrats for being too weak opposing Donald Trump.
Interesting local article ...
Why Chuck Schumer Should Fear the Election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
www.gothamgazette.com
... Pay heed Chuck Schumer. The base is coming for you.
And for good reason. The Democratic establishment is historically unpopular. And there is no exception even in deep blue New York.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's resounding defeat of Rep. Joe Crowley, the so-called King of the Queens machine, makes clear that establishment Democrats need to wake up. The election of an overnight socialist sensation was a clear demonstration that the groundswell of grassroots progressive activism in New York has moved from street protests to the voting booth.
Ever since Democrats lost to the least qualified presidential candidate in the history of the republic in 2016, there has been a growing repulsion with the status quo on the left across the country generally and in New York City specifically. ...
"One of Biden's first acts was to cancel Keystone costing tens of thousands of construction jobs."
Fact-check: Is Biden 'destroying 11,000 jobs' by revoking Keystone pipeline?
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We've seen several similar posts offer other figures for how many jobs were lost as a result of Biden's executive order, ranging from 12,000 to 83,000. So we wanted to take a closer look.
TC Energy Corp., the Canadian company that owns the Keystone XL pipeline with the Alberta government, has said more than 1,000 people are out of work because of Biden's executive order. The 11,000 and $2 billion figures cited in the Facebook post are estimates published by the company, but most of the jobs would be temporary.
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"When combined with additional 2021 contracts to be announced later, the total number of American union workers constructing Keystone XL in 2021 will exceed 8,000 and $900 million in gross wages," the release said. "In total, Keystone XL is expected to employ more than 11,000 Americans in 2021, creating more than $1.6 billion in gross wages."
That's close to what the State Department found in its 2014 report.
In the report, the agency wrote that 10,400 estimated positions would be for seasonal construction work lasting four to eight-month periods. Since the State Department defines "job" as "one position that is filled for 1 year," that would equate to approximately 3,900 jobs over a two-year period.
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Temporary jobs are still jobs. But this post could leave the wrong impression without full context. We rate it Half True.
www.statesman.com
In short: Most of the estimated jobs were temporary.
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