NEW YORK CITY (VINnews) — Cameron Kasky, a Jewish survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting and co-founder of the March for Our Lives gun control advocacy group, announced Tuesday that he is running for Congress in New York’s heavily Jewish 12th District.
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The 25-year-old activist, who helped organize nationwide protests calling for stricter gun laws after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre that killed 17 people, is seeking the Democratic nomination to succeed retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.).
In a statement on his campaign website, Kasky linked his activism against American-made firearms to his opposition to U.S. military aid to Israel, writing: “As a school shooting survivor, I began my life calling for an end to the mass murder of innocent children and adults using weapons manufactured by the United States. Witnessing the ongoing genocide in Gaza has served as a haunting, serious reminder that it is my life’s purpose to advocate against violence everywhere.”
Kasky has also called for Medicare for All, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and measures to regulate artificial intelligence.
Nadler, the longest-serving Jewish member of Congress and a staunch supporter of Israel, announced in September that he would not seek re-election in 2026.
The open seat, which stretches across Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Upper East Side and Midtown, has drawn a crowded Democratic field that includes Jack Schlossberg — grandson of President John F. Kennedy — New York City Councilman Erik Bottcher, state Assemblyman Micah Lasher, journalist Jami Floyd and several others.
Kasky, who describes himself as a “Democratic socialist,” moved to New York to attend Columbia University but later dropped out. He now resides in the district.
Why do all the braindead idiots feel a strong drive to govern other people? Can’t they just go rot under a rock quietly somewhere?
With Jewish Friends like these…
Every 2 bit shvuntz with a liberal arts degree from an Ivy League school is running for higher office. Crazy world
Another dope
This guy thinks he’s so smart
A big talker with no brains
And sadly
He could God forbid win
A true jerk
We are just finally getting rid of Nadler the pots, we don’t need another pots replacing him.
A solid Republican candidate will do just fine, !
One brainless JINO scum trying to replace a JINO scum.
Yehmach shmo he will do just fine replacing the other rasha instead of being thankfull he repays kindness with evil
Poor kid – no one should know the trauma he lived thru and how it impacted him. Another confused lost soul and another serious candidate for T’shuva IYH.
Who wrote this article? ‘ a staunch supporter of Israel’??? Are you also brain dead?
I love this one “Kasky has also called for Medicare for All” I bet he doesn’t even get the difference between medicaid and medicare. Since he used medicare, I just want to be clear. is he OK with charging premuims and dedctibles for certain plans like medicare does? Is he OK with no long term care? (Only rehab). How about no dental and vision?
AIPAC where are you? just a jobs mill
I’d bet the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Probably has an unhinged looney activist Mom that inculcated his mush brain with all this typical Democrat knee jerk reaction, over sensitive feelings nonsense. You know exactly the type I’m talking about. On top of that, he hung around Columbia University for a while. This is the product of such a life.
And then we have people like Mr real yid and atehist from Lakewood who say hey we should support democrats . After all I am sure he is against Tucker too. This is the jeiwsh way. To call what Israel did genocide. so sad
Hey- waiting to hear from the ” at least he is a yid, warlock
Sorry. Maybe I don’t understand.
What makes him Jewish?