Work? What's that?
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Betsy McCaughey, NY Post
DSA’s panhandling pol is just the start — as Democrats careen toward a socialist cliff
…. A warning sign of their coming craziness appeared Friday, when Mamdani-endorsed Assembly candidate Brian Romero put up a GoFundMe page with an unusual request.
He begged for handouts to cover his own rent and groceries for the rest of this year, until he’s sworn in to represent East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Astoria and other parts of Queens.
Romero won the Democratic primary in June — and with no Republican opponent, he’s a shoo-in.
But he can’t start collecting his $142,000 salary and $203 per diem until January, and he says he can’t figure out how to support himself in the meantime.
Beggar Boy Brian calls this a “challenging time.”
“I’m trying to find sort of some gigs, but I don’t know how other folks do it,” he said.
“Other folks,” meaning the rest of us who . . . go out and get a job to pay our bills.
He took the page down after The Post started asking questions.
Romero, who earned $106,469 as a legislative staffer before resigning to run for office, says he’s run through his savings.
Yet he’s the guy voters are entrusting with billions of dollars in state spending?
His political platform includes a pie-in-the-sky list of government giveaways — universal child care, free legal services for immigrants and more — all paid for by making the wealthy “pay their fair share.”
The DSA’s agenda is in truth a freeloader’s agenda, and Romero is its living, breathing poster boy.
Who, and what is this useless creature? Exactly what you’d expect:
Brian will be the first LGBTQ Latino man to be elected to this seat!
Biography
Brian Romero is an activist, social worker, and legislative staffer. He spent seven years working as a social worker and psychotherapist in the community where he worked with working class, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities. He has spent the last five years working as Chief of Staff to Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas where he worked on several issues including reproductive justice, gender-based violence, immigrant protections, improving affordability, and more. He attended the City University of New York (CUNY) for all three of his degrees [emphasis added] and taught as adjunct faculty at CUNY Hunter College and SUNY Stony Brook University. He has worked as a DEI consultant and engaged in social justice activism since he was 17 years old. He has served as President of the Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC, Chair of the National Association of Social Workers PAC, and has been a member of DSA and WFP for several years. He was the chief strategist on the Universal School meals campaign, which successfully secured funding to provider every student in New York with a free breakfast and lunch in school. He has been awarded by Gay City News, the NYC Council and CUNY.
Mr. Romero, who’s been suckling at the public teat since he left his momma’s, fits neatly into the DSA demographic:
The DSA voting bloc consists of voters who graduated college but are in the lower-to-middle income bracket. Eighty percent of DSA members aged 25 or older had bachelor’s degrees, while 45% had household incomes below $60,000 per year, according to the DSA North Star’s most recent survey from 2021.
Thirty-five percent of this demographic earned graduate degrees, according to the survey.
Common occupations among DSA members include teachers, social workers, non-profit and public sector employees, according to DSA North Star. A third of respondents were teachers, scholars, academics, private-sector white-collar workers, or tech workers
Fifteen percent of the voter bloc were also unemployed, disabled or retired, according to the survey. Just 4% were blue-collar workers.
