House progressives lashed out at Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, after he announced he plans to run this year in a House district represented by Rep. Mondaire Jones, a first-term progressive who is one of the first two openly gay Black men elected to Congress.
Maloney, who runs the fundraising committee tasked with protecting incumbent Democrats, said earlier this week that under New York's newly redrawn congressional map he would abandon his current seat in the 18th district, in the Hudson Valley north and west of New York City, to run instead in the new 17th district further south, most of which is currently represented by Jones. Maloney made the announcement less than an hour after a New York court released a draft map of the state's new districts.
