Tag: 1970s

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer was first elected to the New York Assembly in 1974. Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was elected Northern California Democratic Chairman in 1977. Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1966 and was elected state Senate president in 1975. Governor Jerry Brown was elected California secretary of state in 1970 and to his first term as governor in 1974. But his public career began in the 1970s, a terrible decade during which New York City's population fell by 823,000. Even after Republican Scott Brown's special election, victory deprived Democrats of their Senate supermajority and Pelosi pushed for enactment of a necessarily flawed version of Obamacare. Pelosi has been cautioning Democratic candidates to stop talking about impeachment. It has inclined them to believe that the "Russian collusion" issue will result in Trump's removal some time soon. Donald Trump's experiences give him a different perspective, one firmly anchored in New York City. Those voters have largely disappeared from New York City and coastal California.