Lauren Ashcraft’s background is eclectic. She worked at JP Morgan Chase and is a Democratic Socialist. Ashcraft was also a standup comedian in New York and a policy analyst in Pennsylvania.
Now, she’s a dark horse candidate in what many see as a two-person race between the insurgent Suraj Pateland the incumbent, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, to be the representative of New York’s 12th Congressional…
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I think it’s important that you know this: Lauren Ashcraft has worked as VP at JP Morgan, doing internal affairs. Last election when she was already out the running, she rallied the voters in Queens (only 5% of the district!) and organized a bunch of folks to NOT vote for Peter Harrison AFTER she was already out, after he had already picked him as the candidate in round one (round one is selecting a candidate, which the district chose to be Peter. Round two is voting to endorse. In my opinion, she was bitter, but the bottom line is she deliberately ruined his endorsement). Democratic socialists support other democratic socialists – they don’t rebrand themselves every 2 years after working in big banks, and see’s been endorsed by brand new congress which seems to be as being very pay to play. The folks of District 12 deserve better – Peter Harrison has been an activist and housing organizer for over 12 years. Just thought you should know this.
Neither was Lauren a VP, she was a project manager in the legal department which is her publicly available information, nor was she involved in the 2018 election as a candidate (in fact, neither was Peter). I don’t think this comment is helpful to anyone which it is completely fabricated.