Rose launches re-election bid touting his independence
SOUTHERN BROOKLYN — Democratic U.S. Rep. Max Rose, who rode into Congress on the Blue Wave that swept Democrats into the majority in the House of Representativestwo years ago, officially launched his re-election bid on Saturday, touting his political independence as he runs for a second term in a congressional district that Republican President Donald Trump won by double digits in 2016.
“We didn’t get things done by kissing up to the establishment. We got things done by going to war with it,” Rose told a crowd of 600 enthusiastic supporters at his campaign launch event at the Vanderbilt on South Beach on Staten Island.
New York’s 11th Congressional District, which Rose represents, takes in the entire borough of Staten Island and several neighborhoods in Southwest Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Gravesend.