Democrat Jack Schlossberg’s New York congressional bid is off to a rocky start as the Kennedy family scion’s campaign manager is leaving after just one month on the job.
Annabel Lassally, formerly the communications director for New York City comptroller-elect Mark Levine (D.) and a special assistant to New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.), has left Schlossberg’s campaign to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District, Politico reported Thursday. Neither Lassally nor the campaign gave a reason for the move, and the campaign did not say who will replace her.
Lassally’s departure is just the latest snag for the struggling campaign, which has faced controversies over Schlossberg’s social media posts. This year alone, he made X posts in which he mocked his relative Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and made lewd and anti-Semitic comments about drinking “Jew blood” and semen. He also asked whether his grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was “hotter” than second lady Usha Vance and posted a doctored photo suggesting he fathered one of Vance’s children.
He also raised eyebrows when a video resurfaced of him making a Nazi salute, an attempt to mock Elon Musk.
The Kennedy scion has cleaned up his social media, deleting the bizarre posts, since launching his campaign.
Schlossberg, whose father is Jewish, has also defended socialist New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who has said he supports “the idea” behind the anti-Semitic slogan “globalize the intifada,” pledged to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and campaigned with a radical Islamist cleric who expressed support for “jihad” in New York City, against accusations of anti-Semitism. “If you think that Zohran doesn’t like Jewish people or anything, you’re f—g brainwashed,” Schlossberg said in a video he posted on Instagram.
The candidate’s family has reportedly expressed concern about his congressional bid and odd behavior. A source told the New York Post that Schlossberg’s mother, former ambassador Caroline Kennedy, “pleaded with Jack not to run,” while his cousin Kathleen Kennedy told the Post in February that she hopes Schlossberg “gets the help he needs.”
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