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In an election that brought women 29 of the City Council’s 51 seats — the first-ever female majority — three Bronx Latinas are poised to transform what leadership in their districts looks like.
Pierina Sánchez, Amanda Farías and Marjorie Velázquez, all Democrats, ran for open seats in Nov. 2 contests after their male predecessors became term-limited or chose not to run again.
Each of the women identifies as a progressive — and each will replace a Council member with roots in the borough’s evangelical Christian or business communities: Council members Fernando Cabrera, Ruben Díaz Sr. and Mark Gjonaj. Cabrera was term-limited, while Díaz and Gjonaj chose not to run again.
The political climate change is already gusting through Bronx politics. This week, another Latina aspiring politician, Democrat Jessica Altagracia Woolford, announced a run against longtime Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-The Bronx).
“I think almost 30 years of anybody in elected office, it just doesn’t reflect the growth and the change that happens in the community,” Woolford, who is of Dominican descent, told THE CITY.
The former communications staffer for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said she relishes “the chance to really show someone from Kingsbridge and to show kids from Kingsbridge that you can grow up and be a lawmaker.”
Sad to see Mark Gjonaj's nice middle-class east Bronx district (CD# 13) taken over by the 'woke'. I'm sure it's her goal to make it look like the south Bronx. How could such a radical have won in a neighborhood of mostly homeowners?
Folks, sometimes you have to just say screw it and abandon ship. Don't stay behind trying to "change" your community if the #woke keep electing racist, radical disasters to serve in elected office.
Sad to see Mark Gjonaj's nice middle-class east Bronx district (CD# 13) taken over by the 'woke'. I'm sure it's her goal to make it look like the south Bronx. How could such a radical have won in a neighborhood of mostly homeowners?
Mark Gjonaj only got that seat in 2018, so it's not like he's been there forever.
CD 13 thanks to way district is drawn largely falls within heavily minority areas of Bronx (something like 52%), with only a small slice of better areas.
Its like a slow moving Virus. Started with AOC and now slowly spreading. In 20 years it will be so much worse. And not only in NYC, think suburbs and rural.
Sad to see Mark Gjonaj's nice middle-class east Bronx district (CD# 13) taken over by the 'woke'. I'm sure it's her goal to make it look like the south Bronx. How could such a radical have won in a neighborhood of mostly homeowners?
You can thank Gjonaj himself.He was such an obvious in bed with developers crook and turned off so many people with his Albanian mafia/ family protection rackets that he wasn't going to get re elected. He left the district open to an insurgency. Voila.
Dinowitz has been office for 25 years and does nothing. Time to go.
If politicians want their "kind" to keep control they should realize when their time is up and groom a replacement instead of stubbornly hanging on to power waiting to be given the heave ho.
Sad to see Mark Gjonaj's nice middle-class east Bronx district (CD# 13) taken over by the 'woke'. I'm sure it's her goal to make it look like the south Bronx. How could such a radical have won in a neighborhood of mostly homeowners?
She got 55% of the votes, her opponent Aleksander Mici (Republican) got 45%, so it was close, and it will only get closer in 4 years if she yields to the woketards.
45% of the votes went to a Southeast-Europe-born Republican in a district that is still largely Black, Latino, South Asian, Middle-Eastern and Northern-African.
She got 55% of the votes, her opponent Aleksander Mici (Republican) got 45%, so it was close, and it will only get closer in 4 years if she yields to the woketards.
45% of the votes went to a Southeast-Europe-born Republican in a district that is still largely Black, Latino, South Asian, Middle-Eastern and Northern-African.
Probably not. The district is definitely not a conservative district. Gjonaj was not really a conservative and the district councilman before him, James Vacca, who only left office because of term limits, was very definitely not a conservative. He is gay and one of his principal aides while in office was Richie Torres. Both Vacca and Torres are extremely popular.
Also, the Republican base in the district is largely Albanian and it is shrinking as the older Albanians are dying off and the younger ones are moving out.
It's ridiculous for anyone to think that a borough that has over 70% and growing minority population with a 10 to 1 democratic voter registration advantage will be electing many (if any) conservatives ... especially if they are white men. That's just the reality.
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