Sentences with phrase «black state assemblyman»
The announcement comes one day after the most recent public disagreement between de Blasio and Bratton: over an interaction between police officers and Michael Blake, a black state assemblyman who said police roughly tossed him against a gate for inquiring about an arrest.
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The effort is being led by state Democratic Party co-chair and close Gov. Cuomo ally Keith Wright, an assemblyman and Manhattan Democratic chairman who is being aided by some of the state's most prominent black political figures.
The Brooklyn assemblyman, a Democrat and self - identified Black Panther, is contemplating a bid to replace former State Senator John Sampson, who was forced from office following a conviction on federal corruption charges last week.
The bill, which was named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford, garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest it.
The assemblyman, who started his political career as a Black Panther, was referring the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a lawsuit brought by New York City parents against the state in the»90s.
The letter from Caucus Chairman N. Nick Perry, a Brooklyn Democratic assemblyman, is particularly noteworthy given that the caucus, through its nonprofit arm the state Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators Inc., holds a well - attended annual «Caucus Weekend» retreat in Albany, with some events at the Hilton in past years.
Almost every elected official from New York, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz, Jr., State Assemblymen Marcos Crespo and Luis Sepulveda, and many, many others — Black, Hispanic and White legislators — who have traveled to Puerto Rico to join Puerto Rico's Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla in this March.
He first challenged an incumbent state assemblyman and then a sitting congressman in a predominantly black district in central Brooklyn, drawing support from unconventional precincts — including charter - school donors and conservative pro-Israel activists — on his way to Washington.