Sentences with phrase «first black elected official»

Sen. Huntley is not the first black elected official to be unfairly targeted.»

But that familiar vision of Staten Island no longer exists on its North Shore, where the borough's first black elected official, Democrat Debi Rose, was voted into a City Council seat in 2009.

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According to my source, they're very concerned about losing the leadership post, which has gone to a black senator since November 2002 when David Paterson ousted then - Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor (a white Brooklynite) became the first non-white elected to lead a legislative conference in New York history and the highest - ranking black elected official in New York.

Mr. Cuomo is also trying to repair any lingering damage from his 2002 primary for the governor's office with H. Carl McCall, then the state comptroller and the first black official elected statewide in New York.

Cuomo was in the Democratic doghouse after his failed long - shot 2002 primary challenge to then - state Controller Carl McCall - at the time New York's highest - ranking black elected official and first black major party gubernatorial candidate.

Among those running are three gay incumbents — Chelsea's Corey Johnson, Majority Leaader Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, and Ritchie Torres, a Latino black man and the Bronx's first out LGBTQ elected official.

In 1977, after two failed attempts, the Rev. Wendell Foster won the seat, becoming the borough's first black city elected official.