Mayor Bill de Blasio officially kicked off his campaign for reelection in 2017 with
his first labor union endorsement today — just six days after the shock loss of his former boss Hillary Clinton's defeat in her bid for the presidency.
Not exact matches
The New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, which is firmly in the «progressive» camp of the state's many
labor unions, has issued a trio of Assembly
endorsements — including a
first - time nod for Staten Island Republican Nicole Malliotakis.
Also today, UFCW Local 1500 continued its early
endorsement streak by becoming the
first labor union to endorse in the 31st SD race, throwing its weight behind District Leader Mark Levine.
It's not a big surprise, though, especially after Maloney's report that he had $ 310,000 on hand after the
first three months of fundraising this year, and his
endorsement by several
labor unions.
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The
endorsement,
first reported by Crain's Insider, landed on top of a big pile of
labor support, including SEIU 32BJ, the United Food and Commercial Workers
Union Local 1500 and Communication Workers of America District 1.
In addition to touting his latest
labor union endorsement, Recchia has released his
first television ad.
Mr. Bloomberg's assiduous courting of
labor paid political dividends: after getting virtually no
labor support in his
first campaign in 2001, he picked up dozens of
union endorsements in his third - term victory in 2009.
In November, the mayor made a show of rolling out his
labor support when he
first declared for reelection, touting early
endorsements from SEIU 32BJ, the Uniformed Sanitation Workers
Union, and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Union.
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BY PAUL SCHINDLER City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has snagged the only few
labor union endorsements made so far in this year's mayoral race, has also won the
first congressional nod from the New York City delegation — that of East Side Representative Carolyn Maloney.