Other Democratic names mentioned to be in the running include former
City Council members Eric Gioia and Melinda Katz, City Councilmen Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria), Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck), former Borough President Claire Shulman and former Congresswoman and city Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman of Brook
City Council members Eric Gioia and Melinda Katz,
City Councilmen Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria), Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck), former Borough President Claire Shulman and former Congresswoman and city Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman of Brook
City Councilmen Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria), Assemblyman David Weprin (D -
Little Neck), former Borough
President Claire Shulman and former Congresswoman and
city Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman of Brook
city Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman of Brooklyn.
City Council contender Bob Friedrich defended a letter he sent last month as
president of the Glen Oaks Village Co-op's board to the housing community's tenants after his opponent, state Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D -
Little Neck), accused him of using the co-op's official letterhead to promote his candidacy.
That's almost exactly two years after McLaughlin pleaded guilty to stealing $ 2.2 million in cash, carks and perks — both as a state lawmaker (he even bilked a
little league team out of taxpayer - funded member item money) and as
president of the New York
City Central Labor
Council.
Prior to the Tremaine Foundation she was the Associate Vice
President of Grants at the Arts & Science
Council, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, and began her career in New York
City at the
Little Orchestra Society, Irish Repertory Theatre and Cherry Lane Theatre.