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Espada Concedes – Gustavo WINS!!!
With 70% of the vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Update #1:
“Tonight, the people of the Bronx have spoken”
Update #2: Statement from Bill @ NRI:
I wrote about the race on Monday. Here’s a statement from Bill Samuels of the New Roosevelt Initiative, who worked to defeat Espada:
Today Bronx voters sent a clear message to Albany lawmakers with the defeat of disgraced incumbent State Senator Pedro Espada. Voters are fed up with the corrupt practices of Albany and want lawmakers to fundamentally
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GOTV. Sunday. Be There.
The Democratic Primary is on September 14th.
That’s why MYD is headed up to the 33rd District on Sep 12th to make one final push to get disgraced State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. out of office!
Join us at 10:30AM at Herald Square (corner of 32nd Street and Broadway) to hop the train up there for the most important part of the campaign season: GOTV. In a district with historically low voting rates, every single door we… Read More
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Times Endorses Rivera
Looks like the Times is getting their talking points from us:
For state races, the best advice for New York voters is to vote against anybody who has done time in Albany. That is especially true in the State Senate, where a few Democrats have used their slim majority to hold up the Legislature, usually for petty and personal reasons. There are a very few good senators like Liz Krueger, an independent voice from Manhattan. But most legislators need to
Rivera Racking Up Endorsements
Yesterday we told you about El Diario’s endorsement of Gustavo Rivera over Pedro Espada. Today the New York Daily News follows suit:
A vote for Rivera in the Sept. 14 primary is a vote for cleaner government.
The grounds for dumping Espada, poster boy for Albany insanity, are almost beyond imagining.
He was the party-flipping, power-grabbing instigator of the Senate coup last summer that paralyzed Albany for a month.
El Diario Endorses Change
El Diario, the oldest and largest Spanish language newspaper in New York City, has endorsed two pro-marriage equality candidates: Gustavo Rivera and Charlie Ramos.
Both candidates are running against powerful incumbents: Senator Pedro Espada, Jr. and Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., respectively. With a daily readership of over 290,000 people, the El Diario endorsement could potentially reach thousands of Bronx voters.
Of Gustavo Rivera, the endorsement reads:
The time has come to close the door on the politics of “me” and for
Between Now and Sep 14: Anti-Espada, All The Time!
Huge shout-out to Margaret, Betsy, Scott, Richard, Paul and Kim for coming out with me last weekend to canvass in the 33rd. It was tons of fun and talking to people in the district really highlights just how high the anti-Espada fever is running.
To quote one resident, whose door we knocked upon in the 97-degree heat on Sunday afternoon:
Pedro Espada can go to hell.
In that spirit, we’re passing along info on another anti-Espada event taking place this… Read More
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