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NYC City Council Candidates from Law Enforcement
This comes from Maquez Claxton's somewhat disorganized and unweildy (but informative!) website:
4 Veteran City Workers Ready Runs for Council; 2 Each From NYPD, Correction
At a time when Mayor Bloomberg plans to shrink the size of the NYPD through attrition and he and Governor Paterson want to decrease benefits to new uniformed city employees, two former cops, a Correction Captain and a former Correction Department lawyer, have announced plans to run for City Council in 2009.
The three members of 100 Blacks In Law Enforcement Who Care who are running — Carlton Berkley, Marquez Claxton and Jerome Rice — are calling for change on the heels of Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first black President in November, though all three said they would have run for the Council regardless.
Jerome Rice, a soon-to-be retired Correction Captain, is running for the 12th Council District in The Bronx, currently held by Larry B. Seabrook...
The Correction Captain intends to challenge Mr. Seabrook on his vote to extend term limits for city elected officials to three terms. “If the President of the United States can adhere to term limits, then the Mayor and everyone else can, too,” Mr. Rice declared. “Eight years is enough.”
Retired NYPD Detective Carlton Berkley has launched a campaign to unseat Manhattan City Councilwoman Inez E. Dickens, who also voted to extend term limits. The Harlem native is running on a platform opposing the gentrification and rezoning of his neighborhood. “What are we left with?” he said. “People who have lived in Harlem forever have been displaced to God knows where, and it’s not right.”
...Marquez Claxton, has also announced his candidacy for the City Council. Mr. Claxton is making a bid to unseat James Sanders Jr., who represents District 31 in southeast Queens. “My basic platform is to return the power back to the people,” he said. “There is a desperate need for elected officials to respect the will of the people instead of playing patronage games with the Mayor.” Mr. Sanders voted to extend term limits.
For more information (for the candidates that have websites):
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I would love to see a
I would love to see a candidate from 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement, form a coalition to ouster the current councilman , namely Councilman Domeinc Recchia of Coney Island. He has sold out Coney Island to Developer Joe Sitt, of Thor Equities. It's about time we get some real leadership for our district. He's voted to extend term limits, voted for Congestion Pricing & favors special interest groups, where he's gotten over $100,000 of taxpayers monies for a Executive Health Gym. Yes We Can. Let's get on it. You got my support & let's go grassroots.
Recchia
I saw an article that questioned Recchia running for a 3rd term. I doubt very much that it's correct, especially since Recchia was running around the City Council crying that he needs the job. If Recchia doesn't run it's only because he got some kind of promise from Vito Lopez. I also hope very much that the article is correct and if so there are 3 candidates ready to run for his seat. One is Brian Gottlieb who is Recchia's hand picked successor and the others are community activists.
Truth be told, Recchia needs to be replaced by a candidate that cares about the community and not over-developing it. Recchia sold out Astroland to the Sitt Family and the development in the 47th is out of hand. He does nothing substantial for the community and you can't even get help from his office.
Rosalie... What paper was it
Rosalie... What paper was it that you read that Recchia is reconsidering a third term run?