70+ New York City Candidates Oppose Delay to RCV, Push Council on Education
Candidates in the same district, and former EDs of the BLAC, unite
NEW YORK, NY (12/16/2020) (readMedia) Today, over 70 candidates from across the city some running against each other released a statement in support of ranked choice voting (RCV) and opposing any delay. Instead they pushed the NYC Council to do its job and pass intro 1994, a bill that will fully fund voter education on RCV.
The full statement with signers including mayoral candidates Dianne Morales and Carlos Menchaca, former BLA (Black, Latino, Asian) Caucus executive director Corey Ortega, and 70+ others, below:
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“We would say it isn’t David and Goliath,” Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of the organization Uprose, told The Tyee. “It was David and five Goliaths.”
But when Jamestown Properties withdrew its application for the Brooklyn rezoning this fall, effectively killing the project in the neighbourhood of Sunset Park, several things had become clear: the company had severely underestimated the power of a low-income neighbourhood determined to prevent housing from becoming unaffordable.
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Women Candidates to Council: Don t Delay Ranked Choice Voting, Start Education Today
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NEW YORK, NY (12/14/2020) (readMedia) Today, 23 women candidates for New York City Council wrote an open letter in support of Ranked Choice Voting, arguing that it will help elect more women women of color in particular by eliminating the spoiler effect and decreasing negative attacks. Rather than seeking to delay ranked choice voting, we need the Council to pass Intro 1994 which would fund and mandate a full voter education campaign. The Council has the power to make sure its stated goals of educating voters are fulfilled. Use it. As candidates, we also understand that we have a responsibility, alongside city agencies, to educate the voters and we don t shy from that opportunity.
Ranked Choice Voting + the Race For Brooklyn Borough President
All candidates agree the new voting method is good for voters
NEW YORK, NY (12/11/2020) (readMedia) On Wednesday night, the Brooklyn Library, Rank the Vote NYC, Common Cause/NY, Brooklyn Young Democrats and the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College hosted a forum on ranked choice voting (RCV) and the race for Brooklyn Borough President. The event was moderated by Lurie Daniel Favors, Interim Executive Director at the Center for Law and Social Justice. Seven candidates participated, including Councilmembers Anontio Reynoso and Robert Cornegy, Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, Kim Council, Pearlene Fields, Khari Edwards, and Robert Ramos Jr.
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