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The visuals for Shaun Donovan’s campaign kickoff event to be the next mayor of New York City couldn’t have been more New York. It opened with a prayer from the Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, who has been a leader on affordable housing in Brooklyn for more than 40 years. And Donovan spoke on the rooftop of Via Verde, a subsidized housing development in the South Bronx, with the Manhattan skyline rising over his shoulder.
But the endorsements that Donovan rolled out on Tuesday told a different story, of somebody whose closest political connections and strongest support aren’t based in New York, but rather Washington D.C., and other cities around the country that Donovan worked with when he was a cabinet secretary in President Barack Obama’s administration