Will the Queens special election be a 2013 replay?
When supporters of ranked-choice voting make their case for why the new voting system is good for Black and Latino New Yorkers, they’ll often point to a specific race: the February 2013 special election in City Council District 31 in Queens. There, a white, Orthodox Jewish candidate named Pesach Osina came within 79 votes – less than 1 percentage point – of winning a Southeast Queens district that – as of the 2010 census – was 68% Black, 16% Hispanic and just 11% white. Besides Osina, the other seven candidates on the ballot, including the winner Donovan Richards, were Black. The numbers showed that the Black vote was split among several candidates, while the parts of the district with a large Orthodox Jewish population voted overwhelmingly for Osina.
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Regardless of whether you celebrated romance or patriotism over the double holiday weekend, you probably had more fun than Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The governor was in Washington, D.C., on Friday
during a frenzied fallout from reports his administration withheld certain nursing home death numbers for fear of federal investigation. And he didn’t emerge to address the situation until Monday, during a nearly 90-minute virtual briefing
“Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen - the fastest campaign to hit the matching threshold with the most grassroots donors!” wrote Yang, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in the last election.
Yang, a technology entrepreneur, announced in a Sunday tweet that his campaign had passed the threshold of receiving $250,000 from at least 1,000 donors in the city.
Now, each dollar from New York City residents in small contributions, with a maximum of $250, can be matched by up to $8 in public funds, reaching a maximum of $2,000 per contributor.
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“Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen - the fastest campaign to hit the matching threshold with the most grassroots donors!” he posted. “Every small donation from NYCers now gets matched 8 to 1! We are on our way.”
Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen - the fastest campaign to hit the matching threshold with the most grassroots donors! Every small donation from NYCers now gets matched 8 to 1! We are on our way. https://t.co/aJH8sQFZOvhttps://t.co/ZKTVLtoc8u Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) February 14, 2021