Politics & Government
Endorsement Roundup for NY6
Find out who picked up endorsements this week for the Sixth Congressional District race.
It's time again to take a look at the endorsements that have been handed down in the race for New York's Sixth Congressional District this week.
Councilman Dan Halloran
Halloran, R-Whitestone, collected his first big endorsement this week from the Uniformed Fire Marshals Association. The councilman collected the endorsement on Monday while standing before the Engine 306 house in Bayside, which he took credit for helping to save during last year's budget negotiations.
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“As a working class kid from Queens, I appreciate all that our uniformed servants do to protect us," he said. "Our City’s fire marshals are on the front lines in keeping our families safe. They risk life and limb so that we may sleep well at night."
Assemblywoman Grace Meng
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Meng, D-Flushing, grabbed the United Food and Commercial Workers Union last week, collecting the largest union of grocery workers in New York.
"I am honored to have the support of Local 1500, an activist union in the finest tradition of promoting important social change," Meng said. "UFCW has long embraced diversity as a strength, and been a trailblazer in making organizing important to the new Americans staffing the industries it’s active in."
Meng also got the nod from a newly-formed coalition of South Asian leaders in Queens known as South Asians for Grace.
Assemblyman Rory Lancman
Lancman, D-Fresh Meadows, stood arm in arm with the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Union last week, calling for more jobs through an infusion of federal dollars aimed at infrastructure improvements.
"In New York, we have thousands of people out of work, and thousands of projects that need workers – it’s not a complicated equation,” Lancman said. “We figured it out in New York and passed a $15 billion infrastructure package with bipartisan support that will create thousands of good-paying union jobs — I’m running for Congress because it’s long past time Washington figured it out too."
City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley
Crowley, D-Middle Village, collected the Transit Workers Union on Monday.
“I’m proud to receive the endorsement from the workers who help drive our City’s economic growth,” Crowley said. “We need strong leaders in Washington that will fight for fair funding for public transit and stick up for working class families and protect their pay and pensions.”
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