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Petition challenge knocks Diakhate off North Shore City Council ballot
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Posted Apr 30, 2021
Kelvin Richards, a candidate for the North Shore s City Council seat, poses for a photo. (Courtesy: Richards campaign)
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Diakhate’s campaign said Siaka Blake and Manuel Ortega, Richards’ campaign attorney, made the formal objections.
“Petitioning during a pandemic is dangerous for the petitioners and those signing, which is why relatively few candidates citywide were challenged this year,” said Diakhate. “None of my other opponents’ petitions were questioned.”
He believes his signatures were challenged because he and Richards were both competing for the African immigrant vote.
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A Staten Island race mired in conflict suggests that the civility expected to accompany the new ranked choice voting system is already giving way to old-school, hardball New York politics.
In theory, the system, in which voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference, takes away the motivation for negative campaigning so hopefuls can appeal to as many citizens as possible.
So when Lorie Honor’s Staten Island borough president campaign began circulating a non-aggression pact calling on her four fellow Democrats to pledge not to challenge each other’s petitions, she thought it was a “no brainer.”
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More needs to be done to protect LGBTQ residents in N.J. city, activists demand
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Photos taken at an Orange For All rally, where some community members allege officials are not taking claims of bias crimes against LGBTQ residents seriously.
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Community members and local organizations are demanding more answers after an investigation into an Orange family’s claims that it has been the victim of bias-based intimidation crimes did not result in any charges.
Earlier this month, Newark LGBTQ Community Center’s Executive Director Beatrice Simpkins penned a letter to Orange Mayor Dwayne D. Warren alleging “biased-based threats” made toward a city resident, Manny “Angel” Ortega, and his family. The Ortega family’s complaints, the letter says, have been repeatedly ignored by law enforcement and city officials.