CITY OF NEWBURGH Giselle Martinez s run for City of Newburgh council is unusual.
For starters, Martinez is only 22 years old, which may raise a few voters eyebrows. The lifelong city resident is the oldest daughter of Mexican immigrants who came to the U.S. in the 1980s; her father has worked as a dishwasher, farm worker and welder and her mother used to clean houses.
She is the first in her family to vote and the first to go to college, having earned a bachelor s degree in history and political science from Mount Saint Mary College last spring.
Now, Martinez works as a constituent liaison for former Newburgh councilman and current Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson.
Марков: Защо светът мълчи за пребития български студент и застреляните пред Капитолия?
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Въпрос: Защо Джордж Флойд беше превърнат в мъченик, а Ашли Бабит
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Pop star-turned-politician challenges Uganda s strongman in presidential election © Sumy Sadurni/AFP via Getty Images Musician turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, also a presidential candidate in the upcoming elections, speaks during a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, Jan. 12, 2021. Bobi Wine says he has been jailed, detained, beaten and shot at more times than he can count. But the 38-year-old pop star-turned-politician, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, told Kenyan radio station Hot 96 FM that it s all worth it. We are not allowed to express ourselves, Wine told the station during an interview Tuesday morning. And we are saying enough is enough.