Holtzman joins several other high-profile women who have backed Bragg, including civil rights leader Hazel Dukes, Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout and Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr.
New York City Council Candidate Brandon West Talks the Intersection of Policy and Comedy
By Seth Simons | June 1, 2021 | 12:15pm
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Before Brandon West launched his campaign to represent Brooklyn’s 39th District in the New York City Council, he served in the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget and in the City Council Finance Division. His experiences working inside the city government, and later as an organizer for groups like the New Kings Democrats and the Center for Popular Democracy, helped shape his campaign’s worker-focused agenda, which promises a Green New Deal, free and green public transit, housing justice, and substantial budget cuts to the NYPD.
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Some candidates for Manhattan’s district attorney are agents of change who want to cut the police budget. Others are very comfortable with long-established established power networks.