County Committee News

When I announced my campaign for District Leader in Assembly District 51, my goal was to bring the T.E.A. to Kings County Democratic Committee: Transparency, Equity, and Accountability. We hear far too often about the self-serving narcissism and general lack of leadership from our President. But thi…

The candidate disqualifications, ruled on by the Board of Elections last week, came in response to a seemingly well-organized effort by veteran Party operatives, officials, and well-connected candidates looking to keep competitors off the ballot ahead of the June 23 primary.

It looks like New York City Council candidate Darma Diaz will have opponents after all – but her biggest rival for the open seat in Brooklyn, Sandy Nurse, won’t be one of them, thanks to a paperwork error.

A place where words matter

Christina Das and John Wasserman collecting petition signatures in March (Wasserman’s Facebook) Two Brooklyn candidates say their names were removed from the June ballot for party positions in retaliation for pushing back against local Democratic officials asking them to canvass during the pandemi…

Luke Gasparre, World War II Purple Heart recipient, Mets usher and beloved Astoria community leader, died at 95 on Feb. 13. Now he’s running for office.Gasparre and his son Luke

In a Brooklyn City Council race, Kings County Democratic Committee members have filed petitions against candidates running against the establishment pick.

In the age of social distancing, the Tompkins County Democratic Committee will host its first live streamed candidate forum to help candidates broadcast their messages to voters.

Six people running for the Brooklyn’s Democratic county committee — the most local level of the national party — say the longstanding requirement for candidates to list one of two genders is discriminatory.

Arlene Stringer-Cuevas was 86, her son said.

Working for a more progressive Brooklyn

There’s a new queen of Kings County.As the nation observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 20, Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte was busy making history at Canarsie’s Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club. That evening, the three-term Central Brooklyn lawmaker was overwhelmingly elected chairwoman of th…

No one expected Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., who was a potentially strong candidate to be New York City’s first Latino mayor, to announce in late January that he would drop out of the 2021 mayoral race and retire from politics at the end of his term.

GOVERNOR CUOMO, NYS LEGISLATURE — FORCING HUNDREDS OF CANDIDATES TO OVERCROWD BOARD OF ELECTIONS OFFICE — IN VIOLATION OF COVID-19 SAFETY WARNINGS Even as Governor Cuomo and local leaders are…

New York on Wednesday moved up the deadline for candidates to file petitions to run in state and federal primary elections because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Some candidates are suspending door-to-door canvassing.

This month in New York, candidates for office and their teams have been knocking on doors, shaking hands and sharing pens and with as many people as they can. It’s petitioning season, when candidates need to get residents of their district to sign a sheet saying their name deserves to be on the ball…

Thirty-four candidates from across New York State submitted a petition to Governor Andrew Cuomo to suspend or reduce petitioning requirements...

You were absolutely right to declare a state of emergency to address the current coronavirus outbreak. However, as we speak, hundreds of campaign volunteers and paid canvassers are spread out across…

One Westchester County lawmaker — the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Empire State — has drafted legislation to slash the number of signatures required for Assembly and Senate incumbents …