[New-york-news] Election results

Fri Nov 9 18:31:21 UTC 2018

Friends, As you know, the 2018 election was held on November 6, 2018.  This
email concerns results in the United States Senate and House of
Representatives.  Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was re-elected to the United
States Senate.  There were 5 new members from New York elected to the United
States House of Representatives.  They are Joseph Morelle, Max Rose,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Antonio Delgado and Anthony Brindisi.  All 5 are
Democrats.  The following is some brief biographical information on these
new members of the House.  Most of the information was gathered from
Wikipedia and ballotpedia.  For Mr. Delgado, the information is from his
website.  

Joseph Morelle was elected to the 25th district.  This is the district
formerly held by Louise Slaughter.  Louise Slaughter died on March 16, 2018.
Joseph Morelle, 61, has served as the New York Assembly Majority Leader
since January 1, 2013.  Morrele was born in Utica.  He grew up in the town
of Irondequoit.  He has a bachelors degree in political science from SUNY
Geneseo.  Morrele worked as a salesman for a drycleaning and laundry
business.  He has served in the Assembly since January, 1991 and as majority
leader since 2013.  In the Assembly, he has served on economic development,
job creation, tourism, commerce and industry, higher education and libraries
and education technology committees.  Morrele lives in Irondequoit.  

Max Rose was elected to the 11th district.  He defeated Dan Donovan.  Max
Rose, 31, was born and grew up in Brooklyn.  Rose has a BA in history from
Wesleyan University.  He has a masters in philosophy and public policy from
the London School of Economics.  He served in the Army for 5 years active
duty and in the reserves for 5 years.  Rose was a platoon leader in
Afghanistan.  He received the bronze star and the purple heart.  After
leaving military service, Mr. Rose served as director of public engagement
for Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson.  He was later the chief of
staff at Brightpoint Health, a nonprofit operator of medical clinics in New
York City.  

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was elected to the 14th district.  She defeated
Joseph Crowley in the democratic primary in June.  On November 6, she
defeated the Republican candidate, Anthony Pappas.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
is 29 years old.  She is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.  She
was born in the Bronx.  When she was 5, her family moved to Yorktown
Heights, a suburb in Westchester county.  She regularly visited her extended
family in the Bronx.  Ms. Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Yorktown High School
in 2007.  In college, she was an intern for Senator Ted Kennedy.  She
graduated from Boston University with a bachelors degree in economics.  She
established a publishing firm, Brook Avenue Press, which specializes in
childrens literature.  She worked as lead educational strategist at Gageis,
inc.  Ocasio-Cortez was also an educator at the nonprofit National Hispanic
Institute.  In 2016, she worked as an organizer for the Bernie Sanders
presidential campaign.  

Antonio Delgado was elected to the 19th district.  He defeated John Faso.
He was born and raised in Schenectady.  He attended Colgate University in
Hamilton, NY.  He was then a Rhodes scholar to Oxford.  He later attended
Harvard law school.  Mr. Delgado and his wife, Lacey, live in Rhinebeck.  

Anthony Brindisi was elected to the 22nd district.  He defeated Claudia
Tenney.  Mr. Brindisi, 31, was born in Utica.  He has a bachelors degree in
history from Siena College.  He has a J.D. (Juris Doctor) from Albany Law
School.  Mr. Brindisi has served in the New York Assembly.  He was first
elected to the Assembly in a special election on September 13, 2011.  He
worked as a partner at Brindisi, Murad, Brindisi, Pearlman, Julian and
Pertz.  

There was a recent article in the New York Times which described the ranking
democratic members of some House committees.  The article was published one
week before the election.  The article was noting that, if the Democrats
took the majority in the 2018 elections, these senior Democrats would become
committee chairmen.  Jerrold Nadler is expected to be chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee.  Nita Lowey is expected to be chairwoman of the House
Appropriations Committee.  Eliot Engel is expected to become chairman of the
House Foreign Relations Committee.  In January, the New York delegation to
the House of Representatives will be 21 Democrats and 6 Republicans.  

1st District- Lee Zeldin R was re-elected. 

2nd district-Peter King R was re-elected. 

3rd district-Thomas Suozzi (D) was re-elected. 

4th district- Kathleen Rice (D) was re-elected. 

5th district- Gregory Meeks (D) was re-elected.  

6th district- Grace Meng (D) was re-elected. 

7th district- Nydia Velazquez (D) was re-elected. 

8th district- Hakeem Jeffries (D) was re-elected. 

9th district-  Yvette Clarke (D) was re-elected. 

10th district-  Jerrold Nadler (D) was re-elected. 

11th district- Max Rose (D) was elected.  He defeated Dan Donovan. 

12th district- Carolyn Maloney (D) was re-elected. 

13th district- Adriano Espaillat (D) was re-elected. 

14th district- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) was elected.  She defeated
Joseph Crowley in the Democratic primary.  

15th district- Jose Serrano (D) was re-elected. 

16th district- Eliot Engel (D) was re-elected. 

17th district- Nita Lowey (D) was re-elected. 

18th district- Sean Patrick Maloney (D) was re-elected. 

19th district- Antonio Delgado (D) was elected.  He defeated John Faso.  

20th district- Paul Tonko (D) was re-elected.  

21st district- Elise Stefanik R was re-elected.  

22nd district- Anthony Brindisi (D) was elected.  He defeated Claudia
Tenney. 

23rd district- Tom Reed R was re-elected. 

24th district- John Katko R was re-elected.  

25th district- Joseph Morelle (D) was elected.  This district was formerly
held by Louise Slaughter. 

26th district- Brian Higgins (D) was re-elected. 

27th district- Chris Collins R was re-elected. 

Regards, Chris Minkler. 

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