[New-york-news] Election results

[Mike Robinson]

Hopefully with a democratic assembly, senate, and governor we can get some
state stuff done this year.

Mike

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:31 PM Christian Minkler <chrisminkler at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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 ® was re-elected.
>
> 2nd district-Peter King ® 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 ® was re-elected.
>
> 22nd district- Anthony Brindisi (D) was elected.  He defeated Claudia
> Tenney.
>
> 23rd district- Tom Reed ® was re-elected.
>
> 24th district- John Katko ® 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 ® was re-elected.
>
> Regards, Chris Minkler.
>
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