Every two years, we ask Congressional candidates to answer a series of questions to determine if they truly support the livable streets movement, are merely paying lip service to it or are outright foes
Months ago, we reached out to the candidates in the June 23 Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District, which covers upper Manhattan and The Bronx and has long been the political base of Rep. Adriano Espaillat, an opponent of the Department of Transportation’s Vision Zero efforts under now three mayors. Espaillat did not respond to our questionnaire, but his Democratic Socialist opponent, Darializa Avila Chevalier, did
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every Lemming lives in Upper Manhattan confirmed
This post isn’t specifically about me and that makes me mad. 😠
Exactly! Have a little fun 😄
Single-issue voting is tight!
How many elections do you have there? Didn’t you just elect a new mayor?
This is the Democratic party primary for the US congress election that will be held in November, in which all 435 congressional seats across the country will be up for election. We run elections for those seats every 2 years. Tomorrow’s primary just determines which candidate the Democrats will run in the general, and only registered Democrats can participate in the primary as per New York Democratic Party rules.
The NYC mayoral race just happened to be last November (Most US elections happen in November), and that role is up for election every 4 years.
