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NYS Assembly Dist 54 - Brooklyn
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New York State Assembly - District 55
Brooklyn:
This seat is currently empty as former Assemblyman Rafael Espinal left to run for the city council in 2013. Erik Dilan, who formerly employed Rafael Espinal as his chief of staff, is now running for this vacant assembly seat, and faces reform-minded challengers.
Election Date: Sept 9, 2014
Neighborhoods: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brownsville, Crown Heights, Ocean Hill. Map at Latfor website (pdf). Map at Assembly website.
Candidates: (in alphabetical order)
Kimberly Council (D)
Erik Dilan (D)
Cyril Joseph (D)
Links & Information:
Burning Bushwick: 2nd Anti-Lopez Activist Files for Espinal Assembly Seat Brooklyn Daily, April 2014
More background: In 2012, there was a special election for this Assembly district, and the Democratic party nominated Rafael Espinal. Democracy for NYC and other progressive groups, including the WFP, supported Jesus Gonzalez, a reform Democrat, who ran on the WFP line. Espinal won the 2012 special election, and left the seat a year later to run for the city council seat. The previous council member, Erik Dilan, was term limited out in 2013; Espinal had previously been Dilan's chief of staff.
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A local coalition group of Democracy for America since 2004
Democracy for NYC (DFNYC) is committed to the ideals espoused by Democracy for America, the organization founded by Howard Dean, and the national network of local coalition groups dedicated to the same.