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(29,068 posts)Five Democrats are now courting party support to run against freshman Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth in what will likely be a shortened schedule for seeking the nomination.
The newest candidate is Anne Jacobs Moultrie, a union leader and registered nurse from the Town of Woodbury. Jacobs Moultrie, a vice president of 1199 Service Employees International Union, said on Wednesday that she plans to step down from her job on Friday to run for Congress and will formally announce her candidacy on Feb. 11.
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The Democrat whos been campaigning longest to unseat her is Rich Becker, a cardiologist and town councilman from Cortlandt in Westchester County. Becker announced his candidacy last July, followed four months later by Wappingers Falls Mayor Matt Alexander.
Tuxedo Park Mayor Tom Wilson joined the race last month. And appearing with him, Becker and Alexander at a Democratic forum in Peekskill last week was Buchanan resident Duane Jackson, who has yet to make a formal campaign announcement. Jackson is known as the street vendor who alerted police to a terrorist bomb in Times Square in 2010.
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The Wielding Truth
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(11,415 posts)"Nan currently serves on the House Financial Services Committee which is very important to the economy of the 19th District. Reducing regulatory burdens on businesses..."
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(205,363 posts)And I'm hoping that the momentum spreads Northward to District 20!!!
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(29,068 posts)Thanks f your link..
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(29,068 posts)Fifth Dem vies for spot to take on Hayworth
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120202/NEWS/202020340
Five Democrats are now courting party support to run against freshman Republican Rep. Nan Hayworth in what will likely be a shortened schedule for seeking the nomination.
The newest candidate is Anne Jacobs Moultrie, a union leader and registered nurse from the Town of Woodbury. Jacobs Moultrie, a vice president of 1199 Service Employees International Union, said on Wednesday that she plans to step down from her job on Friday to run for Congress and will formally announce her candidacy on Feb. 11.
"I just don't feel like working folks like me or the people I talk to have a voice through this current representative," said Jacobs Moultrie, who represents nurses at hospitals and nursing homes in the Bronx and Orange, Rockland and Westchester counties.
The field of potential Hayworth challengers has grown while the time for Democrats to pick one has shrunk. Last week, a federal judge ordered New York to hold its congressional primaries in June instead of September to give deployed service members and other overseas voters more time to cast absentee ballots. His ruling set June 26 as this year's primary date.