DC 37 announces endorsements in ‘09 races
Posted on July 15, 2009 by Ivan Pereira in City Council, District 19, District 20, District 23, District 29, District 31, District 32
The city’s largest municipal employee union announced its picks last Thursday for this year’s City Council races.
DC 37, which has more than 125,000 members in various fields including nursing, sanitation and education workers, predominantly selected the Council’s Queens incumbents for their election choices.
The union went against the status quo in the race for Democrat James Sanders’ 31st Council District seat and the race Republican Eric Ulrich’s seat in the 32nd Council District.
Marq Claxton, who will be challenging Sanders in the Democratic primary in September, got the nod by the union. Frank Gulluscio, a Democrat who ran against Ulrich in the February special election for the seat but was removed from the ballot by a petition challenge, was also endorsed by DC 37.
For the elections for the seats left vacated by current Council members, the union endorsed Democrat Jerry Iannece for Democratic Councilman Tony Avella’s seat in the 19th District, Democrat S.J. Jung for Democratic Councilman John Liu’s seat in the 20th District, state Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D-Little Neck) for the 23rd District seat vacated by his brother David Weprin, Democrat Jimmy van Bramer for the District 26 seat vacated by Councilman Eric Gioia and former Queens Deputy Borough President Karen Koslowitz (D) for her run for the 29th Council District seat that will be vacated by Melinda Katz (D).
July 15th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I have to wonder about any union member that decides to vote a certain way because his/her union endorses a candidate.
I happen to be a DC37 member, and their endorsements mean absolutely nothing to me or several of my coworkers.