Post by Logan on Apr 16, 2016 5:36:22 GMT -6
In the race to fill the Manhattan seat vacated by convicted former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the candidates have placed tackling corruption at the top of their to-do lists.
So much so that Republican contender Lester Chang has a “Clean Up the Mess” party line, and Democrat Alice Cancel and Yuh-Line Niou of the Working Families Party have, respectively, “reform in Albany” and “cleaning up Albany” campaign website pages detailing their plans.
“Sheldon Silver has not been the first and will not be the last to go to prison because this has been an epidemic thing in the system,” Cancel said in an interview.
Cancel, Niou, Chang and Green Party candidate Dennis Levy are competing in a special election Tuesday for the 65th Assembly District seat, which includes the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
Read more: www.newsday.com/long-island/4-candidates-vie-for-assembly-seat-vacated-by-sheldon-silver-1.11697865
So much so that Republican contender Lester Chang has a “Clean Up the Mess” party line, and Democrat Alice Cancel and Yuh-Line Niou of the Working Families Party have, respectively, “reform in Albany” and “cleaning up Albany” campaign website pages detailing their plans.
“Sheldon Silver has not been the first and will not be the last to go to prison because this has been an epidemic thing in the system,” Cancel said in an interview.
Cancel, Niou, Chang and Green Party candidate Dennis Levy are competing in a special election Tuesday for the 65th Assembly District seat, which includes the Lower East Side and Chinatown.
Read more: www.newsday.com/long-island/4-candidates-vie-for-assembly-seat-vacated-by-sheldon-silver-1.11697865