On the tube…
05/15/2012 NY1 News: City Council Candidate Tries To Make History
Inside City Hall’s Errol Louis spoke with Mel Wymore about his campaign to become the first openly transgender member of the City Council.
In the papers and over the airwaves…
05/19/2012 The Washington Post: Hakeem Jeffries – Brooklyn’s Barack Obama? by Rachel Weinerat
Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn’s Barack Obama?
The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president.
“They’re both African-American, they’re both strikingly handsome, and they’re both highly intelligent,” said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Jeffries supporter. “Both of them have wonderful smiles.”
But the echoes go further than that. Click here to read more
