Candidates

Wrapped up 2022.  On January 19, club will introduce Queens District Attorney and City Council 2023 candidates. 7 candidates presented their stories and recommendations. • Paul King, Congress 5th ag Gregory Meeks • Juan Pagan, Congress 7th ag Nydia Velazquez • Steve Speer, Congress 10th ag Dan Goldman • Robert Bobrick, State Senate 47th ag Brad Hoylman • Martha Rowen, State Senate 26th ag Andrew Giournardes • Arkadiusz Tomaszewski, State Assembly 44th ag Robert Carroll • Marilyn Miller, State Assembly 32nd ag Vivian Cook 3 chairman of the board candidates were nominated. Martha Rowen, Vic Starsky and David Abraham. Post election analysis by Eric Vineski (more…)

Updated:  June 24, 2022.  In a 6-3 decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overruled Roe and Casey.  Opinion of the Supreme Court 19-1392. Ameer Benno presented the case's background at the June 22 club meeting. Roe v. Wade: 410 US 113 (1973) • In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides a "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. • It also ruled that this right is not absolute, and must be balanced against the government's interests in protecting women's health and prenatal life. • The court tied the state's regulation of abortion to the three trimesters of pregnancy; during the first trimester, governments could not prohibit abortions at al...

Petitioning schedule for State Senate and Congressional candidates. Congressional maps submitted: Republican (Bennet Moskowitz) Democrat (Eric Hecker) Empire Center (Cam McDonald) Unity Map (Jose Perez, Jerry Mattamalla, Laurie Daniel Favors) Common Cause (Neil Steiner) Mary Schmidt Roth University of Buffalo Law School (Frank Housh) New York Law School (Jeffrey Wice) Stanford Law (Nathaniel Persily) Stephen Dunn (spoke 5/12/22) Wilson Prieve (Brooklyn Tech student) Ari Spinoza (Onondaga CC student) State Senate maps submitted: Republican Democrat (same voided maps) Empire Center Unity Map Common Cause University of Buffalo Law School Wilson Prieve Ramond Lin Central Queens Redistricting Coalition (Raj Korpan and Heather Beers-Dimitriadis) Daniel Hennessy (35 ye...