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Election 2014
DC 37 endorsements for General Election, Tuesday, Nov. 4

These candidates have been endorsed by District Council 37 for the General Election on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.*

Vote for candidates who fight for the needs of working people and retirees.

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	*To verify your polling site location, call your borough Board of Elections office, or go to the NYC Board of Elections website at http://nyc.pollsitelocator.com/Search.aspx MANHATTAN 200 Varick St. 10th fl. New York, NY 10014 212-886-2100 BRONX 1780 Grand Concourse, 5th fl. Bronx, NY 10457 718-299-9017 BROOKLYN 345 Adams Street, 4th fl. Brooklyn, NY 11201 718-797-8800 QUEENS 126-06 Queens Boulevard Kew Gardens, NY 10457 718-730-6730 STATEN ISLAND 1 Edgewater Plaza, 4th fl. Staten Island, NY 10305 718-876-0079

Domenic M. Recchia Jr.: DC 37 has endorsed former City Council member and Finance Committee Chair Domenic M. Recchia Jr. in the Nov. 4 election to represent the 11th Congressional District (Staten Island and southern Brooklyn). Recchia, a longtime ally of the union, played a central role in preventing the layoffs of 650 School Aides in 2012.

“Congress needs someone with a history of working across party lines,” said DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts. The vote for this seat in the U.S. Congress has great national importance. Victory for Democrat Recchia over incumbent Republican Michael Grimm would answer Republican attempts to kill the Affordable Care Act and block President Obama’s efforts to increase wages and protect the environment.

“I’m honored to have the support of DC 37 and the extraordinary men and women who work every day to keep our city moving,” said Recchia, who succeeded in providing City Council funds to protect members and services from damaging cuts sought by the previous administration.

“Voting for Recchia would strike a blow for Obama and win better representation for our members in the 11th District,” said Associate Director Henry Garrido.

“Most Corrupt Members of Congress” by the non-partisan group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

“We cannot take anything for granted in this election,” said Local 1320 President James Tucciarelli, a Staten Island resident. “We have got to get all of our members out to the polls.”

Thomas P. DiNapoli: DC 37 has enthusiastically endorsed Thomas P. DiNapoli for state Comptroller against Republican Rob Antonacci. DiNapoli stood strong with public service workers against harmful changes in the pension system.

Accountability and transparency of government finances has been his mission. When DC 37 and other public sector unions asked him to study the budgets and outside contracts of state agencies, Comptroller Di Napoli uncovered massive waste and misuse of taxpayers’ money and instituted stringent reporting requirements on their financial dealings.

His audits blew the whistle on more than $1 billion of unjustified contracting out at the Port Authority and other agencies. In 2012 he launched a series of audits that found widespread abuse of public funds by special education contractors, resulting in felony arrests, guilty pleas and restitution. He forced one contractor to repay more than $400,000 that was crookedly charged to the New York City Dept. of Education.

While other states around the country have struggled with their pension funds, DiNapoli has done extremely well at protecting the retirement security of 1 million employees and retirees in his role of managing the $176 billion New York State and Local Retirement System. He instituted important reforms, including increasing opportunities for women and minority investment firms and banning profiteer “placement agents.”

“Comptroller DiNapoli understands and cares about the impact of financial decisions on working and poor people. We should vote to keep his sensitivity and expertise in office,” said DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts.

— Alfredo Alvarado

New York State Assembly
BROOKLYN 41 Helene Weinstein 42 Rodneyse Bichotte 43 Karim Camara 44 James Brennan 45 No Endorsement 46 Alec Brook-Krasny 47 William Colton 49 Peter Abbate Jr. 50 Joseph Lentol 51 Felix Ortiz 52 JoAnne Simon 55 Latrice Walker 56 Annette Robinson 57 Walter Mosley 58 N. Nick Perry 59 No Endorsement 60 Charles Barron QUEENS 24 David Weprin 29 William Scarborough 27 Michael Simanowitz 30 Margaret Markey 31 Michele Titus 32 Vivian Cook 35 Jeffrion Aubry 33 Barbara Clark 37 Catherine Nolan 38 Michael Miller 39 Francisco Moya 40 Ron Kim	BRONX 77 Latoya Joyner 78 José Rivera 79 Michael Blake 81 Jeffrey Dinowitz 82 Michael Benedetto 83 Carl Heastie 85 Marcos Crespo 86 Victor Pichardo 87 Luis Sepulveda MANHATTAN 65 Sheldon Silver 66 Deborah Glick 67 Linda Rosenthal 68 Robert Rodriguez 69 Daniel O’Donnell 70 Keith Wright 71 Herman D. Farrell Jr. 72 Guillermo Linares 75 Richard Gottfried 76 Rebecca Seawright STATEN ISLAND 61 Matthew Titone 63 Michael Cusick 64 No Endorsement
New York State Senate
MANHATTAN 28 Liz Krueger 29 José Serrano 30 Bill Perkins BROOKLYN 18 Martin Malavé Dilan 19 John Sampson 20 Jesse Hamilton 21 Kevin Parker 22 Martin Golden 25 Velmanette Montgomery BRONX 32 Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. 33 Gustavo Rivera 34 Jeff Klein 35 Andrea Stewart-Cousins 36 Ruth Hassell-Thompson	QUEENS 10 James Sanders Jr. 11 Tony Avella 12 Michael Gianaris 13 José Peralta 14 Leroy Comrie 15 Joseph Addabbo Jr. 16 Toby Ann Stavisky STATEN ISLAND 23 Diane Savino 24 Andrew Lanza
U.S. House of Representatives
5 Gregory Meeks 6 Grace Meng 8 Hakeem Jeffries 7 Nydia Velázquez 9 Yvette Clarke 10 Jerrold Nadler	11 Domenic M. Recchia Jr. 12 Carolyn Maloney 13 Charles B. Rangel 14 Joseph Crowley 15 José E. Serrano 16 Eliot Engel
Attorney General
Eric T. Schneiderman

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