PRIDE Dems is New York City-wide & LI with members throughout NYS! PRIDE meets monthly -- please see below. 2012 Congressional Primary: June 26 1st District (Suffolk County): _______ _______ 2nd District (Nassau County): _______ _______ 5th District (Queens): _______ _______ 6th District (Queens): ________ ________ 7th District (Queens/Bronx): Joseph "Joe" Crowley 8th District (Manhattan/Brooklyn): ~no endorsement~ 9th District (Queens/Brooklyn): ~district dissolves after 2012~ 10th District (Brooklyn): Hakeem S. Jeffries 11th District (Brooklyn): Yvette D. Clarke 12th District (Brooklyn/Manhattan): _______ _______ 13th District (Staten Island): _______ _______ 14th District (Manhattan/Queens): Carolyn B. Maloney 15th District (Manhattan/Bronx): _______ _______ 16th District (Bronx/Manhattan): _______ _______ 17th District (Bronx): _______ _______ * PRIDE Dems meetings in 2012 PRIDE Democrats meetings: 3rd Wednesday @ 8 p.m. LGBT Center, 212 West 13 Street (between Seventh Avenue and Greenwich Avenue), Manhattan, New York. PRIDE Dems also meets daily via website, social networks, phone and e-mails! PRIDE Democrats - Memberships & Campaigns Dues: $25 yearly Sponsorship: $100 annual Candidates' Package: $1,000 (half-page ads, mailings and email blasts) Deluxe Campaign Package (full-page ads, mailings, phone banks, networks, email blasts, fax factory, flyers) PRIDE Democrats e-mail: PRIDEdemocrats@nyct.com PRIDE Dems campaign cellphone: (917) 374-9729 Mail Memberships/Sponsorships: PRIDE Democrats Suite 2001 457 FDR Drive Manhattan, NY 10002 Results - * = win! 2011 - Off-Year Election Tuesday, November 8 Bronx District Attorney: Robert Johnson* Staten Island District Attorney: Dan Donovan* {Who was his opponent? They never contacted PRIDE! D.D. did!} General Election Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Andrew M. Cuomo for N.Y.S. Governor* (unlike all other GLBT political groups, we also endorsed AMC for Governor in 2002) Robert J. Duffy for N.Y.S. Lieutenant Governor* N.Y.S. Comptroller: Harry J. Wilson Join the New York State Democrats for Wilson Coalition at: WilsonForNewYork.com//Democrats_Wilson_Coalition Endorsed by The New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News The Wall Street Journal, New York Observer, Newsday, Crain's Business, etc. NYS Attorney General: Eric T. Schneideman* * U.S. Congress 1st (Suffolk County): Randy Altschuler (challenger) 2nd (Suffolk): Steve J. Israel* 4th (Nassau County): Carolyn C. McCarthy* 5th (Queens): Gary D. Ackerman* 7th (Bronx/Queens): Joseph J. Crowley* 8th (Manhattan/Brooklyn): Jerrold L. Nadler* 9th (Queens): Anthony D. Weiner* 10th (Brooklyn): Edolphus (Ed) Towns* 11th (Brooklyn): Yvette D. Clarke* 12th (Manhattan/Brooklyn): Nydia M. Vazquez* 13th (Staten Island): Michael E. McMahon 14th (Manhattan/Queens): Carolyn B. Maloney* 15th (Manhattan/Bronx): Charles B. Rangel* 16th (Manhattan/Bronx): Jose E. Serrano* 17th (The Bronx): Eliot L. Engel* 18th (Westchester): Nita M. Lowey* 19th (Putnam): John J. Hall 20th (Eastern NYS): M. Scott Murphy 2010 Primary Election - results! Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 N.Y.S. Governor: Andrew M. Cuomo* N.Y.S. Attorney General: Kathleen Rice
* U.S. Congress Manhattan, 14th District (Upper East Side, Yorkville, Turtle Bay, Murray Hill, Kip's Bay, Gramercy Park, Stuyvesant Town, East Village, Lower East Side) & Roosevelt Island & Queens (Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside): Reshma Saujani Brooklyn, 10th District (Bedford-Stuyvesant, Canarsie, Brownsville, East New York): Edolphus Towns* {not perfect yet not a threatening and raging hothead like his opponent}
Manhattan, 15th District (Harlem, Washington Heights, Upper West Side, Hamilton Heights, Riverside Park, Inwood, Fort George):
* New York State Senate Queens, 10th District (Springfield Gardens, Laurelton, South Ozone Park): Queens, 11th District (Northeast Queens, Bayside, Douglaston, Bellerose, Little Neck): Brooklyn, 22nd District (Sheepshead Bay, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach): Manhattan/Bronx, 28th District (Manhattan - East Harlem,
Roosevelt Island / The Bronx - Mott Haven, Highbridge, Mount Eden,
Morris Park, Highbridge): Manhattan, 30th District (Morningside Hts., Harlem, Upper West Side, Hamilton Hts.): Manhattan, 31st District (Upper Manhattan, Washington Heights, Riverdale): The Bronx, 32nd District (Bronxdale, Hunt's Point, Bruckner, Castle Hill, Soundview): The Bronx, 33rd District (Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge, Norwood, Tremont): Upstate New York, 58th District (Buffalo, Cheektowaga, Eden, Lackawana): * New York State Assembly Queens, 35th District (Corona, East Elmhurst):Jeffrion Aubry* Queens, 39th District (Corona, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst): Brooklyn, 42nd District (Midwood, Flatbush): Brooklyn, District 50: Manhattan, 68th District (East Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Italian Harlem): Manhattan, 73rd District (East Side, Gramercy Park, Turtle Bay): The Bronx, 80th District (Pelham Parkway, Morris Park, Pelham Bay, Allerton): Michael Benedetto* The Bronx, 86th District (West Bronx, Grand Concourse):
===next PRIDE Dems meeting===
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 @ 8 p.m. Topic: New Year political discussions and plans at Our Favorite Greenwich Village Restaurant Manhattan, New York Paid PRIDE members know exactly where to go -- the treat's on PRIDE!
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2009 General Election
* = winner!
New York City Mayor * Public Advocate Bill De Blasio* * N.Y.C. Comptroller John C. Liu (aka J-Lu)* * Bronx Borough President: Ruben Diaz, Jr.* * Queens Borough President: Helen D. Marshall* * New York City Council {selected competitive contests} Manhattan - 1st: Margaret Chin* 2nd: Rosie Mendez* 4th: Dan Garodnick* 5th: Jessica S. Lappin* 7th: Robert Jackson* 9th: Inez Dickens* 10th: Ydanis Rodriguez* Bronx - 11th: Oliver Koppell* 13th: Jimmy Vacca* 14th: Fernando Cabrera* 15th: Jo-el Rivera* (Majority Leader) 16th: Helen Foster* Queens - 22nd: Peter Vallone, Jr.* 23rd: Mark Weprin* 29th: Lynn Schulman 30th: Elizabeth Crowley* 32nd: Eric Ulrich* Staten Island - 49th: Debbi Rose*
www.BilldeBlasio.com
V*O*T*E Primary Election Day Tuesday, September 15, 2009 In New York City Polls are open the longest in NY from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Vote as part of history with the largest voter turn-out! Candidates' Conferences Wednesday, August 19, 2009 @ 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Candidates or their campaign managers or senior advisors have confirmed from NYC Comptroller, Public Advocate, Manhattan District Attorney and several Council districts including Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx. Ken Diamondstone from Brooklyn Heights is represented by his loving and dutiful 34-year partner Joe A. Kopitz! at the LGBT Community Services Center Conference Room - 2nd Floor 208 West 13 Street off Seventh Avenue Manhattan, New York ================================================================== 2008 Democratic Primary Endorsements * Brooklyn Congressional - 10th District Edolphus 'Ed' Towns* N.Y.S. Senate - 21st District Kevin S. Parker* N.Y.S. Senate - 25th District Daniel Squadron* (Note: District in two boroughs!!) N.Y.S. Assembly - 42nd District Rhoda Jacobs* N.Y.S. Assembly - 55th District no endorsement N.Y.S. Assembly - 59th District Alan Maisel* Civil Court Devin Cohen* * Manhattan N.Y.S. Senate - 25th District Daniel Squadron* (District in 2 NYC boroughs!) Surrogate's Court Nora Anderson* Civil Court Nancy Bannon* * Queens N.Y.S. Senate - 15th District Joseph Addabbo* N.Y.S. Senate - 16th District Toby Ann Stavisky* N.Y.S. Assembly - 22nd District Ellen Young N.Y.S. Assembly - 34th District M. Den Dekker* * Staten Island Congressional - 13th C.D. Michael McMahon* * The Bronx N.Y.S. Assembly - 79th District Michael Benjamin* N.Y.S. Assembly - 83rd District Sherman Browne N.Y.S. Assembly - 85th District Ruben Diaz, Jr.* Civil Court Elizabeth Taylor!* ________________ * = Winner! * * * * * =Primary Day= Tuesday, September 9, 2008 Polls open in New York from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. PRIDE Democrats ("PRIDE") is a New York City-wide political club. The "PRIDE" name is an acronym for Pride Rainbow Independent Democrats Etcetera. PRIDE Dems is primarily -- but definitely not exclusively -- a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender ("GLBT") political organization. PRIDE Dems has the longest-reaching Gay historical roots of any Gay political club in New York. It commenced and incrementalized as the political arm of the STONEWALL Veterans' Association ("S.V.A."). It took a quarter-of-a-century for this political group to get its own name and identity but when it did, on the occasion of the international "Stonewall 25", it got the best and the most appropriate moniker: PRIDE! PRIDE Democrats sponsored the largest candidates' forum -- literally a political "who's who" -- in the history of the State of New York. Among those cabdidates who attended and spoke were Geraldine Ferraro, Mark Green, Betsy McCaughey, Peter Vallone, Sr., Charles Hynes, James Larocca, Sandra Frankel, Eliot Spitzer, Oliver Koppell, Catherine Abate, Evan Davis, Edolphus Towns, Ken Diamondstone, Eric Schneiderman, Danny O'Donnell, Jerry Goldfedder, Carlos Manzano, Aubrey Lees, Christopher Lynn, Christine Quinn, et al. The forum was held at the Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center at 208 West 13th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, on Thursday evening, August 27, 1998. It started right on time at 7 p.m. and lasted right up to 11 p.m. for four 'all-seats-taken/standing-room-only' hours. Williamson had the big Assembly Hall decorated with red, white, blue and pink balloons. In another break from the usual, he allowed the candidates to post their campaign posters on the walls. Prior to the event, we were repeatedly told by most all: "Don't have a political forum in late, hot, summer August; no one will come. Besides, so many people are on vacation then". Williamson Henderson announced that when he throws an event, people will come even if there's a "heat wave". There was! The Gay Center's barely acceptable air-conditioning system then (years before the renovation) would be severely tested that very hot evening. It failed -- and totally broke down. Hot, hot, hot. Nonetheless, the forum event was so important, strategically timed in close proximity to the Primary Election, and so well-promoted and advertised that it was incredibly an overwhelming and unique success. It seemed that almost everyone was surprised -- except Williamson. He was the director, the manager and the chief moderator of the entire Democratic candidates forum. He also chose sectional co-moderators namely Liz Abzug (LJACS), Matt Foreman (ESPA), Kevin McGruder (GMAD), Noah Pfefferblit (MBP Office) and Jenni Egan (IQKNY) to help out with the big forum. Media advertising was handled exclusively by the New York Blade News under the project promotional direction of Williamson. PRIDE Democrats, unlike its counterparts, does not entertain 'conventional wisdom' or simply choose 'safe' candidates. With determined, daring and dashing political strategies, maneuvers and approaches, PRIDE is known for promoting a "dark horse" that places first or getting behind a losing underdog and turning them into a thoroughbred winner! PRIDE has many prominent non-GLBT members such as U.S. Congressmember Carolyn B. Maloney, New York State Governor Eliot L. Spitzer, New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, former Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate and U.S. Congressmember Geraldine A. Ferraro, former New York City Council Speaker Peter A. Vallone, Sr., former N.Y.S. Lieutenant Governor Betsy H. McCaughey, Honorable Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., N.Y.S. Senator Eric Schneiderman and the late and great N.Y.C. Councilmember James E. "Jed" Davis. To quote PRIDE founder Williamson Henderson, "Unlike any other Gay (or non-Gay) political club, if expedient or necessary, we will go anywhere -- uptown, crosstown and/or downtown, East Side/West Side -- to hand out our PRIDE endorsement literature as long as it is to registered-to-vote citizens. In general elections, we distribute the lit to everyone! You won't be surprised to know, if you know New York City and the GLBT communities, that in our political communications and travels, we have come across the paths of a few Democrat rats. Who hasn't? Undeterred and more motivated, PRIDE Dems pushes on and up the ladder -- and typically prevails." P.R.I.D.E. =2006= Archive Victory Election Party ("VEP") for * Andrew Cuomo * at Sheraton Ballroom Seventh Av. & West 52 St. Manhattan, New York 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Super Special Guests: Former U.S. Congressmember Geraldine Ferraro Former N.Y.S. Governor Mario "Dad" Cuomo N.Y.C. Mayor-for-Life Ed Koch Former N.Y.S. First Lady Matilda "Mom" Cuomo Former Atty. Gen. candidate Charlie King Good Morning America's Chris "Bro" Cuomo Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Maria "Sis" Cuomo Cole (& Kenneth) Councilmember Jessica Lappin Ambassadresses Cuomo-Kennedy Gyrlz R.S.V.P. (212) 425-1110 (24/7/365) PRIDE is so proud of all of our big majority of winners!!! V-O-T-E in the New York General Election Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. SPITZER for N.Y.S. Governor PATERSON for Lieutenant Governor CUOMO for Attorney General * PRIDE Democrats Primary 2006 Endorsements ------U.S. Senate------ Hillary R. Clinton, New York ------New York Statewide------ Eliot L. Spitzer for Governor David A. Paterson for Lieutenant Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for Attorney General ------U.S. Congress------ Edolphus "Ed" Towns, 10th Dist. (Brooklyn) Yvette D. Clarke, 11th Dist. (Bklyn.) ------N.Y.S. Senate------ Kevin S. Parker, 21st Dist. (Bklyn.) Ken Diamondstone, 25th Dist. (Bklyn.) Eric T. Schneiderman, 31st Dist. (Manhattan) ------N.Y.S. Assembly------ Jose J. Peralta, 39th Dist. (Queens) Hakeem S. Jeffries, 57th Dist. (Bklyn.) Linda Rosenthal, 67th Dist. (Manh.) Brian P. Kavanaugh, 74th Dist. (Manh.) Michael Benjamin, 79th Dist. (Bronx) ------N.Y.C. Judicial------ Paul M. Feinman, 1st Dist. (Manhattan) David B. Cohen, 2nd Dist. (Manh.) Eileen A. Rakower, 3rd Dist. (Manh.) Note: PRIDE Dems does not endorse when we do not hear! V=O=T=E! N.Y. Primary Election Tuesday, September 12, 2006 P.R.I.D.E. =2005= Archive PRIDE Democrats =====Endorsements===== in the General Election 2005 same endorsees as Primary except..... N.Y.C. Mayor: Michael R. Bloomberg Manhattan District Attorney: Robert M. Morgenthau & Staff N.Y. City Council District #9: Inez R. Dickens (Primary winner) [Central Harlem * Manhattan] N.Y. City Council District #23: David I. Weprin (Primary unopposed) [Queens Village, Fresh Meadows * Queens]  PRIDE Democrats Endorsements in Primary Election on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 "PRIDE does not just endorse, we ACT!" New York City Mayor: C. Virginia Fields New York City Public Advocate: Betsy F. Gotbaum (re-elect) Manhattan Borough President: Margarita L. Lopez Manhattan District Attorney: Leslie Crocker-Snyder New York City Council 2nd District: Rosaura "Rosie" Mendez [East Village, Lower East Side, Gramercy * Manhattan] 4th District: Daniel R. Garodnick [Midtown East, Murray Hill, Central Park East * Manhattan] 5th District: Jessica C. Lappin [East Side, Turtle Bay, Kips Bay, R.I. * Manhattan] 7th District: Robert J. Jackson (re-elect) [West Harlem * Manhattan] 8th District: Melissa M. Viverito [East Harlem, U.W.S. * Manhattan Mott Haven, Port Morris * Bronx] 9th District: Yasmin H. Cornelius [Central Harlem, Morningside Heights * Manhattan] 10th District: Miguel M. Martinez (re-elect) [Washington Heights, Inwood * Manhattan] 11th District: G. Oliver Koppell (re-elect) [Riverdale, Norwood * Bronx] 13th District: James "Jimmy" Vacca [Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck * Bronx] Bottom Line: V-O-T-E in the Democratic Primary Election on Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRIDE Dems meetings in 2012 PRIDE Democrats meetings: 3rd Wednesday @ 8 p.m. LGBT Center, 208 West 13 Street (between Seventh Avenue and Greenwich Avenue), Manhattan, New York PRIDE Dems also meets daily via website, social networks, phone and e-mails! PRIDE Democrats dues: $25 yearly sponsorship: $100 annual candidates mailing package: $1,000 (including imprinted envelopes, stationery, postage) PRIDE Democrats e-mail: PRIDEdemocrats@nyct.com PRIDE Dems campaign cellphone: (917) 374-9729 Mail Memberships/Sponsorships: PRIDE Democrats Suite 2001 457 FDR Drive Manhattan, NY 10002 ==Prideful-e-vent== Cocktail party fund-raisers and other events for candidates -- who have contacted PRIDE Democrats and met with PRIDE Democrats and have warranted and earned to be endorsed PRIDE candidates -- will have political and social invitations privately sent to PRIDE members in good standing via the U.S. mail. New York County Democratic Leader Keith L. Wright and Staff present their annual "Holiday House Party" Wednesday, December 21, 2011 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at New York State Office Building in Harlem 9th Floor 163 West 125 Street (btw. Lenox Av. and Eighth Av.) Manhattan, NY 10003 (212) 866-5809 New York State Assemblymembers and other public officials -- including a mayoral candidate -- are confirmed to attend!
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