Press Release: The JOLDC released list of endorsements in the primary races for State Assembly and Senate, Civil and Supreme Court Justices, and State Committee Members

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Allen Roskoff, jimowles@gmail.com

Allen Roskoff, President of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club issued the following statement, “Jim Owles takes our endorsement process very seriously. Our candidates go through an intense interview process. Our concerns range from abortion rights, death penalty, LGBT equality, police brutality, tenant protections, income equality and the demand for clemency. We are proud to announce our candidates for 2016"

 We made no endorsement in the 9th and 16th Congressional District primaries where Rep. Yvette Clarke and  Rep. Eliot Engel and are running for re-election. They were not endorsed in part due to their failure to support "Candles for Clemency" which demands the governor issue clemencies to the elderly and infirm to prevent their having to die in prison. We will keep our attention focused on their being contested in future years. 

 In Manhattan’s 9th Civil Court District we strongly oppose the re-election of Civil Court Judge Lori Sattler. We also oppose her bid to be elevated to the State Supreme Court. Judge Sattler is best known for slamming a mother for having an abortion in a child custody case. Her lawyer, Emily Jane Goodman exclaimed in court " I think the very idea of the potential of using, against a woman in a child custody case, the fact that she may have had an abortion sets women’s rights and the rights of choice back in a way that I can’t imagine this court would want to be associated,” Goodman said. We agree and find an endorsement of Sattler a vote against abortion rights.For further information please see: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mother-abortion-fare-game-custody-case-judge-article-1.1466743

State Assembly:

29 Alicia Hyndman
33 Natasha Williams *
39 Francisco Moya
40 Ron Kim
42 Rodneyse Bichotte
44 Robert Carroll *
46 Pamela Harris
52 Jo Anne Simon
55 Latrice Walker
61 Matthew Titone
65 Jennifer Rajkumar*
66 Deborah Glick
70 Inez Dickens*
71 Herman “Denny” Farrell
72 Carmen Dela Rosa
73 Dan Quart
75 Richard Gottfried
76 Rebecca Seawright
78 José Rivera
79 Michael Blake
86 Victor Pichardo
87 Luis Sepúlveda

State Senate

10 Adrienne Adams*
14 Leroy  Comrie
18 Debbie Medina*
19 Roxanne Persaud
27 Brad Hoylman
28 Liz Krueger
29 José Serrano
31 Robert Jackson*
33 Gustavo Rivera

 * The Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club believes that the Independent Democratic Caucus has caused a great deal of harm to the state’s ability to pass progressive legislation including tenant protections and rent regulations, which disproportionately impact on the working poor.  We believe that the IDC are the cause of the state’s failure to pass the GENDA legislation and to outlaw Conversion Therapy of LGBT youth. To this end we will refrain from supporting any members of the Independent Democratic Caucus. 

US Congress

3  Tom Suozzi*
5  Gregory Meeks
6  Grace Meng
7  Nydia Velazquez
8  Hakeem Jeffries
9  No Endorsement: Yvette Clarke
10 Jerry Nadler
11 Richard Reinhard
13 Adriano Espaillat*
14 Joseph Crowley
15 José Serrano
16 No Endorsement: Eliot Engel

Judges:

Kings Countywide Civil Court: Consuelo Mallafre Melendez
Kings County Civil Court, 5th DistricT: Jill Epstein
New York Countywide Civil Court: Josh Handshaft
New York County Civil Court, 2nd District: Margaret Chan
New York County Civil Court, 4th District: Judy Kim
New York County Civil Court, 6th District: Sabrina Kraus
New York County Civil Court, 7th District: No Endorsement: Lori Sattler

State Committee:

42nd AD Josue Pierre*
57th AD Olanike Alabi
65th AD Dodge Landesman*
66th AD Ben Yee*

*Indicates that candidate is not an incumbent