Jenifer Rajkumar has kicked off her Comptroller marketing campaign
Photograph Courtesy of the Rajkumar marketing campaign
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Jenifer Rajkumar, a Democrat presently representing the thirty eighth Meeting district, which incorporates the neighborhoods of Glendale, Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, and Woodhaven, formally kicked off her marketing campaign to be New York Metropolis’s subsequent Comptroller.
A coalition of lots of of supporters from all 5 boroughs got here out to The Palace in Woodside on Wednesday, Nov. 20, to help Rajkumar’s bid for the function. Rajkumar is operating to make historical past as the primary South Asian and first lady of shade to be Comptroller.
Activists from numerous communities, non secular leaders of all faiths, native enterprise house owners, feminine leaders and New Yorkers from all walks of life—lots of them immigrants—cheered on Rajkumar as she spoke to the group.
“No one thought I would be standing here today,” Rajkumar declared. “But nothing can stop a determined South Asian woman. For every New Yorker who has been underestimated and counted out, this campaign is for you.”
A big coalition of supporters got here out to help Rajkumar Photograph Courtesy of the Rajkumar marketing campaign
Among the many coalition have been members of New York’s Indian, African American, Latino, Jewish, AAPI, Muslim, Dominican, Colombian, Nepali, Bangladeshi, Tibetan, Filipino, Caribbean, Pakistani, Sikh, and LGBTQ+ communities. The gang mirrored the overwhelming momentum for her people-powered marketing campaign, which raised greater than another Comptroller candidate within the newest submitting interval.
Rajkumar outlined her potential plan as Comptroller to deal with urgent points going through New Yorkers. She vowed to develop options to deal with the 9,000 individuals committing the vast majority of crimes, crack down on reckless e-bikes, shut the gender wage hole, create a bridge to school for highschool graduates, enhance entry to reasonably priced housing and safeguard $270 billion in pension fund property for 700,000 present and retired Metropolis staff.
She additionally referred to as for daring management and a tradition of service to revive belief in Metropolis authorities.
Rajkumar went on to spotlight her document of achievements in Albany, at each step ‘accomplishing what detractors told her was impossible’.
She turned the primary South Asian lady elected to New York State Workplace, defeating an incumbent by the widest margin of any main challenger. She additionally went on to cross the historic Diwali Faculty Vacation invoice, in order that now and ceaselessly 600,000 New Yorkers can have fun one in all their most sacred days of the 12 months with out youngsters lacking college.
This 12 months, she handed the SMOKEOUT Act, empowering the Metropolis to shut over 1,200 unlawful smoke retailers in a matter of months.
Rajkumar has a protracted document of public service Photograph Courtesy of the Rajkumar marketing campaign
Rajkumar is a Stanford Regulation and College of Pennsylvania-educated lawyer with a protracted document of public service. She is thought for combating office discrimination for five,000 ladies, a case acknowledged by the United Nations as one of many prime ten on the planet selling ladies’s equality.
She served as New York’s first ever Director of Immigration Affairs, managing a $31 million undertaking to offer authorized providers to immigrants. Rajkumar was additionally a CUNY professor.
“I am ready to fight for the working people of New York City and remove the obstacles standing in the way of their dreams,” Rajkumar said.
“Are you ready to make this truly the Greatest City in the World? Let’s win this together!”
