August 1, 2022
City & State New York
fundraising. Baldeo, who had about $89,000 on hand by late July, is a perennial candidate with a checkered past, who was convicted in 2014 of interfering in an FBI investigation of campaign finance corruption charges associated with his City Council run. STATE SEN. JABARI BRISPORT FIRST ELECTED: 2020 CURRENT DISTRICT: 25, parts
STATE SEN. JOSEPH ADDABBO JR. FIRST ELECTED: 2008 CURRENT DISTRICT: 15, parts
of Queens from Maspeth to the Rockaways NEW DISTRICT: 15, parts of southwestern Queens, including Rego Park and Richmond Hill
REPORTED CASH ON HAND:
$330,567
CHALLENGERS: Japneet Singh, Albert Baldeow
Prior to the finalization of new state Senate lines, Japneet Singh, who just ran for New York City Council, was planning to run for an open seat. Singh, who would be the first Sikh state legislator, is a former taxi driver and accountant campaigning as a “voice for the working class.” He has been endorsed by progressives like New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and former lieutenant governor candidate Ana María Archila, though his campaign is shying away from the “progressive” label, in the relatively conservative district – even against state Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr., who voted against codifying the right to an abortion in state law. With about $19,000 on hand, Singh lags behind fellow challenger Albert Baldeo, president of the Alliance of South Asian American Labor’s Richmond Hill chapter, in
of Brooklyn from Red Hook to Ocean Hill NEW DISTRICT: 25, parts of Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Brownsville REPORTED CASH ON HAND:
$41,865
CHALLENGERS: Renee Holmes, Conrad Tillard
State Sen. Jabari Brisport, a former teacher, is one of two candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America in the
state Senate. He’s running for reelection with the group’s full support, and while he doesn’t have much money on hand for an incumbent, is also backed by unions including 1199SEIU and District Council 37. Conrad Tillard, formerly known as Conrad Muhammad, was a minister in the Nation of Islam and a protege of Louis Farrakhan in the 1980s and 1990s. He built a reputation as a mediator for rappers, earning him the nickname “the hip-hop minister.” He has since become a Christian pastor in Bedford-Stuyvesant and is running as a more moderate alternative to Brisport, with endorsements from state Sen. Kevin Parker and former New York City Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. He reported $18,444 on hand in late July, with a major donation from the Striving for a Better New York PAC, which is associated with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and intends to
State Sen. Jabari Brisport faces off against two Democratic primary challengers this year in state Senate District 25 in Brooklyn.
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