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Jimmy McMillan—famous for running against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2010 on a single repeated slogan—gave his backing to GOP candidate Dawn Simmons in the February 14 special election for a vacant City Council seat in Harlem.
Gathering with Republicans on the portico of City Hall, the man who
made the phrase “rent is too damn high” famous first at 14th Street and
Eighth Avenue, then across New York and the nation,
urged Harlemites to support Simmons for the open post. Special
elections, like the one triggered when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens exited
the Council to head to Albany, are non-partisan: candidates create and
run on their own customized ballot lines, which cannot resemble any
existing row on the ballot.
Simmons has gathered petition signatures to run on the “Dawn for Harlem” and “Rent Too Damn High” lines.
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Source: Observer (via The Empire Report)
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