Congressmember Hakeem Jeffries and Assemblymember Nikki Lucas’ eighth Annual Easter Hat Pageant was a hopping good time final week. Lots of of seniors and members of the family gathered on the Brooklyn Sports activities Membership of their greatest hat ensembles.
“So this was an occasion that actually meant rather a lot to us, and through COVID it was rather a lot. We weren’t capable of do it for a yr or two,” mentioned Lucas. “However Congressman Jeffries, like myself, [said] that is his favourite occasion. And he was like, we have now to do it.”
Lucas mentioned that they began the occasion in 2017 to have a good time the district’s seniors.
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Jeffries spoke about a number of the challenges he’s had in defending important profit packages like Medicaid and Social Safety from President Donald Trump, tech businessman Elon Musk, and different members of Congress. “It’s good to be house in Brooklyn, rather a lot occurring in america of America, these are difficult occasions,” mentioned Jeffries, “we’re coping with wickedness in excessive locations and that is resurrection week.”
“Elon Musk says that Social Safety is a Ponzi scheme. Social Safety is just not a Ponzi scheme, the Trump administration is a Ponzi scheme,” he continued.
The winners of the ladies’s Easter Hat Pageant had been: Marcia Pitters in first place, Brigida Antigua in second place, and Joanne Nabors in third place. The winners of the boys’s Easter Hat Pageant had been: Chi Lo in first place, Curtis Robinson in second place, and Joel Rossberg in third place.
