SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones stated Wednesday that he’s searching for to win again the suburban New York congressional seat he misplaced after redistricting juggled the state’s congressional maps final 12 months.
Jones, 36, a Harvard Legislation Faculty graduate who in 2020 develop into one of many first two homosexual Black males elected to Congress, touted his working-class roots in a video asserting his marketing campaign.
“Most individuals in Washington didn’t develop up like me,” stated Jones, who was raised by a single mom within the Rockland County neighborhood of Spring Valley, which is within the district he represented for one time period. “They don’t know what it’s wish to wrestle.”
Elected to signify New York’s seventeenth Congressional District, north of New York Metropolis, Jones was amongst those that misplaced within the state’s contentious 2022 redistricting course of, which put him in the identical district as former Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
Somewhat than operating within the redrawn seventeenth District, Jones joined a crowded Democratic major discipline within the tenth Congressional District in New York Metropolis, shedding to former federal prosecutor Daniel Goldman, who went on to win the overall election.
Maloney misplaced narrowly to Republican Michael Lawler within the seventeenth District in a 2022 election that noticed Republican candidates decide up a number of New York seats.
Different Democrats searching for to signify the seventeenth District embrace Liz Whitmer Gereghty, a Katonah-Lewisboro college board member and sister of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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