Backing by NYSUT includes financial help, phone banking and boots on the ground this fall
New York State United Teachers announced its endorsements for the upcoming congressional and state legislative races, backing candidates who the union says have championed public education, health care and workers’ rights.
After two days of debate and deliberation by members of the union’s political action committees and hundreds of local presidents, NYSUT’s Board of Directors formally voted late Wednesday to cement endorsements in races for Congress, Assembly and state Senate. A dozen or so endorsements — including NYSUT’s backing of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer — were announced earlier this summer.
Magee
NYSUT President Karen Magee said candidates’ voting records and their working relationships with union members in their home districts were among the important factors in whether a candidate earned the union’s support.
“Candidates earning NYSUT’s endorsement this year have shown a willingness to listen to our members in public schools, colleges and hospitals,” Magee said. “They value their relationships with our more than 600,000 politically active and energized members and champion their interests.”
NYSUT Executive Vice President Andrew Pallotta said the endorsement process “is truly a grassroots, organic process,” with PAC members and local presidents surveying their own members in their own communities about who they wished to see NYSUT support in this year’s elections.
The candidates who earned NYSUT’s endorsement have won the backing of members in their home communities.
As a result, Pallotta said a NYSUT endorsement means that, in addition to financial contributions to help defray the cost of campaigns, their campaigns will benefit from the union’s massive phone bank operations and boots on the ground — volunteers who will hand out campaign literature and lead a get-out-the-vote effort at the grassroots level.
Pallotta
“NYSUT members live and vote in virtually every community in our state,” Pallotta said. “They are passionate about the issues, actively volunteer their time and have strong feelings about those candidates who are willing to fight alongside them for public education, health care and the rights of working families.”
New York State United Teachers boasts more than 600,000 members statewide in the education, human services and health care professions. NYSUT is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association and the AFL-CIO.
Below is the full list of endorsements, beginning with candidates for New York’s congressional delegation. The list includes the district number followed by the name of the candidate:
1 Anna Throne-Holst
2 DuWayne Gregory
3 Thomas Suozzi
5 Gregory Meeks
6 Grace Meng
7 Nydia Velazquez
8 Hakeem Jefferies
9 Yvette Clarke
10 Jerrold Nadler
11 Daniel Donovan Jr.
12 Carolyn Maloney
13 Adriano Espaillat
14 Joe Crowley
15 Jose Serrano
16 Eliot Engel
17 Nita Lowey
18 Sean Patrick Maloney
19 Zephyr Teachout
20 Paul Tonko
21 Elise Stefanik
23 John F. Plumb
24 Colleen Deacon
25 Louise Slaughter
26 Brian Higgins
27 Diana Kastenbaum
The state Senate endorsements are:
1 Kenneth LaValle
3 Tom Croci
4 Phil Boyle
7 Adam Haber
9 Todd Kaminsky
10 James Sanders, Jr.
11 Tony Avella
12 Michael Gianaris
13 Jose Peralta
14 Leroy Comrie
15 Joseph Addabbo
16 Toby Stavisky
18 Martin Dilan
19 Roxanne Persaud
20 Jesse Hamilton
21 Kevin Parker
23 Diane Savino
24 Andrew Lanza
25 Velmanette Montgomery
26 Daniel Squadron
27 Brad Hoylman
28 Liz Krueger
29 Jose Serrano
30 Bill Perkins
31 Robert Jackson
33 Gustavo Rivera
34 Jeffrey Klein
35 Andrea Stewart-Cousins
36 Jamaal Bailey
37 George Latimer
38 David Carlucci
39 Chris Eachus
40 Terrence Murphy
41 Terry Gipson
43 Kathy Marchione
44 Neil Breslin
45 Elizabeth Little
47 Joseph Griffo
48 Patty Ritchie
49 Jim Tedisco
50 John DeFrancisco
51 James Seward
52 Fred Akshar
53 David Valesky
55 Rich Funke
56 Joseph Robach
57 Catherine Young
58 Leslie Danks Burke
59 Patrick Gallivan
62 Robert Ortt
63 Tim Kennedy
The state Assembly endorsements are:
1 Fred Thiele Jr.
2 Anthony Palumbo
3 Dean Murray
4 Steve Englebright
5 Alfred Graf
6 Phil Ramos
7 Andrew Garbarino
8 Richard Macellaro
9 Joseph Saladino
10 Chad Lupinacci
11 Kimberly Jean Pierre
12 Andrew Raia
13 Charles Lavine
14 David McDonough
15 Michael Montesano
16 Anthony D’Urso
17 Tom McKevitt
19 Edward Ra
20 Anthony Eramo
22 Michaelle Solages
23 Stacey Pheffer Amato
24 David Weprin
25 Nily Rozic
26 Edward Braunstein
27 Michael Simanowitz
28 Andrew Hevesi
29 Alicia Hyndman
30 Margaret Markey
31 Michele Titus
32 Vivian Cook
33 Clyde Vanel
34 Michael DenDekker
35 Jeffrion Aubry
36 Aravella Simotas
37 Catherine Nolan
38 Michael Miller
39 Francisco Moya
40 Ronald Kim
41 Helene Weinstein
42 Rodneyese Bichotte
43 Diana Richarson
44 Robert Carroll
45 Steven Cymbrowitz
46 Pamela Harris
47 William Colton
49 Peter Abbate Jr.
50 Joseph Lentol
51 Felix Ortiz
52 JoAnn Simon
53 Maritza Davila
54 Erik Martin Dilan
55 Latrice Walker
56 Tremaine Wright
57 Walter Mosley
58 Nick Perry
59 Jamie Williams
60 Charles Barron
61 Matthew Titone
63 Michael Cusick
64 Nicole Malliotakis
65 Paul Newell
66 Deborah Glick
67 Linda Rosenthal
68 Robert Rodriguez
69 Daniel O’Donnell
70 Inez Dickens
71 Denny Farrell
72 Guillermo Linares
73 Dan Quart
74 Brian Kavanagh
75 Richard Gottfried
76 Rebecca Seawright
77 Latoya Joyner
78 Jose Rivera
79 Michael Blake
80 Mark Gjonaj
81 Jeffrey Dinowitz
82 Michael Benedetto
83 Carl Heastie
85 Marcos Crespo
86 Victor Pichardo
87 Luis Sepulveda
88 Amy Paulin
89 Gary Pretlow
90 Shelley Mayer
91 Steve Otis
92 Thomas Abinanti
93 David Buchwald
94 Brian M. Higbie
95 Sandy Galef
96 Kenneth Zebrowski
97 Ellen Jaffee
98 John Allegro
99 James Skoufis
100 Aileen Gunther
102 Peter Lopez
103 Kevin Cahill
104 Frank Skartados 105 Joe Torres
106 Didi Barrett
107 Steve McLaughlin
108 John McDonald
109 Patricia Fahy
110 Phil Steck
111 Angelo Santabarbara
113 Carrie Woerner
114 Dan Stec
115 Billy Jones
116 Addie Russell
117 Ken Blankenbush
118 Marc Butler
119 Anthony Brindisi
120 William Barclay
121 William Magee
122 Clifford Crouch
123 Donna Lupardo
124 Christopher Friend
125 Barbara Lifton
126 Diane Dwire
127 Albert Stirpe, Jr.
128 Pamela Hunter
129 William Magnarelli
130 Bob Oaks
131 Brian Kolb
132 Philip Palmesano
134 Peter Lawrence
135 Mark Johns
136 Joseph Morelle
138 Harry Bronson
140 Robin Schimminger
141 Crystal Peoples-Stokes
142 Michael Kearns
143 Monica P. Wallace
145 John Ceretto
146 Steven Meyer
147 David DiPietro
148 Joseph Giglio
149 Sean Ryan
150 Andrew Goodell
