Assembly Member Claire Valdez launches congressional campaign in NY-7, will face Reynoso in primary * Brooklyn Paper

""working-class campaign rooted in labor organizing, economic justice, and opposition to war and genocide.""

""through being a worker, not through kind of the traditional electoral ambition route.""

""I think that's something that is a common experience in workers all over this country and certainly in NY-7," she said. "What we need right now is a labor organizer in Congress to win back the working class and to really fight for an agenda for working class people.""

Claire Valdez launched a congressional campaign for NY-7 to seek the seat of retiring Representative Nydia Velázquez. Valdez is a Democratic socialist with ties to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and is expected to be endorsed by Mamdani and the DSA. Valdez represents Assembly District 37, covering Long Island City, Woodside, Sunnyside, Maspeth and Ridgewood, with significant overlap into NY-7 neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn. The campaign centers on labor organizing, economic justice, opposition to war and genocide, taxing the rich, universal healthcare and childcare, and strengthened workers' rights. Valdez is a former union organizer emphasizing working-class experience and will face Antonio Reynoso in the Democratic primary.

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