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Here are Brooklyn Borough President candidates in alphabetical order by last name
Robert
Cornegy
Robert Cornegy has represented
Caribbean L 32 ife, June 4-10, 2021
the 36th District
in the City Council, which
includes parts of Bedford-
Stuyvesant and Crown
Heights, since 2014. Cornegy
has outspent all other candidates in the race,
with $827,106 of campaign expenditures as of May
28, according to the Campaign Finance Board. The
6’10” former basketball player was once recognized
by Guinness World Records as the world’s tallest
politician, though that record is now held by North
Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread.
Cornegy has cited economic recovery post-COVID,
small business development, and police reform
as priorities should he be elected. His endorsers
include TWU Local 100, RWDSU, and outgoing City
Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo.
Kim Council
Kim Council is an ordained
minister who has
also served in executive
roles at various nonprofits,
such as Executive
Director at the Berean
Community and Family
Life Center and President of the East New York
Housing Development Corporation. She cites affordable
housing, healthcare, and education as her
top issues to address as beep.
Khari Edwards
Khari Edwards’ most
recent position prior to
his BP campaign was as
Vice President of External
Affairs at Brookdale
Hospital. He cites housing,
healthcare, and education
as his top issues facing the borough that he would
deal with as beep. Edwards is a father, husband,
activist, health care expert and self-proclaimed
“shoe fanatic” who believes that each of these
issues are interconnected and have been exasperated
by the pandemic. That’s why, the former
hospital exec says, he’ll put the people of Brooklyn
first in the borough’s post-COVID recovery.
Robert Elstein
Robert Elstein is an English
and theater teacher at
Edward R. Murrow High
School in Midwood. Elstein
told Murrow’s student
newspaper that he decided
to run because he was
dissatisfied with all the other candidates running
for beep. Elstein’s top priority is for the city to produce
a comprehensive plan for combating climate
change. He also says he would prioritize addressing
school overcrowding and segregation as BP.
Mathieu
Eugene
Mathieu Eugene represents
the 40th District
in the City Council,
which includes parts of
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens,
Flatbush, and Kensington.
He is currently the longest serving member of the
body, having been in office since 2007, and was
the first Haitian-born elected official in New York
City. Despite having the platform and status of an
elected official, Eugene has raised substantially
fewer funds than any of his opponents who are also
electeds; Campaign Finance Board records show he
has raised $59,506 and spent just $3,170 during his
campaign thus far. He cites improving health care,
workforce development, and affordable housing as
issues that he would prioritize as BP.
Pearlene
Fields
Pearlene Fields has
worked at various nonprofits,
including as a
board member at Sierra
House in New Jersey, and
is also a member of Community
Board 17. Some of her top issues include
affordable housing, lowering property taxes,
raising teacher pay, and ensuring small businesses
have better access to capital.
Anthony Jones
Anthony Jones currently
serves as a District Leader
in the 55th Assembly District,
which includes parts
of Brownsville, Crown
Heights, and Bedford-
Stuyvesant. He cites alleviating
poverty, combatting gentrification, and
creating more access to affordable healthcare as
priorities if elected beep.
Lamor Miller-
Whitehead
Lamor Miller-Whitehead
is a bishop at Leaders of
Tomorrow International
Churches in Canarsie. His
three top issues to tackle as
beep include the pandemic,
criminal justice reform, and housing development.
Trisha Ocona
Trisha Ocona, a real estate
broker, was a late entrant
to the race, announcing
only at the tail end of
March. She is an appointee
of Assembly Speaker
Carl Heastie to the state’s
Board of Real Estate, which sets policies on licensure
for real estate professionals, and has also
served on Community Board 17. She has said that
her main priority as beep is to combat “predatory
housing practices.”
Rob Ramos
Rob Ramos is the
president of District
Council 37’s Local 205
Daycare Workers Union,
a position he first held
in 2015 and which he
recently reassumed, and
formerly served on CUNY’s board of trustees.
Ramos cites education inequality, affordable
housing, homelessness, and environmental
justice as issues he would prioritize as beep. He
has been an early childhood educator for nearly
two decades; he has long been a proponent of
pay equity for daycare workers with city public
school teachers, which Local 205 won in 2019.
Antonio
Reynoso
Antonio Reynoso
currently represents
the 34th City Council
District, which includes
parts of Williamsburg
and Bushwick, as well
as Ridgewood, Queens. Reynoso is perhaps most
well known as the lead sponsor on legislation
that overhauled the city’s commercial waste
industry. He was also one of two Bushwick
electeds who opposed the city’s plans to
rezone the gentrifying neighborhood, instead
supporting a plan put forward by local
community members. The rezoning was killed
in early 2020. Reynoso cites economic recovery,
climate change, and housing affordability as top
issues to tackle as beep. His endorsers include
the Working Families Party, Congresswoman
Nydia Velazquez, and Make the Road New York.
Jo Anne
Simon
Jo Anne Simon has
served in the State
Assembly since 2015,
representing the
52nd District which
includes Brooklyn
Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill,
Carroll Gardens, and parts of Park Slope and
Gowanus.Her priorities as beep would include
building and preserving affordable housing,
combatting gun violence, and providing “timely
interventions” in schools for students with
disabilities. Her endorsers include Congressman
Jerry Nadler, the United Federation of Teachers,
and the New York League of Conservation
Voters.
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