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Vol. 30, Issue 26 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN June 28–July 4, 2019
Farah Louis
wins again!
votes, in the race that involved
eight candidates, to Chandler-
Waterman’s 30 percent.
Williams endorsed Chandler-
Waterman, his former
community outreach director,
in both the Special Election
and the Primary.
Though their names
remained on the Primary
ballot, after contesting the
Special Election, the other
candidates, most of whom were
Caribbean-born or of Caribbean
parentage, fared poorly Tuesday
night. Some of the candidates
did not actively campaign for
the Primary.
Xamayla Rose, the daughter
of Jamaican immigrants,
received 1.75 percent of the
votes; Jamaican-born, L. Rickie
Tulloch 1.70 percent; Barbadian
/ Grenadian American, Jovia A.
Radix 1.45 percent; Trinidadian,
Anthony Alexis 0.47 percent;
Adina Sash 0.96 percent; and
Victor Jordan 0.54 percent.
After placing third in May’s
Special Election, lawyer Radix,
the daughter of Barbadian and
Grenadian immigrants, had
told Caribbean Life that she was
not contesting the Primary.
But while also not contesting
the Primary, Tulloch said he
Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte (L) and Louis’s deputy campaign manager Debbie
Louis at victory party Tuesday night. Photo by Nelson A. King
was supporting Chandler-
Waterman.
“A unified 45th (45th Council
District)!” shouted Louis in her
victory speech Tuesday night,
at the Caribbean-owned Suede
Restaurant, on Clarendon Road
in East Flatbush, in the heart
of the Caribbean Community
in Brooklyn.
She asked boisterous
supporters to repeat “a unified
45th.” They enthusiastically
obliged.
The 45th Council District
comprises the Brooklyn
neighborhoods of Flatbush,
East Flatbush, Midwood,
Flatlands and Canarsie.
“This is what unity is all
about,” added Louis, flanked
by, among others, Caribbean
American, Jewish and Muslim
supporters. “To every member,
this win is for you.
“This election was for
We've Got the Power!
By Nelson A. King
In her second election
victory in just less than six
weeks, Haitian American New
York City Councilwoman Farah
Louis Tuesday night defeated
her primary challenger
Caribbean American Monique
Chandler-Waterman in the
much-watched 45th Council
District race in Brooklyn in the
New York Democratic Primary.
With 95 percent of the
polling precincts reporting,
Louis, the daughter of Haitian
immigrants, defeated Chandler-
Waterman, the daughter of
Barbadian and Jamaican
immigrants, by 10 percentage
points, almost the same margin
as in the Special Election for
the seat on May 14.
In essentially a two-way
race, Louis — the deputy chief
of staff for the district’s former
City Council representative,
Jumaane Williams, the son of
Grenadian immigrants, who,
in February, was elected New
York City Public Advocate —
received 51.69 percent of the
votes cast in Tuesday’s Primary
to Chandler-Waterman’s 41.36
percent.
In the Special Election, Louis
had received 42 percent of the
the residents of the 45th,”
continued Louis, whose speech
was punctuated with chants
of “Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!” “I’m
proud to be your representative,
and we saw it in the numbers.
“When my opponent
degraded me, we took the high
road,” she said, referring to
Chandler-Waterman. “This was
a grassroots campaign. We got
there because of your efforts.
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