Chris Sosa speaks with prospective East Side consituents.
➤ CHRIS SOSA, from p.14
light of the disparities that queer
people encounter.
“The conversation doesn’t just
need to be about rooting out discrimination,”
Sosa said. “It also
needs to be about creating an equitable
society where, if you are born
and you are trans or gay, you can
expect to have the same health
and wellness outcome.”
Among other important LGBTQ
issues, Sosa is vowing to direct his
attention to the patterns of violence
facing trangender individuals, particularly
trans women of color.
In order to get to the City Council,
however, Sosa has to navigate
his way through a wall of competition.
According to the New York
City Campaign Finance Board, fi ve
other candidates have fi led to run
for the same seat, including Billy
Freeland, Joshua Kravitz, Rebecca
Lamorte, Kim Moscaritolo, and
Tricia Shimamura.
Sosa is playing up his work experience
at the state level, claiming
he is the only one in his race
with experience passing laws in
Albany.
He’s also touting his progressive
credentials as an early and unwavering
supporter of the movement to
take on police reform and redirect
funds from the police department
to necessary community resources.
“Often times we’re asked to
choose between experience and
values,” Sosa said. “I’m a candidate
who comes with both of those.”
Sosa also plans to make his
case to the people of his district by
zeroing in on the hyperlocal issues
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that those Manhattan voters will
be weighing when they go to the
ballot box to choose their next city
lawmaker.
Among his most pressing local
priorities include making subway
stations in his district wheelchairaccessible,
pushing for an increase
in affordable housing units, and
bolstering small businesses.
“There are vacant storefronts
where there shouldn’t be,” Sosa
said. “We have predatory practices
around rent and housing. We risk
losing the culture of the Upper East
Side if we don’t fi ght back against
capitalistic impulses that would
rather make money and rent out
businesses to corporate interests.”
Another issue that has emerged
in the district is sudden tree removal
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of the discussion.
“I just thought it was absurd,”
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it still happened.”
Whether he can have a chance
to spark the change necessary to
fi x all of that is yet to be seen. Sosa
will spend the next 10 months before
the Democratic primary making
the case that he should be the
one representing the people of his
district, and he’ll do that by articulating
his original rationale for
making the career shift from journalism
to the public sector.
“I had what I believed to be solutions,”
Sosa said. “And I could
execute solutions, not just try to
convince people to accept their
situation.”
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