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WFP to run Alleyne in
East NY special election
BY BEN BRACHFELD
It ain’t over yet!
The Working Families Party will
back Keron Alleyne in the Feb. 15 special
election for East New York’s 60th
Assembly District, setting up a continuing
standoff between the Brooklyn
Democratic Party and the Barrons, the
area’s dominant political dynasty.
Alleyne will face off against Nikki
Lucas, who this weekend won the Democratic
nomination in a vote of the party’s
County Committee. If victorious,
Alleyne would be just the third person
in New York City history to win elected
offi ce solely on the WFP line, joining
the ranks of Letitia James, who won
her Central Brooklyn City Council seat
in 2003 as a WFP candidate and is now
the state Attorney General, and Diana
Richardson, who won her 2014 election
to the Assembly in central Brooklyn
on just the WFP line and is now Deputy
Borough President.
“We’re thrilled to endorse Keron Alleyne
for State Assembly,” said Sochie
Nnaemeka, director of the New York
WFP, in a statement. “Keron’s deep
roots in the district, service to his community,
and commitment to bold solutions
make him the ideal candidate
to represent East Brooklyn. We know
he’ll be a courageous champion for affordable
housing, living wage jobs, and
smarter approaches to public safety.”
The seat was vacated late last year
by Charles Barron, the iconoclastic socialist
and former Black Panther who
left Albany to rejoin the City Council,
succeeding his wife Inez, who herself
had previously served in the Assembly
seat. Inez was widely expected to seek
her old Assembly seat, but instead decided
to retire. To succeed them, the
fi rst couple of East New York backed
Alleyne — a former Assembly staffer
who unsuccessfully ran for Senate
against Roxanne Persaud in 2020 —
seeing him as a worthy successor to
continue what they see as the district’s
“independence” from the county machine.
“I’m honored to be the candidate on
Keron Alleyne, the Working Families Party
nominee for Assembly District 60.
Courtesy of Keron Alleyne
the WFP line,” Alleyne told Brooklyn
Paper by phone on Tuesday. “It is an
exciting opportunity for us to have particular
conversations with community
members with a line that represents
values that we hold near and dear.”
Going up against the Democratic
nominee in a district where 80 percent
of registered voters are Democrats will
likely be a tough climb, but it’s been
done before. Alleyne said he thinks the
WFP designation will resonate in the
working class 60th.
“It changes the trajectory,” Alleyne
said. “People are familiar with
the WFP, and I feel like it’s something
that resonates with a district like ours,
where everybody and their momma
is working, are working families, are
folks who need the things that we’re going
to advocate for. And it will change
the complexion of their lives.”
Lucas, a local activist, former district
leader, and longtime critic of the
Barrons, who unsuccessfully challenged
Charles for the Council seat last
year, was selected as the Democratic
nominee by the County Committee
members in the 60th District on Jan. 16.
She overwhelmingly won a “weighted”
vote after, as she put it, organizing her
supporters in County Committee to deliver
victory.
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