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Verga, another nonpolitician diving into politics, says he's a fed-up citizen who wants to see new leadership and accountability in government. In classic Republican fashion, he attacks the liberal Schumer as a "tax-and-spend" lawmaker, and in a mostly white, middle-class Brooklyn and Queens district surrounded by encroaching inner-city slums, he points out that high taxes have not helped to combat drugs, unsafe streets and an unraveling school system...
AMELIA SMITH-PARKER (R) District 10 (Parts of Brooklyn--Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Heights...
BORN: April 26, 1955, Brooklyn EDUCATION: Marymount Manhattan College, B.A., 1986 FAMILY: Husband, Reginald; one child RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur; CEO POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 2645 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 766, Brooklyn...
BORN: July 21, 1934, Chadbourn, N.C. EDUCATION: North Carolina A&T State U, B.S., 1956; Adelphi U, M.S.W., 1973 FAMILY: Wife, Gwendolyn; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1956-58 OCCUPATION: Professor; hospital administrator POLITICAL CAREER: Brooklyn deputy borough president, 1976-82; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: 360 Clinton Avenue, Suite 6R, Brooklyn...
Towns, the son of a North Carolina sharecropper, made a name for himself in Brooklyn politics before moving to Capitol Hill 14 years ago. The former hospital administrator has worked for stricter FDA regulations and more liberal health-care benefits, and pushed a bill--passed in September--to require health plans to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay after childbirth...