In Public Service: Persaud leaps from Assembly to state Senate
Roxanne Persaud was a freshman member of the New York State Assembly in 2015 when, at the urging of Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Frank Seddio and members of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, she decided to run for the state Senate seat left vacant when former assemblymember John Sampson was convicted of corruption charges.
Persaud, who had won her seat in the 59th Assembly District in 2014, easily won election to the state Senate’s 19th District in November of 2015 and is currently settling into her new job. Technically, she is finishing out the remainder of Sampson’s term in office. She said she plans to run for her first full term in the Senate when the current term is up.