Competing rallies at Medgar Evers College bring city politics into sharp focus
Working Families Party endorses Gillibrand, seeks major change in State Senate lineup
Few things exemplify the fractious and often contradictory nature of Brooklyn politics than the pair of rallies held at Medgar Evers College on Sunday, on a chilly afternoon.
While state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, a Democrat of the 20th District, led a march around the college in favor of bill S5454, which would require public schools at all levels to incorporate black history courses into their regular curriculum, Working Families Party (WFP) organizers, who fully support bill S5454, introduced candidates — one of whom they hope will eventually unseat Williams — to run against the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC). Since 2011, IDC has caucused with the Republican majority, granting outright control of the chamber to the Republican Party.