Candidate To Represent Roosevelt Island And UES In NYC Council District 5 Tricia Shimamura Is Weekly Volunteer At RIDA Senior Center Food Pantry - Meet Her And Watch Video Interview Of What She Has To Say

Tricia Shimamura is a candidate to represent Roosevelt Island and the Upper East Side in NYC Council District 5, seeking to succeed current City Council Member Ben Kallos who is term limited from running again. Mr Kallos is running to succeed Gale Brewer as Manhattan Borough President.

Ms Shimamura volunteers at the weekly Friday Roosevelt Island Disabled Association (RIDA) Senior Center Food Pantry. I spoke to Ms Shimamura today as she was preparing items that will be distributed to the Roosevelt Island community. Ms Shimamura spoke about reasons why she is running for the NYC Council and issues of concern to Roosevelt Island residents.

Here's what she had to say.

I’m a young working mother, a proud Japanese-Puerto Rican woman, a first-generation college graduate with student debt, a social worker, and a candidate for NYC Council on the UES. My mom lived in NYCHA and my family is the product of public schools. pic.twitter.com/LNZJEPh7Ki

— Tricia Shimamura (@Tricia4NYC) July 6, 2020

Today I'm releasing my #TakingCareOfFamiliesAgenda. From enacting #UniversalChildCare to reimagining how we treat our homeless families, it serves as a blueprint for creating a city that prioritizes the needs of working families like mine. Check it out at https://t.co/h06GAzsukJ

— Tricia Shimamura (@Tricia4NYC) February 22, 2021

Learn more about Ms Shimamura at her campaign website.

Ms Shimamura's opponents in the June 22 Democratic Party Primary are: 

• Julie Menin,
• Rebecca Lamorte,
• Kim Moscaritolo 
• Billy Freeland and 
• Christopher Sosa

Interviews with some of the other candidates here. Hope to interview all of the candidates and more in depth conversations too.

Roosevelt Island Is Living Embodiment Of Issues Hillary Clinton Wants To Champion Says Roosevelt Island Historical Society President Judy Berdy In Politico Article

Roosevelt Island Historical Society President Judy Berdy penned an excellent article for Politico. According to Ms. Berdy:

... Roosevelt Island is a community of 14,000 located in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. It’s widely associated in popular memory with its namesake, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his (increasingly distant) dream of a thriving American middle class—themes of an era, no doubt, that the Clinton campaign wishes to project in the popular mind.

Team Clinton deserves credit for the choice. They’ve handpicked a location that is far more than a mnemonic reference to the 1930’s president and economic champion that Clinton wants to be associated with. At its heart, Roosevelt Island is an American social experiment with a rich past—a living, historical embodiment of many major issues that Clinton wants to champion. Look closer at Roosevelt Island, and you’ll find a vision of the kind of American history Clinton draws upon—and a hint of the coming campaign that will talk about it....

The rocky history of Roosevelt Island http://t.co/qApWUvjRRo via @POLITICOMag | Getty pic.twitter.com/rxwEB2P3RA

— POLITICO (@politico) June 14, 2015

Click here for full Politico article by Ms. Berdy and here for Ms. Clinton's June 13 Roosevelt Island speech.

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