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The Race ...
City Council
District 31
Laurelton, Rosedale and Springfield Gardens
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General Election Results
James Sanders Jr.
Primary Results
James Sanders, Jr.
The Incumbent:
James Sanders, Jr.
General Election Challenger(s):
Primary Election Challenger(s):
David R. Hooks, Jr.
Feature Articles ...
The Incumbent:
James Sanders, Jr. | Dem | WFP |
James Sanders, Jr. was elected to the City Council in 2001. He also served on Community School Board 27 for more than 12 years and worked as a youth coordinator for the City Volunteer Corps, co-founded a microeconomic development corporation. He was Assistant District Manager for former Congressman Rev. Floyd Flake.
Challenger(s):
David R. Hooks, Jr. | Dem |
David Hooks is a career planning and development associate at the Statue University of New York. He has served as youth coordinator for Community Board 14, youth service specialist for the New York City Youth Bureau, and was appointed to the State Human Rights Commission by Governor Mario Cuomo.
Campaign Trail ...
Below are the latest Campaign Trail items for the District 31 race. For the full Campaign Trail archive, go here
Amsterdam News Endorses Sanders
September 8, 2005
We urge the re-election of Councilman James Sanders Jr., who is the first African-American to chair the New York City Economic Development Committee in 350 years. He is also chairman of the Economic Committee of the council and sponsor of the anti-discrimination legislation addressing the health care needs of morbidly obese people. Mr. Sanders is a prime sponsor of past legislation prohibiting institutions from engaging in predatory lending. Among his efforts are important pieces of legislation and budget items that have been useful to the people of the city of New York. We urge his re-election. (Amsterdam News)
Missing Sanders Campaign Filings Trigger Review
August 18, 2005
The campaign committee for City Council candidate David Hooks filed complaints this week with the New York City Campaign Finance Board and the Queens district attorney's office after City Councilman James Sanders Jr. (D-Laurelton) missed Friday's deadline to file campaign finance disclosure documents. Sanders has not filed the mandatory periodic campaign finance reports with the Board of Elections since being elected in 2001. According to the Campaign Finance Board Web site, Sanders is the only sitting council member not to have submitted his campaign's receipts and expenditures. The Board of Elections met with Sanders' re-election committee - known as Sanders '05 - earlier this year to discuss the missed filings and determine how the committee could comply. The Hooks campaign, however, has focused steady criticism on the questions surrounding Sanders' failure to file the campaign disclosure reports. Hooks' spokesman, John Lance, said the issue was a matter of fairness. (Times Ledger)
Sanders', Hooks' ballots go unchallenged
July 28, 2005
Last Thursday passed without formal challenges being filed with the city Board of Elections from the campaigns of Councilman Jan s Sanders, Jr. (D-Laurelton) or his Democratic primary challeng
That is not to say that neither party questioned the validity of the other's ballot petition signatures, of which an authentic 900 are needed for a City Council candidate to be placed on the ballot for the Sept. 13 citywide primaries, or traded barbs about each other's campaigns.
(Times Ledger)
No Longer The Pick of His Party
July 20, 2005
A rare political event is playing itself out in Southeastern Queens - a Democratic member of the City
Council is facing a primary from an opponent supported by his own party. After almost four years in office, Councilman James Sanders (D-Laurelton) faces a Sept. 13 primary challenge from David Hooks Jr., a job-placement adviser who has the backing of the Queens County Democratic Organization. Sanders is possibly unique in the history of the City Council - he failed to file the required campaign financial reports for almost four years after his election in 2001 and nobody seemed to notice until recently. (Newsday)
Queens Councilmember Must Re-create Campaign Finances
June 11, 2005
Queens City Councilmember James Sanders must
reconstruct the entire financial history of his 2003
re-election campaign after failing to file required
reports for three years. The monumental undertaking
will not be done in time to meet the next filing
deadline for all candidates on July 16, Sanders
admitted. (Newsday)
June 3, 2005
City Councilman James Sanders of Laurelton has failed to file legally mandated reports on his campaign fund-raising and spending for the past three years, the Board of Elections said yesterday. Sanders' failure was first raised publicly yesterday by David Hooks, his opponent in the Democratic primary in the fall. Hooks, a career planner who ran against Sanders in 2001, released copies of letters from the Board of Elections to Sanders during the past three years. Each of the seven form letters advised Sanders that he had missed the deadlines for filing the latest report. However, each letter failed to note his lack of response to earlier letters. (Newsday)
Full District 31 Campaign Trail Archive
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