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Chares Rangel

Chares Rangel

  • Candidates Allege Wright Unfairly Influences Elections

    Keith Wright parade

    Keith Wright at the Puerto Rican Day Parade (photo: @KeithWright2016)


    Afua Atta-Mensah, candidate for female district leader in Harlem's 70th Assembly District, had no illusions that running for office for the first time would be easy. But after campaigning against the entrenched Harlem political machine all summer she wonders if she would do it again. "Any newcomer is not taken kindly when they are running against the machine," said Atta-Mensah, a public

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