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City Council Updates
Harry Garrido appeared on NY1 in an Errol Lewis (way over rated) interview that was sponsored by guess who -- AETNA.
Retirees Slams DC 37 Garrido over Threats at Press Conference today, June 22 Rally pics
Breaking on Tuesday Primary:
Of the contested City Council seats that may affect an eventual Medicare vote:
- It looks like our D42 Socialist friend Charles Barron is out, as of January, as he is significantly trailing UFT-endorsed candidate Chris Banks.
- Yusef Salaam will replace our friend Kristin Jordan Richardson who did not run. Salaam is nominally a progressive. He beat KRJ's centrist challenger Inez Dickens (who was endorsed by the UFT) in something of a surprise upset.
- Our solid Republican friend, Ari Kagan, will go up against our wishy-washy Democratic friend, Justin Brannan, in the newly drawn 47th District in Brooklyn.
- The newly drawn, majority-Asian, 43rd District in Brooklyn's Sunset Park Chinatown may be a close race in November featuring a hard-right Democrat, Susan Zhuang, versus a yet-to-be-determined, actual Republican (either Ying Tan or Vito LaBella).
In other contested races involving 1099-supportive friends, Christopher Marte cruised in D1 (Yay!), Lynn Schulman is well ahead in D29, and Linda Lee cruised in D23.
The UFT seems to have bumped off Barron - bad news for retirees.
Video from rallies and press conference:
Message from Retiree Advocate
As many of you have heard, there is a new bill in the NY City Council that would require the City to offer Medicare-eligible city retirees and their Medicare-eligible dependents at least one Medigap plan with benefits equivalent to or better than those available to city retirees and their dependents as of December 31, 2021.
It would provide retirees with the health coverage that they have had for decades and would stop the unacceptable transfer into a Medicare Advantage Plan.
Let's do what we can to make this Bill get the support it needs to become binding.
Contact City Council Members
Ask them to co-sponsor Bill 1099
Sample Letter
Good morning CM ,
I am a New York City retiree, and I am urging you to support Council Member Barron's Retiree bill 1099 which guarantees all city retirees and their dependents the right to remain on traditional Medicare with a Medicare Supplemental (or Medigap) plan paid for by the City of New York as required under Section 12-126.
I ask and expect your support for this bill. Will you co-sponsor, support and vote for bill 1099 to protect retirees' healthcare options? I request your response asap.
Thank you,
Name,
?? year retired teacher, UFT retiree
Phone Number
City Council Spreadsheet with Contact list- June 26, 2023
Yellow = Co-sponsors of Barron’s Healhtcare Bill
District 1-Christopher Marte- COS-Caitlin Kelmar ckelmar@council.nyc.gov Leg. Dir. Ian Wang Iwang@council.nyc.gov
District 2- Carlina Rivera- COS is Katie Loeb-kloeb@council.nyc.gov district office-212 6771077, leg. office-212 788 7366
District 3-Erik Bottcher- Leg. Dir. Pam Comerford pcomerford@council.nyc.gov District Office: 212-564-7757
District 4- Keith Powers- Hayley Brundige legislative director and budget director hbrundige@council.nyc.gov COS is Ben Jacobs bjacobs@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7393 District Office: 212-818-0580
District 5- Julie Menin- District5@council.nyc.gov Chief of Staff Jonathan Szott JSzott@council.nyc.gov Leg Dir-Brandon Jordan bjordan@council.nyc.gov Scheduler/Director of Constituent Services -Cameron Koffman CKoffman@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6865
District 6- Gale Brewer-Shulamit Puder, Chief of Staff spuder@council.nyc.gov d06scheduling@council.nyc.gov Rosalba Rodriguez- rorodriguez@council.nyc.gov
District Office: 212-873-0282 Legislative office 212-788-6975
District 7- Shaun Abreu-COS-Amber Moorer-amoorer@council.nyc.gov Policy and Budget Dir. Jalissa Quigley-jquigley@council.nyc.
District 8- Diana Ayala-COS Elise Encarnacion eencarnacion@council.nyc.gov 212-788-6960. Ashley Aviles-Asst to Office of Deputy Speaker-Asaviles@council.nyc.
District 9-Kristen Richardson Jordan- kjordan@council.nyc.gov 646 960 1344 COS Jack McClatchy@council.nyc.gov or ghearne@council.nyc.gov 929 595 4586 Lisa McKraken lmccraken@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7397
District 10-Carmen de la Rosa-COS- James Burke-jburke@council.nyc.gov Leg Dir- Kiana Diaz-Kdiaz@council.nyc.gov (646) 670-6901Legislative Office: 212-788-7053 District Office: 917-521-2616
District 11-Eric Dinowitz-Chief of Staff Jenna Klaus Jklaus@council.nyc.gov For scheduling inquiries contact d11scheduling@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: (212) 788-7080 District Office: (718) 549-7300
District 12-Kevin C. Riley- COS is Simone Jones- sijones@council Budget Director- Jahmal Yapp Jyapp@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: (212)-788-6873 District Office: (718) 684-5509 or 347-326-8652
District 13-Marjorie Velazquez- district13@council.nyc.gov COS- Jackie Crossan jcrossan@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7375 District Office: 718-931-1721
District 14- Pierina Ana Sanchez- constituent services -Adrian Cacho acacho@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7074 District Office: 917-409-6376
District 15-Oswald Feliz- Theona Reets-COS and Budget Director- treets@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office:212-788-6966 District Office: 718-842-8100
District 16-Althea Stevens- COS Kate Connolly kconnolly@council.nyc.gov . Dep. COS- Tyreke Israel tisrael@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6856 District Office: 718-588-7500
District 17-Rafael Salamanca- Salamanca@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7384 District Office: 718-402-6130
District 18-Amanda Farias- Randi Malman rmalman@council.nyc.gov . Leg. Dir. is Rebecca Nieves-rnieves@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6853
District Office: 718 792-1140
District 19-Vickie Paladino- Constituent Services Evelyn Mallo emallo@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7250
District 20- Sandra Ung- COS-Alexander Hart ahart@council.nyc.gov Community Liaison- Dan Lin dlin@council.nyc.gov District Office: 718-888-8747
District 21-Francisco Moya- COS is Meghan Tadio MTadio@council.nyc.gov Leg. dir- Rebecca Beaver rbeaver@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6862
District Office: 718-651-1917
District 22- Tiffany Caban-COS Steph Silkowski -ssilkowski@council.nyc.gov Leg. Director-Madhuri -mshukla@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6963
District Office: 718-274-4500
District 23-Linda Lee- COS Amanda Vazquez Amvazquez@council.nyc.gov
District 24- James F. Gennaro- COS- Henry Yam hyam@council.nyc.gov Leg. Dir.-Nabjot Kaur-Nkaur@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6956
District Office: 718-217-4969
District 25- Shekar Krishnan- COS is Chuck Park-cpark@council.nyc.gov Leg. Dir. is Greg Clark-gclark@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7066 District Office: 929-293-0206
District 26- Julie Won - Carolina Gil Chief of Staff CGil@council.nyc.gov Legislative Director - Isaac Blasenstein IBlasenstein@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7370 District Office: 718-383-9566
District 27- Nantasha Williams- Budget and Leg Dir. Everton Smith esmith@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7084 District Office: 718-776-3700
District 28- Adrienne Adams-Chief of Staff Jeremy John- Jejohn@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6850 District Office: 718-206-2068
District 29- Lynn Schulman- COS Seth Urbinder surbinder@council.nyc.gov - (718) 544- 8800
District 30- Robert Holden- COS-Daniel Kurzyna dkurzyna@council.nyc.gov Leg Dir-Craig Caruana-ccaruana@council.nyc.
District 31- Selvena N. Brooks-Powers-district31@
District 32- Joann Ariola-COS Phyllis Inserillo pinserillo@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7069 District Office: 718-738-1083 or 718-318-6411
District 33-Lincoln Restler- COS Mariana Alexander malexander@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7348 District Office: 718-875-5200
District 34-Jennifer Gutierrez- COS-Anna Bessendorf - Abessendorf@council.nyc.gov Leg Dir-Anya Lehr- alehr@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7095
District Office: 718-963-3141
District 35- Crystal Hudson- Dir. of Policy and Budget Andrew Wright anwright@council.nyc.gov. COS- Cassie Addison caddison@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7081 District Office: 718-260-9191
District 36-Chi Osse - Chief of Staff, Naomi Hopkins, nhopkins@council.nyc.gov Policy & Legislative Director- May Vutrapongatana - mvutrapongvatana@council.nyc.
District Office: 718-919-0740
District 37- Sandy Nurse -COS-Carlos Munoz cmunoz@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7284 District Office: 718-642-8664
District 38-Alexa Aviles-Chief of Staff- Edward Cena ecerna@council.nyc.gov. Leg. Dir. Christina Bottego-cbottego@council.nyc.
Legislative Office: 212-788-7372 District Office: 718-439-9012
District 39- Shahana Hanif- Nora Brickner Chief of Staff nbrickner@council.nyc.gov Leg dir- aliao@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6969 District Office: 718-499-1090
District 40-Rita Joseph - Leg Dir jdesouve@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7352 District Office:718-287-8762
District 41- Darlene Mealy- Legislative Office: 212-788-7387 District Office: 718-953-3097
District 42-Charles Barron-COS: William Clay wclay@council.nyc.gov Also: Vinson Verdree- viverdree@council.nyc.gov 718 649-9495 212 788-6957
District 43-Justin Brannan-Chief of Staff- Christopher McCreight -CMccreight@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7363 District Office: 718-748-5200
District 44-Kalman Yeger- Budget Director- Maria Markh mmarkh@council.nyc.gov COS? Linda Pillcorema- Lpillcorema@council.nyc.gov askkalman@council.nyc.gov
Legislative Office: 212-788-7357 District Office: 718-853-2704
District 45-Farah N. Louis- For leg. and budget Dir. Ruth Guillaume rguillaume@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-6859 District Office: 718-629-2900
District 46-Mercedes Narcisse- COS Saye Joseph sajoseph@council.nyc.gov Frank Shea- Dep. COS fshea@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7286 District Office: 718-241-9330
District 47-Ari Kagan- COS Jeanine Cherichetti jcherichetti@council.nyc.gov Also Ather Tirmizi- Budget Dir. atirmizi@council.nyc.gov Legislative Office: 212-788-7045