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David Siffert has won the Democratic primary race for Assembly District 66
Civil rights lawyer and law professor David Siffert has won Deborah Glick’s seat in the Assembly — our district is 66 — defeating his closest opponent by just 15 votes.
After Primary Day on June 23, the results showed Jeannine Kiely barely eking out a victory ahead of Siffert — the results, with 95.45 of scanners counted, were 27.61 percent to 27.24 percent — a delta of 56 votes. And that slim margin requires a manual recount by law. The manual recount ended with 4388 votes for Siffert and 4373 for Kiely. A total of 17,172 votes were case.
David Siffert – 4388
Jeannine Kiely – 4373
Ryder Kessler – 3641
Ben Yee – 2238
Corinne Arnold – 727
Furhan Ahmad – 610
Before they (Siffert is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns) ran for office, Siffert was the legal director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project as well as an adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU School of Law and the founding executive director of NYU Law’s State Government Initiative.
A lifelong Manhattanite, David went to Horace Mann starting in kindergarten, University of Chicago for undergrad then back to Manhattan for law school at NYU. (David’s favorite connection to Tribeca is their days in high school frequenting Tribecan Michael Dorf’s The Knitting Factory when it was on Leonard — especially for three floors of ska.) They live in the Village with their wife, Melissa, a therapist, and 2-year-old child.
STOP — the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project — advocates for privacy and aims to end government surveillance. Siffert has also had a lot of practice writing bills, including teaching a state legislative externship where the students are paired with legislators. All that prepped them for this job.
“It’s part of a scheme I have — I believe the state is the most powerful entity in the country,” Siffert said when we talked before the primary, “but it is under-resourced. There are so many things we can do to protect New Yorkers. I am running because we are leaving too much on the table. The state legislature has a bad case of inertia and I want to change that.”
See their candidate Q&A here.
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Just what nyc needs…another delusional left wing crazy person who only wants more $$ to solve the same problems. He should go back to school to relearn economics.
I’m guessing you purposefully didn’t use their preferred pronoun?
Sure, we need more Trump trickle down economics where the trickle stops at billionaires.
I’m with Matt. Tribeca doesn’t need another left wing nut. He will only make Tribeca worse. When will tribecians learn.
What is happening in NYC? I am shocked that people are so short sighted that they blindly follow the woke agenda. NY and the rest of the country need leaders who are critical thinkers and who are loyal to our constitution and not some pie in the sky ideology.
It is a combination of people being riled up by Trump and the so far successful emergence of red diaper nepo babies like Mamdani as an alternative to a feckless Democratic Party establishment.
We really need ranked choice voting for these elections. The winner barely got over 25% of the vote.
Is government surveillance really what is most important to Tribecans in the STATE SENATE?
C’mon people – streets are a mess, petty crime is ignored, vendors are everywhere and storefronts are empty.
But yeah, we definitely should make sure that a privacy lawyer who has never run a business, wrote a piece of legislation and has the support of a whopping 25% of the neighborhood represents us.
Way to go Democracy!
Hooray ! David Siffert won; and I got to help a bit; many hundreds of his strong supporters did; of many Democratic Party stripes; from radicals to centrists; David and I sometimes disagree on specific issues; what his many supporters agree on is that the whole District WON because David Siffert won.!
“… the whole District WON because David Siffert won!” that remains to be seen.