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Lt. Gov. Kathleen Hochul is busy meeting with members of the Jewish community in Crown Heights to discuss the importance of a private education while there is speculation she is jumpstarting her campaign after sources reported Jumaane Williams may be challenging her post.

Hochul is set to appear soon at the Jewish Community Center of Crown Heights in addition to visiting a yeshiva, and also the Beth Rivkah elementary school, The NY Post reported.

“She wants to understand the needs of the Jewish community, particularly in education. We have a large private education network, it has nothing to do with the election”, said JCC Crown Heights executive director Eli Cohen.

While there is no official contender on the Democrat side to challenge Governor Cuomo, Jumaane D. Williams a councilman from the 45th district of Brooklyn is poised to challenge Hochul. Williams, who is a progressive Democrat and served as a delegate to Bernie Sanders for his 20016 presidential campaign , told the NY Times he was opening up an exploratory committee to unseat Hochul.

The Lieutenant governor post is shaping up to be a battle for progressive Democrats who think Cuomo is not liberal enough to their liking. While Cuomo has a huge campaign treasury of $30 million making it difficult to unseat him, Hochul has only $144,000 in her campaign account as of July, The NY Times reported. Securing the LT. Governorship can serve as a way for progressives to have more political pull in the state.

“What we need to do is make sure there is diversity in the highest order of government… people shouldn’t be afraid to do what’s right… during King Day we should remember that”, Williams stated at a recent speech in Harlem for Rev Al Sharpton’s National Action Network on MLK day.

Eli Cohen, while on the subject of the Lt. Governor described Williams as a “good friend” to the Jewish community and highlighted his efforts to bolster pre-dawn security at the West Indian parade.

Cohen also said that Hochul had visited once before and the lieutenant governor spoke to JCC leaders when they went to Albany earlier this month for Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State address.

Hochul, a former Buffalo congresswoman, ran as Cuomo’s running mate in 2014 and will doing so once more.

By: Craig Bumeister

 

 

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