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Rev. Que English, Running for State Senate, Looks to Preserve Albany’s Limited Female Presence

By DAVID CRUZ

When Rev. Que English, the latest candidate to enter the race for 36th Senate District, was asked to describe her political style, English gave a response that captured her middle-of-the-road bent. “I consider myself an innovator, a strategist,” said English, a Democrat. “I am able to protest and sit at the table.” Sitting over breakfast at Perista Coffee Shop in Kingsbridge Heights, English spoke to the Norwood News on her ambitions for the district, several issues that require fixing, and what it feels like entering the male-dominated culture of New York politics. “[Men] cannot be our voice; they can be

By DAVID CRUZ

Jamaal Bailey, an employee and established protégé of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, announced his run for the 36th Senate District, a seat currently held by Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, who plans to step down. The announcement quickly became a major endorsement for Bailey by the Bronx Democratic County Committee (BDCC). Outside Wakefield’s Butler Memorial Methodist Church, where Bailey sometimes speaks, Bailey stood alongside Speaker Heastie and other Bronx legislators, including BDCC chairman Marcos Crespo. “What a time to be alive,” said Bailey, 33, also flanked by his parents, wife and daughter as he delivered a Democratic platform of education reform, criminal justice reform and