CWA ENDORSES RICHARD ABORN FOR MANHATTAN D.A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK- Continuing to rack up significant support from labor in this race, Manhattan DA candidate Richard Aborn received the endorsement of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) District 1, as well as a city local, CWA 1180, which represents municipal workers.

 

"Richard Aborn has proven over the course of his career and over the course of this campaign that he will be a real fighter for working people who are denied minimum and prevailing wages and others who have not typically been served by law enforcement," said Bob Master, Legislative/Political and Mobilization Director for the Communications Workers of America, District 1.  "We are proud to join his campaign to transform the criminal justice system."

 

 

CWA District 1 represents 10,000 workers who live or work in Manhattan.  CWA Local 1180 represents mostly municipal workers in dozens of Mayoral agencies, the Health and Hospitals Corporation, the Housing Authority, the Transit Authority, the School Construction Authority, the state's Unified Court System; and at not-for-profit organizations including Planned Parenthood of New York City, the ASPCA, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch.

 

“I am deeply honored to have the support of CWA and so many men and women in the labor movement,” Aborn said today. “One of my top priorities as DA will be to fight for working people who are denied minimum and prevailing wages, and others who have often felt unprotected."

 

CWA will be mailing to its members and committing support to Aborn’s election day efforts. The Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has already sent out one of four mailers to its sizable membership.

 

The endorsement comes as Aborn has collected the support of the overwhelming majority of elected officials, activists, and clubs, as well as the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, Working Families Party, and former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. Aborn has picked up 17 endorsements by currently elected officials, while no other candidate has more than five. The first-time candidate and national gun control leader has also been endorsed by the most political organizations and grass roots activists.

 

Aborn has devoted his career to innovative ways of fighting crime the right way. He started his law enforcement career prosecuting violent felonies under Robert Morgenthau. He masterminded the Brady gun control bill - and became the NRA's worst enemy. He was a leader in the expansion of the use of DNA evidence to both convict criminals and exonerate the innocent. As the managing partner of a law firm, he has supervised scores of attorneys. And his independent investigation of the NYPD took on police misconduct and brutality.

 

In recent weeks, Aborn has been also endorsed by the Working Families Party; former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton; Congressman Jerrold Nadler; Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy; the Million Mom March; New Yorkers Against Gun Violence; State Senators Bill Perkins, Eric Schneiderman, Jose Serrano, Daniel Squadron, and Eric Adams (also the co-founder of the city-wide group, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care); Assembly Members Jonathan Bing, Deborah Glick, Richard Gottfried, Brian Kavanagh, Daniel O'Donnell, and Linda Rosenthal; Council Members Gale Brewer, Rosie Mendez, and Melissa Mark Viverito; former DA candidates Catherine Abate and Richard Davis; long-time progressive voice Katrina vanden Heuvel; The Family of Sean Bell, Jeffrey Deskovic, The Hotel Trades Council (HTC), UFCW Local 1500, Workers United, UAW 9A the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, The Metropolitan Council on Housing, NYC Americans for Democratic Action, and numerous political clubs.