“I never would have imagined that someone like me could be candidate for the Congress one day. “By’ someone like me’, Mondaire Jones wants to say gay, Black and from a poor background. Yet, at the age of 33, this African-American is well-positioned to win the primary for the democratic Party in the 17 th parliamentary constituency of New York (NY-17), a territory covering two counties north of the Bronx. If he wins the election on 23 June, he is almost assured of his seat in the House of representatives : the area is a bastion of democrat for nearly forty years. And co…
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