Hakeem Jeffries??

I'm going to work my butt off to get Bill into office. Hakeem seems nice enough, but we need somebody dynamic who will stand up to the [insert expletive] in Albany.

~Raul

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Here's a profile of Jeffries from Crain's New York:

http://www.newyorkbusiness-risingstars.com/profile.php?pageNum_profile_detail=17&year=2

Jeffries ran against Roger Green in the past and was enough of a threat that Roger gerrymandered him out of the district in the last redistricting process, preventing Jeffries from running against Roger in the last election (where Roger ran unopposed after pleading down a felony charge to a misdemeanor). The other result of the redistricting: the political power of Prospect Heights has been even more diluted as a we are now represented by two separate Assembly members, with each portion of Prospect Heights making up a small part of each Assembly district.

It seems like his stated goals to promote affordable housing and expand economic opportunities means he's in favor of the project.

I'm not sure that hypocrisy qualifies as a conviction. Like most pol's in New York who claim to be champions of the poor and middle class, their very public displays of opposition to projects that help relieve the housing squeeze remain somewhat of a mystery.