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WPCNR CAMPAIGN 2019. From the White Plains Democratic City Committee. February 15, 2019:

At a heavily attended meeting last night at the White Plains YWCA, the White Plains Democratic City Committee endorsed what is believed to be its first all-female slate of candidates for City office.      

Common Council Member Nadine Hunt-Robinson, an attorney who was appointed, and then elected, to the Council in 2014 and re-elected for a full four-year term in 2015, was endorsed for re-election by an overwhelming margin.     

 Also endorsed by an overwhelming margin was Victoria Presser, a career public-information officer for governmental and non-profit agencies, who is now the public-information officer for the Scarsdale Board of Education.      

In a close contest for the third position on the slate, Jennifer Puja, Director of the Westchester-Putnam AFL-CIO Central Labor Body, was endorsed over Richard Payne, an information-technology specialist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison.     

In addition, the City Committee unanimously endorsed Ben Boykin, Chair of the Westchester County Board of Legislators, for re-election as County Legislator for the 5th District and Alfreda Williams, Vice Chair of the County Board, for re-election as County Legislator for the 8th District.