Patch has an article on the 12 declared contenders for Bill Perkins’ seat in the City Council’s 9th District. Nick Garber’s article includes a list of the candidates and some info about their fundraising background, and platforms:
- Money raised: $13,213
- A former journalist, Allen has also worked as the National Crisis and Service Director at the National Action Network. He has served as a Democratic district leader in Harlem and worked for the city Board of Elections.
Cordell Cleare
- Money raised: $31,699
- Cleare formerly served as Perkins’s chief of staff in the State Senate and founded the Michelle Obama Community Democratic Club. She ran for City Council in the 2017 special election, coming in third place.
- Money raised: $14,308
- Clennon is a manager for the property management firm UMDI, is treasurer of Community Board 10, and served as executive director of the Uptown Democratic Club.
- Money raised: $17,170
- Council has worked as an administrator at the nonoprofit rehabilitation center Phoenix House, has worked as a youth basketball coach and co-founded the A.A.U basketball program The Rens and the nonprofit CouncilHim.
- Money raised: $7,245
- An attorney, Gooding also identifies as a libertarian. He works as general counsel at the Scholar Athlete Fund and formerly worked for Success Academy Charter Schools.
- Money raised: $55,690 (plus $160,444 in public matching funds)
- Jordan is an author, poet, teaching after and activist in Harlem. She founded the independent publishing house Pens Up Press, runs the Uproar Poetry Group and has held poetry workshops at a Harlem school and senior center.
Alpheaus Marcus
- Money raised: none
- Marcus ran for State Assembly in the Bronx in 2018, as a Republican. He founded the Urban Nonprartisan Club and is CEO of AMX Consultants, a political firm.
- Money raised: $11,776
- Before her retirement, McDaniels worked as a peace officer at city schools, a supervisor at the NYPD’s school safety division and a police sergeant for the city’s human resources administration. She is now a tenant association president and is vice president for an NYPD community council.
Bernadette McNear
- Money raised: none
- McNear has been a tenant leader at NYCHA’s Rangel Houses and is currently employed as a Program Director of an afterschool program for kids in grades k-5th located in Harlem. Current Employer: Catholic Charities Community Services Alianza/Rangel
- Money raised: $47,963
- Rosser is a partnership manager at LinkedIn, and formerly co-chaired the New York Young Leadership Board.
- Money raised: $9,859
- A special education teacher, Simpson also founded the Central Harlem Merchant Coalition to Save Small Businesses.
- Money raised: $20,377
- A longtime member of Community Board 10, Taylor is an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He worked for decades in the NYPD and served as an assistant commissioner for the Department of Corrections.