NY-12: UFT backs Alex Bores (D)
New York City’s teachers union is backing Assembly Member Alex Bores in the competitive contest to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler in Congress.
It’s a big get for Bores in a front-and-center race rife with celebrity candidates and outside spending. Bores, a computer scientist by trade who has leaned into regulating artificial intelligence, has already scored endorsements from New York State United Teachers and PSC-CUNY, the union representing faculty and staff at the City University of New York. Now, with the United Federation of Teacher’s support, the 35-year-old lawmaker has a monopoly of support from educators across the state. He’s also been endorsed by District Council 37 and a handful of other unions.
“Alex Bores has a track record of fighting for working families and public education. As part of that work, he demanded tighter regulations on AI,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement. “Now, Big Tech billionaires and their super PAC are trying to silence him. But he won't back down. We need that kind of backbone in Washington.”
As the June 23 primary draws closer, many of the institutional endorsers have been split between Bores and Assembly Member Micah Lasher – an insider battle between Manhattan’s East and West sides. Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg and anti-Trump talking head George Conway remain big factors in the race too, but each has a more normie following.
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