Mayor sets date for southeast Queens special election
Posted by Rich Bockmann in City Council, City Offices, District 10, District 14, District 31, Mayor, State Senate on January 11, 2013 | No Comments
While candidates planning to run for City Council seats in November are just starting to pick out color schemes for lawn signs, campaigns to represent the southeastern-most neighborhoods of Queens are in full swing ahead of a special election next month. Civic-minded hopefuls started seriously eyeing the District 31 seat covering Rosedale, Laurelton, Springfield Gardens [...]
Race for Council heats up
Posted by Rich Bockmann in City Council, City Offices, District 10, District 31, State Senate on June 7, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Democratic campaign trail in southeast Queens is starting to get crowded with two new candidates ramping up to join Donovan Richards in the race to represent the District 31 seat that will be vacated by his boss, City Councilman James Sanders (D-Laurelton). Jacques Leandre, managing ambassador of the Southeast Queens County Young Democrats, planned [...]
Sanders cruises past five opponents
Posted by Ivan Pereira in City Council, District 31 on September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
Despite a large number of challengers who actively campaigned up to the last second, voters in Laurelton and the Rockaways chose to keep City Councilman James Sanders (D-Laurelton) as their Democratic candidate for in this year’s primary. Sanders beat out five candidates who were vying for his seat with 3,071 votes, which was 39.91 percent [...]
Titus, Leandre in hot water over Brookville Park alcohol-fueled debauchery
Posted by Ivan Pereira in Assembly, City Council, District 31, District 31 on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
Civic leaders and residents of Rosedale clashed with state Assemblywoman Michelle Titus (D-Far Rockaway) and political candidate Jaques Leandre last week as they tried to piece together how one of their family events at Brookville Park had spiraled out of control and littered the greenspace. Members of the Queens Coalition for Parks and Greenspaces and [...]
Titus, candidate Leandre let family day get out of control: Civic leaders
Posted by Ivan Pereira in Assembly, City Council, District 31, District 31 on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
Southeast Queens civic leaders and parks advocates are slamming City Council candidate Jacques Leandre and state Assemblywoman Michelle Titus (D-Far Rockaway) for allegedly allowing a wild party to take place at Brookville Park during an outdoor family day event they sponsored two weeks ago. Fred Kress, president of the Queens Coalition of Parks and Green [...]
Leandre’s radical ties daunt Council hopeful: Source
Posted by Ivan Pereira in City Council, District 31 on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
City Council candidate Jacques Leandre’s association with a controversial religious group may have cost him a key endorsement for his race against Councilman James Sanders (D-Laurelton), a source close to the contest said. Leandre, who plans on running against Sanders in the Democratic primary this fall, did not receive the backing of the Queens Democratic [...]
