FRANK DE LUCA & ASSOCIATES
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Frank De Luca
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TOM WEISS SEEKS U.S. CONGRESSIONAL SEAT
STATEN ISLAND RESIDENT TOM WEISS ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
IN THE 13TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
“5-BOROUGH MAN” GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD VS. ENTRENCHED MACHINE POLITICIANS
New York, N.Y.; September 18 - - Staten Island resident, long-time community activist and freelance journalist Tom Weiss has announced that he will seek to become the first write-in candidate for congress representing New York’s 13th congressional district (which is comprised of the entire borough of Staten Island, and several neighborhoods in Brooklyn including Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and Gravesend). Weiss will face a contentious battle against his post September 9th primary candidates, the politically entrenched Michael McMahon (Democrat), Robert Stranieri (Republican), and Carmine Morano (Independence Party of New York).
Tom Weiss serves as publisher and editor of UP FRONT News, an influential free newspaper (“the paper that can’t be bought or sold”) that has scooped the mainstream and “alternative” media by breaking such stories as the Koch Administration cover-up of how budget-cuts caused patient deaths at Queens Hospital Center; tenant rights legislation; the Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. infiltration into the “left” (through, for example, the New Alliance Party and Lenora Fulani); and the LaRouche/Fulani infiltration into the Green Party and the Ralph Nader presidential campaigns; and many other stories during its 25-plus years of publication.
Weiss, a registered Democrat, will face the aforementioned candidates in the November 4th election and is ready to debate the candidates on such issues as gentrification/over-development/housing; civil rights/civil liberties; the Iraq War and the Middle East; genocide (e.g.Tibet, Darfur, and poor communities in America); wealth re-distribution/poverty/economy/corporate welfare; political corruption; immigration, foreign affairs, globalization; energy and the environment; healthcare; gay rights; and domestic fascism (e.g. LaRouche, Lenora Fulani, etc.). Tom Weiss’ viewpoint on all the issues can be accessed on his news blog: http://www.tomsupfrontnews.blogspot.com/.
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Tom Weiss’ take-on-the-system endeavor is in the small “d” democratic tradition of young Michael Sessions, who, as a write-in candidate in 2005, defeated an entrenched incumbent and became the mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan. Weiss and his increasing number of supporters have also been energized by the recent news that Dennis Morris won a primary as a write-in candidate in California.
While New York City is a larger political battleground than the communities that Sessions and Morris fought in, Weiss is confident he will prevail due to the fact he has been a political factor and influence in New York for more than 40 years. A native New Yorker, a long-time union member and supporter, a community leader, and a social worker for more than 25 years, Weiss is known as the “5-Borough Man” as he has, at one time or another, been a resident in each of New York City’s five boroughs.
Along with UP FRONT News, the newspaper he publishes, edits, and contributes to, Weiss is a freelance journalist who has been published in the Queens Tribune, Jewish Currents, Brooklyn Paper, Downtown Magazine (no longer in print), and a number of literary journals and magazines. As a community leader, activist, and producer of performing arts events, Weiss has made the front pages of Newsday and the Staten Island Advance; and has received considerable coverage in The New York Times, New York Post, Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, New York Press, Downtown Magazine, Downtown Express, The Villager, The SoHo Weekly News (no longer in print), Queens Tribune, The Paper (Fordham University), The Knight News (Queens College), Pipedream (Binghamton University), Chelsea-Clinton News, Novoye Russke Slovo (the largest Russian-language daily newspaper in New York), and the Gannett-owned Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin among others.
Weiss has also appeared on NBC-TV news, WPIX-TV news, WBAI radio, the “INN World Report” and “Conversations with Harold Channer” (both seen on Manhattan Neighborhood Network), Vyzygoth’s “Grassy Knoll” radio and internet talk show, and a number of mainstream and alternative radio, television and internet broadcasts, as well as college radio broadcasts at Binghamton University, SUNY-Purchase, and Fordham University.
“I think the bottom line issue is integrity,” Weiss commented. “I am the only candidate who can be consistently counted on to tell the truth.”
Tom Weiss has consistently won elections in which he has been a candidate including being elected and re-elected as Union Shop Steward in Local 1199, District Council 37, District Council 1707, and to the Queens Hospital Center Community Advisory Board.
Tom Weiss is available for interviews upon request. Please contact campaign Communications Director Frank De Luca at delucanyc@hotmail.com. Tom Weiss can be reached at tomsupfrontnews@yahoo.com.
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