NY-15: South Bronx Assembly Member Amanda Septimo (D) joins race challenging Ritchie Torres
Assembly Member Amanda Septimo, who represents the South Bronx’s 84th District, announced she is joining the pool of candidates challenging Rep. Ritchie Torres in the Congressional District 15 primary.
Septimo is in her fifth year in the assembly and will run for NY-15 as a Democrat, joining other announced candidates Michael Blake, Dalourny Nemorin and Jon LaTona. Andre Easton and José Vega are also running again Torres as independents.
In an interview with the Bronx Times, Septimo said her political career represents “a very Bronx story.”
As a teenager, she joined a community activism program with The Point CDC, where she began seeing “through an equity lens” that shaped her political understanding. “Once you put it on, you can’t take it off,” she said.
https://www.bxtimes.com/amanda-septimo-congressional-district-15/