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Related: About this forumOn Staten Island, de Blasio talks Italian heritage, his agenda, and Recchia for Congress
Jillian Jorgensen/Staten Island Advance
NEW DORP -- Mayor Bill de Blasio came to Staten Island to celebrate Italian-American heritage, diversity and his fellow Democrats on the eve of St. Joseph's Day, and also put in a good word for Domenic M. Recchia Jr.'s congressional campaign.
The mayor attended the Richmond County Democratic Committee St Joseph's Day Dinner at La Strada Restaurant in New Dorp.
It was a night for Democrats -- and for Italian-Americans, whose city heritage Democratic Party Chair John Gulino referenced in introducing de Blasio.
"We had Joe DiMaggio in center field, Frank Sinatra at Carnegie Hall, Fiorello LaGuardia at City Hall -- and now we have you leading our city," Gulino told de Blasio.
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HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Going back decades because of this they have wanted to secede from NYC.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Obama won it the second time around and it looks like we may take the SI-South Brooklyn house district.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)and PROGRESS!!!