{"id":167570,"date":"2021-11-03T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=167570"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:17:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:17:36","slug":"dominicans-compete-for-new-york-city-council-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/03\/dominicans-compete-for-new-york-city-council-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans compete for New York City council positions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"422\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NY-Votes-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NY-Votes-1.png 422w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NY-Votes-1-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight Dominican-American politicians, a Republican and a Democrat, competed for positions in the New York municipal elections on 2 November 2021. They hoped to attract the support of 300,000 Dominicans that registered to vote, the largest Hispanic community, Diario Libre reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The candidates were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Republicans:<br>Edwin Rafael de la Cruz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Democrats:<br>Carmen de la Rosa for the New York City Council District 10.<br>Pierina Ana S\u00e1nchez (Bronx District 14).<br>Oswald Feliz (Bronx District 15).<br>Shaun Abreu (Manhattan District 7).<br>Christopher Marte (Manhattan District 1).<br>Antonio Reynoso (Brooklyn District 34).<br>Amanda Farias (District 18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/usa\/actualidad\/nueva-york-podria-tener-la-mayor-representacion-de-autoridades-de-rd-en-su-historia-LF29687783\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow how they do in the election:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Edwin_De_La_Cruz\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Edwin_De_La_Cruz<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pierinaanasanchez\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pierinaanasanchez<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Pierina_Sanchez\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Pierina_Sanchez<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Eric_Adams_(New_York)\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Eric_Adams_(New_York)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Oswald_Feliz\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Oswald_Feliz<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Shaun_Abreu\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Shaun_Abreu<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Amanda_Farias\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Amanda_Farias<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Christopher_Marte\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Christopher_Marte<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Antonio_Reynoso\">https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Antonio_Reynoso<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 November 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Dominican-American politicians, a Republican and a Democrat, competed for positions in the New York municipal elections on 2 November 2021. They hoped to attract the support of 300,000 Dominicans that registered to vote, the largest Hispanic community, Diario Libre reports. The candidates were: For the Republicans:Edwin Rafael de la Cruz. For the Democrats:Carmen de &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/03\/dominicans-compete-for-new-york-city-council-positions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167636,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167570\/revisions\/167636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}