I Endorse Effie Phillips-Staley for Congress (NY‑17)

I’m endorsing Effie Phillips-Staley for Congress in New York’s 17th District.

Effie is a Tarrytown Trustee and nonprofit executive who has spent her career in social justice, education, culture, disaster relief, and public service. She is now in her third term as a Tarrytown Village Trustee, where her campaign says she has worked on safer and more walkable streets, housing affordability, local climate resilience, and supporting small businesses.

That kind of local, practical, people-first experience matters.

Effie is running on the kind of agenda Democrats should be fighting for everywhere: Medicare for All, universal childcare, building millions of new homes, tax fairness, abolishing ICE, and Block the Bombs legislation. She is also refusing corporate PAC and AIPAC money.

That is a serious progressive campaign. It is about lowering costs, taking on entrenched power, and making Washington work for regular people instead of the ultra-rich.

NY‑17 deserves a representative who will actually fight for working families, public goods, civil rights, climate resilience, and a foreign policy rooted in human rights.

I’m proud to endorse Effie Phillips-Staley. Please donate, volunteer, and spread the word.