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A Message Election in Queens

Posted 7/1/19

“Queens is turned upside down,” a top Working Families Party official declared late on June 25, evoking the musical “Hamilton” and its tale of the American Revolution to describe the magnitude of Tiffany Cabán’s apparent victory in the Democratic Party primary for District Attorney.

“Tonight is more proof that the era of chest-beating ‘tough-on-crime’ is over,” WFP New York Director Bill Lipton declared, alluding to Ms. Cabán’s positions on a variety of criminal-justice issues that placed her in stark contrast with longtime Queens DA Richard Brown, who died in May.

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