Senator Espada receives Independence Party award |
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| 12/21/2000 | Bronx Times Reporter | |
| The Independence Party of
Manhattan presented a series of Anti-Corruption Awards on Monday, December
11, to highlight the need for structural political reform in New York.
"The Florida situation reveals the problem that’s utterly pervasive in politics today," said Cathy Stewart, Manhattan County chair. "Our political institutions, from the Board of Elections, to the courts, to the state legislature, which are empowered to protect the public interest and guarantee a level playing field - are intensely partisan. It’s the partisanship of elections and government that have to be reformed." Among the award recipients were senators Roy Goodman, Pedro Espada and Martin Conner, Democratic Party district leader Aubrey Lees, Dean Barkley, a member of Jesse Ventura’s administration, Independence Party chairman Frank MacKay, vice presidential candidate Nat Goldhaber, leading gay independent Jim Mangia, civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton, Amsterdam News editor Elinor Tatum, Independence Party leader Anita Lerman, attorney Roy Dowd and Queens activist Cynthia Jenkins. |