Louis wins third election in six months
By Nelson A. King
In her third election victory
in six months, Haitian American
New York City Democratic
Council Member Farah Louis
won the New York General
Elections Tuesday for the 45th
Council District in Brooklyn,
winning by a massive landslide.
With 99 of the 121 polling
precincts reporting, or 81.82
percent, Louis, the daughter of
Haitian immigrants, was way
ahead of her nearest challenger,
Anthony Beckford, who contested
the elections on the Green
Party line.
Louis received 12, 910 votes,
or 93.10 percent, to Beckford’s
652 votes, or 4.7 percent. Republican
David Fite received 298
votes, or 2.2 percent.
“I knew that there was the
fire in me,” Louis told jubilant
supporters Tuesday night at her
victory party at the Kache Restaurant
on Flatbush Avenue in
Brooklyn. “God was unifying
me to bring everyone together
from Day One.
“I was the best person for the
job,” she added. “He sent people
on the front line to work with
me. This campaign could’ve
been relatively short and sweet,
but I believe this journey was
long and strenuous because I
had to prove to my community,
God and myself how bad I wanted
this. And the efforts of my
supporters, partners and allies
had to dictate how hard you’ll
work at it.”
Louis noted that “A Unified
45, the mantra that guided this
campaign, has become reality.
“For others, who frowned
upon the vision God gave me
and my peers, I believe now
they understand the value of
respecting an individual’s ethnicity,
race, culture and religion
and, core values,” she said.
“God sent me a few warriors
who have been told in the past
you aren’t, you couldn’t and
shouldn’t but they did,” Louis
added.
“The best part of this story is
that the warriors didn’t look like
me; we didn’t come from the
same places or have the same
family structures,” she continued.
“The common denominator
was that we all had a heart to
serve the community, to serve
them well and to do it together.
I lean on them because they
came before me, they understand.
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“This victory is ours!” Louis
exclaimed. “Let’s continue to be
a Unified 45.”
Those “warriors” were primarily
members of the Jewish
community in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Some of them are legislators
who serve alongside Louis in the
City Council and were on hand
Tuesday night to heap praise on
her overwhelming triumph.
“It’s a privilege to serve with
her,” Councilman Kalman Yeger,
representative for the 44th
Council District told cheering
supporters. “She’s diligent, and
she’s fierce.
“Farah is a fighter,” he added.
“Her career is not to stop fighting
now. She’s a great person
to have.”
Councilman Chaim Deutseh,
who represents the 48th Council
District in Brooklyn, said
“the great news is that she’s
not going to run for a couple
of years.
“I’m very proud to serve with
her in the City Council,” he said.
“This is who we have to get the
job done.”
Another Jewish City Councilman,
Justin Brannan, who represents
the 43rd Council District
in Brooklyn, said “you can
trust that Farah is going to do
what’s right for this district.
“And Farah does it like
nobody else,” he said. “We’re in
this together. Congratulations,
Farah!”
The Rev. Al Cockburn,
the Guyanese-born pastor of
God’s Battalion, an evangelical
church in Linden Boulevard
in Brooklyn, said: “We put the
right person in office, and she’s
doing an awful job.
Council Member Farah Louis (center) fl anked by Haitian
American New York Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte
and MC Haitian American Samuel Pierre.
Photo by Nelson A. King
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