Claire Valdez and DSA slate mates cast early votes together in Ridgewood

Valdez voted for herself, for Kattan in the Assembly seat she is leaving and for state Senate nominee Aber Kawas on Oct. 27. On Tuesday she faces Republican Melvin Rivera in a 7th District race the major forecasters rate safely Democratic.

Claire Valdez and DSA slate mates cast early votes together in Ridgewood
Assembly nominee Samantha Kattan, Assembly nominee David Orkin and congressional nominee Claire Valdez after voting early at Gottscheer Hall in Ridgewood, Oct. 27.

Assemblymember Claire Valdez, the Democratic and Working Families Party nominee for Congress in New York’s 7th Congressional District, cast an early ballot on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 27, at Gottscheer Hall in Ridgewood, Queens, alongside two fellow Democratic Socialists of America candidates, David Orkin and Samantha Kattan, voting for themselves and their slate mates ahead of the November 3 general election.

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