NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Rana Abdelhamid, a Democratic primary candidate for the 12th Congressional District, announced on Tuesday that she has suspended her campaign for Congress after she said her community was cut out in the new congressional map.
Abdelhamid, a community organizer and non-profit leader born and raised in Queens, posted on her Instagram that the new map was “drawn through an undemocratic process.”
A court-appointed special master drew new maps for the districts of New York. The draft came out in mid-May splitting up many areas around Manhattan. The map cut off Queens and Brooklyn, which includes working class Black and brown, Muslim and Arab immigrant communities of interest in Queens, were divided into two districts, NY-7 and NY-14, meaning that Abdelhamid and her community are no longer included.
“From the very beginning, [Congresswoman] Carolyn Maloney fought to remove the Queens and Brooklyn-based communities of color from her district,” Abdelhamid’s post said. “She got exactly what she wanted: a fully Manhattan district and my community kicked out the door.”
Abdelhamid is known to represent a vision of housing justice and economic security.
“For a community with no representation in New York City Politics, for a community that was harassed and profiled by law enforcement for years, a community that counties to be gentrified, whose story is barely told, this glimpse of representation was a dream,” Abdelhamid said.
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