Free: Endorsements for Democratic Candidates for Manhattan District Attorney

September 14, 2009


Following is a list of endorsements for the three candidates in the Democratic primary for Manhattan District Attorney:




For Richard M. Aborn


New: Michael Steinberg, victim of 2006 chainsaw slashing

AMF Local 802

The Gay City News

Communications Workers of America

The Nation

The Metropolitan Council on Housing

Hotel and Motel Trades Council

The parents of Sean Bell

Congressman Jerry Nadler

Jeffrey Deskovic

UFCW Local 1500

Out People of Color PAC

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy

Million Mom March

New Yorkers Against Gun Violence

State Senators Eric Adams, Bill Perkins, Eric Schneiderman, Jose Serrano and Daniel Squadron

Assembly Members Jonathan Bing, Deborah Glick, Richard N. Gottfried, Brian Kavanagh, Daniel O'Donnell, Linda B. Rosenthal and Michelle Schimel

City Council Members Gale Brewer, Melissa Mark Viverito and Miguel Martinez

Catherine Abate

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton

Richard Davis, a partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation

Association of Legal Aid Attorneys

Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan

Broadway Democrats

Chelsea Reform Democratic Club

Coalition for a District Alternative

Community Free Democrats

Democrats in The Heights

Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club

Gramercy Stuyvesant Independent Democrats

Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Club

Sojourner Truth Democratic Club

Three Parks Independent Democrats

United Auto Workers Region 9A NYC CAP Council

Village Independent Democrats

Working Families Party



For Leslie Crocker Snyder


New: National Organization for Women

New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association

Our Town

Policewomen’s Endowment Association

New York State Fraternal Order of Police

Detective Investigators Association

Auxiliary Police Benevolent Association

Uniformed EMTs

NYC Correction Captains' Association

NYC Assistant Deputy Wardens - Deputy Wardens Association

Several former and current leaders of the Women’s Bar Association of New York

District Council 9 New York IUPAT, Painters and Allied Trades

David Mixner, civil-rights and LGBT advocate

Ruth Messinger, former Manhattan Borough President

Uniformed Firefighters Association

Geraldine Ferraro

Former Mayor Ed Koch

Assemblyman Micah Kellner

Former Family Court Judge Karen Burstein

Council of School Supervisors and Administrators

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Benevolent Association

New York City Uniformed Fire Officers Association

New York City Detectives' Endowment Association

NYPD Captains Endowment Association

NYPD Lieutenants Benevolent Association

NYPD Hispanic Society

New York State Court Officers Association

New York State Supreme Court Officers Association

New York State Court Clerks Association

Policewomen's Endowment Association

Port Authority Detectives' Endowment Association

Port Authority Police Benevolent Association

Port Authority Sergeants Benevolent Association

EMILY's List

Lenox Hill Democratic Club

Lin Sing Association

McManus Democratic Association

Sean Patrick Maloney

Stonewall Democratic Club

Women's Campaign Forum



For Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.


Empire State Pride Agenda Executive Director Alan Van Capelle

1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East

SEIU Local 32BJ

Jewish Press

New York Observer

City Council Member Inez Dickens

El Diario

Crain's New York Business

Guillermo Linares, former Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs of the City of New York

City Councilmember Jessica Lappin

The New York Amsterdam

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer

Barack Obama Democratic Club of East Harlem

Black Law Enforcement Alliance

New York Post

Fukien American Association and more than 20 other Asian-American organizations

League of Young Voters Political Action Committee

United Federation of Teachers

Daily News

Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez

State Senator Tom Duane

Mason Tenders District Council of Greater New York

The New York Times

Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union

Hoy Sun Ning Yung Association

H. Carl McCall, former New York state comptroller

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Gloria Steinem

Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau

Caroline Kennedy

Former Mayor David Dinkins

Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum

Council Member Alan Gerson

Robert Fiske, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell and a former Southern District U.S. Attorney

Eleanor Jackson Piel, a civil rights attorney

Victor A. Kovner, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine and a former New York City Corporation Counsel

Fern Schair, past chair of the Fund for Modern Courts

Linda Fairstein, author and former chair of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

David Boies of Boies, Schiller & Flexner

Alan Vinegrad, partner at Covington & Burling and a former Eastern District U.S. attorney

Zachary Carter, a partner at Dorsey & Whitney and a former Eastern District U.S. attorney

Michael Cherkasky, chair of the state Commission on Public Integrity and a former chief of the investigations division of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

Peter Zimroth,a partner at Arnold & Porter and a former New York City Corporation Counsel and chief of the appeals bureau in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office

Moises Perez, executive director, Allianza Dominica Inc.

Rev. Reggie Williams

Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook

Rev. Dr. C. Vernon Mason

Rev. Dr. Lee Arrington

Rev. Jacques Andre DeGraff

The Audubon Reform Democratic Club

The Village Reform Democratic Club

The East Harlem United Democratic Club

The West Harlem Independent Democrats

The United Democratic Organization of Chinatown

The Jim Owles Democratic Club

The Concerned Democratic Coalition

El Caribe Democratic Club

The Lower East Side Democratic Club

The Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York