Candidate Info
Unfortunately, no Democrat filed to run for Congress in the primary, so I am running as a write-in candidate for those Democrats and others who hate Trump Republicans and want to register a protest vote along with their votes for other Democrats. I am pro-choice and have helped women get abortions since I was a teenager in Brooklyn in the early 1970s. I have a B.A. and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College, an M.A. in English from the College of Staten Island, and a J.D. with high honors from the University of Florida College of Law. The author of eight books of fiction and articles in the NY Times and other periodicals, I have taught at universities and colleges in New York, Florida, Arizona, New Jersey and California. I was a staff attorney in social policy at the Center for Governmental Responsibility in Gainesville and served on the board of directors of the Human Rights Council of North Central Florida. I've worked in many Democratic campaigns, starting in 1964 for LBJ, HHH & RFK. In 2014, I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in Wyoming. In my past races, I was endorsed by NOW and the UAW.