Daily News | In a mayor’s race stacked with political outsiders, Cherelle Parker is the consummate insider
got married in 2010, she was given away by City Councilmember Marian Tasco and State Rep. Dwight Evans.
For Parker, those are proof she can build coalitions to execute her priorities if she is elected. But to her critics, they mean a Parker administration would preserve an undesirable status quo. She takes particular pride in winning over the building trades, a coalition of 30 construction unions whose members lean white and suburban, and Local 32BJ, which represents building services workers and has a more diverse and low-income membership.
They propagate themselves by orchestrating noncompetitive elections in which proteges or top staffers take over the seats their former bosses held before retiring or running for higher office. Parker replaced Tasco in Council’s 9th District in 2016 and has also taken over for Tasco as Democratic leader of the 50th ward, which often boasts the highest voter turnout rate in the city.
With several other candidates vying for votes in those neighborhoods, it’s unclear whether Parker can take a significant amount of votes there. Also in 2015, real estate magnate Allan Domb poured hundreds of thousands into his own winning Council campaign, vowing to bring his business acumen to city government.
One reason so many political outsiders have thrown their hats in the ring may be that they felt they could capitalize on dissatisfaction with City Hall, McLaughlin said.
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