FRANK BARBARO FOR CONGRESS

CBID urges all liberal Democrats and all non-partisan progressives to support the efforts of Frank Barbaro, who is running for Congress on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines. He is trying to unseat the ultra-conservative Republican incumbent Vito Fossella in the 13th Congressional District in Staten Island and in the Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and Gravesend neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

For 24 years Frank Barbaro represented Bensonhurst in the State Assembly, where he chaired the Labor Committee. He then served as a Justice on the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn until last year.

Barbaro, a former longshoreman, has fought for principles dear to the hearts of liberal Democrats.

• He is dedicated to protecting the rights of all workers, including the employees of the new Homeland Security Dept., to union representation.


• He has the overwhelming support of the New York labor movement.


• He has consistently opposed the Bush foreign policy of pre-emptive war, which has alienated our major allies and world public opinion. He has called for America to get out of the Iraq quagmire by internationalizing the responsibility for restoring peace and public security to that country.


• He has consistently denounced the whittling away of American constitutional rights brought about by the passage and funding of the so-called Patriot Act.


• He calls for rebuilding the American and the New York economy. This means full taxation of corporations that export American jobs and rewarding those firms that create jobs here. This means full Federal funding to revitalize our city after the destruction of 9/11.


• He is pro-choice, advocates gun-control, and is eager to fight for maximal environmental protection.

- Charles Davis