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Adem Bunkeddeko came within 2,000 votes of unseating longtime Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke two years ago, on the same day Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousted powerful Rep. Joe Crowley in Queens and The Bronx.
The anti-poverty strategist with a Harvard MBA had campaigned on his biography as a successful son of Ugandan war refugees — and on his New York Times endorsement. Another boost: Wall Street dollars that raised his profile but put him under fire from the Democratic Party’s rising left wing.
Returning to face Clarke again in a more crowded field for the 2020 primary, Bunkeddeko nods to growing Democratic voter demands for fundraising free of corporate influence.
His website says he’s sworn off funding from “corporate PACs, lobbyists, and big real estate developers” — a contrast to the heavily PAC-funded seven-term incumbent. Bunkeddeko also is embracing policies on the left wing of the party, like the Green New Deal.
Yet his fundraising so far shows many of the same finance-industry donors are again backing Bunkeddeko — including Andrew Tisch of the Loews Corporation, Marc Kushner of Evercore and former schools chancellor Joel Klein.
Also giving the maximum $2,800 is Bradley Tusk, an adviser to Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign who is also an influential New York lo
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It’s hard to say much about newly elected Congresswoman Yvette Clarke without first talking about her mother.
That would be Una Clarke, the pencil-thin, 71-year-old Jamaican-born grandmother with short white hair who became the political face of Brooklyn’s growing Caribbean community.
A decade after her election to the City Council in 1991, Una’s career in politics seemed to have come to an end in 2000, when she narrowly lost her bid for a seat in Congress against a longtime ally, the 20-year incumbent, Representative Major Owens.
“I still have his picture on my wall,” said Una, sitting with her daughter in the campaign office that used to be hers.
The next year, term limits forced her out of the Council.
Enter Yvette, now 42, who in 2001 ran for and won her mother’s vacated seat amid complaints of nepotism from opponents.
This year, with Mr. Owens retiring, Yvette jumped into the race for the open House seat. After an unusually competitive four-way primary against a field that included the incumbent’s son—and with an assist from her mother, who quit her day job to help run the campaign—she won.
The victory, Yvette is the first to say, had everything to do with the good will and name recognition that her mother had b