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Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Representative Hakeem Jeffries, an unflappable Brooklynite tasked with keeping the fractious House Democratic caucus on message, wanted to spend Wednesday talking up the party’s all-in-one voting rights and ethics reform bill making its way to a vote this week. But Democratic leaders allowed the measure to be hijacked by a Republican procedural motion condemning anti-Semitism, and the resolution’s special status that would have forced the Senate to take it up was wiped away. But during a testy closed-door meeting on Wednesday, a handful of her rank-and-file members criticized her plan to push a resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other bigotry in response to Ms. Omar’s comments all but accusing supporters of Israel of dual loyalty. More significantly, the battle overshadowed what was supposed to be a week when Democrats focused on the rollout of the For the People Act, or H.R. “We have to get past all of this, and quickly,” he added. The gun control bills did not have to come to a vote as Mr. Cohen took the witness stand. In 2015, Mr. Trump told members of the Republican Jewish Coalition: “You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money. At Wednesday’s closed-door meeting, a handful of Democrats, including some prominent African-Americans and some freshmen, pressed Ms. Pelosi on why they were being pushed to vote on a measure they viewed as an unfair rebuke of Ms. Omar. Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, Democrat of New Jersey, defended Ms. Omar and said of the resolution, “I don’t think this is a good strategy,” according to one person in the room who took notes. Ms. Harris said she was concerned that the controversy might put the congresswoman “at risk,” while Mr. Sanders said he feared House Democrats were tamping down legitimate debate over Israel.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders kicks off his 2020 campaign at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York. #CNN #News

Sansone founded the New Era Democratic Club in Brooklyn with her husband, Zachary. She also created the Coalition of Italian-American Organizations. She also backed Republican George Pataki as well as Democrat Mario Cuomo for governor. In fact, her club referred to itself an “independent political organization.” Modal Trigger Bloomberg on Tuesday said Sansone’s endorsement gave his first run for mayor in 2001 credibility. “Back in 2001, when not a lot of people were predicting success for my mayoral campaign, Mary Sansone told me I was going to win. Her crystal ball proved to be as good as her famous meatballs,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “Mary passionately believed that partisan politics should never get in the way of serving the public. She and her husband, Zach, were always kind and generous to me, and I always enjoyed the visits to their home – and of course, her meatballs. Well, Mary Sansone, without question, to me, was the most interesting person in New York City, because a lifetime – a lifetime of changing this world and changing this city for the better,” de Blasio said. He declared June 12, 2016 Mary Sansone Day.