Local pol defends campaign and non-profit she once headed
After being accused of staying “too close” to the non-profit organization she founded in 2003, Assemblymember Pamela Harris, still in her first term as the representative for the 46th Assembly District, discussed the allegations at a Friday, July 15 press conference held to clear the air.
Responding directly to claims brought up against her in a New York Post article, a piece published on July 9 that questioned the validity behind some of the assemblymember’s campaign donations and non-profit-related tax filings, Harris maintained that it’s not an issue of her campaign and the non-profit (Coney Island Generation Gap) being closely tied, but a personal tie she has to the program’s participants.
“I just got elected; we’re not talking 99 years ago,” Harris said in Coney Island, right across the street from the CIGG facility – a Neptune Avenue home which she owns and where she started the organization. “I don’t have a closeness between my campaign and the non-for-profit, I have a closeness between people.”