2023-12-15 04:09:36
The Republican Party has chosen Mazi Melesa Pilip, a former Israeli army paratrooper, to run for the seat left vacant by the expulsion of George Santos from the House of Representatives in a special election in the 3rd district of New York, which will take place on February 13. Elected in 2021 to the Nassau County legislature, on Long Island, this Ethiopian of Jewish faith naturalized Israeli then American will face former Democratic representative from New York Tom Suozzi, who abandoned the seat won by Santos in 2022 to run unsuccessfully for the governorship of New York held by Democrat Kathy Hochul.
“Mazi’s incredible life stands in stark contrast to that of career politician Tom Suozzi,” Richard Hudson, a North Carolina Republican and chairman of the House GOP Election Committee, said Thursday. “With Mazi in Congress, Long Islanders will have a representative who opposes Hochul-Suozzi’s extreme agenda, which is making New York less safe and more expensive. »
Pilp already told that his family had been evacuated to Israel from Ethiopia in 1991 as part of Operation Solomon, a secret 36-hour airlift intended to transport approximately 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. She served as a paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Forces and immigrated to the United States in 2005. Presumably, Republican officials verified these facts before choosing her as their candidate.
Aged 44, Pilip is the mother of seven children, including twins born two days before her election in 2021.
(Photo AP)
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Categories: United States, New York, Politics•Tags: George Santos, Mazi Melesa Pilip, Tom Suozzi•
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