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Why Jamaal Bowman is taking on the Democratic establishment in New York

Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman is running on a progressive platform to represent New York’s 16th District in Congress against incumbent Eliot Engel. Bowman, who worked in education in the Bronx for 20 years, says he has learned about the chronic underfunding of social programs and lack of attention to community members’ struggles through his relationships with families and children. Bowman “got tired of … not hearing the most vulnerable in our community centered in our political discourse,” he says. Bowman supports the sustained protests demanding an end to racist policing and believes that funding for the police department in the Bronx should be reallocated to community development and public education — “everything that creates infrastructure for collective and self actualization and self-determination in our community.” In disbanding the system of militarized policing that has gone on “far too long,” Bowman says it’s necessary to have a “massive focus on mental health, social workers and public health overall.”

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