Letter to the editor: Make Webb your choice

When you go to the polls on November 5 for this critical national election, make sure you vote wisely for our State Senator in New York 22. Lea Webb is the incumbent who has already proved herself to be smart and savvy about protecting women’s rights, fighting for gun control, promoting climate priorities and supporting small business development and job creation. Webb doesn’t miss a beat: she was the first African American to serve on the Binghamton City Council and she is now the author of an important NYS maternal health care bill. Her Republican candidate,by contrast, is opposed to abortion, a gun extremist who votes against any ban on assault weapons, and supports fracking. If you care about human rights, safety , the environment and housing affordability–the latter a huge issue in Ithaca– cast your valuable vote for Lea Webb.

 -Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Ithaca