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The Next Generation of Political Leaders in New York Look at the members of the City Council, the Assembly, and even the State Senate. Look at the citywide offices, look at the statewide offices. Though many longtime incumbents remain entrenched, change has certainly been in the air of late in New York politics.
A new generation of leaders is developing in the Empire State, and as a new publication ourselves, City Hall has devoted its September issue to looking at 35 people under 40 we think will clearly be among it.
Working from nominations from readers and other careful political observers, we compiled the list, and asked the people on it to reflect on their past achievements, their present ones, and where they think they are headed by the end of 2008, the next big political year.
One of the things that we noticed in going through the nominations is that there are not enough women or members of racial minorities who are under 40 in positions of deep political power in this city. People like Brooklyn Council Members Yvette Clarke, 41, and Letitia James, 45, qualify in both categories and would definitely have made the list if the cutoff had been a little higher than our somewhat arbitrary one.
Peter Vallone
Allen Roskoff
Richard Gottfried
Robert Bookman