Councilmember Jessica Lappin Endorses Cy Vance for Manhattan District Attorney

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Councilmember Jessica Lappin today announced her support for Cy Vance, Democratic candidate for Manhattan District Attorney. Lappin, who represents the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island, praised Vance’s extensive experience as a prosecutor and defense attorney, his construction safety plans, and his dedication to stopping sex trafficking. She also cited his efforts to guarantee women’s reproductive rights.

"I want to tell you a few reasons why I’m going to support Cy Vance. I care passionately about the issue of sex trafficking, which is why I organized a summit to get a major national bill passed. This issue is very important to Cy, and as District Attorney he will prosecute the traffickers - who often come through JFK – who take these women and put them through a short life of modern day slavery,” said Lappin. “My district also suffered through two crane accidents this year, and as someone who was there within minutes of the first collapse, I know too well that the community is still reeling from these accidents. Whether we’re looking at workers, at victims, or at people who just live, work or walk near construction sites, there is a fear in New York that there has never been before. People are afraid and seem to be reading every day in the paper about concrete testing companies that were corrupt and weren’t doing their job. So I’m very impressed with Cy’s construction safety initiative, and I look forward to working with him to keep our neighborhoods safe - because we have lives on the line, both in terms of the people working in those sites and the people who live and walk near those sites. Finally, I wanted to say that I know Cy Vance is going to be a great District Attorney, and is going to be tough but fair."

Vance said: "I am honored to have the support of Jessica Lappin. Her efforts on the City Council have made her community a better, safer place to live and work. I also admire her strong advocacy on women’s issues, especially in the vital areas of reproductive rights and sex trafficking. I look forward to working with her to help keep her community safe and to make sure that all the women who live in or pass through Manhattan – whether a teenager facing angry protesters outside Planned Parenthood or an abused woman caught up in a sex trafficking ring - are treated fairly and justly."

Councilmember Lappin joined Borough President Scott Stringer at the event in City Hall Park. Lappin and Stringer joined a strong and diverse coalition of supporters of Cy Vance’s campaign for DA. In the last month Vance has been endorsed by the New York Times, the Daily News, the New York Post, the Amsterdam News, UFT, U.S. Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, State Senator Tom Duane, RWDSU, Tenants PAC, the League of Young Voters PAC and the Innocence Project Co-Founders Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. Earlier this summer Vance was endorsed by current District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, former Mayor David Dinkins, Caroline Kennedy, Gloria Steinem, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Council Member Alan Gerson, former Comptroller H. Carl McCall, Teamsters Local 237, The Sergeants Benevolent Association, former U.S. Attorneys Robert Fiske and Zachary Carter, the Doe Fund founder George McDonald, and many more. He is also supported by more than 175 former ADA’s – many of whom have worked with all three candidates and know what it takes to be an exemplary District Attorney.