Westchester County Legislator
Vedat Gashi is challenging Rep. Jamaal Bowman for the 16th Congressional
District seat, News 12 has learned.
Sources tell News 12’s Tara
Rosenblum that Gashi will formally announce his candidacy in a week.
Vedat is a Yorktown resident,
a real estate attorney and a moderate Democrat. Bowman is a freshman
progressive Democrat from Yonkers.
This challenge is made
possible due to redistricting. It is a snapshot of what is playing out
statewide — the internal tug of war between moderates and progressives in the
state's Democratic party.