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Alcantara picks up backing from Fighting For Children PAC
By Ken Lovett
Here is an expanded version of the second item from my "Albany Insider" column from Monday's editions: The creator of a political action committee pushing for enactment of a Child Victims Act has endorsed Marisol Alcantara in a three-way Democratic upper Manhattan state Senate primary. “She has a strong background in health care and understands the issue well,” said Gary Greenberg, an upstate investor and child abuse survivor who founded the Fighting For Children PAC. Greenberg said Senate Independent Democratic Committee Leader Jeffrey Klein’s support of Alcantara also helped. “He’s been a friend to us,” he said. Alcantara is set to face former City Councilman Robert Jackson and ex-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Chief of Staff Micah Lasher in the Sept. 13 primary. Greenberg said he donated $7,000 to Alcantara’s campaign and said he has loaned his PAC another $25,000 on top of the $100,000 he already donated to seed it because he wound up backing more candidates than expected. He has now backed 15 state legislative candidates, all but one of which are Democrats. Jackson and Lasher also say they support the Child Victims Act that would make it easier for child sex abuse victims to bring cases as adults. “We must do everything possible to protect children from these heinous crimes, and to help those who were abused heal," Jackson said. Lasher said he supports Sen. Brad Hoylman's version of the bill that would eliminate the time limits on when an adult who was sexually abused as a child can bring a case, open a one-year window to revive old cases, and treat public and private institutions the same when it comes to child sex abuse cases. Hoylman (D-Manhattan) has backed Lasher's candidacy.
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