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Carl Andrews (Actor)
Carl Andrews was a British character actor. Andrews most notable role was as garage mechanic Joe MacDonald, British soap opera's first, and one of the longest serving, recurring black characters in the original version of the popular motel soap Crossroads. Andrews remained in the role from 1978...

Carl Andrews was a member of the New York State Senate

New York State Senate

The New York State Senate is one of two houses in the New York State Legislature and has members each elected to two-year terms. There are no limits on the number of terms one may serve...

from Brooklyn

Brooklyn

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from 2002-2006. A Democrat

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, he represented Crown Heights

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

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, Flatbush

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, Park Slope

Park Slope, Brooklyn

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, Windsor Terrace

Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn

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, and Prospect Heights

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

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.

A graduate of Medgar Evers College

Medgar Evers College

Medgar Evers College is a senior college of The City University of New York.Medgar Evers College was officially established in 1970 through cooperation from educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn...

-with an MA in African-American Studies from SUNY-Albany-Andrews' first stint in public office came in 1981, when he sat on a community school board in the 17th District, Crown Heights

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

. He's also served as a member of Community Board 8.

Andrews has taught as an adjunct professor at both The College of New Rochelle and at his alma mater, Medgar Evers College. In addition, he has served as Attorney General Elliot Spitzer's Director of Intergovernmental Relations.

In February 2002 Andrews ran for an open seat in the 20th State Senate district and won a special election to fill that vacancy.

Congressional Campaign

Andrews was one of four Democratic candidates vying to represent the 11th Congressional district of New York State in a hotly-contested, volatile race.

Even though he has been endorsed by some influential politicians in New York, both past and present, e.g. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American lawyer, former Democratic Party politician, and political commentator. He was the co-host of In the Arena, a talk-show and punditry forum broadcast on CNN until CNN cancelled his show in July of 2011...

, State Senator Carl Kruger, New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson

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, among others, he has also been subjected to criticism for his decision to remain in this race-thus potentially splintering the African-American vote in a divided primary-especially after another African-American candidate, Assemblyman Nick Perry, decided to withdraw from the race in May.

Carl Andrews has also been the subject of criticism from some quarters for his close association with former chairman of the Kings County Democratic Party

Democratic Party (United States)

, and Assemblyman, Clarence Norman, who was forced to resign from his official positions as a result of his indictment and conviction on multiple felony counts of violating election law in late 2005.

On August 14, 2006, Andrews received the endorsement of the New York State AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

. In order to receive the endorsement Andrews need the support of over two-thirds of the union membership, which union president Dennis Hughes stated Andrews had achieved.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--andrewsendorsemen0815aug15,0,5220095.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

On September 12, 2006, Andrews was defeated in a four-way Democratic primary, garnering nearly 23% of the vote, and coming in third. http://www.ny1.com/ny/Election/2006primary/index.html?page_name=congress

Candidate Debate

Andrews participated in a debate broadcast by NY1

NY1

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on August 24, 2006, stating that former Kings County Democratic Leader Clarence Norman "did some good things as county leader and some bad things as county leader." He also took the opportunity to publicly highlight several high-profile endorsements from leading members of the New York State Democratic Party, e.g. state Comptroller

Comptroller

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Alan Hevesi

Alan G. Hevesi is a Democratic politician whoserved as a New York State Assemblyman from 1971 to 1993, as Comptroller of the City of New York from 1994 to 2001, and as State Comptroller for the State of New York from 2003 to 2006...

, and state Attorney General-and current gubernatorial candidate-Elliot Spitzer. http://www.wnbc.com/politics/9734631/detail.html

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