Cory Provost
Cory Provost (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New York State Assembly to represent District 58. Provost was disqualified from the Democratic primary scheduled on June 28, 2022.
Biography
Provost earned a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in urban policy and administration from CUNY-Brooklyn College.[1]
At the time of his 2017 run for city council, Provost was a district leader for the 58th Assembly District. His professional experience includes work for New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer (D) and as the vice president and COO of the nonprofit think tank Young Movement. Provost has served as a 2012 New York State presidential delegate, a volunteer organizer for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's (D) 2016 presidential campaign, the chair of Neighborhood Advisory Board 17, the secretary of Community Board 17, the director of the Brooklyn College Alumni Association, a member of the board of the Church of God of East Flatbush, and a trustee of the Higher Education Services Corporation and the City University of New York.[1][2]
Elections
2022
See also: New York State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for New York State Assembly District 58
Incumbent Monique Chandler-Waterman defeated Monique Allen-Davy in the general election for New York State Assembly District 58 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Monique Chandler-Waterman (D / Working Families Party) | 95.0 | 22,565 |
| Monique Allen-Davy (R / Conservative Party) | 5.0 | 1,178 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 19 | ||
| Total votes: 23,762 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 58
Incumbent Monique Chandler-Waterman defeated Hercules Reid in the Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 58 on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Monique Chandler-Waterman | 65.3 | 5,410 |
| Hercules Reid | 34.6 | 2,866 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 9 | ||
| Total votes: 8,285 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Otis Danne Jr. (D)
- Cory Provost (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Monique Allen-Davy advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Assembly District 58.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Monique Allen-Davy advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York State Assembly District 58.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Monique Chandler-Waterman advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Assembly District 58.
2017
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for the District 41 seat on the New York City Council.[3]
| New York City Council, District 41 Democratic Primary Election, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Alicka Ampry-Samuel |
31.23% | 3,385 |
| Henry Butler | 22.04% | 2,389 |
| Cory Provost | 11.20% | 1,214 |
| Moreen King | 8.51% | 922 |
| Deidre Olivera | 8.11% | 879 |
| Royston Antoine | 5.72% | 620 |
| Victor Jordan | 5.28% | 572 |
| David Miller | 4.86% | 527 |
| Leopold Cox | 2.89% | 313 |
| Write-in votes | 0.16% | 17 |
| Total Votes | 10,838 | |
| Source: New York City Board of Elections, "2017 Primary: Certified Results," accessed September 28, 2017 | ||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Cory Provost did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2017
Provost's campaign website highlighted the following issues:
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Criminal Justice Reform CHILDREN Education Furthermore, our higher education system must no longer be seen as a burden of debt for our children. We can, and must, eliminate the barriers that prevent New Yorkers from reaching their dreams while helping our City thrive. In this regard, I fully support Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ‘EXCELSIOR PROGRAM’ that offers free tuition to qualified working families earning under $250,000 a year. This is the kind of thoughtful investment in our future I can support. Thousands of students in the district will not have the opportunity to go to college. Some will be the first in their family to do so. We must also continue to strengthen our Public Schools system, increase funding to hire more qualified teachers and institute more teacher training programs. The single most important factor to improving the quality of education in my district is to reduce class size and to reward teachers with better salaries and benefits for work done that is linked to productivity and quality. Housing Any plan for housing must start and end with NYCHA. Over 600,000 residents call NYCHA home and they deserve our first priority. Seniors As the 'Golden' residents of our community. Seniors are entitled to live out their sun-setting years in peace and security. I am committed to working to bring relief from the high cost of utilities and rents that many of our seniors now living on fixed incomes must incur. It is my goal to make available to our seniors’ certain jobs for those who want to be gainfully employed after retirement. I will also institute a 'zero tolerance' for that silent shame that is senior abuse. Seniors face special challenges relative to cost when it comes to medicines – prescription drugs costs are simply too high. I propose to work with pharmaceutical companies and our Federal and State representatives and to craft legislation at the City Council to help bring relief in this area. There will be no stronger fighter for giving back and protecting our seniors than Cory. Together we can demand safe, healthy, and affordable housing for the men and women that have dedicated so much to our City and their families. HEALTH It is for this reason that I will institute in my first 100 days in office a HEALTH EDUCATION AND LIVING PROGRAM (HELP) that will begin to address these problems throughout the community by providing education and other services. As a big supporter of the COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER MOVEMENT, I will petition the Federal Government to bring at least one new center to my District. The advantage of these multi-purpose health facilities is that the patient is charged on a sliding fee scale or on his or her ability to pay and is pushed away because of an inability to pay. I believe that such centers, like Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center (BMS) will compliment existing large hospitals since their grassroots nature make them important capital community assets. IMMIGRATION ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
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| —Cory Provost's campaign website, (2017)[5] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 LinkedIn, "Cory Provost," accessed September 1, 2017
- ↑ Cory Provost, "About Cory Provost," accessed September 1, 2017
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Email correspondence with the New York City Board of Elections," July 14, 2017
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Cory Provost, "Issues," accessed September 1, 2017
