Frangell Basora
Frangell Basora (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New York's 15th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 23, 2020.
Basora completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Frangell Basora earned an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in May 2014.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: New York's 15th Congressional District election, 2020
New York's 15th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Democratic primary)
New York's 15th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House New York District 15
Ritchie Torres defeated Patrick Delices in the general election for U.S. House New York District 15 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ritchie Torres (D) | 88.7 | 169,533 |
 | Patrick Delices (R / Conservative Party) | 11.1 | 21,221 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 283 | ||
| Total votes: 191,037 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Orlando Molina (R)
- Kenneth Schaeffer (Working Families Party)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 15
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 15 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ritchie Torres | 32.1 | 19,090 |
 | Michael Blake | 18.0 | 10,725 | |
 | Ruben Diaz | 14.4 | 8,559 | |
 | Samelys Lopez | 13.9 | 8,272 | |
 | Ydanis Rodriguez | 10.6 | 6,291 | |
 | Melissa Mark-Viverito | 4.3 | 2,561 | |
 | Tomas Ramos | 2.4 | 1,442 | |
 | Chivona Newsome | 2.3 | 1,366 | |
 | Marlene Tapper | 0.7 | 392 | |
 | Julio Pabon | 0.4 | 244 | |
 | Frangell Basora | 0.3 | 189 | |
| Mark Escoffery-Bey | 0.3 | 153 | ||
| David Philip Franks Jr. (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 189 | ||
| Total votes: 59,473 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Marlene Cintron (D)
- Jonathan Ortiz (D)
- Eric Stevenson (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Orlando Molina advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 15.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Patrick Delices advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 15.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Kenneth Schaeffer advanced from the Working Families Party primary for U.S. House New York District 15.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Frangell was born and raised on the Grand Concourse, in the Bronx, to a mother, a father, and a family who had immigrated to New York from the Dominican Republic in the 1990's.
Because of social and economic difficulties that first-generation and immigrant families encounter upon their arrival to America, Frangell's father returned to the Dominican Republic, leaving his recently-arrived mother to raise her children in New York as a single parent. Frangell's mother worked incredibly hard to provide for her three children, navigating through the incredible challenges that single, Spanish-speaking mothers face in New York and in our country. After many lower-income jobs, she eventually dedicated herself to the Bronx' small business, immigrant sector, working in and helping establish and run beauty salons and other entrepreneurial efforts throughout the borough and New York - 15.
At the age of eleven, Frangell and his family lost their home on the Grand Concourse and were forced to enter New York's shelter and transitional housing system, where he moved to various sites throughout the Bronx and Manhattan, settling in Fox House, and then growing up in 220 Mt. Hope Place, the Bronx.
Frangell graduated from Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School for Boys in the Bronx and then from Columbia University and has worked in NYC government since graduation.- Permanent, secured, reliable, and dignified housing is a human right and, if elected to Congress, Frangell will prioritize permanent affordable housing and he will fight against the institutionalized prejudice and classism that stands against the constituents of New York - 15 and lower-income Americans.
- In the greatest nation in the world, access to excellent healthcare for absolutely everyone, especially for our most low-income, should be part of our daily identity as Americans and as New Yorkers. Competitive healthcare from the government that prioritizes all of our people is necessary. We will build a system where healthcare is directly focused on our people and on our communities. Additionally, we will address our communities' mental health crises and the disparity in specialized healthcare access.
- In Congress, Frangell will stop normalizing poverty and implement practical and real-based solutions that will help uplift all of our people. Frangell proposes a Federal Jobs Guarantee for New York - 15 and the Bronx and for our nation's most low-income communities, with viable employment that begin at $15 per hour. The Federal Jobs Guarantee would be tailored specifically for New York - 15 and the nation's most low-income districts and most marginalized workforce. Our nation will invest in the people that it has grown used to forgetting.
Our first belief is that housing is not a privilege, but a human right. No family in the USA should experience homelessness, housing insecurity, struggle to maintain a home, or live in bad conditions. On the national level, Frangell is committed to implementing a Homes Guarantee legislation that makes affordable housing a human right in our Nation.
A job, especially for our most vulnerable and poor/low-income Americans, to lift oneself and one's family and have a fighting chance at the American Dream is, again, not a privilege, but a right. Our campaign believes in a Federal Jobs Guarantee for the Low-Income as a beginning step to ensure that people can work themselves out of poverty. The Federal Jobs Guarantee will be a way to bridge the gap between our Nation's economy and employability in our poorest, yet most vibrant, communities.
The third and important step to lifting our people and giving them a chance against our Nation's man-made poverty is healthcare as a human right, with an emphasis in addressing our communities' mental health crises.
As for historical figures, I had always been inspired by FDR, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, and, more recently, Barack Obama (I was fortunate enough to have worked as an Organizing Fellow in his 2012 re-election campaign).
What I admire more about FDR, Abraham Lincoln, historically, and JFK and Obama more recently, is how they managed to bring the world together during some of our Nation's most difficult times. These great leaders rose up the occasion when our Nation had been facing its greatest challenges -- from bringing the Nation together during and after the US Civil War, to resolving and lifting our people during the Great Depression and world wars, to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movements, and more recently, the Great Recession.
An elected official needs to be understanding, sympathetic, knowledgeable, motivated, and decisive.
The first job that I remember holding as a teenager was in high school, at Cardinal Hayes, where our Science Department and Chemistry teacher, Brother Chiulli, hired me to serve as a tutor for Chemistry and Physics Regents Exams. This was during my senior year of high school.
After I completed high school, I worked at the American Eagle on 34th St. (D-train) for the summer before Columbia.
This is about protect our Country from the challenges that having abandoned our poor and working-class folks may have. This is about bringing our Country together and healing before it comes apart anymore than what it already is.
At times, having held Office for too long can prevent one from truly feeling and seeing the difficulties that America's most low-income communities and struggling through.
I think that, personally, beyond my university education and the years that followed in government work, the most relevant experience that I hold are the decades that I spent in the Bronx, with my family. My experiences in the public school system, in the transitional housing/homeless shelter system, in the difficulties and the triumphs that we experienced in our home, the income insecurity, the challenges that words do not capture, etc., it all gives me an understanding of the changes that are necessary for our people.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 23, 2020
