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By Vanessa Ogle
Brooklyn Daily
Jeffrey Ferretti vs. Roxanne Persaud
Community activist Roxanne Persaud is facing real estate broker Jeffrey J. Ferretti for the 59th district’s assembly seat. The seat has been vacant since the start of the year when Alan Maisel left the Assembly for the Council.
Roxanne Persaud
DEMOCRAT. President of the 69th Precinct Community Council. Member of Community Board 18. Member of the Lions Club.
48, single. No children.
Jeffrey J. Ferretti
REPUBLICAN. Former president of the Brooklyn Board of Realtors.
56, married. Two children.
The campaign
Canarsie’s Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club announced Persaud’s candidacy in December. Persaud is facing Ferretti, a self-described “Republican conservative” for the vacant seat.