{"id":135509,"date":"2026-02-16T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135509\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:31:06","slug":"aber-kawas-launches-campaign-to-succeed-gianaris-in-12th-senate-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135509\/","title":{"rendered":"Aber Kawas launches campaign to succeed Gianaris in 12th Senate District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Aber Kawas, a former candidate to succeed Assembly Member Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas in the 34th Assembly District, has launched a campaign to succeed outgoing State Sen. Michael Gianaris in the 12th Senate District.<\/p>\n<p>Kawas, a member of the New York City chapter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsausa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)<\/a>, announced the move at Woodside\u2019s Doughboy Plaza on Friday, days after <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/02\/michael-gianaris-re-election-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gianaris confirmed<\/a> that he would not seek re-election after serving in the state legislature for over 25 years.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/02\/aber-kawas-gianaris\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tAber Kawas launches campaign to succeed Gianaris in 12th Senate District &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Aber Kawas, a former candidate to succeed Assembly Member Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas in the 34th Assembly District, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[57546,46417,40975,98,100,99,310,2495,40774,9,24,12,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-135509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-12th-senate-district","9":"tag-aber-kawas","10":"tag-brian-romero","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-daily-newsletter","15":"tag-dsa","16":"tag-michael-gianaris","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}