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NEW YORK — Maggie Trowe announced her campaign as Socialist Workers Party candidate for Congress in the 11th District in New York, speaking at a Feb. 28 Militant Labor Forum on “The Rise of Workers’ Resistance and Developing Self-Confidence.” The special election, set for May 5, was called Feb. 20 after Rep. Michael Grimm, a former FBI agent, was indicted for tax fraud. Also running for the seat is Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Donovan, whose office failed to bring an indictment against Daniel Pantaleo, the cop who killed Eric Garner in a chokehold in Staten Island last July. Trowe campaigned that morning at the Phillips 66 refinery in Linden, New Jersey, talking to Teamsters and other workers and handing out a campaign statement supporting the oil workers on strike at 15 refineries and petrochemical plants nationwide. Two days earlier she joined a protest at the Mexican consulate demanding an explanation of what happened to 43 Mexican students who disappeared last September.
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