Search results
Jan 25, 2015 · Ritchie Torres knows poverty. That's why he's using his city post to fix public housing. ... the youngest City Council member in America's largest city is ready for a fight. Torres is only 5'10 ...
Ritchie John Torres (born March 12, 1988) is an American politician from New York. [1] [2] A member of the Democratic Party, Torres is the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district. [3] The district covers most of the South Bronx. It is one of the smallest districts by area in the country, covering only a few square miles.
People also ask
Who is Ritchie Torres?
Is Ritchie Torres ready for a fight?
How did Ritchie Torres learn he was elected to Congress?
Who supports Ritchie Torres?
Nov 4, 2020 · Democratic New Yorkers Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones have become the first openly gay Black men elected to the U.S. Congress. Torres, 32, who is Afro-Latino, has been a member of New...
After the comment, Torres worked with City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who is also gay, to strip Diaz of committee positions. Torres is the first openly gay elected official from the Bronx...
Nov 6, 2020 · Torres, 32, will become one of the first Black, openly gay men to serve in the House, along with Mondaire Jones, the winner Tuesday in New York’s 17th District, to the north of Torres ...
- Derrick Clifton
Jun 24, 2020 · Bronx-born Torres, 32, and Jones, 33, of suburban Westchester County, are on track to become the first openly gay Black congressman.
Nov 4, 2020 · It was roughly 2005 when Ritchie Torres came out to a gay high school teacher, not an easy feat, he recalled, for a Bronx teenager raised in New York City public housing.