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Shelomo Alfassa (NY-I) suspends pursuit of New York's 9th District Congressional seat in the House of Representatives - announces indefinite hiatus of Congressional Exploratory Committee

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NEW YORK - (January 3, 2011) After a year of planning, meetings and discussions, Shelomo Alfassa, an Independent who sought New York's 9th District Congressional seat in the House of Representatives, announced an 'indefinite hiatus' of his Congressional Exploratory Committee.

"The process of running for office is one of the preeminent Democratic liberties we have entitled to us as Americans, and I am glad that I had the opportunity to have surveyed this extraordinary freedom, particularly-in the great State of New York" he said.

Initiated through discussions in May of 2009 and launching in the Fall of 2010, Mr. Alfassa assembled a team of people who supported his desire and hoped to see him represent the diverse ethnic communities of Brooklyn and Queens New York. These geographic areas are made up of large populations of Orthodox Jews, including prominent pockets of Jews from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Bukharia and Russia and non-Jewish communities of well established Roman Catholic Italian and Irish families as well as many Chinese families.

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Mr. Alfassa's "Open Letter" can be read here.

'Released by the 'Shelomo Alfassa Congressional Exploratory Committee.'