Political Quotes

“I extend happy birthday wishes this week to Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson as she celebrates another year of service to her Bronx neighbors and friends. I had the pleasure of serving with Vanessa as a colleague in the New York State Assembly alongside many former assembly colleagues, Joe Morelle, Adriano Espaillat, Paul Tonko, Claudia Tenney, Nicole Malliotakis, Grace Meng, and Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Vanessa Gibson's service in that chamber, exemplary as it was, was a prelude to her subsequent tenure in the New York City Council, where she was elected in 2013 and 2017, and now her historic election as the first female and the first African American to serve as Bronx borough president in 2021, reelected in 2025. As she celebrates her birthday this Thursday, March 19, we give her a happy birthday shout-out from the floor of the House of Representatives. Happy birthday to Vanessa Gibson.”