Michael Blake is originally from the South Bronx, New York. He obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. 

Michael currently works as a small-business owner, community organizer, and ordained reverend. He previously worked for then Senator Barack Obama, served in leadership within the White House, and worked on a presidential campaign. He also previously served as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.

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Michael previously served as a New York State Assembly Member.

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Supports expanding low-interest lending through SBA programs and CDFIs, simplifying federal procurement, and providing technical assistance for small businesses.

Supports turning summer jobs into 12-month pathways in tech, healthcare, construction, and climate work, with mentorship and CUNY credit.

Supports minority and women-owned businesses in the Bronx.

Supports expanding down-payment assistance, community land trusts, and alternative underwriting to eliminate credit score barriers for responsible renters.

Believes in stopping the punishment of families for earning modest raises or extra shifts, advocating for housing stability for those who work hard.

Supports affordable housing priced to neighborhood-level incomes rather than inflated regional averages.

Supports enacting a rent freeze for rent-stabilized households in the Bronx to protect seniors and working families from displacement, while providing hardship relief for small landlords.

Supports funding for fast repairs in housing, ensuring tenant protections during renovations, and cutting utility bills through green upgrades while hiring local residents for the work.

Supports accelerating the construction and preservation of deeply affordable housing by utilizing federal tools alongside city and state financing to ensure affordability.

For Candidate Michael Blake on Issue Economy:  
Supports federal intervention to investigate and end price gouging by utility monopolies that disproportionately affect residents.

Supports federal intervention to investigate and end price gouging by utility monopolies that disproportionately affect residents.

- Supports expanding low-interest lending through SBA programs and CDFIs, simplifying federal procurement, and providing technical assistance for small businesses.
- Supports turning summer jobs into 12-month pathways in tech, healthcare, construction, and climate work, with mentorship and CUNY credit.
- Supports minority and women-owned businesses in the Bronx.
- Supports expanding down-payment assistance, community land trusts, and alternative underwriting to eliminate credit score barriers for responsible renters.
- Believes in stopping the punishment of families for earning modest raises or extra shifts, advocating for housing stability for those who work hard.
- Supports affordable housing priced to neighborhood-level incomes rather than inflated regional averages.
- Supports enacting a rent freeze for rent-stabilized households in the Bronx to protect seniors and working families from displacement, while providing hardship relief for small landlords.
- Supports funding for fast repairs in housing, ensuring tenant protections during renovations, and cutting utility bills through green upgrades while hiring local residents for the work.
- Supports accelerating the construction and preservation of deeply affordable housing by utilizing federal tools alongside city and state financing to ensure affordability.
- Supports federal intervention to investigate and end price gouging by utility monopolies that disproportionately affect residents.

Economy

Supports enforcing New York’s anti-mask law against federal agents, including ICE, with specific safety exceptions.

For Candidate Michael Blake on Issue public-safety:  
Supports banning anonymous law enforcement activity by requiring clear identification during public enforcement actions.

Supports banning anonymous law enforcement activity by requiring clear identification during public enforcement actions.

Supports establishing publicly funded Safe Havens to protect hospitals, schools, courts, and houses of worship from immigration enforcement.

Supports funding for 24/7 mobile crisis teams, outpatient stabilization, and supportive housing, ensuring individuals leaving emergency rooms, shelters, or jails are connected to ongoing care.

Supports creating a coordinated task force to keep corridors clean, improve lighting, and ensure trash is picked up on schedule, collaborating with merchants, tenant leaders, and faith communities to restore order and dignity in shared spaces.

Supports real protections for nurses facing assault on the job.

Supports the protection of nurses, emphasizing that when nurses are protected, patients are safer.

- Supports enforcing New York’s anti-mask law against federal agents, including ICE, with specific safety exceptions.
- Supports banning anonymous law enforcement activity by requiring clear identification during public enforcement actions.
- Supports establishing publicly funded Safe Havens to protect hospitals, schools, courts, and houses of worship from immigration enforcement.
- Supports funding for 24/7 mobile crisis teams, outpatient stabilization, and supportive housing, ensuring individuals leaving emergency rooms, shelters, or jails are connected to ongoing care.
- Supports creating a coordinated task force to keep corridors clean, improve lighting, and ensure trash is picked up on schedule, collaborating with merchants, tenant leaders, and faith communities to restore order and dignity in shared spaces.
- Supports real protections for nurses facing assault on the job.
- Supports the protection of nurses, emphasizing that when nurses are protected, patients are safer.

Public Safety

Supports significantly increasing federal funding for Black and Latina maternal healthcare.

Supports Medicare for All to guarantee quality healthcare for every American.

Opposes cuts to Medicare, Social Security, and SNAP, and aims to strengthen these programs for families and seniors.

- Supports significantly increasing federal funding for Black and Latina maternal healthcare.
- Supports Medicare for All to guarantee quality healthcare for every American.
- Opposes cuts to Medicare, Social Security, and SNAP, and aims to strengthen these programs for families and seniors.

Healthcare

Believes the Bronx must lead in climate action, addressing local impacts of climate change such as asthma and flooding, while emphasizing the need for global cooperation.

Supports prioritizing environmental justice communities for green infrastructure and resilience funding.

Supports rejoining international agreements, holding polluters accountable, and preventing corporations from externalizing climate damage costs.

Aims to train and hire Bronx residents for weatherization, solar installation, and resilient infrastructure through a Green Jobs Academy.

Supports reducing energy costs for low-income families through insulation upgrades, energy discounts, community solar expansion, and training programs.

- Believes the Bronx must lead in climate action, addressing local impacts of climate change such as asthma and flooding, while emphasizing the need for global cooperation.
- Supports prioritizing environmental justice communities for green infrastructure and resilience funding.
- Supports rejoining international agreements, holding polluters accountable, and preventing corporations from externalizing climate damage costs.
- Aims to train and hire Bronx residents for weatherization, solar installation, and resilient infrastructure through a Green Jobs Academy.
- Supports reducing energy costs for low-income families through insulation upgrades, energy discounts, community solar expansion, and training programs.

Energy & the Environment

Supports a full international investigation into credible allegations of genocide and war crimes.

Supports rapid expansion of humanitarian aid to ensure food, water, and medicine reach families suffering in Gaza.

Advocates for strict adherence to the Arms Export Control Act and the Leahy Law to halt military assistance to Israel and any foreign security forces involved in human rights violations, including genocide and apartheid.

- Supports a full international investigation into credible allegations of genocide and war crimes.
- Supports rapid expansion of humanitarian aid to ensure food, water, and medicine reach families suffering in Gaza.
- Advocates for strict adherence to the Arms Export Control Act and the Leahy Law to halt military assistance to Israel and any foreign security forces involved in human rights violations, including genocide and apartheid.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports canceling federal student debt as a matter of economic and racial justice to help working people build stable lives.

- Supports canceling federal student debt as a matter of economic and racial justice to help working people build stable lives.

Voting & Elections

Supports expanding evidence-based education programs, including mentoring, literacy, debate, and pathways to college and careers, to raise graduation rates and increase opportunities.

Supports making child care free for low-income families and more affordable for the middle class by expanding federal support and boosting wages for providers.

Plans to expand and federally support My Brother’s Keeper and My Sister’s Keeper to provide mentorship, academic support, and career pathways for Black and Latino youth in NY-15.

- Supports expanding evidence-based education programs, including mentoring, literacy, debate, and pathways to college and careers, to raise graduation rates and increase opportunities.
- Supports making child care free for low-income families and more affordable for the middle class by expanding federal support and boosting wages for providers.
- Plans to expand and federally support My Brother’s Keeper and My Sister’s Keeper to provide mentorship, academic support, and career pathways for Black and Latino youth in NY-15.

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