Torres and Bowman, the fresh faces of New York in the House of Representatives

Both promoted by the Democratic Party, Jamaal, a former high school principal represents the District 16 of Westchester / The Bronx, and Torres, a former member of the New York City Council, to the District 15 of The Bronx.

The two brand-new New York legislators contribute to making the composition of the House of Representatives, adding new antecedents and lived experiences.

While for Jamaal, this in his first experience as Public servant in an elected position, Torres, is the first openly homosexual member of the Afro-Latino Chamber.

The enthusiasm and novelty of having reached this political scale could not be hidden by Jamaal, from 44 years and Torres, who will turn 33 years in March, who took to their Twitter accounts and other social networks to post photos and videos of themselves in their new offices, where the plates were seen with their names in the Capitol complex.

“I feel the weight of history on my shoulders,” he told WCBS 880 representative Ritchie Torres after plant rse in the great chamber of the House, an experience that he described as “surreal for him.”

Of growing up in the public housing complexes in the poverty of The Bronx, Torres He said he could never have imagined this “I feel like the luckiest man in the world,” he exclaimed.

“I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would embark on a journey that would take me from home public in the Bronx to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC ”, he later ratified it on Twitter.

Torres, also tweeted a video showing him arriving at his new office in the Cannon building.

“My office is Cannon 117, which was the office of President John F. Kennedy during his time in the House of Representatives ”, he highlighted.

Meanwhile, the presence of Jamaal Bowman was viralized in the networks joining ‘The Squad’, the group of progressive legislators made up of Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, the four Democrats elected in 2018, which have frequently been bla nco of attacks by President Donald Trump.

Now Cori Bush from Missouri and Jamaal Bowman from New York, joined ‘The Squad’, thus totaling six members

“Our team is great”: Bowman tweeted sharing a photo of the expanded “team”.

Bush and Bowman were endorsed by the Justice Democrats political action committee, which seeks to elect a “new generation of diverse, progressive and working-class Democrats” who are not beholden to corporate donors.