Michael McMahon

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Michael E. McMahon is a City Council member representing the North Shore of Staten Island and a candidate for Congress. He is a registered Democrat, and the only Democratic City Council member who represents Staten Island. He was re-elected on November 8, 2005 to a second consecutive term.

He is the Chair of the Sanitation Committee, which recently passed what is considered an historic waste management plan. Under his leadership, the city put together a coherent plan that seeks to minimize the use of trucks to transport garbage by utilizing barges while also more evenly distributing the load of waste processing across the five boroughs. Detractors of the plan include Council members into whose districts the waste transfer stations will be shifted. Though these Council members complain that it is an unfair shift, most of the city agrees that this shift helps the city by lightening the load in previously overburdened communities.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to being elected to public office, McMahon worked as a partner at O'Leary, McMahon & Spero where he still works as of 2008. ^[1]

On May 28, 2008, the Staten Island Democratic Committee endorsed him to run for the Congressional seat being vacated by the retiring Representative Vito Fossella.^[2] McMahon will face Steve Harrison, who ran against Fossella in 2006, in a September 2008 primary.

[edit] External links

• Official NYC Council Website about Michael McMahon

Preceded by Jerome O'Donovan

New York City Council, 49th District 2002 – present

Incumbent