Backroom Deal for Mark-Viverito

Brooklyn Democratic chair Frank Seddio, urged by mayor-elect Bill deBlasio, has cut a deal to give Council Member and early deBlasio supporter Melissa Mark-Viverito the votes she needs to become the next City Council speaker.

Like deBlasio, Mark-Viverito, a San Juan, Puerto Rico native with degrees from Columbia and Baruch who represents East
Harlem, is regarded as a populist.

Seddio's move