Political Career
Lopez is a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 53rd District (which primarily comprises the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick and Williamsburg). First elected in 1984, he began his fourteenth term as an Assembly member in January 2011.
Since 2006 Lopez has served as the Chairman of the Kings County Democratic Party, having replaced former chairman Clarence Norman Jr. On August 28, 2012 Lopez announced that he would not seek re-election as Brooklyn Democratic leader due to allegations that he sexual harassed two of his staffers.
On August 24, 2012, Lopez was stripped of his committee chairmanship, barred from employing young people, and censured after an Assembly committee determined that he had sexually harassed two female employees.
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