NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito Takes First Steps Onto Bigger Stages

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — She was little known outside her City Council district a mere fifteen months ago, but New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito has briskly taken her first steps onto the national stage and out of the mayor’s shadow. Mark-Viverito, whose political positions are largely to the left of the famously liberal Mayor Bill de Blasio, is