district. She is the only candidate that currently lives outside the district but has said that she will move into it if elected. She has been endorsed by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, several City Council members, and unions such as 1199SEIU and Transport Workers Union of America. Rivera is the only top candidate in the Democratic primary to not support allocating 100 percent of residential units in the proposed 5 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan as affordable housing. She has raised a large amount of money from major real estate developers and lobbyists, including billionaire real estate developer Jed Walentas of Two Trees, Kirk Goodrich, Don Capoccia, Robert Levine of RAL Companies, Bruce Teitelbaum, and Daniel R. Tishman of Tishman Realty & Construction, the firm that managed the building of One World Trade Center. The New York Times reported she has reached out to at least two other executives in the real estate industry for donations as of August 2022, according to recipients of her outreach. Rivera drew criticisms of treating LGBTQ+ New Yorkers as "political chess pieces" when she expressed support for religious exemptions that target members of the community in response to a question about her stance on the well-known same-sex wedding cake case in Colorado during an interview with Hamodia. Rivera said she has put religious exemptions in legislation in the past and is "willing to explore that and do it on the federal level." She walked back her statement and clarified that she opposes giving private businesses a pass on discriminating against LGBTQ+ people. Rivera was met with backlash for seemingly inviting PAC money by adding a "red box" to her website. She was also called out by rival congressional candidate Dan Goldman for her investments in defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, as well as the gun company Smith & Wesson. Rivera finished in fourth place in the crowded Democratic primary with 10,985 votes (17%), losing to Dan Goldman. Electoral history 2022 2021 2017 Personal life She and her husband, Jamie Rogers, a Connecticut College and Cornell Law School graduate, lived on the Lower East Side until June 2021 when they moved to Kips Bay for reasons they would not disclose publicly. On WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, on January 11, 2022, she claimed that "the Lower East Side is my home."