Fossella told Republicans that his personal and family life -- or would that be lives -- comes first.
The McMahon campaign said it wished Fossella well and promised that McMahon would continue to focus on job creation, economic recovery and improved mass transit.
The predominantly Democratic 13th Congressional District, covering Staten Island and Southwest Brooklyn from Bay Ridge to Gravesend, had been in Republican hands since the early 1980s, first with Guy Molinari, then daughter Susan, then Fossella, until McMahon took the seat from a disgraced Fossella, reeling from a DUI arrest and the discovery of his second family, in 2008.
Brooklyn Conservative Party Chair Jerry Kassar called “Fossella "a Page Six candidate".
Michael Allegretti is seen by 60th AD District Leader Robert Howe of the Bay Ridge Republican Club as the only candidate in the race who can beat McMahon in the 13th CD.
Running against Allegretti is ex-Marine and former FBI special agent Rick Grimm, endorsed by Rudy Giuliani and Guy Molinari, Fossella's former political rabbi.
Bay Ridge Republican op Bob Capano is running Grimm's Brooklyn campaign.
The article from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
