Emboldened by Conservative/Republican Bob Turner's victory over Democrat David Weprin in the special election for Anthony Weiner's House seat this fall, Republicans are moving in on the State Senate seat of disgraced Democrat Carl Kruger.Gov. Cuomo is expected to call the special election in March, 2012. The winner will serve only through 2012, after which decennial redistricting begins and all seats will again be in play.
Likely party nominees in the special election are Democrat Lew Fidler, who has represented a district encompassing Bergen Beach, Canarsie and Sheepshead Bay on the City Council since 2002; and David Storobin, an attorney and vice-chair of the Brooklyn Republican Party.
Fidler, who reportedly has a $300,000 campaign warchest, has been running full-page ads in Orthodox Jewish newspapers touting the member-item funding he has routed to local Jewish not-for-profits.
Storobin, courting the same DINO demographic, held a breakfast at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center last week that drew ranking Republican leader State Senator Dean Skelos and State Senator Marty Golden.
The post from Gothamist.
Brooklyn Republican party boss Craig Eaton boasts that "the tide is turning" against the Democrats in South Brooklyn. [New York Times.]
Eaton hondles Gov. Andrew Cuomo to set a date for the special election that would favor Republican turnout. [Brooklyn Daily Eagle.]
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