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Hiram Monserrate, the Queens Democrat who was expelled from the State Senate for assaulting his girlfriend and later jailed for stealing public funds, is plotting another comeback.
Monserrate, now a Democratic district leader, filed on Tuesday to run against Queens
Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry, a fellow Democrat and one of the highest-ranking lawmakers in the chamber. A source close to Monserrate said the politician has not made a final decision on whether to run but is strongly considering the possibility.
“Hiram is considering a run. He hasn’t made a decision yet,” said the source. “He opened the committee, he’s trying to raise money and see what happens.”
Two years ago, Monserrate ran unsuccessfully for City Council against Francisco Moya, a former assemblymember. Though Moya had the strong support of the Democratic establishment and the city’s major labor unions, Monserrate still managed to garner 44 percent of the vote. Monserrate had held the City Council seat, based in East Elmhurst and Corona, in the early 2000s before he was elected to the State Senate in 2008.
In 2010, Monserrate’s colleagues voted overwhelmingly to expel him the chamber after he was charged with beating and slashing his then-girlfriend, Karla Giraldo. Security camera footage showed Monserrate dragging her by her hair through the lobby of their building, and doctors later said Giraldo needed 40 stitches.
In 2012, Monserrate was sentenced to two years in prison after he plead guilty to misappropriating $109,000 in city grants when he was a member of the City Council.
Were he to run, Monserrate would be competitive. He is a district leader in Aubry’s district, which overlaps with Moya’s Council seat, and maintains a base of support there. Aubry did not immediately return a request for comment.
13 comments:
Wonder what AOC and her "Squad" will say about this story ?
No Republican candidate?
no worries, nothing will stop new yorkers to vote him back in.
>Wonder what AOC and her "Squad" will say about this story ?
Most likely the DSA will run their own candidate in the district to take advantage of it. They'll hope that these two establishment hacks split the establishment vote, giving room for their own candidate to squirm in.
So a despicable low-life returns. New York politics. State AND City. Democrat AND Republican.
Wonder what AOC and her "Squad" will say about this story ?
I bet 100% nothing about Karla Barba's history of trying to kill her lovers !
Hiram Monserrate’s Loco ex-girlfriend was sentenced to three years behind for slashing her fiancé with a samurai sword.
Lovely guy. All those lovely feminazis now is your chance to say something.
This guy is a convicted felon. He did time in a federal prison for corruption charges.
How is there not a law prohibiting convicted felons for running for public office in NYC? How is this not a thing?
I thought it was bad that Michael Grimm, another convicted felon, was allowed to run for congress, but at least he didn't slash someone in the face. Hiram is another level of scumbaggery.
Hi, Ram, Ancient Deity, Abraham but also Brahma, and many more.
Should fit in Guru Gary Sri Ackerman's Pantheon nicely.
Put him and Alexandria ocasio-cortez in a cagematch.
And you thought only Jesus could bring the dead back from the grave.
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It's too bad I don't have photoshop, because I really wanted to put Hiram's face in that bathroom door scene with Wendy Torrance in the Shining.
This is a direct result of the leadership keeping voters "barefoot pregnant and in the kitchen" so say - if they were half as good as teaching people how to milk the system, or rounding them up as so much cattle in mindless voting blocks, we would not have this trouble.
Its nice they crow on all the education achievements - how about seeing everyone, particularly kids and immigrants and, yes, old timers, take a course in CIVICS and the duties and rights of citizens.
And for heavens sake, don't go ape-shit just because someone goes off script.
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