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Assembly Democrats’ plot to to undo will of Brooklyn voters
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Dec 02, 2022 06:16pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Saturday, December 3, 2022 12:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Word is the Assembly’s huge Democratic majority means to vote against seating Assemblyman-elect Lester Chang, the Republican winner in Brooklyn’s 49th District, unless he can satisfy their gripes about residency issues. They have the legal power, but it sure looks like disenfranchisement over sour grapes.
Do Speaker Carl Heastie & Co. really want to defy the will of the district’s voters — many of them Asian?
Chang upset 26-year incumbent Assemblyman Peter Abbate Jr., long-time chairman of the Assembly’s Labor Committee and a favorite of public-employee unions.
State law gave Abbate ample opportunity to challenge Chang’s residency long before the Nov. 8 election. He didn’t — though he raised the issue plenty during the campaign, repeatedly claiming his opponent lived in Manhattan and telling Chang to “go back where you came from.” |
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