It's Titone
Stonewall Dems email over announcing that the winner of yesterday's special election in Staen Island is Matt Titone. Titone will take the seat of the late John Lavelle, representing the North Shore of the borough.
In a special election yesterday, Staten Islanders elected the borough’s first openly gay official by selecting Matthew Titone to a State Assembly seat on the island’s north shore...
The Staten Island race in the 61st Assembly District drew a great deal of attention because of Mr. Titone and his two rivals. The Independence Party candidate, Kelvin Alexander, would have been the borough’s first black assemblyman had he prevailed. And Rose Margarella, the Republican candidate, would have been the first of her party to be elected from this heavily Democratic district in recent history.
With 100 percent of the votes counted, Mr. Titone received 2,888 votes, Ms. Margarella 1,846 and Mr. Alexander 1,122, according to unofficial figures from the New York City Board of Elections.
The question that should be asked, however, is whether Titone will actually represent his constituents, or become yet another faceless vote drone in the Assembly. Let's hope it's the former.
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2007 Special Elections | New York State Assembly | Staten Island
I absoultely encourage
Submitted by Bouldin on 28 March 2007 - 1:57pm.
...you to post about it. Me, I may be too generally skeptical of the Assembly to do the guy justice.
You beat me to it.
I was going to post about the race after I came home from Matt's Victory Party and later drinks at Jody's at 2 am, but sleepiness, beer and computer problems I'm still experiencing delayed me.
Matt is very approachable and will serve his constituents well.