Thanks to quirks of New York state law, removing Benjamin from the ballot for New York’s June 28 primary is extremely difficult.
after being indicted by the Department of Justice for allegedly conspiring to funnel illegal contributions to his failed 2021 bid for New York City comptroller.
New York is a strongly Democratic state, so it’s conceivable that Benjamin could win an election that neither he nor his party want him to have anything to do with. “What makes you think that the court and the judge are going to say, ‘Sure, you person we just indicted, we’ll let you move out of state'?” election lawyer Sarah Steiner told City & State.
For non-lawyers, there are other alternatives. In 2018, the Working Families Party nominated actress Cynthia Nixon, who was challenging then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo from the left in the Democratic primary. When Cuomo won renomination, Nixon But who would give up their nomination for the state legislature? Perhaps a Democrat running in a heavily Republican district, who knows they have no chance of winning anyway. There are, however, no districts like that in the extremely Democratic borough of Manhattan, and Benjamin — who represented Harlem in the state Senate — could only run in the county in which he resides.
Hochul is at the moment contemplating who to appoint as her lieutenant governor for the remainder of her current term — and if she wants to endorse one of Benjamin’s primary rivals for the role.
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