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This Tuesday, March 16th is the day voters in a district in Queens get to decide if they want to keep State Senator Hiram Monserrate in his seat, after he was convicted of violence, which was connected to domestic abuse.
A story at The Capitol Confidential blog has a link to the latest Siena poll: here.
Over at Elizabeth Benjamin’s Daily Politics blog, it lays out who is in the race and what their chances are of winning or losing: here, with excerpt below.
(excerpt from) Daily Politics
Today’s Siena poll finds Assemblyman Jose Peralta with a 45 percentage point lead in the race for the Queens Senate seat from which his opponent, Hiram Monserrate, was expelled last month.
With just four days remaining until the March 16 special election in the 13th Senatorial District, Peralta has the support of 60 percent of voters, while Monserrate is at 15 percent and Republican Robert Beltrani is at nine…
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