With State Senate in the Balance, One Democrat Plans to Run for City Council

 

By Will Bredderman

As State Senate Democrats cling to the last vanishing wisps of hope they might gain majority and control the agenda this year, one of their number is preparing to abandon the body and pursue a soon-to-be-vacant seat in the City Council.

Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins revealed to the Observer he intends to run to replace Councilwoman Inez Dickens, who won election to the Assembly earlier this month—a move that could leave Democrats a vital vote short on core issues facing the upper house of the State Legislature. Perkins held that Council seat from 1998 until 2005, and ascended to the State Senate in 2006.

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Source: Observer (via The Empire Report)