{"id":106230,"date":"2026-01-20T19:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106230\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:41:14","slug":"erik-bottchers-chief-of-staff-carl-wilson-launches-campaign-to-succeed-his-boss-backed-by-speaker-menin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/106230\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Bottcher\u2019s Chief of Staff Carl Wilson launches campaign to succeed his boss, backed by Speaker Menin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Carl Wilson, longtime West Side organizer and chief of staff to Council Member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=Erik+Bottcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Erik Bottcher<\/a>, is officially running to take over Manhattan\u2019s District 3, launching his campaign on Tuesday with day-one endorsements from City Hall heavyweights and a roster of tenant and community leaders across Chelsea, Hell\u2019s Kitchen, and the West Village.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council seat is expected to become vacant following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/manhattan\/councilmember-erik-bottcher-drops-bid-for-nadlers-house-seat-to-run-for-state-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bottcher\u2019s anticipated move to the New York State Senate.<\/a> Bottcher is running in a Feb. 3 special election for Senate District 47, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTY55JxFNRP\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recently secured the Democratic line<\/a> in the race to replace former state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who recently became Manhattan borough president.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/erik-bottcher-carl-wilson-campaign-succeed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tErik Bottcher\u2019s Chief of Staff Carl Wilson launches campaign to succeed his boss, backed by Speaker Menin &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Carl Wilson, longtime West Side organizer and chief of staff to Council Member Erik Bottcher, is officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[47957,301,47958,22546,75,84,83,9,24,63,18213,9720],"class_list":{"0":"post-106230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-carl-wilson","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-city-council-race","11":"tag-council-member-erik-bottcher","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-special-election","19":"tag-the-villager"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}