four candidates<\/a> for the open seat. In Lower Manhattan, six Democrats are seeking to succeed Assembly Member Grace Lee as she runs for state Senate and another six Dems have filed for retiring Assembly Member Deborah Glick\u2019s open seat. Across the East River in Queens, at least three Democrats are seeking Assembly Member Claire Valdez\u2019s seat and another three hoping to replace Assembly Member Steven Raga.<\/p>\nAnd when Aronson ran in the open City Council race last year to succeed the term-limited Keith Powers, she got second in a field of six, and when she ran in the same council district in 2017, nine candidates made the primary ballot.<\/p>\n
Now as the party’s nominee, Aronson is announcing endorsements from borough power players \u2013 who else would they support? \u2013 including Bores, Nadler, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Council Member Virginia Maloney, who narrowly bested Aronson last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m grateful and proud of Virginia’s support,\u201d Aronson told City & State. \u201cI’m really grateful that the East Side has two people who are excited to work together and do what’s best for our community.”<\/p>\n
While Bores is backing Aronson, the lack of a primary may be disappointing for his own race. A competitive two-person primary to fill the seat of his rival, Assembly Member Micah Lasher, could help boost June turnout on the Upper West Side. But a Bores campaign spokesperson said it\u2019s not a worry, since the House race is the higher profile race on the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n
Aronson is also uncontested for the Working Families Party nomination. But she\u2019s likely to face an opponent in the general election. Republican David Casavis, who has run and lost several times before in the deep blue district, has filed to run again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI intend to earn every vote in November,\u201d Aronson said. \u201cSo I really have a plan to stay active in the community to meet as many people, as many voters as possible between now and November.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanessa Aronson is a shoo-in to fill Alex Bores\u2019 Assembly seat on the east side of Manhattan. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1414,3066,9,24,55,54,17566,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-188091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-campaigns-elections","9":"tag-heard-around-town","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-new-york-state-assembly","15":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188091","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=188091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}