{"id":369600,"date":"2026-10-10T03:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369600\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:58:42","slug":"the-american-dream-brought-them-both-to-staten-island-politics-divides-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369600\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Dream Brought Them Both to Staten Island. Politics Divides Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Republican Michael Tannousis faces Democrat Tim Qorraj in Staten Island&#8217;s race for the 64th Assembly District. Both share immigrant family histories shaped by war and the pursuit of the American dream. The incumbent&#8217;s parents fled Cyprus after the 1974 Turkish invasion; his challenger arrived 15 years ago. But their priorities differ: the incumbent emphasizes tax relief and restoring judicial discretion. The challenger prioritizes affordability, proposing youth sports tax credits and protections for small landlords. Both support studying Staten Island secession and keeping battery storage facilities outside residential neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican Michael Tannousis faces Democrat Tim Qorraj in Staten Island&#8217;s race for the 64th Assembly District. Both share&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-369600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369600","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=369600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}