{"id":92575,"date":"2026-01-07T17:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/92575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:52:07","slug":"staten-island-regains-city-council-gop-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/92575\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island regains City Council GOP leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

CITY HALL \u2014 A politically-symbolic City Council position once again belongs to a Staten Islander after members of the city legislative body chose leadership Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Councilmember David Carr, a Republican representing the Mid-Island, will serve as the Council\u2019s new minority leader for the 51-member body\u2019s five Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am humbled and honored to have been chosen to lead the City Council\u2019s dynamic Republican Conference, and I will strive to be worthy of the role, understanding the eminent footsteps in which I am following,\u201d Carr said. \u201cI look forward to working with my fellow Republicans, as well as my colleagues in government, to ensure that voice is heard loud and clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carr previously held the position for a brief period last year after former Councilmember Joseph Borelli resigned, but soon faced an internal challenge from Queens Republican Councilmember Joann Ariola.<\/p>\n

In a meeting shortly before his resignation, Borelli joined Carr and Brooklyn Councilmember Inna Vernikov in naming Carr as his leadership successor, but Ariola and two of her supporters challenged that move.<\/p>\n

Ariola\u2019s minor coup came down to former Speaker Adrienne Adams, another Queens representative, and the Council parliamentarian handing the leadership position to Adams\u2019 borough mate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With one of Ariola\u2019s supporters, former Bronx Councilmember Kristy Marmorato, losing her seat in November, Carr gained a simple 3-2 majority of support \u2014 himself, Vernikov and South Shore Councilmember Frank Morano \u2014 among the Council Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, more than ever, our city needs a compelling conservative voice to counterbalance the loud and radical left, to fight back against those who spew anti-American and anti-democratic dogma that seeks to divide and diminish us, and to stand up for the values and ideals that have made our city and our country great,\u201d Carr said. <\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers need Republicans to show them we can provide real solutions to the difficult problems everyday New Yorkers face; that affordability and abundance are created by unleashing the power of the free market and innovation and by keeping government\u2019s foot off of our necks; and hat uplifting the lives of our citizens begins by preserving and protecting the freedom and basic dignity of the individual,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITY HALL \u2014 A politically-symbolic City Council position once again belongs to a Staten Islander after members of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-92575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92575","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=92575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}