Monserrate Considers Challenging Sabini
By Azi Paybarah
October 18, 2007 | 9:43 a.m.
When state Senator John Sabini, who is from a very Democratic-leaning district in Jackson Heights, Queens, got arrested in Albany for drunk driving last month, I said that it wouldn’t be much of a threat to his re-election unless a Democrat ran against him in a primary.
That may now happen.
In this clip, City Councilman Hiram Monserrate, a former cop who came pretty close to ousting Sabini in 2006, talks about the possibility of making a rematch.
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