This weekend the Bronx County Democratic Party endorsed Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr. in the race to replace Adolfo Carrion as Bronx borough president.
The endorsement caught my eye since the competitive race still includes at least one other established Democratic candidate, City Councilman Joel Rivera. According to reporter John Desio—who launched a blog to cover this race—former state ...

Adolfo Carrion is finally going to Washington.
Carrion was a candidate for city comptroller, but had long since stopped campaigning for the job, and despite publicly saying he was still in that game, wasn’t considered a player in that race once talk of the Washington job became credible.
The real question is who replaces him in the Bronx Borough ...

Adolfo Carrion is finally going to Washington.
Carrion was a candidate for city comptroller, but had long since stopped campaigning for the job, and despite publicly saying he was still in that game, wasn’t considered a player in that race once talk of the Washington job became credible.
The real question is who replaces him in the Bronx Borough ...

City Councilman Joel Rivera is organizing a rally tomorrow on the City Hall steps to urge newly minted Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to change her position on immigration and gun control issues. “I’m not jumping on a band wagon just to jump on a band wagon,” he said.
Rivera, speaking to me in City Hall just now, said that Gillibrand ...