Richard Aborn is continuing his unexpected surge of endorements in the race to succeed Robert Morgenthau as Manhattan district attorney, picking up the support of Catherine Abate and Richard Davis–two people who once wanted the job themselves.

Abate, a former state senator, state corrections commissioner and chair of the state crime victims board, whose elected career ended with a loss in the 1998 attorney general’s race to Eliot Spitzer. In the subsequent years, Abate’s name had frequently been mentioned as the likely preferred choice of Morgenthau to succeed him, when the time came. She did not, however, put together a campaign operation in advance of Morgenthau’s announced retirement, and the longtime district attorney instead swung his support behind Cyrus Vance, Jr. in his determined effort to keep former Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder from winning.

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