Posted by Assemblyman Jose Peralta has won Tuesday’s special election for the 13th State Senate District.
He will now represent parts of Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and Corona.
It was a heated race between Peralta and his main challenger, former State Senator Hiram Monserrate who ran as an Independent hoping to win back his old seat.
Monserrate was expelled from the senate last month following a misdemeanor assault conviction for dragging his girlfriend.
Lost in the shuffle was Republican Robert Beltrani. An Administrative Law Judge, Beltrani billed himself as a political outsider who was not caught up in the dysfunction of Albany.
Source: NY1
Where is his girlfriend of Hiram Monserrate now.
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