Dems on East Side Uniting After Primary Races.

Well, the primaries are behind us and the UES’s incumbents were victorious—Julie Menin CD 5’s Council Member and the 76th AD/Part A District Leaders Ben Akselrod and Rebecca Weintraub were re-elected. The three were endorsed by the Four Freedoms Democratic Club. There was no incumbent in the CD 4 race. Current Council Member Keith Powers, who was term-limited , ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan BP. He lost to Brad Hoylman-Sigal.

Replacing Powers, after the November election, undoubtedly will be Virginia Maloney. She won a tight ranking race, running neck-and-neck into the last round, with Vanessa Aronson. In my last column before the primary, I reached out to all candidates in the CD 4 race for comments from their significant others. Heard from Reid Aronson and Lauren Trapanotto, Ben Wetzler’s partner, and included their responses.

Post-primary, here’s response from Taylor North on behalf of the CM-to-be Virginia Maloney: “Virginia is the most capable, grounded person I know. She makes hard work look easy and has incredible focus on advancing any project she’s working on. She cares about this city and its future, because it’s always been her home. Watching her campaign isn’t about politics for me—it’s about seeing someone fight for the people and places that made her who she is.”

Next stop, November ballot. In the meantime and still in campaign mode, Maloney was making the rounds and was at Assembly Member Alex Bores’s recent fundraiser at La Cava. The place was packed with the Democratic faithful, and many were from the Four Freedoms and Lexington Democratic clubs. There was large contingent of Maloney supporters and volunteers cheering them on.

The Campaign Finance Board explains: In response to my column, about “The Campaign Finance Board Made a $6.85 Million Mistake in Its Voter Guide,” the CFB’s director of public relations sent this slightly edited email: “I’m reaching out about the article you published. You cited Politico’s coverage of the Voter Guide errors: “Politico, a political news site has also been closely following the Voter Guide snafu since last May, said it was going to cost $6.85 million to send the corrections to the 3.5 million voters.” In fact, the $6.85 million figure refers to the cost of producing the print Voter Guides for the primary election, not the cost of sending out the corrective mailers.

“Also, the CFB uses the voter file from NYC Board of Elections to send Voter Guides and other voter education material to registered voters across the city. If you’ve received duplicative mail to unknown or former tenants, that is likely an issue with the voter rolls needing to be updated.”

Seems that the CFB should be investing in getting updated voter rolls so that voting materials go to voters who can vote.