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Before I start, why does the Topic pull down on Room8 have "Brooklyn" but not "Bronx?" Seems like a big oversight. Now on to the diary...

 To me one of the top races this year is the primary challenge to one of the number one most dysfunctional people in Albany now that Hiram Monserrate has been ousted: corrupt and reactionary Bronx hack Pedro Espada, jr. Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter has stepped up to the plate to try and get rid of Espada. Already Desiree Hunter has gotten the endorsements of Democracy for NYC, Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, and Stonewall Democrats.

Pedro Espada is one of the traitors who derailed reform in Albany by temporarily defecting to the Republicans. Espada is also actively under investigation by the Bronx District Attorney, FBI, IRS, and NYS Attorney General for corruption:

Key Senate Coup Player Pedro Espada: Corrupt or Crazy or Both

Since my post on CBID endorsements got SO much attention, I thought it a good idea to post some of the challenges to incumbents I am supporting this year. Many were chastizing me for being too focused on incumbents. Happens that CBID was mostly endorsing incumbents I consider good folks and have no qualms about supporting. But I certainly do support challenges to incumbents, both in primaries and in the general election, in some cases. I want to start with a challenge to obstructionist Republican Marty Golden in Brooklyn.

Scuttlebut has it that Diaz, Sr's state senate seat will be contested this fall.  Unclear is whether the challenge will be in a Democratic primary or through a third party bid, or perhaps both.  Also unclear is who the challenger(s) will be. 

Stay tuned!  

Last night (after the gridlock was broken) the NYS Senate voted to raise the NYC Sales tax by .5%, an almost 6% increase to the new rate of 8.875%.

 The vote was 43 to 19 with many Republicans crossing the aisle to vote with the Democrats to raise the sales tax.

 Sen. Ruben Diaz apparently got up on the Senate floor and beg the Republicans for almost an hour to join with him to defeat the tax hike.  Democrats Sen.. Hiram Monerrate and Kevin Parker also voted against the tax hike.

 So this was a bill the Republicans easily could have killed.

 In my opinion this was a HUGE missed opportunity for them. After a month of chaos the 1st thing Republicans in the Senate do when the leadership is settled is join with the Democrats to raise taxes.

We at Common Cause/NY are fed up with the mess in Albany, so we’ve launched a campaign to tell our state senators to get back to work and Stick With It!  

Nearly one thousand New Yorkers have already joined our campaign to send a message to their senators. We will be delivering these messages from outraged New Yorkers across the state in a way our senators won't forget:  we’ll deliver a glue stick for each New Yorker who signs up, urging our senators to Stick With It!

At 12:01 this morning, the law that enshrined mayoral control of New York City’s public schools formally sunset, as the New York State Senate remained paralyzed by crisis. The old Board of Education was automatically resurrected, as were 32 community school boards, whose members are to be elected.

Whether or not this will stand, or if the State Senate will come back to order and re-issue some form of mayor control remains to be seen. However, what we’ve seen so far is not good: Bloomberg is making sure to keep himself and his corporate-world school’s chancellor, Joel Klein, firmly in control, with as little in the way of checks and balances as possible.