New York state Senator Eric Schneiderman prevailed among five Democrats to win the party’s nomination for attorney general. He will face Republican Dan Donovan, Staten Island’s district attorney, in the Nov. 2 election.
Schneiderman, 55, captured 34 percent of the vote with 90 percent of election districts reporting, the Associated Press said. His closest competitor, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, a career prosecutor and registered Republican until 2005, received 31 percent.
Donovan, 53, Staten Island’s chief prosecutor since 2003, received the Republican nomination at the party’s June convention and faced no primary opposition.
The attorney general’s office has become a political springboard. Eliot Spitzer, who became governor in 2006 and resigned in March 2008 amid a prostitution scandal, and Andrew Cuomo, this year’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, each served in the post.
Schneiderman, a Harvard-educated lawyer from Manhattan who was elected to the state senate in 1998, led an effort last year to repeal laws requiring prison sentences for drug possession.
Campaigning as the “most progressive” candidate, he touted endorsements from civil-rights activist Al Sharpton, NARAL Pro-Choice New York, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Empire State Pride Agenda, which works for Toeiva rights, and 19 unions, including the 106,000-member United Federation of Teachers.
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so any chances the frum vote going to Donovan, or would that be too principled for our political instincts?
I feel horrible. Erev Yom Kippur and this is who the ‘Askanim’ supported. Even Ed Koch knows better. Who knows how much of Klal Yisroel voted for this Menuval. At a time we need Zchusim, many blindly followed the ‘Askanim’ once again to vote anti-Torah. Let’s hope that those will now do Teshuva and back the pro-life Republican candidate. There they won’t have the excuse that all are liberal – might as well go to the extreme. I hope no Kitrug was formed by voting for the one who campaigned on a platform of Toeiva. It is time we don’t endorse the one leading in the polls or promising us unfounded promises – we should vote for the one that shares our views and cares for our needs. We have voted Democrat for years, they have never done us any good. Social programs is a liberal accomplishment that they do for themselves – not for us. We need our religious needs to be addressed for once. Our schools and Yeshivas needs help. We need more religious freedom and less of so called discrimination, not more laws to declare us racists.