Former New York City controller John Liu has defeated three-time incumbent State Senator Tony Avella in the New York State primary, reports City & State, New York.
With all 224 districts reporting, Liu received 50.6 percent of the vote to Avella’s 45.3 percent.
Liu is just five years removed from a fundraising controversy when two of his campaign aides for his mayoral run were convicted on federal charges. Liu finished fourth that year in New York City’s mayoral race and most kissed his political career goodbye. Not Liu.
According to Patch, Avella is part of a group of Democrats once known as the Independent Democratic Conference. They were a renegade group of Democrats who shared power with state Republicans.
Liu rarely mentions his opponent when his campaigns or does he even mention the Independent Democratic Conference. He also says most people don’t bring up his fundraising scandal from 2013.
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