As the New York Times reported in July, Council Member Joel Rivera, 28, the Council’s majority leader, is planning to run for borough president in 2009, a decision that’s likely to put him on a collision course with close friend Assemblyman Ruben Diaz.
When asked for an update, Rivera, who attended a press conference last week to mark the launch of a new health center on Burnside Avenue, said he’s getting close to formally announcing his campaign, adding that he’s already raised $200,000.
"At the moment I have 140,000 bosses," he quipped, in reference to the population of the District 15. "In 2010, I hope to have 1.4 million."
Rivera will be trying to do what his father, Bronx Democratic boss Jose Rivera, now an assemblyman, never managed. (The elder Rivera stepped aside for the ascending Adolfo Carrión in 2001.)
So far, no one’s officially said they’re running, and with the election two years away anything can happen, but other possible candidates include State Senator Jose Marco Serrano and Council Member Helen Foster.
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