The struggle over who will lead the Bronx Democratic Party has, as expected, landed in court with both factions trying to invalidate each other’s half of the meeting to elect officers at the Utopia Paradise Theater. The case will come before a state Supreme Court judge on Monday, Oct. 27 at 2 p.m.
If Assemblyman Jose Rivera, the incumbent chairman were to succeed in getting a judge to scrap the results of a vote that appeared to elect Assemblyman Carl Heastie, Rivera would still seem to have a steep hill to climb as 15 out of 24 district leaders support Heastie and the so-called Rainbow Rebels. Even if all the officers of the Party’s Executive Committee favored Rivera, the district leaders supporting Heastie would outnumber them.
Meanwhile, Heastie and his allies wasted no time in setting up shop in a temporary south Bronx office, kicking off their efforts to get out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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