Albany, NY – Republican Rep. Bob Turner has an unlikely ally in his fight to keep his congressional district intact — the state Legislature’s most powerful Democrat.
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With two of New York’s 29 congressional seats slated to be axed in the redistricting process, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he would prefer not to see Turner’s congressional seat eliminated.
Turner won the seat last year in a special election after Democrat Anthony Weiner resigned amid a sexting scandal.
“I believe it’s a Democratic seat and would be won by a Democrat,” Silver said.
Insiders say they expect one Republican seat and one Democratic seat to be redistricted out of existence.
Full story at The NY Daily News
Please keep it. Just add BP and dream that it will elect a D again.