Coney Island activist and community organizer Pamela Harris, last night, was overwhelmingly chosen by the Shorefront Democratic Club Executive Committee to be the Democratic nominee for the vacant 46th Assembly District seat, KCP has learned.
As the club is wholly in the 46th AD, and its chair, Delia Schack is the 46th AD Democratic Party District Leader, and has more than enough committee member votes to pick the candidate, this means that barring some last minute backroom dealing, Harris will most likely get the nod.
Other receiving votes were Cody McCone, a long time loyal Democrat and former Sheepshead Bay City Councilman Michael Nelson.
The seat opened up when Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny stepped down earlier this month to take a job in the private sector. He supported his chief of staff Kate Cucco to succeed him and some media outlets pegged her as the front runner to get the Democratic Party nod.
However, she didn’t get any votes from the Shore Front Democrats, and Schack said she was personally offended that Cucco is trying to get the Conserative Party line as exclusively reported in KCP.
“When we interviewed her she promised us she would not go for any other Party line and then the very next day she called Jerry Kassar to be on the Conservative Party line,” said Schack.
Schack said all three names will be submitted to Kings County Democratic Chair Frank Seddio and the County Committee for a final vote. Originally that meeting was to take place in August, but with the felony conviction of Canarsie State Sen. John Sampson and the need to find a replacement candidate for his now open 19th Senatrorial District seat, the meeting was pushed back until September.
The special election is expected to be this November on the same day of the judicial elections.
