The Kings County Republican Party Executive Committee, last week, unanimously endorsed Lucretia Regina-Potter to run for the vacant 46th District State Assembly seat in the upcoming special election set unofficially for Nov. 3.
Former GOP 49th District Assemblyman Arnaldo A. Ferraro, chairman of the Fiorello LaGuardia Republican Organization, made the announcement. Regina-Potter is a longtime member of the political club’s executive committee and currently serves as its’ director of communications. She is also the Republican 46th Assembly District leader.
“I am very pleased to receive the endorsement of the Kings County Republican Party. I look forward to the support and the participation of the borough-wide Republican Party throughout the entire campaign,” said Regina-Potter. “With their help and support, we can establish a unified presence in the 46th Assembly District and throughout Brooklyn. We need to come together as a community to address the recurring issues that affect our area, and provide effective representation to work toward solutions in Albany.”
In an emailed statement, Farraro called Regina-Potter a very active political leader with deep roots in the community and a small business manager background that makes her uniquely qualified to become the first elected Republican Assembly member fully representing Brooklyn since 1986.
Regina-Potter’s campaign election team includes Ferraro, her Republican Co-leader elect, Anthony Bove, 49th AD District Leader-elect Stephen Maresca, community liaison Polina Pyasetskaya, the Republican County Committee Members in the 46th AD, and all members of the LaGuardia Republican Organization.
The endorsement sets up what is expected to be a very competitive race in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1, but includes the more conservative enclaves of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge along with Coney Island and slices of Brighton Beach and Bath Beach.
The seat opened up with the sudden retirement of Democrat Alec-Brook Krasny, who won a competitive re-election in 2014 against Republican Stamatis Lilikakis, 58% to 42%. Brook-Krasny outspent Lilikakis in that race by nearly $10,000, according to campaign finance disclosures.
The frontrunner on the Democratic side is Pam Harris, a popular Coney Island community activist, also with a long record of accomplishment and work in the community. Brook-Krasny’s former chief of staff, Kate Cucco, is also vying for the the Democratic Party.
