If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Entering this June’s Democratic primary George Alvarez had been politically pigeonholed as a bottom-ballot perennial candidate before pulling off the Bronx’s biggest shock of this year’s election cycle by unseating long-term incumbent Jose Rivera.
A month prior to his upset of Rivera, the 21-year seatholder and former head of the Bronx Democratic Party, Alvarez faced a two-week legal battle with an election lawyer who unsuccessfully tried to get him removed from the ballot before the primary.
