A little over a week after City Council Member David Carr claimed victory as the city legislature’s new Republican minority leader, with half the GOP caucus voting in his favor, the other half showed up Friday to hold a do-over vote that elevated Council Member Joann Ariola to the post instead.
The dueling votes, where one half of the caucus elected a minority leader, who was then replaced by the other half, showed a growing divide between the caucus’ Queens and Staten Island representatives.
