GRIMM RIVAL: Recchia to run for Brooklyn-Staten Island congress seat
Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr., who flirted with the idea of running for Brooklyn borough president and then city comptroller before rejecting both bids, has apparently found a public office more to his liking. He has announced his intention to run for congress.
Recchia (D-Coney Island) said he will file official papers later this week to run for the House seat in the 11th Congressional District. The seat is currently held by Rep. Michael Grimm (R-C), who won re-election to his second term last November. The next congressional election will take place in 2014.
Recchia, who has served three terms in the council, is the second prominent Democrat to set his sights on ousting Grimm from the congressional seat. The Staten Island Advance reported that former Rep. Michael McMahon, the man Grimm defeated in 2010 in an anti-incumbent year, is believed considering making a political comeback and running for his old seat.