Yeger touting community credentials in council race
In the wake of a last-minute decision by a Committee on Vacancies to put forth Kalman Yeger’s name as the Democratic candidate for the Borough Park City Council seat replacing Councilmember David Greenfield on the ballot, Yeger is hitting the campaign trail touting his community ties.
On Monday, Greenfield convened a meeting of the Committee on Vacancies in the 44th Council District (Borough Park-Midwood-Bensonhurst), during which members voted to nominate Yeger to run for the seat. Monday was the last day such a move could be made under New York’s election law. The law allows for the substitution of a candidate, but only within a certain time frame.
Greenfield had originally planned to run for re-election in November. But the lawmaker shocked many in the New York political scene by announcing that he had decided not to run for another term but instead to leave politics at the end of his current term in December to become executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.