BY JASON COHEN
With rumors swirling that
U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer could face a
challenge from within his own
party in the 2022 Democratic
primaries, a Bronx Republican
is the fi rst to offi cially challenge
the longtime lawmaker.
On Nov. 18, Aleksander
Mici, a Morris Park resident,
offi cially fi led to run against
Schumer in the 2022 election
as a Republican. Schumer, who
has served as Senate majority
leader since 2021 and in the
Senate since 1999, is running
for a fi fth term. If reelected,
he would become the longestserving
U.S. senator in New
York State history.
Mici lost a close District 13
City Council race on Nov. 2 to
Democrat Marjorie Velázquez,
capturing 44.6% votes with
96% of scanners reporting.
Fleeing a brutal communist
dictator in Albania to eventually
New Plans
come to the United States
in 1991, Mici is sick of seeing
the U.S. turn into a socialist
nation, he told the Bronx
Times. Schumer has been a
lawmaker for decades and his
time has passed, Mici added.
“I am running for the
United States Senate because I
know fi rsthand how dangerous
the Socialist creep into American
politics will turn out to
be,” Mici said in a statement.
“While Chuck Schumer was
voting to raise property and
gas taxes, I was suffering, like
millions of Albanians, under a
tyrannical communist dictatorship
and struggling to make
it to America. And now almost
three decades later, the past is
prologue: under Chuck Schumer’s
leadership, Democrats are
still doing everything in their
power to raise costs on everything,
while everyday Americans
struggle.”
Mici, 46, is a practicing attorney
NYC’s #1 Source for Political & Election News
with a law degree from
Fordham Law School. He was
born and raised in Albania,
where his parents instilled in
him a desire to fi ght for a freer
and more humane world. In
1991, the candidate organized
an uprising with his high
school classmates in Shkoder
against the tyrannical Stalinist
regime of Enver Hoxha,
the Albanian dictator who executed
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thousands of political
dissidents and jailed tens of
thousands more in forced labor
camps during his 40-year
dictatorship, he said.
But at age 15, Mici, like
many millions of others
across the world, had escaped
a brutal Stalinist dictatorship
and eventually found freedom
in America.
As 2022 approaches, Mici
said the U.S. is headed in the
wrong direction. He said he is
against the numerous vaccine
and mask mandates, dislikes
having Critical Race Theory
(CRT) in schools, wants
the country and state to be
more fi scally conservative
and wants the government
to honor the Second Amendment.
“For me, the impact I’d like
to make is ideological,” he
said.
The Republican said that
teaching CRT is wrong because
there isn’t proof that
the entire country has ever
been racist. He is also tired of
President Joe Biden, who he
said is doing a terrible job and
claimed that the 2020 election
was stolen from former President
Donald Trump.
“If everything lines up for
me and I win this seat, I will
do my best to fi ght for the people
of New York,” Mici said.
“Schumer has been in power
almost 50 years and hasn’t
done anything. “I’m ready to
take on this social cabal in a
way this country was founded.
U.S. senators are elected to
two-year terms. Schumer currently
earns an annual salary
of nearly $200,000.
Morris Park’s Aleksander Mici has fi led to run for U.S. Senate in New York
as a Republican. The seat is currerntly occuped by Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer, a Democrat. Photo courtesy Aleksander Mici
Mici to run for
U.S. Senate
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