6 JUNE 20, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Vote in Democratic DA primary on Tues.
BY BILL PARRY
BPARRY@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
@RIDGEWOODTIMES
Queens residents will head to the
polls Tuesday, June 25, to take
the fi rst step in electing a new
district attorney for the fi rst time in
nearly three decades.
The Democratic primary has
turned into a wild free-for-all
among seven candidates looking to
succeed the late Richard A. Brown,
who served as Queens district
attorney from 1991 until his death in
May of this year from complications
of Parkinson’s disease.
The winner of Tuesday’s primary
will be the prohibitive favorite to
win the DA’s race in the November
general election. Republicans do not
have a district attorney primary this
Tuesday because they already have
their presumptive nominee: Ozone
Park attorney Daniel Kogan.
Queens Borough President
Melinda Katz of Forest Hills has been
the front-running establishment
candidate in the field thanks to
her 26 years of public service at
Borough Hall, the City Council and
the State Assembly. Katz is the top
fundraiser and drew support from
Governor Andrew Cuomo and
the city’s four largest unions, the
Queens County Democratic Party,
Planned Parenthood and the United
Federation of Teachers.
Public defender Tiffany Cabán
of Astoria has made a late charge
after picking up the endorsement of
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez, who stunned the Queens
political class a year ago when she
defeated party boss Joe Crowley in
the Democratic primary denying
him a chance to run for an 11th term
in the House of Representatives.
Cabán was also endorsed recently
by reform-minded progressive
District Attorney Larry Krasner of
Philadelphia, the Working Families
Party and both the city and national
chapters of the Democratic Socialists
of America.
Former state Supreme Court
Justice Greg Lasak was the only
candidate to rate a “well qualified”
after his interview with the Queens
County Bar. Lasak has based his
entire campaign based on his 25
years as a prosecutor in the Queens
DA’s office where as Executive
Assistant District Attorney he
oversaw more than 2,500 homicide
investigations.
City Councilman Rory Lancman
chairs the Committee on the Justice
System, overseeing the district
attorneys in all five boroughs,
the Mayor’s Office of Criminal
Justice, the City’s special narcotics
prosecutor, the public defender
organizations, the civil legal services
providers funded by the City, and
the courts.
Mina Malik is a former ADA in the
Queens District Attorney’s office
who went on to serve as executive
director of the city’s Civilian
Complaint Review Board, a special
counsel to the Brooklyn DA.
Jose Nieves of Queens Village is an
Army combat veteran in Afghanistan
and a former special prosecutor in
the state Attorney General’s office
appears to be a longshot in the field
as does Maspeth resident Betty Lugo,
a former Nassau County assistant
district attorney who went into
private practice.
Polls are open on June 25 from 6
a.m. to 9 p.m. To find your polling
site, visit nyc.pollsitelocator.com.
Left to right: Greg Lasak, Tiff any Cabán, Mina Malik, Rory Lancman, Melinda
Katz, Jose Nieves and Betty Lugo QNS File Photos
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