In a few months New York will fill the expected vacancy in the U.S. House seat, 23rd district. The seat will be vacant because incumbent Republican Congressmember John McHugh has accepted a job in the Executive Department, although he hasn’t resigned yet because he hasn’t been confirmed. On July 24, leaders of the Independence Party decided to support the Republican nominee, Assemblymember Dede Scozzafava, even though Democrats haven’t even chosen their nominee yet. See this Daily News story.
The Conservative Party is expected to run someone other than Scozzafava.
Independence Party playboy, perhaps a foreign national or dual citizen, who now says he is also a Leader of both the Independence Party and Reform Party????
Din, Suleman
India Abroad
08-10-2001
Bobby Kumar admits he lied about kidnap
Bobby Kumar, a Long Island community activist and businessman, was arrested
by Nassau county police August 1 on charges of making false statements
about his alleged kidnapping.
Kumar, who came under media focus (India Abroad, July 20, 2001) last month
after he claimed he was abducted by three unidentified men from a
restaurant in Syosset, NY, appeared in the First District Court in
Hempstead on August 2, but was released on his own recognizance and ordered
back in court on August 20.
Kumar has been charged with two counts of making a false statement after
admitting to police the night before that he made up the story of his kidnapping.
….. disgraced former GOP power broker Bobby Kumar, who recently returned to the board that operates the Nassau University Medical Center.
Kumar resigned as board chairman under pressure in May 2001 and a few months later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with the faking of his own kidnapping.