SHARE:
In 2018, Staten Island native Lorie Honor introduced former Rep. Max Rose, then a first-time Democratic candidate for Congress, to communities across Staten Island. She fundraised for his campaign as his director of community outreach and helped build the volunteer base that eventually led to Rose’s upset victory. Progressive grassroots groups, including the one Honor helped co-found, Staten Island Women Who March, are considered by local Democrats as being instrumental to Rose flipping the Republican-held seat. (Rose lost the seat to Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis last year.)
Now, equipped with the experience of running a successful grassroots campaign for a novice candidate, Honor is trying to replicate the feat herself: she is running for Staten Island borough president, a position no woman has ever held – and no Democrat has either since 1989.
Leticia Remauro for SI Borough President/Facebook
The Staten Island borough president candidate who sparked an uproar by invoking Hitler faces competition from a decidedly lower-key fellow Republican but there’s no Democratic challenger in sight.
Leticia Remauro, who has close ties to freshman U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island, Brooklyn), told THE CITY she expects to reap about $272,000 in private and public dollars in the fundraising cycle that ends Friday.
It’s not clear how her Dec. 2 comment captured on video and revealed this week declaring “Heil Hitler” while criticizing city sherrifs enforcing the indoor dining ban, will affect her fundraising prospects in the only borough to go for Donald Trump in the last two presidential elections.