Hiram "The Slasher" Monserrate had a crisis of faith last night as the voters sent him packing.
Hiram Monserrate, who was expelled from the State Senate after being convicted of assaulting his companion, was handily defeated on Tuesday by José R. Peralta in a special election in Queens for Mr. Monserrate’s former seat.
This asshat briefly flipped the New York Senate into chaos last year by voting for a Republican to be majority leader in a successful effort to derail a vote on marriage equality. He will be replaced by the gay friendly José Peralta. Chalk a victory up for the good guys.
The convicted slasher was still more palatable than the Republican in the race by a factor of nearly 4 to 1.
With 94 percent of the vote counted, unofficial returns from the overwhelmingly Democratic 13th State Senate District showed Mr. Peralta with 66 percent and Mr. Monserrate with 27 percent. The Republican candidate, Robert Beltrani, an administrative law judge, came in third with 7 percent.