At a news conference on Staten Island this past week, Representative Grimm was asked if his numerous accounts of federal indictment were swaying voters to his challenger Domenic Recchia (D). Grimm rebutted with a statement referring to how party machines will spend un godly amounts of money on making the issue about anything but the issue.
With Grimm's trial around the corner, specifically right after this falls elections. It will be interesting to see if voters are weary to vote for someone who might be forced to resign. " Mr.Recchia had drawn about even in the polls with Mr. Grimm, whose base on Staten Island, a Republican redoubt in a liberal city, seems mostly unbothered by his legal problems." Says Jason Horowitz of New York Times.
In an interesting approach Grimm told voters to stay with him at the very least to have a clean slate of voters if he were to be forced to resign. That is if he were to get reelected and then be found guilty on any accounts. He would most likely be forced to resign, and thus have to be a special election for his congressional seat. With all new opponents.
Currently the standing are as follows: Michael Grimm (R) with 44%, Domenic Recchia (D) 40%, Henry Bardel (G) 4%, Undecided 12% (Siena College Research Institute).
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