Monserrate Out, For Now

“Hiram Monserrate is the perfect scapegoat for your absolution.”
-Hiram Monserrate castigates the New York State Senate, which voted 53–8 to expel him last night. Monserrate, convicted of a misdemeanor after being “charged with slashing his girlfriend Karla Giraldo’s face with a broken glass and then forcibly pulling her down the hall of his Queens apartment building on the way to the hospital,” has vowed to go to court to prevent the expulsion and to run in the special election Governor Paterson has called for March 16th.