Islip town board member Christopher Bodkin, a Republican turned Democrat, has withdrawn from the race to take on 34-year State Senate veteran Caesar Trunzo (R-Brentwood), pictured above.
“I’m out, and that is all I want to say,” said the 14-year town board member who last year defected from the Republican to Democratic.
Sources say Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman, asked Bodkin to withdraw about two weeks ago.
Initially, Bodkin was reluctant. But that was before the departure of Gov. Eliot Spitzer who was engineering a major push to take over the Senate. Sources say Bodkin had hoped the governor might intervene to force out Democrat Jimmy Dahroug, who has already lost twice but wants to take on Trunzo, 81, again. With Spitzer gone in scandal, those hopes were dashed.
Rick Brand
Comments (1)
thank God we won't have to see that opportunist campaigning,