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Hiram Monserrate Still Savors State Senate Parking Placard
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John Del Signore
Published Aug 5, 2010
Modified Aug 5, 2010
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Hiram Monserrate, whom you may remember from such incidents as slashing his girlfriend with a broken glass and the coup that crippled Albany last summer, was voted off State Senate Island in February. Since then, he's been keeping busy trying (and failing) to win his old Senate seat back, boxing, and readying a campaign for the Assembly. And the Post reports that he's been doing all this with the help of his old Senate parking placard, which Senators are supposed to turn in when they leave the Senate. Why do people keep hassling Monserrate with their little rules?
Senate spokesman Austin Shafran tells the tabloid, "The Senate has twice attempted to get Hiram Monserrate to return his placard, and both times our requests went unanswered." The placard doesn't expire until February 2011, and permits parking in metered spaces without paying and in no-standing zones. Shafran says that if Monserrate doesn't cough it up soon, he'll make it a police matter: "We'd like to give him every opportunity to return the placards, but that's an option that may be considered if it's not returned." Reached for comment, a Monserrate spokesman said, "I really don't know why [my boss is still using the placard but it's probably just because he's an entitled asshole]."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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