Espada trailing in Bronx

(Canton 11:09 pm) From the Associated Press:

NEW YORK (AP) _ With New York City tabloid front pages screaming “Bums Away” and “Throw the Bums Out,” voters on Tuesday scared some members of New York’s maligned state Legislature.

Perhaps the most closely watched race was in the Bronx. There, Democratic Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. was badly trailing Gustavo Rivera as Espada is accused of illegally directing millions of dollars in government grants to his health clinic.

Espada also led a coup with Republicans in the summer of 2009 that gridlocked the Senate.

With 14 percent of the vote in, Rivera had 68 percent of the vote.

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