US senators: Hiram Monserrate should quit
Photo credit: David Pokress | Karla Giraldo waits to testify against her boyfriend, State Sen. Hiram Monserrate, in Queens Supreme Court. (Sept. 30, 2009)
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Sen. Hiram Monserrate assault trial
New York's two U.S. senators called Monday for fellow Democrat Hiram Monserrate, the state senator convicted last week of misdemeanor assault against his girlfriend, to resign his seat.
Sen. Charles Schumer, of Brooklyn, said Monserrate "should do the right thing" for New York and his constituents and step down. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Hudson Valley congresswoman appointed to fill the...
