Jenkins defeats challenger in WC primary
Update, 10:52 p.m.: News 12 projects that incumbent Ken Jenkins will defeat challenger Nicole Benjamin-Horsford in the 16th District's Democratic primary with 61 percent of precincts reporting. The race
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Sep 11, 2015, 6:58 AM
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Update, 10:52 p.m.:
News 12 projects that incumbent Ken Jenkins will defeat challenger Nicole Benjamin-Horsford in the 16th District's Democratic primary with 61 percent of precincts reporting. The race in the 17th District between Virginia Perez and Piedad Abreu remains too close to call.
News 12 projects that incumbent Ken Jenkins will defeat challenger Nicole Benjamin-Horsford in the 16th District's Democratic primary with 61 percent of precincts reporting. The race in the 17th District between Virginia Perez and Piedad Abreu remains too close to call.
Original story as follows:
An ongoing political feud between two incumbent Democratic Westchester County legislators is expected to come to a head in Thursday's primary vote.
Ken Jenkins, the party favorite, and Virginia Perez, a renegade candidate, are not even facing one another on the ballot.
All 17 seats on the Westchester County Board of Legislators are up for grabs in the November general election.
Jenkins faces Nicole Benjamin-Horsford, a challenger for his seat in the 16th District. She is also a close ally of Perez.
Perez's seat in the 17th District is also being challenged by fellow Democrat and tax preparer Piedad Abreu, who is allied with Jenkins.
Perez has been a party outsider since siding with a group of Republicans to pass a budget that she says was in her constituents' best interest.
Yonkers, which is heavily Democratic, typically elects whoever wins the primary in the general election.
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