ALBANY — It’s D-Day for Hiram.
State senators were expected to decide whether to boot convicted colleague Hiram Monserrate — or give him a slap on the wrist — before leaving the Capitol today to begin the Presidents Day weekend break.
With hours remaining until his self-imposed deadline to take up the issue, Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson of Brooklyn continued to insist publicly he had not decided how to proceed.
“The decision has not been made yet as to what we’re going to do,” Sampson told reporters yesterday.
“My decision will be made tomorrow. I’m going to make my decision based not on what is popular, but what is correct.”
Sampson has come under pressure — particularly from some black and Latino lawmakers from The Bronx and Brooklyn — to forgo a vote on expulsion, or to hand up a lesser punishment of censure.