Mayoral candidate and former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr. tried to pull strings in the Democratic Party to get his wife a judgeship before ditching the party, sources told The Post.
Carrión, 51, solicited a Civil Court nomination for his wife, attorney Linda Baldwin, 49, from key Bronx Democrats early last year, party insiders said.
But the bid failed.
“Just because he was borough president doesn’t mean we should support her,” said a party insider.
Carrión never revealed to his Democratic colleagues at the time that he was about to become a turncoat and seek the Republican line in the 2013 mayor race.
The Bronx Democratic County Committee nominated Eddie McShan, who won election to Civil Court.
Baldwin did not enter the primary after the chilly reception Carrión received from Bronx Dems, the insiders said.
In early November, Carrión announced his switch to the Independence Party, which allows him to run on the Independence and Republican lines.
Carrión served as borough president as a Democrat, leaving office in 2009 to become President Obama’s first White House urban affairs czar. Baldwin, a registered Democrat, took a post with the Department of Justice in 2009.
Carrión’s campaign called the claims “petty, pointless, political gossip that you would expect as Mr. Carrión’s groundbreaking independent candidacy for mayor continues to gain broad support.”