There’s no shortage of politicians eager to climb the career ladder.
But a onetime tenant says ex-City Councilman Allan Jennings took things too far when he held a ladder while his assistant put up a banner across the tenant’s second-story window to cover a campaign poster for rival Shirley Huntley.
Jennings, who was running for state Senate against Huntley at the time, is now trying to regain his old council seat in southeast Queens.
“You ask me why he did it? He’s a maniac,” charged Gerald Harrington, who once lived in a house owned by Jennings’ wife, Ji-Hye.
Harrington said Jennings began harassing him in February 2008 following a dispute over utility payments. Cops were called dozens of times, he said.
To show he wouldn’t be intimidated, Harrington said he placed campaign posters for Huntley on the damaged window.
That’s when Jennings allegedly put up a banner across the entire second floor, covering the Huntley posters and Harrington’s air-conditioner.
Harrington captured it all on video, which shows Jennings directing his assistant to post the banner.
“I put the ‘For Sale’ sign on my wife’s house. So?” Jennings told The Post last week.
He claimed that Harrington was doing the bidding of Ruben Wills, a rival candidate in the Nov. 2 special election, because he is Wills’ cousin. What’s more, Jennings said he was the victim of Harrington’s harassment.
“He’s a liar,” shot back Harrington, who added that although he worked in Wills’ campaign in 2009 they are not related. “He’s making it up.”