There’s a special election tomorrow in south Brooklyn — Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Gravesend, Mill Basin — to choose a successor to ex-state Sen. Carl Kruger, the latest to march in Albany’s long line of convicted felons.
The choice is between Republican David Storobin, an attorney and political neophyte, and Democrat Lew Fidler, a typical city councilman with an extraordinarily bizarre sense of personal entitlement.
It’s a clear-cut choice: The Post wholeheartedly endorses Storobin, who would bring a breath of fresh air to Albany.
Born in what was then the USSR, he came to New York with his mother at the age of 12, around the time of the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
Now 32, Storobin started his own law firm and became involved in politics, rising to vice chairman of the Brooklyn GOP.
True, his political resumé — despite years of activism — is relatively sparse.
But no record at all would be leaps and bounds better than the dismal rap-sheet compiled by Fidler, a product of the Brooklyn Democratic machine.
Fidler has long ranked at or near the top of the annual recipients list of council pork — which has been one of the great local scandals of recent years.
He also moonlights as chief counsel — at $60,000 to $80,000 per year, on top of his $127,500 council salary — of LawCash, which finances tort lawsuits.
Indeed, it’ s a major funder of police-brutality lawsuits against the city — yet Fidler claims that there is no conflict of interest in his role as a council member.
That’s nonsense. Besides, the last thing Albany needs is yet another shill for the trial lawyers.
As for that sense of entitlement, suffice it to say that The Post has twice caught Fidler making personal use of official-business-only parking spots.
Not to mention that he took $84,000 in public funding for his 2009 race against an opponent who’d raised less than $700.
By Fidler’s own account, a GOP win — on the heels of Bob Turner’s surprise victory in last year’s special House race — means that Republicans will be “coming for . . . every single one of us [Democrats] here in southern Brooklyn.”
Actually, two-party political competition sounds like a pretty good idea to us.
Which makes a vote for David Storobin that much more important.