Two days after his upset primary loss to a 28-year-old newcomer, state Sen. Martin Connor, a 30-year incumbent, started packing it in.
The long-serving Democrat, whose last day in office is Dec. 31, began tossing files and paperwork from all over his office, sources said.
He also canned his chief of staff, telling him he was “done” and it was time to pack up and leave, sources told The Post.
As Connor fired Marty Algaze, a longtime government hand who had worked for the senator the past few years, he handed him two small boxes and told him to pack up, several sources said.
Connor has held his legislative seat, which encompasses parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan, since 1978, but lost his bid for re-election in an 8-point upset to young Daniel Squadron, a former aide to Sen. Charles Schumer.
Squadron, whose father was power lawyer Howard Squadron, had campaigned as a reformer and agent of a change in Albany. He was endorsed by Schumer and Mayor Bloomberg and launched an aggressive door-to-door campaign in the district.
Connor confirmed the Algaze firing, saying, “I would have fired him months ago” but didn’t want it to become an issue in the race. Connor then sharply criticized Algaze’s job performance.
Algaze declined to comment.
Connor said he was instructing other staffers, who aren’t protected by civil-servant status, not to waste time and to plan ahead regarding a new job.
The sources said Connor also started a massive dump of paperwork from his staffers’ offices last week.
“Everything was in the garbage, every file,” one source said.
Connor said he was merely throwing out his own files, saying, “When I [was elected], I came into an empty office . . . This is 25 years of stuff.
“I said to my wife, ‘I don’t want to be here alone the week of Christmas cleaning things out.’ ”
Connor was one of two state Senate Democrat incumbents to lose in last week’s primary at a time when both parties are battling hard for control. Right now, the GOP has a one-vote majority.
For years, the 62-year-old Connor served as minority leader in the Republican-controlled Senate before he was defeated by then-Harlem state Sen. David Paterson in 2002.
It’s unclear what the future holds for Connor, who is a state election-law expert and has a separate legal practice.
Connor has represented dozens of politicians throughout the years in disputed elections, vote recounts and campaign-finance issues.
Several sources said Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith was considering a way to put him on the Senate payroll after he leaves office.
A Smith spokesman didn’t respond to requests for comment.