Senate calls Hiram ‘out’
Hiram? Fire him!
State senators demanded a quick vote on whether to boot convicted Queens lawmaker Hiram Monserrate yesterday, after a special committee weighing his fate delivered a blistering report calling for his ouster.
The damning, 55-page document, presented to Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson, found that Monserrate “showed a reckless disregard” for the injuries suffered by his girlfriend during a December 2008 tussle in his apartment.
The committee, led by Sen. Eric Schneiderman (D-Manhattan), called for a vote on his ouster “as soon as reasonably possible.”
The panel also recommended a vote to censure the freshman senator.
Monserrate promised a legal fight.
“The people of this district, and only them, they are my bosses,” he said.
He was spared expulsion in October, when a state court judge found insufficient evidence to prove Monserrate slashed his girlfriend’s face with a broken glass, and acquitted him of three felonies.
Monserrate was instead convicted of a misdemeanor for dragging a bleeding Karla Giraldo through an apartment doorway.
