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Elmont.org in exclusive election coverage, will be giving you the ins and outs of Election day in Elmont. The drama surrounding the day has local observers talking and wondering what’s coming next this November.

In a devastating blow to the political operation of State Senator Craig Johnson, Elmont resident Patrick Nicolosi defeated the Senator’s handpicked Assembly candidate in one of the most lopsided wins in local history. The Johnson and Johnson loss was greeted by cheers throughout the area as “the community winning over lawyers and dirty tricks.” Elmont.org, carried local election results in real time on Primary night which showed that Nicolosi led in election returns all evening and never fell behind.

Patrick Nicolosi thrashed Mimi Pierre-Johnson by over 600 votes in the contest. The election, won by Nicolosi, was the largest win margin in local memory for a Democratic primary.

The primary contest, between Nicolosi and Mimi Pierre Johnson, was a highly charged fight from the onset. The two squared off against each other to run for popular Assemblyman Tom Alfano’s Assembly seat. Alfano is retiring at the end of his term serving over 14 years.

The primary contest almost didn’t happen as Senator Craig Johnson unleashed a battery of lawyers to deny local residents the right to vote in a primary. Nicolosi prevailed in the legal challenge where dirty tricks from the Johnson and Johnson legal team was the norm.  After an investigation, it was unveiled that Senator Craig Johnson’s and Mimi Pierre-Johnson's petitions had multiple incidents of forgery, fraud and impersonation on the legal documents. The findings have led to a formal investigation by District Attorney Kathleen Rice into the petitions of Senator Craig Johnson and Mimi Pierre Johnson. The investigation will be presented to a grand jury according to DA sources.

Senator Johnson then stunned local residents as he unleashed his Senate staff to work on Mimi Pierre Johnson’s campaign even after the Senator said he did not. In fact, the Senator’s $2,500 a month campaign consultant Rafe Lieber told Nicolosi the Senator was not involved even as local newspaper articles were quoting a Johnson Senate staffer as Mimi Pierre Johnson’s campaign manager.

The weekend before the election, a Shakespearean drama unfolded in the Jamaica Square neighborhood of Elmont where at a respected church, Senator Johnson and Mimi Pierre Johnson campaigned during a special community day sponsored by the Church. Leaders within the Church scolded both the Senator and his Assembly candidate for attempting to campaign with literature at the event.

Church leaders were visibly disturbed to see Senator Johnson at the event as he had moved one of their church members from her customary polling station, a spot where she had served dutifully for years.

“I was surprised to see Craig Johnson at the church program. He disrespected her by humiliating her and people didn’t like that in Jamaica Square. The Senator’s guy, Abdul Hakim, thought he could get away with it. He just uses us and throws us away. He didn’t get a very good reception here and he knew it. You can’t pretend to be our friend and then stab us in the back like he did” said a parishioner.

Elmont.org can also report exclusively that while at the church event Senator Johnson tried to make a deal with Assembly candidate Patrick Nicolosi and asked him to call him after Primary day.  In fact, the Senator was seeking to hedge his bets in the Primary and cozy up to Nicolosi knowing full well that his candidate Mimi Pierre Johnson was so damaged that local residents were running away from her campaign. The move was emphatically rejected.

On Primary day, scandal scarred Senator Johnson staffer Abdul Hakim, stationed himself at the Dunkin Donuts on Dutch Broadway to solicit votes for Ms. Pierre-Johnson. One prominent Elmont resident that Hakim approached remarked to Elmont.org, “this guy was involved in one the most racially divisive campaigns in my community and he wants me to vote for his candidate. I’ve got news for him, I didn’t vote for Ms. Johnson and I am so disgusted that I am going to vote against Senator Johnson this November too!"

In addition, dozens of Far Rockaway residents were turned away at the Dutch Broadway School as they trying to vote for Mimi.  Election poll watchers stopped the illegal activity.  “All of this is very bad news for the community. If the Senator thinks he’s going to get away with this and the people are just going to be quiet about it, he’s wrong,” said a 30 year Elmont Democratic voter.

In a moment of shear comedy, it is being reported that Mimi Pierre Johnson herself could not even vote in the primary for herself because she is not a registered Democrat! “I couldn’t believe my eyes,” said one poll worker. “This lady is handing out all these fliers to vote for her and she wasn’t even a registered Democrat! What was Senator Johnson thinking? This guy doesn’t care about our community. He only cares about himself!”

“Why does this surprise anyone, Senator Johnson only cares what his NYC friends say and could give a damn about our community,” said another Elmont voter. “I can’t believe that this guy has been behind such racially motivated fliers, and a campaign that has been this destructive to the Democratic party. Democrats really have to unite and send him a message. We are not to be taken for granted and abused like this!”