By Alex Robinson
Flushing activist and businessman S.J. Jung has launched a bid to unseat State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Flushing).
The former executive director of the MinKwon Center for Community Action announced his candidacy for District 16 Tuesday morning.
“I enter this race as a reformer who refuses to accept politics as usual,” he said. “I am determined to weed out public corruption and restore the public’s faith in our state government, but we must first clean up our house if we are going to make significant progress on the everyday issues facing working and middle-class New Yorkers.”
Jung unsuccessfully ran for City Councilman Peter Koo’s (D-Flushing) seat in 2009.
Stavisky was first elected to the chamber in 1999 and beat Republican J.D. Kim by a wide margin in 2012
The district includes parts of Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Rego Park and Forest Hills. More than 40 percent of its eligible voters are Asian, according to state district maps.
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