Harlem Assemblyman and Manhattan Democratic Party leader Keith Wright is considering retiring from politics — to take a plum job as the $174,000-a-year borough county clerk, The Post has learned.
Previously, Assembly Members Audrey Pheffer and Luis Diaz left elected office to become County Clerks of Queens and The Bronx, respectively.
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Michael Benjamin
But “County Cleark” sounds, smells, looks political. I think that is not really retiring as much as shifting a little into the “pseudo” world. The price certainly is right and I don’t think you get it unless politics came into play.
State Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling was chosen as the new Manhattan County Clerk. Assemblyman Wright really didn’t want the spot.