paulus1031 He's actually an independent, single issue candidate. He's technically on the republican ballot, but he's not running as a republican - only on his one issue. there are some other filler issues, but basically, his district is an odd amalgam of residential, single- and two-family home neighborhoods in a NYC borough of higher-density, middle-income (for now) housing; the mayor of NYC wants to dump some big-city problems into this small city enclave.