In Brooklyn’s 37th district, candidates and their supporters watched as a hotly contested race disintegrated into a no-contest electoral curiosity last June in an event that shed early light on how COVID-19 immediately impacted the rusty ligaments of local political infrastructure. 

“We feel really confident that our campaign was going to win,” Sandy Nurse told Bushwick Daily. The still-candidate for the still-vacant 37th district seat in New York City Council sounded tired. Her campaign had been forced off the ballot months ago, after one of Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 related emergency orders canned the special election she was running in and a sudden, fierce petition challenge led by rival Darma Diaz had forced her out of last June’s primary.

Undeterred, she is running again.