Sunday, the senior Senator from New York, Charles Schumer, briefly stopped in Bay Ridge to endorse Democratic candidate for the 13th congressional district – Mike McMahon.
McMahon, a Staten Island councilman who picked up a large block of endorsements from Democratic clubs in Staten Island and Brooklyn, was on hand to receive Schumer’s backing just steps away from Bay Ridge’s most prominent landmark – the Owls Head sewer treatment plant.

After Senator Schumer relayed a touching personal narrative about how he once rode his bike through Bay Ridge and had to call 311 because it was so dirty, he lavished the Staten Island councilman with such high praise as he “gets it…”

“he is… just who he is.. and, so I have nothign bad to say about other candidates… This guy’s got it.”

After calling the term-limited Staten Island councilman “extraordinary,” Schumer and McMahon made a similar stop in Staten Island.

McMahon is running in a primary battle against local Bay Ridge attorney and long time civic leader, Steve Harrison, who ran a fierce campaign against Fossella in 2006 – coming within less than 10points of the Republican incumbant.

Since the Fossella scandal broke in early may local Democrats have scrambled to secure a candidate they see as a ‘lock’ for the 13th district seat – the only remaining congressional seat left in New York City .