A conservative radio host will run for a soon-to-be vacant City Council seat representing part of Staten Island.
Republican Frank Morano, host of WABC’s “The Other Side of Midnight,” will formally announce his campaign to serve the South Shore on Sunday.
Morano, 40, will run in a yet-to-be-scheduled special election this spring to replace term-limited Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), who is stepping down from the $148,000-a-year post to take a job as a lobbyist.
Borelli and other high-ranking NYC GOPers are expected to appear at Sunday’s event to endorse Morano, who’ll look to serve the remaining months of Borelli’s term that expires at year’s end and also run in this year’s general election for a new four-year term.
The lifelong Staten Islander told The Post he’s running because he’s watched too many friends and family members leave the Big Apple over “woke policies” driving up crime and costs and owes it to his three-year-old son Carmine to “fight.”
“I think I’ll be able to use the bully pulpit of the office in a way that is more effective than anyone else who runs,” he said.
His platform will include opposing congestion pricing and NYC’s sanctuary city policy and pushing for mass-transit affordability and nonpartisan elections.
Since Morano’s show is nationally syndicated, he said he plans to continue working as a talk-show host during the campaign, even though the show will likely be blacked out in NYC because of equal-time election laws.
If elected, he can’t earn a second salary as a radio host.