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Blue elephant GOP state Senate candidate may be to the left of Dem incumbent BY SYDNEY PEREIRA He wants to impose a moratorium on luxury development in the city, radically toughen the state’s affordablehousing tax-break program, fund mass transit with a carbon tax, and even put an additional tax on apartments on high floors in luxury buildings — and to get it done, he’s taking on a long-time Democratic pol. But this is no insurgent democratic socialist who beat a stodgy Dem incumbent with a primary challenge from the left, like state Senate candidate Julia Salazar or House candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He’s Anthony Arias, the Republican candidate running against Democratic state Sen. Brian Kavanagh in District 26, which covers Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Arias, a self-described “liberal Republican,� is the 28-year-old founder of Sada Capital, a financial advi-
Anthony Arias
Anthony Arias, the long-shot challenger running against state Sen. Brian Kavanagh (D–Downtown), is a Republican, but some of his policy positions can make him sound more like a Democratic Socialist than a member of the Grand Old Party.
sory firm. He is also president of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, and earlier this year he
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