Anna Kaplan plans to run against Santos

By LAURA LANE and WILL SHEELINE llane@liherald.com, wsheeline@liherald.com

It’s official. Republican U.S. Rep. George Santos has another challenger. Former Democratic State Sen. Anna Kaplan filed a statement of candidacy on Monday morning with the Federal Election Commission to challenge Santos in 2024 to represent the 3rd Congressional District, which includes the North Shore and parts of Queens.

ran for 13 years before fleeing the country’s religious persecution after the Islamic Revolution. She spent several years in Brooklyn, Chicago and Queens until her family settled in Great Neck.

The question no one is asking is what happens after Santos? His disgrace presents a rare opportunity.

fibrosis, NF, which has been historically underfunded, can be inherited or result from a spontaneous gene mutation. There is currently no cure.

Despite the likelihood of a bleak future, Penny lived a full life in Glen Cove with her friends; her parents, Kate and Chad, and her brothers, Frankie and Henry.

“Ever since Penny was a little girl, with her big, bright eyes, kind smile and bouncing curls, we knew she was very special,” Kate said at her daughter’s memorial. “After Penny’s first surgery, she would commando-crawl in her bright pink body cast across the room with a big smile and the determination of a little warrior that we would watch for so many

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Kaplan joins two other Democrats, Nassau County Legislator Josh Lafazan and St. John’s University law professor Will Murphy.

WILL MURPHY candidate

Kellen Curry, a Republican, announced his candidacy April 4. A veteran who was a military officer in Afghanistan, Curry is a former vice president of JP Morgan.

Kaplan, 57, was born in Tabri, Iran, in 1965 to Jewish parents, and was raised in Teh-

Kaplan studied to be an attorney, attending Stern College at Yeshiva University in New York, and received a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. After working as a lawyer for several years, she married her husband, Darren, in 1995, and the couple moved to North Hempstead, where they raised two daughters.

Kaplan spent four years as a library trustee before being selected for the North Hempstead Board of Zoning Appeals in 2009, a position she held for two years. Her first major political race occurred in 2011, when she ran for a seat on the North Hempstead Town Council, which she won. She was re-elect-

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