Iwen Chu won't be cakewalking to any Asian State Senate seat in Brooklyn --- but she'll try to call the tune by knocking her two Dem opponenets off the ballot

Republican Vito LaBella is getting a golden opportunity  >>>  because Iwen Chu thinks that she and only she can represent the interests of the voters in the 17th State Senate District  ---  claiming on her website that the district is over 50% Asian-American

Well, that is just a flat-out lie, based upon census tract and BOE data 

However, before we get into that  >>>  it needs to be noted that the only way that Iwen Chu was able to get into anything close to an "Asian district" was by a process of exclusion  ---  and the principal group excluded from the new 17th State Senate District were Latinos  [In fact, it required surgical precision in cutting the new Senate Districts to avoid creating a largely Latino District built around a unified Sunset Park core]  ---  And all of that was engineered by Peter Abbate in drafting the prior "new" lines for the benefit of his hand-picked candidate Iwen Chu that were thrown out by the NY State Courts 

Here's the rub  ---  in a Democrat primary in the new 17th State Senate District  ---  fewer than a quarter of the potential voters are identified as Asian, the rest are mostly what Chu might call Latinx, It-lows and other non-Asians

Two Democrats have filed petitions to oppose Iwen Chu's candidacy, Yu Lin, and John Kennedy O'Hara  >>>  and immediately Chu, Abbate, and the Democrat Machine hired high priced legal talent to remove both of those independent Democrat candidates from the ballot

You see, in Iwen Chu's mind, only she can represent a district that has any Asians in it at all  ---  even if they might be a small-voting minority in that district. 

That's especially true if the district had been cut for her to run in it by the Abbate crowd, and those that he does business with, some Democrats and some in other parties  >>> and that district was rubber-stamped by the "Special Master" chosen by a Republican Judge, who tinkered with the lines and renumbered the district, but left the Latino voters there largely disenfranchised.

However, whichever way it works out inside what looks like it will be a big Democrat Party ballot fiasco, Republican-Conservative Vito LaBella's outide chances of finding a path to victory have gotten a lot better.