Sal Albanese can’t seem to catch a break. His decidedly long-shot mayoral candidacy suffered another setback when NY1, which will televise the first general-election debate Oct. 10, announced that only Mayor de Blasio, Republican nominee Nicole Malliotakis and independent candidate Bo Dietl would be on the stage at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side.
Given that Mr. Albanese got 15 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary Sept. 12 and will remain on the ballot on the Reform Party line after easily besting both the Mayor (who reportedly made a late bid to steal it) by a tally of 3,937 to 1,148 (all write-in votes) and Mr. Dietl, who also took a shot there and got 108 write-ins after errors kept him from being on both the Democratic and GOP primary ballots, it might have seemed he’d done enough to participate.
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