Upper East Dem club abandons Scott Stringer, backs Kathryn Garcia for mayor

The largest Democratic political club on Manhattan’s Upper East Side voted Thursday night to pull its endorsement of embattled Scott Stringer for mayor and selected Kathryn Garcia to replace him as its choice to run City Hall.

The vote by the Four Freedoms Democratic Club is the latest blow to Stringer, the current city comptroller whose mayoral campaign stalled after a former volunteer from a prior 2001 campaign for public advocate accused him of sexual misconduct. Accuser Jean Kim alleged that Stringer repeatedly groped her and said, “Why won’t you f–k me?” when she worked as an “unpaid intern” for his 2001 campaign. He was an assemblyman representing the Upper West Side at the time.