Don't Cry for Cats, Staten Island

According to the New York Post, Democratic City Council Member Dominic Recchia, challenging Conservative Republican Michael Grimm in next year's congressional race, has an unlikely backer: Republican supermarket mogul John Catsimitidis, who lost the mayoral primary to former MTA chair Joe Lhota.

Not only is Cats a Recchia fan, his daughter Andrea, married to state GOP chair Ed Cox's son, is