Suit: Pick one office, Maloney

ALBANY – Republicans this week filed a lawsuit looking to block Hudson Valley Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney from running for both reelection to Congress and for state attorney general, the Daily News has learned.

The suit, filed Monday by several voters who previously objected to the nominating petitions Maloney (photo) recently filed with the state Board of Elections, seeks to bounce the Democrat from both the November congressional ballot and September Democratic attorney general primary ballot.

Also mentioned in the legal paperwork, filed in Albany state Supreme Court, is Maloney's congressional challenger James O'Donnell.

The state Board of Elections is due to take up the validity of Maloney's nominating petitions for attorney general at a meeting scheduled for Aug. 8.

Maloney has argued state law prohibits someone from being their party's nominee for two offices and if he wins the four-way Democratic primary for attorney general, he will decline the congressional nomination.