Disgraced former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate is making yet another bid for elective office.
The felon, who was elected a Democratic district leader in Queens last year, has filed paperwork to run for Assembly in a primary challenge against incumbent Jeffry Aubry, one of the most senior and highly regarded black lawmakers in the legislature.
One Monserrate pal said the former lawmaker is feeling more confident about winning elective office again after his strong showing in the district leader’s race last year.
“Hiram ran for district leader in that Assembly district and won,” said the source, noting that a whole slate of candidates allied with Monserrate also were elected.
Monserrate lost three previous comeback races for the Senate, Assembly and City Council.
The 35th Assembly District takes in East Elmhurst and North Corona, an area that was once predominately African American but now has a large and growing Latino population.
Aubry, first elected in a special election in 1992, serves as chairman of the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus.
The Queens Democratic Party establishment won’t take kindly to Monserrate challenging Aubry.
“This is the type of hubris that landed Monserrate in prison,” one prominent Queens Democratic Party official, who requested anonymity, told The Post.
“Assemblyman Aubry is one of the most respected and senior members of the Assembly. It’s crazy,” said a Queens Democratic party official, who added: that Monserrate has a “low regard for the acumen of voters in the district.”
“This is a race for elective office, not a party position,” the party insider said.
Monserrate was kicked out of the state Senate in 2010 after being convicted of misdemeanor assault for a brutal 2008 attack on his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo.
The disgraced pol was caught on tape dragging a battered and bleeding Giraldo through the lobby of his apartment building as she desperately tried to seek help from a neighbor.
He was acquitted of charges that he first flew into a rage and slashed her face with a broken glass after discovering a police officer’s union card in her wallet.
Monserrate’s lawyers claimed the cut came from a “freak accident” when he tripped while giving Giraldo a glass of water.
Federal prosecutors later nailed him in 2012 for misusing $100,000 in public funds as a city Councilman and he was sentenced to two years in prison.
Years later, Giraldo was sentenced to three years behind bars for attacking her new fiancé with a samurai sword.