Source: Tom Tracy / Brooklyn Paper

You’ve heard of “Million Dollar Baby”? Well, meet Democratic District Leader candidate Hope “The Moose” Reichbach — Brooklyn’s $20,000 baby.

The scrappy Reichbach was poised to raise that number on Wednesday night by merging political science and the sweet science during a fund-raiser/exhibition boxing match at the famed Gleason’s Gym in DUMBO.

“I’ve trained at Gleason’s Gym for over nine years now,” said Reichbach, whose vying to unseat Jo Anne Simon as female district leader in Brownstone Brooklyn and DUMBO’s 52nd Assembly district this September. “In one of my college entrance essays, I wrote about how I both boxed and was the captain of the debate team and how the two are intrinsicly linked.”

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