HOWARD GRAUBARD
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1) There's a been an effort to portray the insurgency against Jay Jacobs as a progressive s moderate fight, but I haven't met one moderate who was out in the trenches in a marginal district who isn't furious at the state Party.
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2) The same holds in Brooklyn; it's not merely the left which is mad at the Party "Organization"
That's not to say that progressives and moderates don't also blame each other. But they all agree that the State Party and the Brooklyn Party were almost useless
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1) And now, my annual report on NYC general election writes in votes
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We need a "Red to Blue" campaign in Brooklyn; first constituency to target is the Brooklyn Democratic Party
JB has never been afraid to stand up to his own party and this is the price he pays. These false accusations have been used against JB in every GOP campaign over the past 6 years. JB wasn't named in this lawsuit and had nothing to do with it. Why is Rodneyse amplifying GOP lies?
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Good news for Rodneyse; her husband can now move in with her
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As of November 2022, the new state contribution limits for Assembly are $3000 for the primary and $3000 for the general, so I'll be charitable and assume someone made a typo
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@BklynPolitics_
@DataProgress
Favorable/Unfavorable net from Data for Progress Poll
Holtzman +25
Rivera +24
Goldman +23
Jones +22
Simon +19
Niou +12
de Blasio -46
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NYC COIB: "management employees in mayoral agencies serving in unclassified, exempt, or non-competitive titles or serving provisionally in competitive titles are not permitted to serve as...members of any political party committee, including political party
district leader."
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10) CD 10: Yuh-Line Niou 627
Carline Rivera 37
Mondaire Jones 37
(as elsewhere, most of the other primary losers got votes in the single digits, but i'm gonna give a special comedy prize to the guy who wrote in Levi Strauss.)
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1) Just last week, Ari Kagan sent out a press release blaming his getting an inspection on Justin Brannan
It's getting to the point where the headline "Ari Kagan Once Again Proven to Be a Lying Sack of Shit" has become the world's most boring headline.
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Supreme Court Fishiness Watch:
Alito goes on a fishing expedition while Kagan won't even accept a lousy piece of lox
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It seems unclear whether Yuh-Line Niou wants to abolish Israel, but it seems very clear that those who do want to abolish Israel are all supporting Yuh-Line Niou, and that she seems positively elated by their company.
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To all clients. The news is that there is no news. To the extent that does not answer your questions, it is because there are no answers. I will answer any other questions if and when there are answers to those questions. When will that be? It will be when there are answers
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Last week at the Brooklyn Young Dems endorsement meet, Council Candidate Susan Zhang refused to state a preference between Justin Brannan and Ari Kagan; not fer nuthin', but she got ZERO votes.
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Misleading Headline Translated: Brannan has $168,217 cash on hand whereas Kagan has $27,515 cash on hand. Brannan appears to be in a much stronger position with less than 70 days to go before the election
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@JCColtin
@VickieforNYC
To be fair, Paladino is not intentionally lying; she just has a depraved indifference towards the truth
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Ari Kagan's psychopaths he has shitposting on Twitter are about as scummy a bunch as i've encountered in over 40 years of Brooklyn politics, and I knew "Miltie the Weasel" Winters well enough to have once decked him and been made Sergeant at Arms at a political club as a reward
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8) The Kim Davis write-in campaign seems to have been an organized effort by some prankster from Hasidic Williamsburg
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1) The most important general election in the City this year pits Democrat Justin Brannan against GOPer Ari Kagan against each other for City Council
Ari's Party switch created a vacancy in the Democratic District Leadership in AD 45, part of which overlaps the Brannan race
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@brianpmangan
I disagree; the debate is about winning vs losing; spinning the debate as an ideological one will not be helpful.
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My text to Frank Carone:
“Brannan margin. Powerful!”
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This has the makings of a Hitchcock film
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Why is it that our County Leader can never be found when a reporter calls to ask whether she is supporting the duly-nominated candidate of the Democratic Party in the 58th AD special election?
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Let us never forget that Lee Zeldin and Nicole Malfeasance aided and abetted a conspiracy to violently overthrow the duly elected government of the United States of America.
The only public service they are worthy of is one that is an alternative to incarceration
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1) Last week, Alexander Rapaport, the saint who runs Boro Park's Masbia soup kitchen, reported that "In front of many voters on my block YuhLine [Niou] told me clearly that anyone who singles out Israel for boycott is an anti-semite and that she is against BDS, "
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Rumor du jour is that Ari Kagan is planning an anti-migrant rally on Tuesday night at Cannonball Park. Ari seems desperate to make people believe migrant camps are coming to Fort Hamilton Army Base and Shore Road Park such assertions are totally without an evidentiary foundation.
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Congrats to my client, Monique Chandler Waterman, for winning the Democratic nomination in AD 58 for the May 24th Special Election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ambassador N. Nick Perry.
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A few months ago, a member of the Brooklyn Congressional delegation asked me to describe what the last County Committee organizing meetings were like, and I really couldn't convey the atmosphere.
After this week, she no longer needs to ask
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@brianpmangan
I don't know anyone, including hardcore rightwingers, who thinks the city was safer in 1986.
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Yes, we need to change the judicial nominating system, but calling for improving judicial selection by empowering the Judicial Delegates is sort of like proposing to improve presidential elections by empowering the individual members of the Electoral College.
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1) I really want to believe that our County Leaders is going to do the right thing, and help Justin Brannan, and that her saying things that hurt him is not part of a strategy to help Ari Kagan, but she's making it real hard.
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Those Regular Dems who bravely do the right thing, in the face of a County Leader doing otherwise, deserve our respect and our commendation
Statement regarding the re-election of Councilmember
@JustinBrannan
from District Leaders
@HenryButlerDL56
&
@sarana_purcell
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1) A lot of righteous voices, even on the left, have gotten the Lester Chang thing exactly backwards.
Read the report
The evidence is overwhelming; the constitution's language is clear.
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WRONG!
Actually, the overwhelming majority of us Democrats do QUESTION THE WAR IN UKRAINE; our difference with you here is that we know that THE WAR's existence, WHICH WE OPPOSE, is ENTIRELY THE FAULT OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT
The fact that you can’t question the war in Ukraine as a Democrat is a clear sign we are susceptible to authoritarianism in this country.
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1) Robert Zimmerman's folks really need to publicly establish the timeline of what they and the DCCC knew, and when, and show what efforts they made by what means to bring it to the press and public's attention
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but is there any way we can get our County Leader to start behaving like a good old-fashioned Party hack?
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@yuhline
Strangely enough, he was the "progressive" candidate last time against Diane Feinstein.
I guess it all depends upon your definition of "progress"
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1) Not fer nuthin, but no one but me and Marty Connon seems to know that, before it was renamed for Mario Cuomo, the Tappan Zee had been renamed in honor of Former Governor Malcolm Wilson.
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3) Governor:
Andrew Cuomo 286
Larry Sharpe 253
Howie Hawkins 197
Jumaane Williams 104
Michael Bloomberg 99
Thomas Suozzi 34
Kim Davis 26
Andrew Yang 16
Willie Cotton 15
George Pataki 12
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2) Refusing to seat Chang would not be "playing politics."
The potential consequences of not seating Chang could be very bad for Democrats.
But's he's constitutionally ineligible to serve.
"Playing politics" would be to ignore the evidence and instead seat Chang.
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Overheard in the petition room at the Board of Elections:
HG: I don't whether to call this petition a turkey or a pile of poop.
HR: What's the difference between a turkey and a pile of poop?
HG: If you don't know, please don't invite me to your house for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Is Air Kagan anti-choice, or is he multiple choice?
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If you're holding a demonstration at a Sabbath dinner, you don't have an Israel problem, you have a Jew problem
Pro-Palestine activists are rallying outside the Shomer Shabbos Somos event - hosted by the UJA, Met Council and Chabad of Puerto Rico.
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@JCColtin
Is anyone going to acknowledge that the actual nominee of the Working Families Party is Mondaire Jones?
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Sometimes a hero will arise from the unlikeliest of places
Lenny Markh is my hero; born in the Former Soviet Union and elected from a houseboat.
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1) Contrary to expectations, the Bklyn Dems Committee's first forum, despite an overemphasis on criminal law, turned out to be eye-opening in presenting a clear picture of each candidate and what made them tick. I pretty much made my choices right then and there.
But sadly...
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9) NYC Congressional Write-In Votes
CD 3: Melanie D'Arrigo 5
CD 5: Grace Meng 3
Shaniyat Chowdhury 3
Vermin Supreme 3
CD 6: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 12
CD 7: Kim Davis 11
CD 8: Queen Johnson 10
CD 9: Yuri Dashevsky 10
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Since the term "Jew-ish" is apparently so confusing; I propose we replace it with "Jew-adjacent"
That said, I'm not sure George Santos really qualifies
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@TweetBenMax
Sorry, but this two page DSA non-apology apology gives the game away on the second page when it calls for "the end of the 75 year Nabka"
Translation: They are calling for the end of Israel.
As Rabbi Hillel once noted, everything else is commentary.
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Roger Stone succinctly sums up the philosophy of todays Republican Party: “Fuck the voting; let’s get right to the violence”
All the rest is commentary
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I was probably the first to publicly raise the problem with Andy Marte being the BDems Ex Dir ( ), but this misleads. Andy didn't quit because of controversy. He left because he botched petitioning & couldn't deal/w the pressure.
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@sboucher
@RadioFreeTom
1) Although i agree that, given he just attempted to overthrow the duly elected government, Twitter had a First Amendment right (and maybe even an obligation) to deny Trump space on its cite, I think you are making the same mistakes as some of Twitter's critics.
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Public Service Announcement:
Chris Banks, whose victory is being cited as a defeat for the left, is a left-wing Berniecrat.
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Voting for Lee Zeldin or Nicole Malfeasance, who each voted to overthrow the results of a free election, because you agree with them on some issue, is like voting for Il Duce, because you like his plans for mass transit
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@beckytalksfast
you'd have three, if you counted former 48th Council District member Anthony Weiner
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4) US Senate
Thomas Quiter 87
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 58
Kim Davis 21
Bernie Sanders 17
Andrew Yang 15
Hillary Clinton 15
Michael Bloomberg 15
Sara Lobman 15
Adam Gaza 14
Andrew Cuomo 14
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"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Republican."
Will Rogers 2023
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The Party of Law and Order
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7) Those curious about how Kim Davis, a homophobic former County Clerk from Kentucky, got write-in votes for virtually every office on the ballot persuaded me to look a little deeper, and the mystery is solved.
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1) In honor of his well overdue departure, Gatemouth presents his salute to Dov Hikind
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@BklynPolitics_
@Pinnyringel
From what I know about Boro Park, I think this works better as an ad for David Schwartz
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@johnrennhack
To paraphrase Bill Buckley, I Would Rather the Party be Governed By a name selected randomly from the Telephone Directory (if we still had them) than by the Jay Jacobs.
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2) If Zimmerman's folks do not make the paper trail on their efforts public, and that paper trail does not show real efforts to try to get attention to this story, then Zimmerman is going to be collateral damage on this scandal.
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I told a consultant this morning that I get so bored during the off-season that I was thinking of applying to work at a record store.
He thought I was joking, but it's actually my dream gig.
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I personally don't approve of protesting government officials at their homes or in restaurants. Especially judges.
However, the right to engage in such protests is constitutionally protected, while, according to the Supremes, the right to privacy is not.
So, go suck it up.
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11) CD 11: John Matland 27
CD 12 Carolyn Maloney 133
Suraj Patel 36
CD 13: Michael Hano 35
Robert Jackson 28
Johanna Garcia 25
Odell PAtterson 24
Keith Wright 22
Donald Trump 12
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1) Responding to popular demand, I am compiling the NYC write in votes for more races.
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@ShahanaFromBK
"But at every opportunity, we are met with condescension from the people who claim to represent us"--so true, I believe there are many Brownstone Jews who have the same problem with a Councilwoman who claims to represent us
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@JCColtin
i could probably find more than 44 in Riverdale; hell, i could probably find more than 44 on City Island or some block of Pelham Parkway
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Back when I worked in the Mayor's Office, in a somewhat lower position than Pinny's, they forced me to resign resign from the Democratic County Committee.
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10) I should add that, having just listened to Niou explaining her BDS stance (around minute 37), I am still not sure whether she favors boycotting Israel, and I'm not sure she knows whether she is either
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My new piece in the Red Hook Star Revue, endorsing Linda Wilson for Civil Court Judge in the primary on 6/27.
Link will be posted later in the month.
Page 2 if you're looking for it in the paper.
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Whodda thunk that we'd be having a national constitutional crisis because Mike Gianaris got Cuomo to pick his candidate for the last Court of Appeals vacancy?
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5) NYC Write In votes for Attorney General
Andrew Cuomo 100
Sean Hayes 86
Zephyr Teachout 16
Kim Davis 15
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“I don’t know why he is fighting these battles,” says Howard Graubard, a longtime Brooklyn election lawyer. “I think most mayors would say, ‘This is beneath me.’ You are asking me to explain the logic behind something that isn’t logical, and I can’t.”
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Foul hypocrite Susan Zhuang called her opponent an anti-Semite for getting the endorsement of the PSC, even though she interviewed for that endorsement herself!
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Rodneyse finally indicates her support for Brannan while implying he's racist and anti-immigrant, and calling him "progressive"
It's like when Leo Bloom got up to speak to the Judge on behalf of Max Bialystock, except Leo was being sincere
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Although I oppose censuring members of Congress for holding political views I find offensive, and think it sets an awful precedent, I have to say that I find Yuh Line's lecturing Jews about what Jews think to be deeply laughable.
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I'm predicting BDB outpolls as many as six candidates who are still in the race
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The Brooklyn GOP continues its unblemished record of quality choices
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@RossBarkan
There was a significant # of folks who've been disgusted with Kevin for years, who would have been glad to vote for a yellow dog against him, but would not necessarily vote for a DSAer. A lot of NYTimes reading Jews in Ditmas PArk voted for Kaegen who were not voting for Alexis
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@GersonBorrero
It's always possible that Torres circulated the rumor; it will impressively fatten up his bankroll
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4) SD 13 Ricardo Pacheco 51
(Humor award goes to the 4 voters who wrote in Ali Najmi against his girlfriend)
SD 14 Joe Pinion 15
SD 15 Felicia Singh 3
Japneet Singh 3
SD 16 Leroy Comrie 4
SD 17 Simcha Felder 3
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@DougSchneiderBK
@yuhline
I don't know which is sadder; the idea that she supports isolation & delegitimization of Israel, or the equally likely possibility that she doesn't really understand exactly what she is embracing.
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1) Just spitballing an idea here. Tell me what you think
For years, the Pride Center of Staten Island and the Gay Officers Action League have tried to participate in the Staten Island St Patrick's Day Parade, but the parade organizers have repeatedly denied their requests.
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Harassing felafel vendors is the one universal area of agreement for self-important jerks, no matter what their position on the conflict
This hateful targeting of Jewish businesses is classic antisemitic thuggery. The owner is a known supporter of peace between the Israelis & Palestinians. Find your voice and separate yourself from the ugliness. Stand up and condemn this vileness that’s spreading like a cancer.
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Rodneyse has been replaced as Brooklyn Democratic Leader by Dr. Pangloss
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@MondaireJones
Here's what Trump said about Maloney and Nalder; are you saying we should take those posts seriously as well? Are you recommending a vote for Suraj, or are you just unable to recognize a joke?
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1) The dead giveaway here is her use of the
#75
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The occupation began 56 years ago, in 1967.
There has only been an occupation for 75 years, if you define the "occupation" as all of Israel.
Also please note the complete lack of mention, let alone any condemnation, of Hamas
The root cause of this war is the illegal, immoral, and unjust occupation of the Palestinian people. The Occupation has brought violence toward Israelis and Palestinians for over 75 years. There will be no peace unless the rights of all people in this region are respected.
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One of the strange commonalities of NYC politics is everyone has the same answer for the question "What was your worst primary day ever?"
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