I attended most of the recent hearings on petition challenges at the New York City Board of Elections.
Some cases will now be heard in court. So the list I will be posting of the remaining Primary contests may change.
This year, it seemed to me, that there were many less challenges involving “technicalities”. Most candidates who were removed from the ballot simply did not file enough signatures from registered voters. A few candidates from the major Parties (Ruben Diaz, Jr., Leticia James + others) lost minor Party cross-endorsements over incorrect filing of paper work.
A number of candidates actually remained on the ballot even though the Board reported that they did not have enough signatures because of “technical” violations in the objections submitted by their opponent.
I’m not going to comment here on the issues surround the petitions of Councilman Bill de Blasio & Alan Gerson and former Councilman Guillermo Linares, as I assume everybody reading this knows about them.
Citywide
As I predicted none of the serious Democratic candidates for 2 of the 3 citywide positions challenged the petitions of the fringe candidates.
However, Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign did successfully challenge his potential Republican opponent – former Green Party activist Walter Iwachiw. The Board ruled that Iwachiw had 559 valid signatures when 7,500 are required. Mr. Iwachiw did not dispute this but asked the Board to waive their requirements, which they did not do.
Even though nobody challenged their petitions, nuisance Mayoral candidates Jose Adames & Jimmy McMillan were removed by the Board because of their violation of some obscure, and I think not significant, Board rules. While I’m convince that Adames & McMillan do not deserve to be on the ballot since it’s clear that they not submit enough signatures, I don’t think they should have been removed in the way they were. The other perennial fringe candidate, Roland Rogers, withstood a question regarding his residency and is on the ballot for Mayor.
Jose Adames challenged Mayor Bloomberg’s Republican petitions based on a blatant misreading of the laws by Adames and Bloomberg remains on the ballot. This means that Adames will continue to illegally deface public property with his rantings and the Department of Sanitation will apparently continue to allow him to do so.
http://www.r8ny.com/blog/jerry_skurnik/tolerating_law_breaking.html
Mr. Collins confronted Mr. Adames at a board meeting in February. “I stood up,” he recalled, “and I said to him, ‘I have a question: Will you stop littering the community with your fliers?’ People in the audience applauded. He said, ‘No.’ ”
Kathy Dawkins, a spokeswoman for the Department of Sanitation, said Mr. Adames had never been fined because his posters do not provide his address or telephone number, which the department requires to issue a summons.
Imitaz Syed stayed on the ballot for Public Advocate but to my surprise, John Liu’s campaign challenged the petition of Salim Ejaz for Comptroller.
Here is a list of the remaining Primary candidates. As I said above, this can change.
Manhattan
Democrats
District Attorney
Leslie Crocker Snyder, Richard Aborn & Cyrus Vance, Jr. . . .
City Council
1st CCD
Margaret Chin, Peter Gleason, P.J. Kim & Arthur Gregory.
2nd CCD
Rosie Mendez & Juan Pagan
3rd CCD
Christine Quinn, Maria Passanante-Derr & Yetta Kurland.
7th CCD
Robert Jackson, Victor Armando Bernace, Manuel Lantigua and Fred Masson.
8th CCD
Melissa Mark-Viverito, Robert Rodriguez, Thomas Santiago & Calvin Solomon.
9th CCD
Inez Dickens, Carlton Berkley & Landon Dais.
10th CCD
Ydanis Rodriguez, Francesca Castellanos, Manny Velazquez, Luis Facuno, Richard Realmuto, Cleofis Sarete, Francisco Spies & Ruben Dario Vargas.
District Leader
64th AD, Part B
Female – Alice Cancel & Norma Ramirez
Male – John Quinn & David Diaz.
64th AD, Part C
Paul Newell & Avram Solomon Turkel
66th AD, Part B
Jean Grillo & Noel Jefferson
68th AD, Part A
Male – Adam Clayton Powell IV & Johnny Rivera.
Female – Diane Green & Evette Zayas
68th AD, Part B
Female – Candy Vives-Vasquez & Peggy Morales.
Male – Harry Rodriguez & Manuel Onativia
68th AD, Part C
John Ruiz & John Estrella
69th AD, Part A
Cynthia Doty & Carmen Quinones.
72nd AD, Part B
Rafael Escano & Manny De Los Santos
74th AD, Part A
Female – Rosie Mendez & Mildred Martinez
Male – Anthony Feliciano & Roberto Caballero.
In a strange situation, in the 67th AD, Part B, where I live and vote both incumbent District Leader Earl Scott and his challenger, Derek Meilman were removed from the ballot. The Democratic County Committee for the district will select a Leader after the Primary.
Republicans
City Council
4th CCD
Ashok Chandra & Neal D’Alessio
Bronx
Democrats
City Council
11th CCD
Oliver Koppell & Tony Cassino.
12th CCD
Larry Seabrook & Andrew King, Jerome Rice, & Sebastian Ulanga.
14th CCD
Maria Baez, Fernando Cabrera & Yudelka Tapia
16th CCD
Helen Foster, Mark Escoffery-Bey & Carlos Sierra.
17th CCD
Maria Del Carmen Arroyo & Israel Martinez
Brooklyn
Democrats
33rd CCD
Isaac Abraham, Ken Baer, Doug Biviano, Ken Diamondstone, Steve Levin, Joanne Simon & Evan Thies.
34th CCD
Diana Reyna, Maritza Davila & Gerald Esposito
35th CCD
Letitia James, Delia Hunley-Adossa & Medhanie Estiphanos.
36th CCD
Al Vann, Mark Winston Griffith, William Carrington, Robert Cornegy, David Grinage, Saquan Jones, & Tremaine Wright.
38th CCD
Sara Gonzalez & Robinson Iglesias
39th CCD
John Heyer, Brad Lander, Gary Reilly, Josh Skaller & Bob Zuckerman.
40th CCD
Mathieu Eugene, Rock Hackshaw & Rickie Tulloch.
41st CCD
Darlene Mealy, Tracy Boyland, Tulani Kinard & Anthony Herbert
42nd CCD
Charles Barron, Winchester Key, Donnezzetta Brown, Carlos Bristol, Prince Lewis & Regina Powell.
45th CCD.
Kendall Stewart, Ernest Emmanuel, Sam Taitt, Dexter McKenzie, & Jumaane Williams.
Republicans
City Council
39th CCD
Joe Nardiello & George Smith
Queens
Borough President
Helen Marshall, Marc Leavitt & Robert Schwartz.
Council
19th CCD
Steven Behar, Jerry Iannece, Paul Vallone, Debra Markell, Thomas Cooke & Kevin Kim.
20th CCD
John Choe, James Wu, S.J. Jung, Yen Chou, Constantine Kavadas & Isaac Sasson.
21st CCD
Julissa Ferreras & Eduardo Giraldo.
23rd CCD
Mark Weprin, Bob Friedrich & Swaranjit Singh.
25th CCD
Helen Sears, Daniel Dromm & Stanley Kalathara.
26th CCD
Deidre Feerick, Jamie Van Bramer, Brent O’Leary & David Rosasco .
27th CCD
Leroy Comrie & Clyde Vanel.
28th CCD
Tom White, Allan Jennings, Lynn Nunes, Ruben Wills & Stephen Jones
29th CCD
Karen Koslowitz, Michael Cohen, Lynn Schulman, Heidi Harrison Chain, Albert Cohen & Mel Gagarin.
31st CCD
James Sanders, Jacques Leandre, Frederick Lewis, Michael Duncan and Lou Grays.
Assembly
38th AD
Albert Baldeo, Farouk Samaroo, Michael Miller & Nick Comaianni.
Republicans
State Committee
25th AD
Howard Duffy & Stephen Graves
28th AD
Jay Golub & Bart Haggerty.
30th AD
Female – Rosemarie Iacovone & Joanne Mugno
Male – Frank Messano &. Anthony Nunziato
Staten Island
Democrats
City Council
49th CCD
Ken Mitchell, Debora Rose & Rajiv Gowda.