“And it seems such a waste of time
If that's what it's all about
Mama if that's movin up then I'm movin out
Mm I' movin out, mm oo oo uh huh mm hm” Weiner flees amid Dem panic over vote today www.nypost.com
A Turner flyer distributed on the 9/11 anniversary weekend showed a gold dome and minaret rising above the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center.
It's a good thing the election is over, because the next Turner ad was going to be about how Muslims ritually killed Christian children to use their blood for making pita bread. In NY-9, voters are the losers: Weprin and Turner, two lame candidates, have run lousy campaigns www.nydailynews.com
Jews for Jesus for Turner? You Get Two Great Special Elections in One. The only Jew for Jesus for Turner I know is Gary Tilzer.Anyway, I don't believe it. The Weprin campaign is not that clever. Accusations of dirty tricks fly on New York special-election day dailycaller.com
Given whose put out the most sordid sewage in this race, and who would most likely benefit, suspicion for this trash must fall on Team Espinal, but given the level of pure hatred for the Towns family displayed, one cannot rule out Gonzalez supporter Upchuck Barron. Ugly In 54th AD, Take II www.capitaltonight.com
A reminder of why to vote for Clifton Stanley Diaz. Another Helping Of Drama In Council District 28 www.nydailynews.com
ADD ONS:
The smartest man in America says:
"Blaming the candidate is often a poor excuse, as it appears to be here for Democrats….I don’t think Assemblyman David I. Weprin, the Democratic candidate in the New York race, comes all that close to that bright-line test.
The grievances against him are fairly petty: for instance, that he misstated the size of the national debt — a gaffe, to be sure, but one of a minor magnitude that most candidates would expect to make at least once or twice over the… course of a campaign…Mr. Weprin is not a world-beating candidate, but he’s been elected to other offices several times before and he holds positions on the issues that square well with his district…The polls did show that Mr. Weprin had favorability ratings inferior to those of Mr. Turner — but sometimes that’s a symptom of a losing campaign rather than one of its causes.” A Guide to Cutting Through Special-Election Spin fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
Bad History lesson of the day:
In 1920, the ancestral district of today’s NY-9 was called NY 10, and Contrary to Sam Roberts, elected Republican Lester Volk (not Andrew Petersen), and for nearly 50 years thereafter elected Democrat Emanuel Cellar. A Republican in the Ninth? It's Been a While cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com