It has just been reported that former Councilwoman Helen Sears has declined the GOP offer of political reassignment surgery to elect her to the NY State Senate as a Republican.
Apparently the chances of surviving an operation of that nature at such an advanced age without debilitating side effects (like complete and total loss of integrity) are almost nil.
Godspeed to you Helen.
Will someone please give this woman a no-show job (though not as a Councilwoman again)?
With Sears in the race, Democrats were left no choice but to go after the independent petitions being filed by former Senator Hiram Monserrate, lest Monserrate divide the Latino vote and ensure Sears‘ election.
This is no longer a concern.
I am now begging they do not knock Monserrate off the ballot.
As I’ve reported before, in 2008, the combined manipulations of the ballot status political parties ensured that Monserrate won election to the NY State Senate without a primary, and without opposition in the general election.
As such, the outraged assertions by Monserrate, Errol Louis, Kevin Parker, Eric Adams and others that Monserrate’s removal was denying voters in the 13th SD their democratic choice of representative were laughable.
ROTFLMFAO funny.
In 2008, the voters of the 13th Senatorial District were denied their right to vote; it is time to give them the election they were denied.
But, it’s more than that.
In Citizen Kane, a political boss named Jim Gettys told the protagonist:
“Anybody else, I'd say what's gonna happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you're gonna need more than one lesson. And you're gonna get more than one lesson.”
For so many reasons, Hiram Monserrate needs more than one lesson.
In would be unconscionable for us to be denied the opportunity to see it happen. It is the moral equivalency of executing Saddam Hussein without first making him answer for the genocide of the Kurds.
Hiram Monserrate should not be spared the complete and total public humiliation he will suffer only when he gets the rightful ass-kicking he so thoroughly deserves.
We demand to see the political equivalent of Hiram Monserrate being cut with a piece of broken glass.
But it’s not his face we want to see cut.
Despite some previously articulated reservations (and even in those, Hiram fares worse), Gatemouth endorses Assemblyman Jose Peralta for State Senate in the 13th SD.
But only if there’s a contest.