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Ladies and Gentlemen and school children of all ages, meet Martine Guerrier: Gate's nominee for the smartest, most exciting dark (perhaps not the best choice of words) horse candidate for state legislature this year. I will have more to say about this topic in the near future.
DAVID STOROBIN: The above point is hard for most people to understand.
In Part One, I wrote skeptically about the efforts of a group of “Reform” political clubs from portions of white Brooklyn calling themselves “The Brooklyn Reform Coalition”’ to form a coalition to clean up the County’s Democratic politics.
Well, the predictions were wrong. Rather than doing a meaningless cosmetic cleanup to fool the press, the Senate Republicans redistricting plan doesn't even bother. Even the Fidler testicle survives.
And, if my eyes don’t deceive me, if even makes some areas (like south Williamsburg) a bit uglier than they were in the original map. Even the Fidler testicle survives. Can't wait to hear Michael Benjamin singing its virtues. Document Drop: Senate Redistricting Proposal www.nydailynews.com
For awhile, it looked like GOP State Senate candidate David Storobin was leading a charmed life.
It was announced last week that a group o
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I’ve often written (here’s only one example
CHARLES BARRON: I think the first thing we got to do is stop calling the judge ‘Master…Trying to draw us back on the plantation. So I’m going to say ‘judge,’ because we have no master”
DAVID STOROBIN: The public has strong feelings about sex crimes and sex offenders, especially those involving children.