Author: Gatemouth

AZI PAYBARAH: Scott Stringer’s long-shot Republican opponent is trying, at least.

David Casavis, a locally well-known Republican personality on the East Side and a foreign service buff, emailed friends and reporters the layout of a flier he plans to hand out shortly, which includes a New York Post editorial about the departure of Lee Landor, who worked for Stringer. Below it, Casavis writes:

Why let politicians cut our jobs? Cut the politicians instead!

ROCK HACKSHAW: Look, I have always felt that the hard-core readers of the Daily Gotham blog are latte-drinking Park-slopers, who balance their lap-tops on their knees, as they sip on sidewalk cafes. My hard-core readers (not the same as readers of other contributors here on R8) are probably people who drink rum without chaser, in places where the tables are chained to the floor/lol.

ROCK AGAIN: Gatemouth is one-fifth black, four-fifths Jewish and usually full of Scotch.

“I tried so hard to be true, like I promised I'd do…
Hey Jimmy, Jimmy, oh Jimmy Mack” — MARTHA REEVES (now a Detroit City Councilwoman, she understood politics even then ) AND THE VANDELLAS

It seems like only two days ago I reported on the unusual alliance between psychotic anti-Semitic lunatic Jimmy McMillan of the “Rent is Too Damn High Party” and Eugene Myrick, the “Chocolate Brides” publishing magnate attempting to challenge Marty Markowitz for Brooklyn Borough President.

It became clear today that I had to do a follow-up, so I blew off Shabbat services at my Reform congregation even though the Rabbi was schedule to give an important update on our Youth Group’s plan to blow up the Statue of Liberty (Yes, Jimmy you were right!).

THE BROOKLYN PAPER: Borough President Markowitz’s campaign now says that it must kick the Beep’s sole Democratic primary challenger off the ballot to ensure the “integrity” of the balloting process.

On Monday, three Markowitz allies filed objections against nominating signatures collected by political newcomer Eugene Myrick, who handed in roughly 6,000 signatures more than the 4,000 required to secure a spot on the Sept. 15 primary ballot… …Myrick…said last week that “it’s ridiculous that someone would challenge a virtually unknown newcomer.”

“Why not let the democratic process play itself out with campaigning, debates and allowing the people to vote?” he asked. “What are they afraid of?”…

Gatemouth and Domestic Partner had met Major Publishing Couple four years ago when Dybbuk first started pre-school. While Gate and DP maintained a fierce competition to see which of them could more effectively squander their considerable talents, the two halves of MPC each ran a major national magazine that had still managed to prosper in the age of the internet.

MPC Jr. suffered from what the pre-school Director had mis-diagnosed as shyness; her prescription was friendship with Dybbuk, who served as the school’s Mayor and Social Director. In making the match, she sternly warned DP not to be put off by the MPC’s celebrity status, which was most analogous to cautioning a nymphomaniacal size queen not to be intimidated by the prospect of pulling a train with Roddy McDowell, Milton Berle and Forrest Tucker.

DP and Mrs. MPC became regular breakfast buddies, and DP successfully convinced her to abandon her burgeoning editorial career in favor of becoming a part-time yoga instructor, with an occasional bit of freelancing on the side.

"See, these are the perks of having the Senate majority, more or less: for the first time in the eight years I've lived here, we got not one, but two mailings from our state senator, Malave Dilan. The cheap mailing is dated June 26th, when the chamber was divided; the expensive, nice, four-color brochure in English and Spanish arrived today, so it was probably sent after the Dems, cough, "returned to power". I'm unaware of any prior outreach by the Senator, and I haven't seen him in the community, either. Ever.

Coincidentally, I think Dilan is probably the incumbent Senator most likely to face a primary. His district has changed so much since he entered politics that he's ripe for a challenge; if, say, the Polish community comes up with a nice, young and attractive bilingual Progressive, someone who can forge an alliance between the Poles and the hipsters in Williamsburg, he's toast.” —MICHAEL BOULDIN ON "THE DAILY GOTHAM” 7/12/09

If I were still allowed to post comments on "The Daily Gotham," I would be posting this there, on Mr. Bouldin’s thread, and not be wasting space in this department. As I am banned from that venue, my only alternative is to respond here, which may cause some to read Mr. Bouldin’s uneducated rant who would have otherwiise avoided it; as such, you all have my sincerest apologies in advance.