Dateline Lewes Delaware: Let me not bury the lede:

Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is no longer supporting anti-LGTB, anti-choice Mark Gjonaj for a Bronx Assembly seat against a pro-choice, pro-SSM opponent.

Most of the focus concerning these photos of the “Great Panderschlep” has been on David Storobin him and his machine gun (I think he's pretending he's got the Sheepshead Bay Mosque in his sights, or maybe some Bosnians) and Sto

Last year Brooklyn "progressives" and allies of Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez had a field day complaining about the Vito Lopez/Dilan Family support for (then) Assembly candidate Rafael Espinal even though Espinal opposed abortion and same sex marriage (SSM), albeit in a limp wristed (perhaps not the best choice of words) manner.

Democracy Takes a Holiday. For half of New York Senate races, incumbents have no challengers www.democratandchronicle.com

Although I haven’t written much lately, my focus as a political-journalist remains the same: to educate voters in the hope that they would eventually make the right choices; especially in Brooklyn’s elections. The politics of Kings County is as stale and stinking, as a week-old patty sitting in the rusty showcase of some fledgling Caribbean-American bakery on Flatbush Avenue.

Worth a look even back in April when Chait wrote it, this article is now required reading.  The Legendary Paul Ryan nymag.com  

Here is something I wanted to do something about 15-plus years ago, but go nowhere because I was a public employee, and thus could make no useful contribution to the city. Use regulations that make no sense but remain on the books, to be enforced rarely and in a discriminatory way.

The New York Times reports that some yoga studios are being fined, and are at risk of being shut down, for being "physical culture establishments," which technically they are. Basically, just about any place with exercise is required to get a special permit that requires months to get — after you have already rented a place and started paying rent, but before you are allowed to do anything to prepare the property to open for business. It is something no business other than a huge national chain can afford, so most places — from karate schools to your local health club — just open without it, or get it later. But every now and again they go after someone.

Saturday morning crystallized what this campaign is really about. I will now outline my theory of this year’s Presidential race.

Other have hinted around the edges of what I’m about to say, but no one’s made the connections.