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Voters in certain City Council districts showed incumbents that they weren't happy with them, by voting out an unusually high number of Council members in yesterday's primary election. Why? A combination of voting for term limits plus other scandals. For instance, Alan Gerson (D-Manhattan), Kendall Stewart (D-Brooklyn), and Helen Sears (D- Queens) all supported the term limits extension—and all lost to challengers.
The Post points out that Stewart "was also badly hurt by his staff's role in the slush-fund scandal: two of his aides were indicted for allegedly embezzling nearly $200,000 in taxpayer money last year." (That could do it!) Stewart lost to community organizer Jumaane Williams; Gerson lost to immigration activist Margaret Chin (the Daily News notes she'll be the first Chinese Council member to represent Chinatown) while Sears lost to Daniel Dromm, a gay schoolteacher.
Debi Rose defeated Council member Kenneth Mitchell in the Democratic primary in Staten Island's North Shore. If she wins, she'll be Staten Island's first black Council member—but Mitchell will be on the ballot in November, on the conservative party line. And in the Bronx, challenger Fernando Cabrera has a slight lead—around 90-100 votes—over incumbent Maria Baez, who notably missed about half the Council meetings.
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Yes, but I see fat Christine Quinn is still in the running.
Really? Fat jokes?
You could go afer her for so many real issues, but you settled on a fat joke?
What is wrong with you?
Bummer! I voted for Yetta Kurland. Also voluptuous, also a lesbian and she's a human rights attorney to boot! You'd love 'er, Snoopy.
I read "gay school teacher" as if Dromm was a teacher at a school in which students learn how to be gay.
WATCH IT, gothamist.
I believe there is a gay school in NY. Or at least at one time there was. I think it was around the Cooper Square area.
I can't wait to vote bloomberg out.
Me neither!! And all the asskissers that paved the road for his 3rd term.
to help get Bloomberg out!
http://www.thompson2009.com/page/s/volunteer
https://donate.thompson2009.com/page/contribute/website
time to finish the job come november,
vote the incumbents out.
Yep.
We need a big turnout!
informed voters are a politician's worst nightmare.
and, come November Let's choose Progress over Politics,
Yes! Vote the Incumbents out!
MAYORAL MUSING
You may favor Thompson for his altruism,
His sensitivity to ambiance,
Still you gotta admit that Bloomberg's blessed
With a bulging wealth of experience
Gerson did not help himself by allowing the renovation of Petrosino Park (one of the few green spaces in his district) to fall so far behind schedule as to come to a complete standstill.