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Mark Green went on the attack in last night's public advocate debate, linking his rival Bill de Blasio to the recently scandalized group, ACORN. Up until now, Green has attempted to cruise back into the advocate office based on name recognition and the harshest criticism toward de Blasio has come from Charles Barron (who was not even in the race!). But during last night's debate, Green said, "The Working Families party and ACORN put $30,000 in his pocket, so when they come and visit him at City Council who is he working for? You or his employers?"
Once again the format of the debate took center stage over its content with the Times noting, "No one watching the debate would come away with much insight on the candidates’ positions on the issues, for they were rarely asked about them." Mark Green even got snippy at one point with NY1's Dominic Carter, who again insisted on doing a lightning round. Fresh off the heels of last debate's revelation that neither man knows who Lady Gaga is (but then again, do any of us really?), last night we learned that Green doesn't have a library card, neither has ever been to a strip club and both know the approximate price of milk.
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Is Mr. Green taking his talking points from Glenn Beck now?
Mark Green was endorsed by ACORN and the WFP in 2001. I am sure he groveled for their endorsement again this year but didn't get it because Bill de Blasio represents the future, and Mark Green represents the past, only having run 2 successful campaigns - those that landed him in the public Advocates seat the first time around.
His attempts to smear Bill de Blasio by associating him with ACORN are made all the more offensive for the fact that Mark Green and ACORN have a long history together in the 90s and up through Mark's defeat at the hands of Mike Bloomberg.
A sign of Mark's poor character and political opportunism is that instead of defending ACORN and the good work that they have done over the last 30+ years, and that he did with them when he was Public Advocate, he throws them under the bus and basically endorses the rightwing smear campaign against them to score some cheap political points in a race that he is obviously poised to lose.
Mark Green, your are shameless.