Yassky for Comptroller?
About that talk going around that City Councilman David Yassky of Brooklyn will enter the already-crowded City Comptroller’s race in 2009...
"I’m not trying to be coy about it," Yassky just told me. "I want to stay in government. I love this work. I think I’ll want to keep doing it after my term is over. And I think I’ll be in another election," but 2009 is "too far away and I have not decided. We’re not there."
Though there are at least five candidates, it's not that outlandish for Yassky to calculate that there may be room for one more. The list of announced and likely candidates for comptroller include Simcha Felder and James Brennan of Brooklyn, and John Liu, Melinda Katz and David Weprin of Queens, if I'm not missing anyone. The pool of voters in Manhattan, in the absence of another entrant (Scott Stringer, maybe?), are anything but locked down.
Yassky is popular with the New York Times and with Michael Bloomberg, who has already held two fund-raisers for Felder, but has shared national TV time with Yassky. So, if he can line up backing uptown and in his part of Brooklyn... who knows?
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Mr. Yassky is much better suited for Public Advocate.
David has proven to be a very effective advocate on behalf of the Orthodox Jewish comminity in Williamsburg and throughout the City.Simcha does not have that vote locked in.Without his base Simcha is a longshot even with a million in the bank.
The Times doesn't disclose that the reporter who wrote the most glowing account of Yassky's supposed "good government"-ism went to Dalton with him!
Melinda Katz for Comptroller - Yassky and Weprin are Dicks, and Felder is a clown. Melinda is the way to go !!!!
There's no way that the orthodox community votes Yassky over Felder. What's more, David is competing for the "yuppie" vote and Simcha is competing for the "ethnic" vote. If anything, David's candidacy takes votes away from Melinda which helps Simcha.
Dont forget Eva Moskiowitz
KEITH DAWSON FOR NYC COMPTROLLER!
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I think I’ll want to keep doing it after my term is over.