Reforming NYC: 2005 elections, endorsements and issues
As someone who spends a great deal of time fighting Republican corruption, I feel it is important to also fight Democratic corruption when it rears it's ugly head. Reform is the word of greatest importance in this year’s election in NYC. Both citywide and, most particularly, in Brooklyn, there are choices between candidates that are either corrupt or tolerant of corruption, and genuine reform candidates. The main problem is that low voter turnout and voter apathy (particularly among leftists who should be out in force for this election) threaten reform. Without good turnout, the corrupt and corruption-tolerant candidates will win across the board.
Citywide there is the Public Advocate’s race. The incumbent, Betsy Gotbaum, has emerged in the last couple of months from the almost complete obscurity of her term as Advocate. She has been so completely absent since her election that the main thing people can say about her is, “who?
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2005 Elections | Government | New York City
Hard to say
Submitted by mole333 on 6 September 2005 - 10:10am.
I am horrified at the poor choices for DA. I don't know whether to vote for Hynes because he indicted Norman, or Peters because he is at least talking reform or write in Paul Wooten because he is the only good one.
Hynes probably is corrupt as well. And a real thug. Sampson is, in my mind, just as bad but ALSO will "review" the indictments of Norman. IND believes in rewarding Hynes for the indictments. Yassky believes in punishing Hynes for HIS corroption by supporting Sampson. Maybe it's a toss up which is worse.
I think I cannot vote for either. Does that leave Peters? He's such a poseur, and probably would be eaten alive by the machine politicians. But it would be a "protest vote."
This is really good stuff mole333
How horrible, though, the situation in the Brooklyn DA race. Wasn't Hynes just written up recently in The Daily News about taking bribe money from one of his defendants? I mean, how 'less bad' is Hynes compared to Sampson?
I am sincerely asking. For someone looking from the outside, they both sound the same.