Last night was the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID) endorsement meeting for two city council races: the 33rd and 39th City Council districts. Previously CBID endorsed Norman Siegel for Public Advocate and John Liu for Comptroller.

I did not attend the meeting but got a rundown from my wife who is an officer of CBID. Overall her impression of the candidates was a good one, which matches my own impressions. Steve Levin not only didn't show up (the second major district event he missed) but didn't even bother turning in a questionaire on time. THAT is called dissing the district. I guess he expects his boss, Vito Lopez, to carry him through the race. All the questionaires for the races covered by CBID (including both of these City Council races, Comptroller, Public Advocate and Mayor, with more to come) can be found at the CBID website...including Steve Levin's late homework...I mean questionaire. I will make reference to these questionaires but please go to the website for details because I will not be quoting from them.  read more »