Honesty, community dedication and postive campaigning won tonight over sleazy, lying, negative campaigning in Brooklyn's 1st Civil Court Race. Progresses won over conservatives.

I wish this could be simply a good celebration over a race well fought on both sides. But I cannot ignore the fact that Roger Adler ran one of the nastiest and worst campaigns I have ever seen and his choice to cynically smear a truely good gentleman is unforgivable. And many will not forget what he and his backers did when they chose to use Karl Rove's strategy to win. Fortunately, their attempt to win by lying lost. May McCain's similar approach also lose.  read more »