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?