http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/84765 Dispatches from America's first suburb Sun, 17 Nov 2024 04:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/84765/comment-page-1#comment-566385 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:07:00 +0000 http://brooklynheightsblog.com/?p=84765#comment-566385 The selection process is so opaque. I’ve read the linked articles and several others, and I still don’t understand exactly who are the “electors” and why the Manhattan group’s deadlock means the Brooklyn group’s choice comes out on top. Also ironic that the Manhattan Democrats were perfectly happy to disenfranchise their Brooklyn neighbors through the district’s population split based on geography (65/35 Manhattan to Brooklyn) but are suddenly crying foul when they couldn’t agree among themselves on a candidate.

]]> http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/84765/comment-page-1#comment-566379 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:48:00 +0000 http://brooklynheightsblog.com/?p=84765#comment-566379 Disgraceful but the county leaders have no shame. Kavanagh will now occupy this office for as long as he chooses, running for election in 12 months not just as the incumbent but perceptibly as a long-time incumbent, with his time in the assembly merged into his partial term as senator. I have been a supporter of Daniel Squadron, generally and on this blog. How he left office perhaps wipes out everything positive that he ever did.

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