With Mayor Adams plainly assured of too much of an uphill battle in the democratic primary against Cuomo, his running as an independent for the November general assures us all of hearing from him for an added 5 months. Not a bad move for him considering there will be a lot less noise from fringe candidates who are likely to get blown out in the democratic primary. It’s going to be interesting to bet on where the drop down votes will go. It’s fairly common thought that both Cuomo and Adams have solid negatives, which could translate to voters not putting them anywhere on their dropdown ballot votes. This could lead to someone else sneaking in if they are #2 or #3 on the dropdown candidates for either Cuomo or Adams.
Meanwhile in the 30th
Meanwhile the race in the 30th (Middle Village) council district got even more bizarre this weekend as a piece that the NY Post did, only online, had the current councilman throwing stones at a democratic rookie candidate who runs a local sports league. This happens to be right in our wheelhouse because our flagship paper, The Queens Ledger, has intimately covered this district with a weekly newspaper for over 150 years.
Newspapers now often use website-only stories that don’t go very deep into the verification mode. It might not go in print for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it was pushed by a trusted source, but the editors might not be comfortable with it.
Councilman Holden, a term limited democrat who is well liked in his district, but kind of an outcast in democratic controlled city council, was making a point about democratic candidate, Paul Pogozelski, who is running to replace him. Issues with Robert Hornak, a former advisor to Pogozelski’s campaign, who has been a campaign consultant for years (and happens to be a columnist for this newspaper) apparently concern the councilman. The online version went through a few updates since it was originally published, but Hornak and Holden certainly won’t be sharing Thanksgiving dinner anytime soon, as Holden accused Hornak of consorting with disgraced ex-councilman, Dan Halloran and then Hornak striking back about Holden’s long term friendship with disgraced ex-councilman and ex-buildings commissioner Eric Ulrich.
Meanwhile, in that same district we had a ‘bait and switch” as a republican candidate Jonathan Rinaldi switched districts the last minute to run against Lynn Schulman in Forest Hills, supposedly to make sure the Queens GOP didn’t line up against him in an attempt to torpedo his candidacy in Schulman’s district.
Can’t we all just get along?
