Brooklyn, NY – NY Daily News Endorses Jefrris Says Barron A Malignant Clown

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     NY1 moderated a debate between Charles Barron and Hakeem Jeffries, who are running for the congressional seat being vacated by Ed Towns in Brooklyn.Brooklyn, NY – Three hundred thousand registered Democrats have a critical mission on Primary Day this month. They must rush to the polls to choose Hakeem Jeffries for Congress.

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    They must do so because Jeffries is a superbly qualified candidate, and they must do so to spare New York the profound embarrassment of sending to Washington a racial bomb thrower who counts Moammar Khadafy as a hero.

    They must do so across a district of widely varying neighborhoods — white and black, Catholic and Jewish, poor and gentrifying, Howard Beach, Queens, at one end and Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, at the other.

    United, they must reject Charles Barron as utterly unsuited to represent a diverse city whose residents take pride in getting along as well as going along.

    The Daily News endorses Jeffries in the strongest terms.

    Born and raised in Crown Heights, he is a product of the public schools, SUNY Binghamton, New York University Law and Georgetown, where he earned a master’s in public policy.

    He was a litigator at a top law firm, clerked for a federal judge and worked in the private sector before leaving a high-paying career to run for the Assembly. Doing so, Jeffries took on the Brooklyn Democratic organization, eventually beating the bosses in 2006 and then winning a resounding reelection in 2008.

    He has stood on principle for nonpartisan redistricting — a crucial fix to the DNA of New York’s democracy. He has worked to fix ineffective tax credits to spur construction of affordable housing for the middle class. And he fought to lift the charter school cap as part of sweeping educational reforms that won New York $700 million in new federal funding.

    An opponent of the NYPD’s tactic of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people deemed suspicious, Jeffries also secured a sound change to the valuable program.

    He passed legislation that bars the department from keeping on file information about people who were stopped and let go without charges.

    Just last week, he won Gov. Cuomo’s support on smart reforms to reduce possession of small amounts of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a non-criminal violation.

    Now, Jeffries is seeking the seat vacated by Rep. Ed Towns in a redrawn district that stretches far beyond his Assembly base. With little time to spare before a weirdly scheduled election, he is trying to get known in areas including Sea Gate, Coney Island, Mill Basin and Marine Park.

    To meet him is to encounter a committed public servant who is determined to reckon with the needs of every neighborhood he represents, a man capable of bridging the interests of Howard Beach and Bedford-Stuyvesant — one the site of an infamous 1986 racial attack, the other the vicim’s home community.

    Meanwhile, Jeffries’ opponent, Councilman Charles Barron, would never be such a bridge. A relic of a bitter bygone era, Barron is a former Black Panther who plays a one-note trumpet of racial grievance.

    He has called for training teachers in Ebonics. He has labeled housing development “a new wave of Jim Crowism.”

    At a 2002 rally in support of reparations for slavery, he said: “I want to go up to the closest white person and say, ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”

    For 11 bombastic, divisive years, Barron has represented East New York, Brownsville, East Flatbush and Canarsie. There, he has enough of a following to be a threat to Jeffries in a low-turnout election in a freshly created district. Disgracefully, Towns has lined up behind Barron because Jeffries had the temerity to run even before Towns bowed out.

    One man in this contest is a class act. The other is a malignant clown.

    Democrats of the newly drawn 8th District must turn out and rally — for their own good and the good of the city — behind Hakeem Jeffries on June 26.


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    shalomke
    shalomke
    11 years ago

    I should add that Charles Barron is a rabid antisemite, who among other things has declared that Israel is a Nazi state and that the jews in the Bible were black people.

    Tzvi_Hersh
    Tzvi_Hersh
    11 years ago

    Seems like Barron actually has a good chance to win the primary. Obviously, whoever wins the primary in this district will win the general election.
    It would be crazy if the most anti-Israel representative in Congress will be the one representing Seagate, Marine Park, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Mill Basin.
    Every registered Democrat in the district needs to vote on June 26.

    TheRealJoe123
    TheRealJoe123
    11 years ago

    Watch Barron win, if that’s what it takes for us to realize that the Dem party isn’t our friend then so be it.

    11 years ago

    “He has called for training teachers in Ebonics.”

    Try translating a simple sentence such as, “My husband has a job.”

    ActualJew
    ActualJew
    11 years ago

    are there Satmars in this district? he can count on their votes, no doubt. and most Jews will probably vote for him in the general election. nothing can make an NY Jew vote his own interest.