W3MIV
02-17-2008, 11:02 PM
Gee, I thot Dick Daley (senior) was long dead (but not forgotten), but now it seems he might be alive and well and living in The BIG APPLE!
Check out this NYT story and see if it doesn't ring a few chimes for those of you who might be mature enough to recall those halcyon days of Chicago politics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?_r=1&ex=1360818000&en=cba4d3b30464e951&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per).
Starting to sound familiar? It gets better:
The 94th Election District in Harlem, for instance, sits within the Congressional district represented by Charles B. Rangel (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/charles_b_rangel/index.html?inline=nyt-per), an original supporter of Mrs. Clinton.
Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a Clinton supporter who represents the same area, said he was confident that there was an innocent explanation for the original count giving Mr. Obama zero votes.
“I’m sure it’s a clerical error of some sort,” Mr. Wright said. “Being around elections for the last 25 years, no candidate receives zero votes.”
Could there be something fishy in Denmark" Uh... Make that New Amsterdam. Speaking of Amsterdam,
At the sprawling Riverside Park Community apartments at Broadway and 135th Street, Alician D. Barksdale said she had voted for Mr. Obama and her daughter had, too, by absentee ballot.
“Everyone around here voted for him,” she said.
Probably nothing to it, right? I mean, these folks are DEMOCRATS. Would we do sumpin like 'at?
The 53rd Assembly District, in Brooklyn, is represented by the borough’s Democratic chairman, Assemblyman Vito P. Lopez, another Clinton supporter. He said the party faithful have produced lopsided margins of as much as 160 to 4 and that on Primary Day he fielded election captains in every district to galvanize Hispanic voters for Mrs. Clinton.
“We ran it the old-fashioned way,” he said.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
:cool:
Check out this NYT story and see if it doesn't ring a few chimes for those of you who might be mature enough to recall those halcyon days of Chicago politics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?_r=1&ex=1360818000&en=cba4d3b30464e951&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per).
Starting to sound familiar? It gets better:
The 94th Election District in Harlem, for instance, sits within the Congressional district represented by Charles B. Rangel (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/charles_b_rangel/index.html?inline=nyt-per), an original supporter of Mrs. Clinton.
Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a Clinton supporter who represents the same area, said he was confident that there was an innocent explanation for the original count giving Mr. Obama zero votes.
“I’m sure it’s a clerical error of some sort,” Mr. Wright said. “Being around elections for the last 25 years, no candidate receives zero votes.”
Could there be something fishy in Denmark" Uh... Make that New Amsterdam. Speaking of Amsterdam,
At the sprawling Riverside Park Community apartments at Broadway and 135th Street, Alician D. Barksdale said she had voted for Mr. Obama and her daughter had, too, by absentee ballot.
“Everyone around here voted for him,” she said.
Probably nothing to it, right? I mean, these folks are DEMOCRATS. Would we do sumpin like 'at?
The 53rd Assembly District, in Brooklyn, is represented by the borough’s Democratic chairman, Assemblyman Vito P. Lopez, another Clinton supporter. He said the party faithful have produced lopsided margins of as much as 160 to 4 and that on Primary Day he fielded election captains in every district to galvanize Hispanic voters for Mrs. Clinton.
“We ran it the old-fashioned way,” he said.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
:cool: