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DATE | 2013-06-05 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [ruben@mrbrklyn.com: Gerrymandering]
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Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:52:12 -0400 From: Ruben Safir To: anthonyweiner-at-anthonyweiner.com, Ruben Safir Subject: Gerrymandering User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5
Tony
It was a pleasure to see you tonight in Gil Hodges HS. I sort of miss running into you and trying to twist your arm on IP issues.
eh - that being said, the show tonight with the mayoral hopefuls was dreadful. If you don't mind me saying, and I've never been anything but honest with you, even since the mid-1980's, the whole group more or less sound the same and they suck. You put on the best interview, but really, 5 of the Democratic candidates want to be like Laurguadia? They couldn't name even 5 things Laguardia did, aside from letting Robert Moses run amok.
You need to separate yourself from this field of stooges, and having noisy press conferences isn't enough.
Look, the entire Democratic party is rotten to the core, far worse than anything you did.
Thompson is great but like a bureaucrat with a history of failure. De Blasio is a Mass import who Rudy nearly ended is political career early when DeBlassio leveled false charges around Rudy. You can beat him, because he is not only not a New Yorker, but he is a vindictive SOB who lies more than every once in the field and throws around false accusations. Once he does it again, wrap it around his neck over again.
Christine Quinn is a Manhattan centric extreme, and I mean really extreme, liberal nut. If she gets elected Brooklyn will be completely fucked. Brooklyn Jews, will be destroyed particularly. And she flip flops without any careful policy analysis. Just paint her as an extreme liberal and isolate her to the gay electorate, a junior well behaved Bella Abzug. She is dangerous because she is extremely funded by deep Manhattan wealth. But she is a bad apple, especially for Brooklyn, so you have to isolate her as being a Mayoral candidate of the few against the many.
John Lui is perhaps the hardest candidate to beat. But he offers nothing. He says nothing. He is very organized. He is weak on issues, though and can be picked apart. And he has been the subject of criminal political investigations. Lui is very weak on the MTA and the Borogoughs. Bloomberg rolled him over on the Congestion Pricing Plan. Play that up and erode his outer borough credentials.
As a group, they suck and sound like each other.
What can you do?
You have to remember that after you left office that they ended the Orthodox Jewish district, despite that recent reports on population growth show that clearly Boro Park is fastest growing community in the City. After you left, they elected a Republican, and rejected the entire Democratic party. The party responded by dividing up the Jewish districts. Today there is no Jewish congressman. And NO NADER is FROM THE UPPER WEST SIDE. He wouldn't know a Bobov from a Brisk.
AND, your credentials with the Jewish community isn't so great either. Call it ethnic politics at its best if you want, but your marriage to Huma isn't helping any more than the pictures scandal. But they are all aware that the community has been targets for political oblivion and this has all happened on the DeBasseo, Lui. Quine. In fact they help make those lines and lobbied the assembly for them... every one of them in club houses across the city.
http://www.brooklyn-living.com/redisricting_weiner.html
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/see-the-superjewish-district-where-romney-beat-obama-3-to-1/
http://politicker.com/2012/03/orthodox-jewish-group-pushes-court-for-new-congrressional-district/
See - they are trying to bury the Giuliani majority. And the borough's voters are on a short fuse about it. You can build your credentials, change the races completion, and move a large segment of outer borough voters from apathy to ballet box voters for you.
No Congestion Pricing
Anti-MTA (7 train to NJ) abuse of the outer boroughs
Gerrymandering power grab from the Outer Borough Middle Class, especial Jews on all levels of government.
Ending the use of violations as a fund raiser.
Balanced bugets etc ... stop the over burden
That should do it....
Ruben Safir
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