Democratic Primary Results
The Democratic primary, held yesterday, was, in many ways, about Democratic Party leader Vito Lopez—whether his hand-picked candidates would get pushed through to run for City Council on the party ticket. Steve Levin, from team Lopez, won in the 33rd District with 33.7 percent of the vote (Jo Anne Simon was his closest competitor, with…
The Democratic primary, held yesterday, was, in many ways, about Democratic Party leader Vito Lopez—whether his hand-picked candidates would get pushed through to run for City Council on the party ticket. Steve Levin, from team Lopez, won in the 33rd District with 33.7 percent of the vote (Jo Anne Simon was his closest competitor, with 20.2 percent); Maritza Davila, endorsed by Lopez, lost in the 34th District to Diana Reyna, a former Lopez staffer who fell out with the party boss. Incumbent Letitia James won in the 35th District with 81.2 percent of the vote, and Brad Lander took the 39th District with 41.1 percent due to, he told The Brooklyn Paper, his stances on “affordable housing, livable communities, jobs, and good schools.” In the race for comptroller, Councilman John Liu of Queens came out 8 points ahead of Brooklyn Councilman David Yassky, but with 38 percent of the vote, did not have the 40 percent required to win outright. Thus there will be a runoff election held September 29. For more primary results, check out the Eagle’s coverage of the State Senate race.
33rd District: Levin Wins Handily [Brooklyn Paper]
35th District: James Steamrolls Yards-loving Foe [Brooklyn Paper]
39th District: Lander Crushes Four Rivals [Brooklyn Paper]
Liu and Yassky Headed for Runoff [NY Times]
State Senate Primary Results [Brooklyn Eagle]
dibs- I don’t know. I emailed his campaign this morning and I have someone I can ask. If enough people tell him too I think he will.
*SOB!!* They didn’t call me!!! 😛
Are robot calls the new way to go? I got a ton of them, and I have an unlisted number. I was thrilled (NOT), Al Sharpton and Charles Barron called me twice each! Unfortunately, I am not in the district for either of the candidates they were endorsing. Great – robocalls are bad enough, inaccurate ones are even worse.
I see bxgrl is up and beat me to it. Well, I’m still hoping Mark runs anyway. Four more years of nothing just isn’t right.
Will he run as an Independent, bxgrl??
Hopefully, Mark Griffiths will run under another party’s endorsement. If you add up all of the votes divided between the other 7 people who ran, a single candidate would have won, as they got more votes than Vann(ished). There is obviously great displeasure with Vann(ished). Unfortunately, he’s been there so long, and is remembered by older Bed Stuyers, who make up a majority of primary voters, as the firebrand of his/their youth, they go on autopilot when they enter the voting booth.
Dammit, he would have been termed out, but he was one of the many city council people who voted to keep themselves in.
The 3 most important results of the primary should be:
(1) less junk mail in my mail box
(2) fewer infuriating phone calls from robots while I’m eating dinner
(3) no more people courting a quick and painful death by buzzing my apartment to bother me about politics 2 minutes after I FINALLY got my son down for a nap on a Saturday afternoon.
I have no idea who was running and what their point was, but I know I hate them all.
So as I’m infering that citywide races need 40% to avoid runoff..but in district races just need to be on top?
Will be glad to go again in 2 weeks and vote against special term limits extender Yassky. He failed the people.
Yes- but Mark Griffiths was very close and if you tallied up the votes of all the other candidates – an overwhelming majority did NOT vote for Al Vann . If only there weren’t so many of them in the primary Mark would have won. I’m hoping he runs on the independent Party line. this was the tally last night:
Name Party Votes Vote %
Vann, Albert(i) Dem 2,685 30%
Griffith, Mark Dem 2,051 23%
Jones, Saquan Dem 886 10%
Wright,Tremaine Dem 806 9%
Grinage, David Dem 799 9%
Straker, Adrian Dem 669 7%
Cornegy, Robert Dem 630 7%
Carrington, Wm Dem 455 5%
6296 voted against him (4245 without Mark’s count).