Election 2009: No Big Surprises in Brooklyn
You’ve probably seen them by now, but just in case (and just in case you feel like discussing), we’ve post the results of all the Brooklyn City Council races yesterday on the jump. In some of the races most relevant to Brownstoner-land, Tish James, Brad Lander, Al Vann, Charles Barron, Sara Gonzalez, Vincent Gentile and…
You’ve probably seen them by now, but just in case (and just in case you feel like discussing), we’ve post the results of all the Brooklyn City Council races yesterday on the jump. In some of the races most relevant to Brownstoner-land, Tish James, Brad Lander, Al Vann, Charles Barron, Sara Gonzalez, Vincent Gentile and Mathieu Eugene all emerged victorious.
2009 NYC General Election Returns [NY1]
Photo by Susan NYC
District 33: Steven Levin (91%)
District 34: Diane Reyna (60%)
District 35: Letitia James (92%)
District 36: Al Vann (64%)
District 37: Erik Dilan (86%)
District 38: Sara Gonzalez (82%)
District 39: Brad Lander (70%)
District 40: Mathieu Eugene (94%)
District 41: Darlene Mealy (96%)
District 42: Charles Barron (93%)
District 43: Vincent Gentile (60%)
District 44: Simcha Felder (uncontested)
District 45: Jumaane Williams (77%)
District 46: Lewis Fidler (79%)
District 47: Domenic Recchia (88%)
District 48: Michael Nelson (90%)
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Montrose Morris … I agree with you term limits do serve a good purpose. I can’t ARGUE with that. But I just could not vote for Thompson…BUT I still voting! And I happen to also agree with MORETEASIR….anyone that didn’t vote because they felt their guy wouldn’t win is a loser!
Montrose Morris … I agree with you term limits do serve a good purpose. I can’t agree with that. But I just could not vote for Thompson…BUT I still voting! And I happen to also agree with MORETEASIR….anyone that didn’t vote because they felt their guy wouldn’t win is a loser!
Bloomberg has done far more for the schools than Guiliani ever did. All Guiliani ever did was publicly humiliate Rudy Crew, et. al. to make it look like he was doing something. Guiliani is a bad man. Dinkins was just another machine guy, not wanting to upset the parts in the education machine.
tybur6 is right, though, its going to take some time, but its definitely headed in the right direction.
> the two new public school buildings… the new firehouse…
Are you saying he caved to civil servants like the firemen and educators, who feed at the public trough?
And lets not forget who held a high position with the board of education when it was worse and failing during Giuliani’s term as Mayor. It’s amazing to me how Thompson points the finger at Bloomy when he did absolutely nothing when he was involved with the board of education. He is a joke. A clown that never answered questions. All he did was bring up what Bloomy did or did not do….BUT NEVER got around to telling voters what he would do as mayor. Which leads me to believe he would absolutely nothing!
Yeah Ditmas – cause the the THOUSANDS of minority children who are graduating today (and didnt in pre-Bloomberg years) are “rich”
The thousands of minorities that are ALIVE today (not victims of homicides that took place pre-Bloomberg) are rich.
Cause the tens of thousands of smokers who are ALIVE today (who wouldnt be pre-Bloomberg) are all rich….
Try taking off your silly class-warfare glasses and looking at who the real victims of bad management are
“Which is obviously so much worse than Bloomie, who only allows the rich to slurp from his trough.”
Really?? You mean the two new public school buildings that were built on 4th Ave in Sunset Park were for the rich? Also, the new firehouse on 4th Ave in Sunset Park was also for the rich?
I surely knew that the complete renovation of the BQE and 100’s of parks in all sorts of neighborhoods was for the rich, but who knew that public schools on 4th Ave were for the rich?!?!?!
There’s a difference between testing and teaching to the test. If the test scores reflect a student’s broader educational progress, that’s fine, and I accept that generally there’s a very strong correlation between test performance and overall knowledge acquisition. If they reflect only the rote acquisition of the skills necessary to complete a specific test format, that’s a problem.
Tests should and can be a useful diagnostic tool, but not when they become the sole focus of the curriculum. I know many motivated and skilled teachers who can’t wait till the tests are done in the spring, since then they have a few weeks when they can get the kids to engage in a little actual scholarship.
Bloomberg would do well to look at other “mayors for life” like Ed Koch, who flamed out and went spiraling down in his last term. He, too, was very popular in his first 2 terms. 8 really should be enough, and there was a good reason to set term limits. Too many people are ego driven enough to think that the city won’t survive without them, or that they have some kind of mandate to do whatever they want. That can lead to rampant misuse of power, and policies that do not have the people in mind. We might remember GWB’s last term efforts to create a positive legacy, aspects of which put us where we are now, domestically and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bloomberg should not think that he had a mandate, last night. For all his money and advertising, he squeaked by. If the Dems had a more charismatic and less tainted by the machine candidate, he would have lost.