Ask the Council Candidates
Journalists Sam Tait, Tony Best and I are going to moderate a televised forum for candidates in the special election to fill the City Council seat in Brooklyn that was recently vacated by Representative Yvette Clarke.
It'll air tonight between 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Time Warner channel 56, and on CableVision channel 69 in Brooklyn.
The candidates in the race are Mathieu Eugene, Jesse Hamilton, Wellington Sharpe, Jennifer James, Moe Razvi, Harry Schiffman, Zenobia McNally, Joel Toney, Karlene Gordon, and Leithland Tulloch.
What should we ask them?
-- Azi Paybarah
Given the Council's lockstep voting patterns, why there's a whit's worth of practical difference between them for people outside of the district. Assuming no straight answer to that, the only question is
Ask them how they feel about "Black Bklyn" LOL!
I would be very impressed if any of the black candidates gives you a straight answer.
Ask them: "How'd we find a space big enough to fit all of them in one room?"
Ask them if they ever gave money to a republicain candidate ever?
Ask them how they feel about a woman's right to choose?
Ask them if they think there should be a run-off if no one gets 50% (40%/33%/25%).
Ask them what they think if Yvette Clarke's record. Ask them how many units of the Atlantic Yards proposal will be dedicated for people earning less than $21,000. Ask them how many units of "affordable housing" will be dedicated to people earning more than $90,000. Ask them if they live in the district, or if they are president of a block association outside of the district.
3:44: Dumbest question ever. Even if they said yes, and won, and meant it, they couldn't make it happen.
But that's true about most things you could ask them.