Local Bay Ridge Election Results

By on November 7, 2012  Featured story, Politics
Nov 072012
 

1:00am, November 7 – Declared winners in Bay Ridge so far are all incumbents – Representatives Michael Grimm and Jerry Nadler, State Senator Diane Savino, and Assemblyman Felix Ortiz.

1:30am, November 7 – State Senator Marty Golden and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis have also been declared winners in their reelection bids.

1:55am, November 7 – Alec Brook-Krasny is the winner in the 46th Assembly district. All area incumbents held onto their seats.

Incumbent candidates are noted with an asterisk. Declared winners are underlined, where applicable.

Results as of November 7, 8:00pm, via WABC:

Congress – District 11 (with 100% reporting)

Republican Congressman Michael Grimm (left) defeats Democratic challenger, Mark Murphy. (Grimm photo: Brian Hedden. Murphy photo via Facebook/Mark Murphy campaign).

  • *Michael Grimm (R, C) – 94,102 (52.8%)
  • Mark Murphy (D, WF) -82,401 (46.2%)
  • Henry Bardell (G) -1,782 (1%)

Congress – District 10 (with 98.8% reporting)

  • *Jerrold Nadler (D, WF) – 145,381 (80.7%)
  • Michael Chan (R, C) – 34,848 (19.3%)

NY Senate – District 22 (with 100% reporting)

Democrat Andrew Gounardes (left) is defeated by Republican incumbent Marty Golden (right). (Photos: Andrew Gounardes/Flickr and Erica Sherman)

  • *Martin Golden (R, C, I) – 35,720 (58.1%)
  • Andrew Gounardes (D, WF) – 25,761 (41.9%)

NY Senate – District 23 (with 100% reporting)

State Senator Diane Savino (left) defeats her Republican challenger, Lisa Grey (right).

  • *Diane Savino (D, WF, I) – 43,440 (76%)
  • Lisa Grey (R, C) – 13,682 (24%)

NY Assembly – District 64 (with 100% reporting)

Democrat John Mancuso (left) has lost to incumbent Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (right).

  • *Nicole Malliotakis (R, C, I) – 19,252 (61.7%)
  • John Mancuso (D, WF) – 11,965 (38.3%)

NY Assembly – District 46(with 100% reporting)

Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny (left) leads his Republican challenger, Tom McCarthy.

  • *Alec Brook-Krasny (D, WF) – 13,224 (58.7%)
  • Thomas McCarthy (R, C) – 8,882 (39.5%)
  • Patrick Dwyer (G) – 404 (1.8%)

NY Assembly – District 51 (with 84% reporting)

  • *Félix Ortiz (D) -14,759 (86.1%)
  • Henry Lallave (R) – 2,385 (13.9%)

In Sunday Piece On Mark Murphy, NY Times Gets Real About Grimm Challenger

By on October 15, 2012  Politics
Oct 152012
 

While walking around Bay Ridge, I’ve witnessed some interesting combinations of political posters in store windows and in front of private homes.

I’ve seen signs for Marty Golden and Andrew Gounardes sharing space in a car service, Gounardes and Malliotakis posters hanging out together in the front windows of Greek-owned businesses, anti-fracking signs and peace symbols glued to front doors bearing Obama bumper stickers sitting next to homes owned by die-hard Grimm fans. However, I can’t recall seeing ANY evidence of the Mark Murphy campaign’s presence in Bay Ridge. No literature, no stickers, no buttons. Zilch. Nada.

While coverage of incumbent Congressman Michael Grimm by the New York Times has often involved attempts at political pile-on involving truth that can, at times, appear stretched, the Gray Lady seems to have finally published a story about the race for New York’s 13th Congressional seat that’s grounded in reality rather than some muckraker’s wet dream. Continue reading »

Miss the debate at Dyker Civic? See the candidates again tonight at P.S. 170!

By on October 11, 2012  Politics
Oct 112012
 

Andrew Gounardes (left) and Marty Golden (right) are expected to debate each other for the second time in three nights, this time at the Brooklyn Candidates Night hosted by the Arab American Association of New York. (Photos: Andrew Gounardes/Flickr and Erica Sherman)

With the postponement-turned-cancellation of The Great Bay Ridge Debate, there’s been a bit of a hole left in the debate scene for local candidates. The Dyker Heights Civic Association filled the void somewhat with their debate this past Tuesday night, which saw a fiery debate between State Senator Marty Golden and his Democratic challenger, Andrew Gounardes.

If you’re looking for something right in Bay Ridge, you can go to PS 170 (7109 6th Avenue) tonight at 6:30pm for the 2012 Brooklyn Candidates’ Night. Hosted by the Arab American Association of New York, the forum invited local candidates for Congress, State Senate, and State Assembly.

Like all very lazy citizen-journalists, I tweeted AAANY Executive Director Linda Sarsour to see who has confirmed. For starters, it looks like Golden and Gounardes will face each other once again – second time in three nights! Continue reading »

Video: Marty Golden, Andrew Gounardes Square Off At Dyker Heights Debate

By on October 10, 2012  Featured story, Politics
Oct 102012
 

Last night, State Senator Marty Golden and his Democratic opponent, Andrew Gounardes, faced each other in a fiery debate hosted by the Dyker Heights Civic Association.

The debate serves as a bit of a stand-in for the Great Bay Ridge Debate, which was postponed and ultimately cancelled by the Bay Ridge Community Council. Golden-vs-Gounardes became the headline event in a night that also included Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny, his Republican challenger Tom McCarthy, Congressman Michael Grimm, and Assemblyman Peter Abatte. Continue reading »

LINK: For Vote

By on October 9, 2012  Politics
Oct 092012
 

True story.

The deadline for voter registration in New York State is this Friday, October 12. We want to make sure you vote this year. Step 1 is making sure you’re registered, and we’re going to keep hammering away at that theme this week. Because we want all of you to vote. See our article from yesterday for registration information.

A few days after we first started plugging this message, Rita Meade – a member of Community Board 10 and the Salem Press winner for Quirky Library Blog for her work on Screwy Decimal – wrote an extensive piece on what the right to vote meant to her. We’ve excerpted it article below, and really encourage you to read the entire post on Screwy Decimal.

…So simple, yet so freaking beautiful: he wanted a voter registration form. Now, I don’t consider myself a blindly patriotic person. I know there are major flaws in our current political system. However, I’m involved in local politics in various ways and I know that there ARE good people working hard out there to better our communities. And I’ve always considered voting to be important, so this kind of thing, a man who cares enough about his new country to want to have a say in what goes on, gets me all choked-up-feeling. I just want to run to the top of the Statue of Liberty wearing a dress made of flags and shoot flags out of a flag cannon while singing “God Bless America.”

And honestly, the same thing happens when I step into a voting booth (the choked-up feeling, not the flag cannon stuff).

It’s the feeling of being a part of something bigger than yourself. It’s letting your voice be heard, in whatever small way it can be heard when you feed your ballot through the new weird scantron ballot machine. It’s knowing that my great-grandma wasn’t allowed to vote when she was a young woman because she was a woman, but my grandma could and my mother could – and did. When we were kids, my mom would take my sister and me into the voting machine with her and let us watch as she clicked the little knobs down. Then my sister and I would fight over who got to slide the curtain open and we’d all go get ice cream. OH SAY CAN YOU SEE…

Please keep reading at Screwy Decimal…

Countdown To Decision 2012: Register To Vote. Do It!

By on August 14, 2012  Politics
Aug 142012
 

It is your patriotic duty as citizens of the United States to choose the men and women who will work in this building, and to make that choice more than three minutes before filling out your ballot. (Photo by Brian Hedden)

Twelve weeks to Election Day, people. Time to get serious.

It seems like every year on Election Day, there are newspapers that put out that little extra plea to readers. Something along the lines of:

If you were thinking of not voting today, please reconsider, your voice is important to American democracy, U.S. serviceman have died and killed with their bare hands, or possibly with remote-controlled flying robots of death, all to give you this right, this privilege, this duty, yadda yadda yadda.

It isn’t that I disagree with that sentiment. I just don’t want to wait until November 6 to start making that plea. Seriously, if it’s noon on election day, and you weren’t going to vote, but now because the editorial board of the East Lansing Tribune-Times-Examiner-Gazette asked nicely, you’re thinking about it? Do us all a favor and don’t vote.

Voting isn’t something so trivial that you can decide who to support in a few minutes.  Even though we’re not the legislators or the governors or the presidents, the role of the American electorate is serious work. We’re hiring for a job opening. It’s a job with a very real impact on us all – hence the word government. And we’re stuck with the person we choose for two, four, or six years. Usually. Continue reading »