Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY - Where To Go To Win An Election
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY - On Sunday, David Yassky paid a visit to the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, accompanied by the current head of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Moshe Rubashkin.
Not to be outdone, his predecessor and rival Chanina Sperlin escorted Yvette Clarke out there today.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 9/12/2006 09:01:00 PM
14 Comments:
At 2:45 PM,
Anonymous said…
GOYIM GO TO REBBES ALL THE TIME FOR BROCHOS AND THEY GO TO KIVREI TZADKIM AS WELL
PRES. PM. FROM AROUND THE WORLD SEN. GOV. MAYORS AND EVERY DAY JEWS AND NON JEWS GO TO THE OHEL OF THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE JUST AS THEY DID WHEN HE WAS ALIVE
THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH IT STOP MAKING MACHLOKOS
At 3:32 PM,
Anonymous said…
anon 245,
Name me one goy who went to a kever of a rebbe (NOT Lubavitch) for a brocha before an election.
At 3:40 PM,
Anonymous said…
These guys use totally assimilated jews, jews who married goyim, to light their chanuka menorahs every year. Nothing about Lubavitch manipulating the religion surprises me.
At 3:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
PLEASE GO OUT TO VOTE TODAY!!!!!
At 4:02 PM,
Anonymous said…
Vote for david yassky. Jews need to go out in full force especially because it's a tight race. EVERY VOTE COUNTS!!!!!!!!!
At 4:08 PM,
VOS IZ NEIAS said…
NEW YORK -- The New York City Board of elections says the turn out has been light this morning in Primary voting.
There have been a few reports of problems at polling places.
Howard Abadinsky, a 65-year-old professor of criminal justice at Saint Johns' University said the three machines at his polling place in Queens had levers missing for different candidates.
He said his machine was missing a lever for Andrew Coumo, the Democratic candidate for attorney general, while another machine had a lever missing for Cuomo's opponent Mark Green.
Abadinsky said he was given a paper ballot, but there was no box for it so he had to hand it to a poll worker.
Another voter emailed The Associated Press to say that at his polling place in lower Manhattan, levers next to Republican candidates' names did not move, and poll workers were not well-versed in the paper ballot process.
In heavily Democratic Brooklyn, where winning the primary virtually guarantees victory in the general election, the battle to succeed retiring Rep. Major Owens has drawn more notice than any other New York City race, with the prospect that a historically black district could elect a white newcomer.
Since the entry of City Councilman David Yassky, the contest has revolved around the possibility that the three black candidates would split the minority vote in a district once represented by Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman in Congress.
Yassky was heckled -- and someone hurled a chocolate glazed doughnut -- at an appearance earlier this month in front of a Wyckoff Gardens housing project. Many of those jeering were supporters of other candidates in the race.
Yassky is competing with Yvette Clarke, who has strong support within the district's Caribbean community, state senator Carl Andrews, who has ties to the county Democrats' organization, and Chris Owens, the son of the current congressman.
The racial divisions generated the most attention, but the district is also gripped by a debate over a proposed Atlantic Yards development of a complex to house the NBA's New Jersey Nets.
Voting at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood, Ian Morgan, 35, said race played a role in the campaign -- but not his vote.
"It's not David Yassky's fault or the other candidates' fault. That's just race in America,'' said Morgan, who is white. Morgan said he voted for Chris Owens.
Isias Fruto, a doorman who was born in Panama, voted for Clarke. "I like her background. I think she's tough and we need that to fight the Republicans,'' said the 56-year-old.
Other voters had less lofty goals for the outcome.
"These candidates filled my mailbox for weeks. I'd like to see less of that and more of them,'' said Brenda Stewart, a child care worker.
Owens' colleague, Edolphus Towns in the 10th Congressional District, also faces a primary, but his opposition has been split by two challengers, giving him a good mathematical chance of surviving for a 13th term.
The more high-profile challenger, City Councilman Charles Barron, had sought for months to convince state Assemblyman Roger Green to drop out of the race. But Green has resisted, saying he wants to become the first Muslim elected to Congress.
North of New York City, Rep. Sue Kelly has represented a solidly Republican district since 1995, but the suburbs are slowly trending Democratic, and the Bush administration is increasingly unpopular in the state.
Kelly's 19th district in the Hudson River Valley includes parts of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties. Two Democrats, lawyer Judy Aydelott and singer-songwriter John Hall have been battling for months for the chance to unseat Kelly.
Hall, who fronted the 1970s pop band Orleans, began the campaign as something of a novelty, but he has generated surprising resiliency by railing against the Iraq war and drawing fundraising strength from music industry friends like Bonnie Raitt, who hosted fundraisers for him.
Aydelott argues that as a moderate Democrat, she has a better chance of defeating Kelly in November.
At 5:08 PM,
Anonymous said…
to anon 332
im talking about in general
which other kever in the world do u know has as many people from every kind of jew to non jew going to their kever like the lubavitcher rebbe ??????????
At 7:37 PM,
Anonymous said…
David Hamelech has more non jewish visitors every year then the Lubavitcher rebbe,
there is a chu8rch next to his kever
At 10:16 PM,
Anonymous said…
oh you guys are clueless. The Rebbe's kevar yields amazing stuff. Those that have never gone (in true emes fashion and ehrlickeit) will never know what it means. Why don't you try it? Go anytime. midnite, 3AM during the day. Pick a time. Go see what the place holds. You'll walk away mesmerized.
And that is correct, goyim have and do come often. That is no secret. But do come on by and see for yourselves. If you really want a brocho see were everyone goes - in every stripe, beckishe or non, skin color and type.
All the others who post in a joke or ridicule; it does say volumes who you are behind the screen on a computer. If you had hald a brain you'd have known the secret by now, and would never dare write such rubbish. Why don't you go this year before Rosh Hashana.
Ksiva Ve.........
At 11:54 PM,
Anonymous said…
I'm not going to side with any of the previous comments, cuz I really donno if it's appropriate or not, But, one thing is obvious, it sure helped her!
At 11:57 PM,
Anonymous said…
Now you could all see, she knows how to daven!
At 12:37 AM,
Anonymous said…
Ever heard of Chaside Umas Haolam?
In the 70's Everyone said how could you put on Tefilin on a TumieyDikhe Yid in the Middle of the streets of Manhttan.. today these same people have thier own Kiruv orgnizations such as Aish Hatorah and Ohr Sameach.
At 1:36 AM,
Anonymous said…
where's the shaitel?
At 5:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
with the lubavicher rebbes "brocha"
she has won & she has thanked the rebbe in her victory last night
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