Weigh-in on NY mayor elections?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Nov 9 12:23:48 PST 2001


Mina Kumar wrote:
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> This is anecdotal but I have to say me and some friends leafletted for Green
> with some qualms over his playing footsie with Bratton, but didn't really do
> anything for him after the Giuliani/Sharpton thing bc we really felt he was
> trying to distance himself from us and that he was going to win anyway.
> Yes, I regret it, but there you are. I was *astonished* by how high a
> percentage of the black vote Bberg got.
>

What's to regret? Anything that hurts the DP simply reduces the barrier to the growth of a mass movement in the U.S. After all, that is the DP's reason for existing: Keep women, blacks, latinos, liberal intellectuals etc. safely corralled.

Carrol



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