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McMahon shun! Newbie swipes Ridge House seat back for GOP
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Freshman Rep. Mike McMahon drowned in a Republican tsunami as newcomer GOP challenger Michael Grimm trounced him by a 51.5 to 48 percent vote, early returns show. Comment.
Poll workers say Vito oversaw election fraud!
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Two Bushwick centers affiliated with Assemblyman Vito Lopez — one of which who’s already under investigation — played host to serious election fraud that helped secure a Lopez victory last month, poll workers charged this week. Comment.
Rep. Mike McMahon: ‘I’m not angry’
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Bay Ridge’s Democratic congressman is in the fight of his life — but his opponent is not just a GOP rival, but an irate nation. Comment.
Vito: It’s my party! Boss adds more hand-picked lackeys to Dem leadership
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Democratic boss Vito Lopez has strengthened his control of the borough’s political establishment by more than doubling the number of hand-picked loyalists in party leadership positions. Comment.
Vito power! Lopez wins another term as county leader
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Meet the new Boss — same as the old Boss. Comment.
Final result is in — Restler beats Cohn
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: But the real loser is Party boss Vito Lopez — but you knew that. Comment.
Tea but no sympathy for mosque
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: More than three dozen self-professed Tea Party members rallied next to the 9-11 memorial at the 69th Street pier on Sunday to condemn controversial mosques near Ground Zero and in Sheepshead Bay. Comments (1).
No surprises at all in local primaries
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Here’s our amazing roundup! Comments (1).
Vito’s ‘Money Honeys’ get big salaries — subsidized by you
The Brooklyn Paper
Brooklyn: Assemblyman Vito Lopez, Brooklyn’s powerful Democratic party leader, steered more than three-quarters of a million dollars to both his campaign treasurer and his girlfriend, who work at the nonprofit he founded. Comments (2).
SOUTH BKLYN ELECTION ROUNDUP
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: There were few primary election upsets in our southern Brooklyn coverage area, but that’s to be expected in New York City democracy, where a man awaiting a trial for punching out a photographer and a woman who is already collecting her retirement pension face only token challenges. Comment.
Bernie Catcher, Dem power broker, 70
Courier-Life
Brooklyn: Bernard Catcher, a democratic district leader and power broker who helped launch the legislative careers of Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-Sheepshead Bay), Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Mill Basin), Assemblyman Alan Maisel (D-Mill Basin), state Sen. Carl Kruger (D-Brighton Beach), and a litany of other Brooklyn politicians, died on Aug. 20 after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 70. Comments (3).