Council District 46: City Councilman Lew Fidler may have knocked all of his primary opponents off the ballot, but he has a rough and tumble Republican waiting to get in the ring with him. Comment.
Council District 33: Sparks continue to fly between two Brooklyn City Council candidates in an increasingly negative Democratic primary race to replace Councilmember David Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg). Comment.
Council District 39: One candidate announced in advance that he’d show up this morning — the other just showed up. Isn’t this subway system big enough for the both of them? Comments (1).
Council District 35: A longtime civic activist charged The New York Times with propagating a smear campaign as she tries to unseat incumbent Letitia James in the upcoming 35th District City Council Democratic Primary. Comments (5).
Council District 39: For the first time in — let’s just say ever — two candidates are battling it out for the 39th Council District’s Republican line in November’s election. Comments (5).
Council District 39: For the second time in as many days, the race to succeed Councilman Bill DeBlasio has turned into a vicious, mud bath between rivals Josh Skaller and Brad Lander — this time as the two leading candidates exchanged accusations of illicit campaign spending all day long on Tuesday. Comments (2).
Council District 33: It wasn’t the answers that separated the front-runners from the longshots at Community Newspaper Group and Brooklyn Independent Televisions’s 33rd Council District debate — it was the questions themselves. Comment.
Council District 39: The once-genteel race to succeed Councilman Bill DeBlasio was thrown into turmoil this week, when the pregnant wife of one of the candidates sent an e-mail from her hospital bed to slam another candidate for making an issue out of the couple’s decision to send their son to private school. Comments (1).
Council District 33: City Council hopeful Steve Levin, slammed by his opponents in the Greenpoint to Park Slope district as the “machine candidate” because of his relationship with Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Vito Lopez, moved into higher gear thanks to Friday’s endorsement by Sen. Charles Schumer. Comment.