Ethnicity tends to get raised in a New York campaign, and here's a little cross-section of its varied pushes and pulls:
In the Bronx, a traditional center of Latino electoral life in the city, Councilman Joel Rivera, son of county Democratic chairman and Assemb. Jose Rivera, is hosting a presidential “debate watch” party Thursday for Hillary Rodham Clinton delegates.
Assemb. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan), left, a strident critic of Suffolk Executive Steve Levy on illegal immigration issues, is also on the Feb. 5 ballot to become a Clinton delegate. In Suffolk, Dominican-born Legis. Vivian Viloria-Fisher appears on Democratic ballots to be a delegate for Sen. Barack Obama....
In Brooklyn’s Borough Park, a center of Orthodox Judaism in the city, veteran Assemb. Dov Hikind (photo right) has not endorsed in the Democratic primary. He urges Clinton to support the release of life-sentenced spy Jonathan Pollard and questions Obama’s Chicago pastor praising minister Louis Farrakhan. Hikind doesn’t offer comment on the candidacy of Giuliani, who’s popular in his community, but whose mayoral aides once pushed what a jury deemed an unfounded criminal case against him...
In the Irish Voice, Niall O’Dowd warns on immigration: “Every Republican candidate with the exception of McCain has demagogued this issue to death hoping to milk votes from it. In the end, though, it may come back to haunt them.”
Dan Janison
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I never see Obama giving a speech while standing in front of the American Flag. I never see him look directly at or pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States. He says he did . Lets see it.