Brooklyn Brawl
We've always admired Giff's political dexterity. And we don't claim fully to have untangled what's going on in Brooklyn at the moment, where the candidates are scrapping it out for the affection of...
View ArticleNew York’s 11th
Don't miss this story from the Daily News's Brooklyn section, in which Councilman David Yassky -- a Yale-law, Brooklyn Heights reformer who used to work for Senator Schumer -- comes out for John...
View ArticleBrooklyn Politics
Of all the strange little tricks played on election day this year, the most widespread -- and ineffective -- seem to have been the game-playing with endorsements on palm cards and leaflets handed out...
View ArticleStaff Notes
The Ferrer campaign's split with Leonard Joseph, a political aide allied with Bill Lynch who also worked for John Kerry, has some insiders grumbling that Joseph -- who left after taking the blame for a...
View ArticleReconciled in Brooklyn
Memories, it seems, are short in Brooklyn. Just last year, Assemblyman Dov Hikind campaigned, hard, against the incumbent district attorney, Joe Hynes, and for the organization candidate, John Sampson....
View ArticleNot Reconciled in Brooklyn
So apparently Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes is not, in fact, going to be accepting a integrity award from Dov Hikind, whatever the invitation may have said. Says Hynes spokesman Jerry...
View ArticleCuomo and Hynes
From the Department of Interesting Connections... The person Andrew Cuomo tapped to help investigate Medicaid fraud is Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes, who spearheaded a similar effort in...
View ArticleHynes About to Make Someone Else Famous
At 2 p.m. this afternoon, Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes will be handing out DVD copies of video surveillance allegedly showing former Judge Gerald Garson accepting a $1,000 bribe, and cigars,...
View ArticleDA Hynes Backs Eugene
Another wrinkle in the already interesting City Council race in Brooklyn's 40th District: It turns out that Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes has donated money to Mathieu Eugene, the candidate who...
View ArticleDemocrats Blast Hynes’s Decision to Challenge Thompson as Republican
Democrats are fuming over Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes’s decision to challenge Democratic nominee Ken Thompson on the Republican and Conservative lines after handily losing to him in the...
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