10:40AM EST: The following statement was just sent to YWN from the Weprin campaign:
I just called Bob Turner to congratulate him on a well-fought campaign. He will now have the honor of representing Brooklyn and Queens in Congress, and I hope that he will work every day to represent all of the diverse communities that make up the 9th Congressional district.
I’m incredibly proud of the campaign that we ran, and incredibly grateful to the countless volunteers who worked day after day to bring our message to voters. In doing so we raised the profile of issues like Medicare, Social Security, and tax relief for working families – issues that will be of critical importance for the next Congress.
Though we may not have won, our work is far from over. The challenges that face our nation are many, and I will continue to work with all of my supporters to ensure that middle class New Yorkers have a real voice in our city, our state, and our country.
(YWN Desk – NYC)
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Did Philip Goldfeder win in Queens? Duch tzach mir YES.
reply to #1 yes
“…..and I will continue to work with all of my supporters to ensure that middle class New Yorkers have a real voice in our city, our state, and our country…”
By supporting Obamas policies the only thing about the middle class that he’s ensuring is its gradual extinction as we slowly all become dependent on the Government.
It’s about time!
The unions made a big “turn out the vote effort” – but as New York is a state with compulsory union membership (unlike the “right to work” states), most people who join unions are not pro-union but based on the percentage who join unions where it is voluntary, are actually anti-union. Therefor a union based effort to get its members to vote will actually hurt the candidate the union management supports.