“Ken Thompson’s campaign is like a Seinfeld episode,” Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes charged at a campaign stop this morning. “It’s a campaign about nothing because he has no experience.” Mr. Hynes was campaigning with volunteers outside of a Brooklyn subway stop at the beginning of a 8-day borough-wide bus tour.

Mr. Hynes defended his campaign amid anger over a recent Yiddish ad in in the Satmar weeklies, that was interpreted as racist and hate-mongering. “It’s not my advertisement. I didn’t put it in. I had no control over the content,” Mr. Hynes told Politicker. “What I was told was that the minority word refers to turnout and not African-Americans. I had nothing to do with the ad.”

Mr. Hynes was asked to respond to Mr. Hikind’s claim. “This is the guy who has blackface? You know, nobody pays attention to Dov Hikind,” Mr. Hynes told YWN. “Dov Hikind, a relatively mature man wearing blackface.. That’s a schmuck.”

Mr. Hynes further dismissed a BuzzFeed report that accused one of his allies, Sol Wachtler, of using an anti-black Yiddish slur in emails with Mr. Hynes.

“That I would seriously allow anyone to use that derogatory term in my presence without condemning them–it’s an outrage,” Mr. Hynes said, claiming a hacker had obtained and altered the emails. “There’s no question that the hacker who hacked into my account substituted those words to embarrass Judge Wachtler and me.”

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)