The following is a NY Daily News editorial:
Brooklyn state Sen. Kevin Parker has proven himself unfit for office by using his mouth and fists. This hothead has to go.
In 2005, he was charged with assault after brawling with a traffic agent over a ticket. He got off in a plea deal that required him to take anger management training. It didn’t work.
In 2008, a staff member accused Parker of shouting at her, shoving her and intentionally stomping on her eyeglasses.
Last year, Parker got into a beef with a news photographer and wound up charged with felony assault for allegedly hitting the photographer, breaking his camera and damaging his car. The case is still pending.
This year, he cursed at fellow Senate Democrat Diane Savino and erupted at a committee hearing into incoherent accusations of racism against an upstate Republican. He followed up by charging that Senate Republicans were, in general, white supremacists.
Oh, and Parker was one of the few senators who voted against the ouster from the Senate of Hiram Monserrate after the Queens Democrat was convicted of assault.
Once more, with feeling: Kevin Parker must go.
Democratic voters in the 21st District, which includes Flatbush, Parkville, Kensington, Ditmas Park, Prospect Park South, Farragut and East Flatbush, must dump him in the Sept. 14 primary.
PREVIOUS PARKER VIOLENCE:
April 2010: Parker went on a nearly two minute tirade against a republican colleague, accusing him of being a racist.
April 2010: Parker accuses Albany politicians of being white supremacicsts.
June 2009: Attorney John Conway, 59, said he was on the Senate floor when Parker sought to disrupt a GOP-controlled proceeding that Democrats considered illegal.
“He said to me, ‘What are you looking at, punk? Do you know who I am and don’t you read the newspaper, punk?’” said Conway.
May 2009: Parker was indicted on assault and other charges after being accused of attacking a New York Post photographer who took his picture.
A Brooklyn grand jury handed up the indictment charging the Democratic Senator with second and third degree assault, third and fourth degree criminal mischief, third degree menacing and second degree harassment. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison.
2005: Parker was arrested on charges of punching a traffic agent who was writing him a ticket. The charges were dropped after Parker agreed to take an anger management class.
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7 Responses
Who is running against him?
Let him take along his good friend Dov Hikind.
His opponent is Wellington Sharpe http://www.sharpeforsenate.com/index.html
It was once said that saying that a Rav was a lousy speaker was not loshon horah. Saying he was a lousy chazzan was. Saying a Rav was a lousy speaker was retzichah- murder. Please stop the Hikind bashing. You don’t have to vote for him but publicly bashing him is loshon horah and worse. The fact that he is a public servant does not allow for loshon horah. Enough.
To number 2. It was once said that saying that a Rav was a lousy speaker was not loshon horah. Saying he was a lousy chazzan was. Saying a Rav was a lousy speaker was retzichah- murder. Please stop the Hikind bashing. You don’t have to vote for him but publicly bashing him is loshon horah and worse. The fact that he is a public servant does not allow for loshon horah. Enough.
Thinking Clearly, Ask your Rav. My Posek told me that an elected official is a public servant. You pay him, he’s obligated to do your wishes. If your employee undermines your business, his co-worker is obligated to report him to you.
Same here: Dov Hikind undermines the Jewish community on a daily basis. He pretends to help while manipulating Rabbanim, Askanim, institutions and organizations to advance his personal agenda. That comes with terror, Mesiros and the likes. We’ve seen it at the race for Simcha Felder’s seat. He did everything possible (and he said it!) to get an energetic bright young man out of the race. He went against a Heimishe Yungerman with an active trait just because he wouldn’t be his servant. That came on the expense of many Mosdos and (almost) on people’s Kimche D’Pischa. He did it to Simcha Felder vs. Kevin Parker.
He undermines any institution or organization that won’t give him his Kavod he so desires. He will cut (or cease funding) from the most acclaimed organizations for not honoring him at their dinner! He will run to the media to report on any Rav, Rebbe or Askan that doesn’t give him the attention he needs. If there are no scandals, he’ll make them up. He has his radio show for this purpose and this is all he does in Albany. After almost 30 years it is time to oust him once and forever. I would elaborate, but it will fill pages…
Wellington Sharpe is a successful businessman who has been an active member of Brooklyn Community Board 17 for many years. He has spent the last twenty years successfully developing an education center and a job-training facility. He has worked with children and young adults all his professional life -as an educator and also as a health-professional.
Senator Parker has voted against the ethics package that the legislature tried passing last year, voted against requiring serial rapists to undergo psychotherapy and is currently awaiting trial for assault charges. Mr. Parker’s trial is slated to begin October 18th 2010.
Parker was one of the few senators who voted against the ouster from the Senate of Hiram Monserrate after the Queens Democrat was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend.
Sharpe is committed to bringing true reform to Albany by advocating for a true ethics overhaul, fiscal reform and independent redistricting. The candidate has received the seal of approval from Ed Koch’s reform organization, NY Uprising and was named a Hero of Reform (Mr. Parker has refused to sign the pledge).
This is the first time Parker is being challenged by only one opponent making the senator extremely vulnerable because all the anti-Parker vote will be going to one candidate, coupled with an anti-incumbency year and growing voter dissatisfaction with Mr. Parker’s performance in office.
VOTE SHARPE FOR STATE SENATE ON SEPT. 14TH.