{"id":926,"date":"2006-04-04T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T21:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/barack_obama_some_guy_they_stuck_in_there.html"},"modified":"2006-04-04T13:29:20","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T21:29:20","slug":"barack_obama_so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/barack_obama_so.html","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: Some Guy They Stuck In There"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cracker carpetbagger<\/a> David Yassky got the opportunity to meet with the community the other day, the Brooklyn Paper reports (.pdf<\/a>):<\/p>\n

City Councilman David Yassky finally got a chance to speak to a group of black church leaders in East New York last weekend — and later learned what people say about him, and his dream of defeating four black candidates in the mostly black 11th Congressional District, once he leaves the room.<\/p>\n

“David Yassky shouldn’t even be running in this race,” said City Councilman Charles Barron, who spoke to the same group after Yassky had left. “David Yassky is an opportunist who sees the black vote divided and thinks he can sneak in there.”<\/p>\n

As Barron spoke, slamming his fist onto the podium for emphasis, church leaders bobbed their heads up and down, at least one saying, “That’s what I’m talking about!”<\/p>\n

Yassky had addressed the group — Churches United for Worldwide Action — after being barred from appearing at the organization’s candidates forum two weeks earlier. “Bygones are bygones,” Yassky said, explaining why he accepted the group’s invitation to speak at Grace Baptist Church in East New York Saturday.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Barron, who has often praised his colleague’s record in the Council, attacked Yassky’s candidacy without prompting.<\/p>\n

“One hundred percent of the presidents have been white men!” said Barron, who is actually running for Congress in the neighboring district, where he hopes to beat incumbent Rep. Ed Towns.<\/p>\n

“One hundred percent of the vice presidents — white men! Just 42 members of the House are black. And only one senator is black — some guy named Barack Obama, and I don’t know who that is. Some guy they stuck in there. So if you vote for Yassky, it goes down to 41 members of the House. Let him run against a white guy!”<\/p>\n

After his broadside, Barron said his top priorities for the district are “jobs and health care,” the same two priorities Yassky had mentioned.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cracker carpetbagger David Yassky got the opportunity to meet with the community the other day, the Brooklyn Paper reports (.pdf): City Councilman David Yassky finally got a chance to speak to a group of black church leaders in East New York last weekend — and later learned what people say about him, and his dream […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}