The only two candidates to show their face this morning at my polling site were Mo and Zenobia.  

Jesse Hamilton, Jennifer James and Zenobia McNally had workers, though Matthieu Eugene's people decided to put up posters at about 9:15 am.

At the Newkirk train station last night, Mo and Zenobia were the only candidates to shwo their faces.  

Ben, it sounds like you're voting for Zenobia, since she made a point about providing basic services.

Why no coverage of the Staten Island Council Special Election between Manny Innamorato and Vincent Ignizio.  As many people live the Island district and are effected by the special's outcome as in the 40th, yet there is no mention of Manny Innamorato in the entire Room 8 database.

 When Ben was still affiliated with the Daily News, he also refused to cover the 13th district  Congressional race between Democrat Steve Harrison and Vito Fossella (For Disclosure purposes I was Harrison's Communications Director).

The 13th district includes all of Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn Ben doesn't live in.  Roughly the same amount of people live in the 13th district as the 11th, which Ben did cover.  I guess in his mind the interests of those living in Staten Island are less newsworthy than those in the other boroughs or other districts covered nationwide.

 Ben even told me on the phone that he wasn't interested in covering the race.

Ben, what do you have against Staten Island. Are you an anti-Statenite.

I've been involved to a limited degree with Manny Innamorato's special election campaign to fill Andrew Lanza's usually empty Southshore/Mid-Island council seat (Marchi's successor and Titone's State Senate opponent had the worst attendance in the Council)against State Assemblyman Vincent Ignizio, a Vito protege.  Manny is currently the head of IT for the City of Yonkers (Talk about bad commutes),

A win here would help Democrats win other races in the forgotten borough. Ignizio, who ran unopposed for his Assembly spot, is being groomed to eventually succeed Fossella. Iggy defeated Manny for the Assembly seat in 04. Manny defeating him in the council race will dampen his ambition and possibly give a Southshore Democrat the courage to oppose him when he runs for reelection to Albany.

The Council district is slightly more Democratic than that of the all Republican dominated Southshore Assembly because it includes New Springville which is mixed (New Springville became slightly less Democratic two days after election day when my wife and myself moved to the Northshore.) Manny should do better than he did against Iggy for City Hall than for Albany just based on that.

Without the distractions of the Congressional and Presidential races of 04 for the Assembly or the Borough President, Mayoral and other Council races in Lanza's easy 2005 win over Craig Schlanger for this seat, the Island Democratic ground troops are all dedicated to helping Manny and that seems to be making a difference based anecdotal evidence.

Mostly plagiarized from my Daily Gotham Blog:

I've been involved to a limited degree with Manny Innamorato's special election campaign to fill Andrew Lanza's usually empty Southshore/Mid-Island council seat (Marchi's successor and Titone's State Senate opponent had the worst attendance in the Council)against State Assemblyman Vincent Ignizio, a Vito protege.

Manny is the head of IT for the City of Yonkers (Talk about bad commutes). 

A win here would help Democrats win other races in the forgotten borough.  Ignizio, who ran unopposed for his Assembly spot, is being groomed to eventually succeed Fossella. Iggy defeated Manny for the Assembly seat in 04. Beating him in the council race will dampen his ambition and possibly give a South shore Democrat the courage to oppose him when he runs for reelection to Albany.

The Council district is slightly more Democratic than that of the all Republican dominated South shore Assembly because it includes New Springville which is mixed (New Springville became slightly less Democratic two days after election day when my wife and myself moved to the North shore.). Manny should do better than he did against Iggy for City Hall than for Albany just based on that.

Without the distractions of the Congressional and Presidential races of 04 for the Assembly or the Borough President, Mayoral and other Council races in Lanza's easy 2005 win over Craig Schlanger for this seat, the Island Democratic ground troops are all dedicated to helping Manny and that seems to be making a difference based anecdotal evidence.

Manny's web address is mannyforcouncil.com

ironic that Ben wouldn't cover the staten island race because Yvette's last three staffers (2 legislative directors, 1 press director) were from staten island.

i guess unless staten islanders help get that lamp on his street corner, they don't matter.

Andrew Lanza's usually empty Southshore/Mid-Island council seat (Marchi's successor and Titone's State Senate opponent had the worst attendance in the Council)

That's a bogus charge.  Giff Miller did not take care of the minority members who sat on the ethics hearings of the disgraced city offical ( i won't even type his name) that Giff could not kick out of the council due to his kowtowing to county leaders.

 This is the same type of crap that Quin is trying to pull in eliminating the term limits.  

ps where is Giff today