Gee, and I was hoping that my Party would take the opportunity to make a real effort to grab the seat and turn it Democratic.

The same reports also note that the hot Republican prospect for Kruger's seat is Fred Kreizman, currently the Assistant Commissioner of the Mayor’s Community Assistance Unit (CAU), who in honor of his Party’s efforts to buy the seat with taxpayer money shall hereinafter be known as the $18 Million Dollar Man.

Fred and I have something in common, as we both have Russian speakers in our households and have both served as Brooklyn Coordinator of the CAU.

What, you may ask is the CAU?

Well, when David Yassky told me the news he was going to be put in charge of Hacks, I thought he’d been named the CAU Commissioner.

LIKE KRUGER before his election, Kreizman’s address is outside the district he wants to run in, and he is constitutionally ineligible to hold the position he seeks.

After the “move” was accomplished, Donnie Halperin, the Senator representing Kruger’s once and future "legal" residence in Georgetown, took another job, and Kruger “moved” again, too late to meet the legal deadline, and won the nomination for the Special Election at a Democratic County Committee Meeting.

Pathetically, no one, including the Republican Party, had read the State Constitution, which (except in reapportionment years), requires a person to reside in their district for a year before they can seek to represent it in the State Legislature (or perhaps the Republcians were just happy to get the "Democrat" they wanted).

Kruger won the election and was seated.

In fairness, Kreizman’s house is only in Savino’s district by one block, and most of his neighborhood is located in a different Senate District.

Marty Golden’s.

Virtually none of the neighborhood Kreizman lives in, even loosely defined, is in Kruger’s Senate district.

But why should we let that deprive us of the services of this outstanding young man who has been anointed by the best Rabbis money can buy?

None of this matters in the first election after a reapportionment, when Kreizman would be allowed to run anywhere in Brooklyn his Party desires, but if there’s a special election, Kreizman cannot legally be a candidate.

Unless, he’s thinking of retaining Farouk Samaroo as his election lawyer.

LIKE KRUGER, Kreizman lives with a Doctor named Michael (in this case, the Michael is Fred's daddy).

Thirty two years of age seems awful old to be an Orthodox Jewish bachelor, and I hope for Fred’s sake, he does not take the rules of shomer negiah all that seriously (from all appearances, Fred never takes any rule all that seriously), but if he does, the lack of intimate contact with the opposite sex would be another thing he has in common with Kruger. Generally though, self professed celibates do not do all that well in Brooklyn elections.

In this instance though, it appears that Kruger is the one who holds the moral high ground. In fact, one is compelled to conclude that Fred Kreizman think "Justice" is spelled "J-U-S-T--U-S"

FRED KREIZMAN, southern Brooklyn’s best choice for continuity in representation.

Perhaps we should call him "Freddy Kruger."