Gatemouth's blog

Forget Christie Love (GOP Convention, Night One)

Final count, which the Republicans refused to announce: Romney 2,061, Paul 202.  



Run Diana Run (Featuring a Synthesizer Sol0 by Pete Townshend)

Dateline: Still in Brooklyn, But on Vacation; Still Sick but Getting Better.

I got the Lopez news a bit after the fact on Friday, as I forgot to remove my phone from my pocket while running into Delaware Bay to make sure a rubber raft containing nine year old Dybbuk did not float out to Cape May.



The Gateway (Bragg's New Blog Edition)

Dateline: In Brooklyn, On Vacation and Home with a Fever. 



What Has Changed in the Brooklyn Democracy

Dateline: Lewes, Delaware 

A few notes on why the Lopez Scandal matters.  



The Gateway (Congrats To Lara Genovesi Edition)

Dateline: Lewes, Delaware.  

The Times endorses Lara Genovesi:  



Don't Fire Until He Feels the Tights of Their Thighs

Dateline: Lewes, Delaware 

This morning on Facebook, I posted my last Vito Lopez item from the era before the end of the beginning of the end:



The Awesome Power of Room 8: Mark Gjonaj Loses an Important Endorsement (And Adam Bermudez Attains an Inconsequential One)

Dateline Lewes Delaware: Let me not bury the lede:

Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is no longer supporting anti-LGTB, anti-choice Mark Gjonaj for a Bronx Assembly seat against a pro-choice, pro-SSM opponent.



The Gateway (The Great Panderschlep Edition)

Most of the focus concerning these photos of the “Great Panderschlep” has been on David Storobin him and his machine gun (I think he's pretending he's got the Sheepshead Bay Mosque in his sights, or maybe some Bosnians) and Sto


An Albanian for Albany (Nydia's Balkan Straight)

Last year Brooklyn "progressives" and allies of Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez had a field day complaining about the Vito Lopez/Dilan Family support for (then) Assembly candidate Rafael Espinal even though Espinal opposed abortion and same sex marriage (SSM), albeit in a limp wristed (perhaps not the best choice of words) manner.



The Gateway (Ryan's Hopeless Edition)

Worth a look even back in April when Chait wrote it, this article is now required reading.  The Legendary Paul Ryan nymag.com  

 

 

 



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