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Charles Barron Considering Run for Public Advocate
Fresh off of a spirited challenge for the 10th Congressional District this past summer, New York City Councilmember Charles Barron is now considering a run for Public Advocate in 2009. This morning, Barron informed me that given his frustration with the institutional responses to the “police brutality” issue, he believes that he could use the office of the Public Advocate as a platform for seriously dealing with issues like police abuses, racial discrimination, black-unemployment, and the like. He said that my recent challenge to him to run for public advocate, as a way of fighting for address to some of his hot-button issues, makes a lot of sense and he is now considering it. He said also that running for citywide office is so much more difficult than running for a congressional seat that he has to give it long hard thought. He will make a final decision sometime late next year, but intends to start exploring it with his main supporters and his organization “Operation Power”, ASAP. Barron further went on to state that that he has not discarded or ruled out the idea of running against Ed Towns again, in two years. He says what is attractive about the public advocate race is that matching funds will help in one of his weak areas: fundraising. Barron, an outspoken critic of the NYPD, has been quite visible and vocal in the latest police-killing (Sean Bell). He said that people might be angry at his predictions, that there will be an explosion in the black community if these types of incidents are not curtailed, but he insists that he is not inciting any civil disobedience (or anything of the sort) , and that he is just a social-prophet in this regard. He said that when the weatherman predicts a storm, you don’t go out and criticize him for that, you just prepare the best ways you can to withstand it and survive. Barron, a colorful and outspoken member of the Brooklyn delegation to the council, briefly flirted with running for mayor last year. He withdrew when his fundraising effort hardly got off the ground. If he gets into the Public Advocate race, media-folks will surely have a lot of fun. Stay tuned-in folks.
Councilman Barron is the one true activist still fighting for the rights of minorities. Who cares about his chickens coming home to roost, when he is standing firm and diligently forging forward. Controversy has not prevented others from creating a huge nest. What he needs most is to assemble people that are more willing to be heard an exercise their so-called democratic freedom to challenge and fight for change in government. He may feel like slapping a whiteman, only one that's not so bad, considering the facts that blackmen get life! Unemployment, jail time, bullets or just being born is death sentence. I am all for councilman Charles Barren, he has what it takes, I think he is the only activist that does not allow the system to shut him up or down.
Norman Siegel has the positive aspects of Barron (fighting for justice in civil rights) without the negatives (he does not espouse slapping anyone around).
Barron can not advocate properly for East New York and the 42nd Council District. Now he wants to to city wide advocate? I can I guess that he will be "pro black" for the city. Stick to his real job in 2009 after he is term limited. The next Al Sharpton.
I am not slightly concerned... like Sharpton, he is not sophisticated enough to deal with raising money, with the rule of campaign finance laws, etc. He'll hang around for the debates, have no mail, and lose mightily. No more 100K and up jobs a year for this no nothing race-baiter. You white boys keep underestimating Charles and his popularity in various segments of the black community. If the dynamics of this race is favorable, Charles can win. Especially if he is the only black in the race. He is much more intelligent and articulate than you white boys will give him credit for, and that's why he keeps surprising you all the time. GO CHARLES GO. I hope he does run for this position. Barron has been an activist all his adult life, he is a natural for this job. i will vote for him, and I am white.
I just wish that Barron focused his energy on his current job--being a City Council member. He's an important advocate in the City Council, yet is giving his job, and his issues, very little attention right now.
Although many black people (and a few whites) love to hear Barron's "rah rah" on TV, his voting record contradicts most of it, if anyone has bothered to look. He just wants to be like Al Sharpton. As Al wants to be the next Jesse Jackson. None of which helps black people in any significant way. What the black community needs is real leadership. Someone who is capable of actually deliverying what black people and other working class people need in this city: decent jobs and wages, affordable housing and safe neighborhoods. The rest we can do for ourselves. We certainly don't need another big mouth antagonistic personality to represent us.
Have you tried to get hold of him lately? I live in his community and he only has something to say when he's with flashing bulbs. I have tried to contact him extensively with huge problems in the community, and I get nothing. Why vote for someone who is only a celebrity whore and cares nothing about us voters? I left numerous messages and concerns, but I didn't come with local TV cameras, so I don't count. He's done nothing for his community in East New York: everyday we go outside to be greeted with prostitutes and used condoms. He has no time or breath for anyone that cannot provide him with a TV op., or a press conference. This guy's a loser.
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He would be a great choice for the post but his comments (on slapping white people) and yes his comments in regards to the Sean Bell case (weatherman or not) will come back to haunt him.
After all the Public Advocate acts as a voice for all New Yorkers (suppose to anyway, I don’t know where the hell our current one is or what she is doing). I think the thought of electing someone who is considered by many to be divisive will be his undoing.