Ed Towns Gets a Chance to Matter

Call Edolphus Towns what you will: a 13-term Brooklyn congressman; a congenial politician with a raspy voice and a gift for charming seniors; a bald-headed, 74-year-old product of the Brooklyn Democratic machine. Here’s one thing you likely won’t call him: a troublemaker.

So when, on Dec. 10, his office formally announced his election to Read More

Towns’ Friends Gather to Hold Back the Tide

Ed Towns’ fellow elected Democrats are doing their best to spare him the fate that Hillary Clinton suffered this year.

"We don’t want to have Barack Obama in the White House, and all of a sudden lose the seniority that Ed Towns would bring to us," said City Comptroller Bill Thompson at a reasonably well-attended Read More

The Towns-Obama Vote

An interested reader sent in this photograph showing how Representative Ed Towns, a Hillary Clinton supporter who faces a primary challenge this year, has embraced Barack Obama’s campaign. The picture was taken this afternoon and is of the building at 203 Ralph Street in Brooklyn, not far from Towns’ office.

Towns has lately been Read More