The candidates for Manhattan district attorney raised thousands of last-minute dollars, including a $50,000 infusion Monday by Richard Aborn into his own campaign.
Filings with the state Board of Elections show big-ticket contributions made over the last few days, including over $32,000 sent to Cyrus Vance on Friday by William Wachtel. Leslie Crocker Read More
Here’s a video from Richard Aborn, who basically takes credit for writing the script Leslie Crocker Sndyer and Cy Vance are now following.
Which, no matter the numbers show tonight, is a victory in its own right.
Here’s a flier I saw in Harlem recently for Manhattan district attorney candidate Richard Aborn, who is the only candidate actively making a campaign theme of the criticism minority communities routinely have about their treatment by police department.
Leslie Crocker Snyder hoisted her granddaughter onto her hip, kissed her on the cheek and said, “Hopefully she won’t have to face the kind of discrimination that many of us had to face, [like] when the D.A. asked me for a letter of permission from my husband to go to the homicide bureau. She won’t Read More
Two out of the three Democratic candidates for Manhattan district attorney said they are gun owners, they said during a debate at WABC’s studios in Manhattan.
Leslie Crocker Snyder said she got a gun “at the suggestion of the police department when I had the death threats” while she was a judge during the 1980s Read More
Cy Vance’s campaign announced endorsements today from 1199, the health care workers union, and 32BJ, the city’s largest private union.
They’re major unions with well-proven Get Out the Vote operations. It’s also worth noting that they are part of the labor coalition that runs the Working Families Party which, as an umbrella organization, backed another Read More
Observer intern Kate McGee tuned in to catch the Manhattan district attorney candidates spar on Brian Lehrer’s show this morning, where Leslie Crocker Snyder put into vivid detail what it cost her to stay in New York while Cy Vance decided to “flee” to Seattle.
“I’ve been here through all the Read More
Here’s former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton’s robocall for Manhattan district attorney candidate Richard Aborn.
“He knows how to keep crime down, the right way,” Bratton says, before talking about Aborn’s fight against guns and plan to “give at-risk kids an alternative to crime.”
Part of Aborn’s strategy of not running as Read More
Last night’s debate among the Manhattan district attorney candidates was completely devoid of the fireworks and direct confrontation that marked their televised debate earlier this week.
Leslie Crocker Snyder, who took a shot at rival Cy Vance in her opening statement and pounded away at him during the earlier debate, had nothing negative Read More
–compiled by Azi Paybarah and Jimmy Vielkind
