The Brooklyn Courier ran an article earlier this week on the race to succeed City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who will be term-limited in 2009. I didn’t see the article online, but a reader faxed me a copy of it, which gives (of course) special prominence to the Brooklyn candidates for the job, including Sara Gonzalez, Vincent Gentile" class="company-link">Vincent Gentile and Leticia James.
But there are other candidates worth acknowledging, like Dan Garodnick" class="company-link">Dan Garodnick and likely incoming member Denny Farrell, both of Manhattan.
Gonzalez’s spokesman Michael Schweinsburg makes the most colorful argument for considering a non-Manhattan candidate for the speaker’s job.
From the article:
“They [other boroughs] have licked on their lollipop too many times, so enough is enough already.”
