Comments on: A Primer on Local Bushwick Politics

By: learntospell

learntospell — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:06:18 +0000

Muah, right on Vito’s butt regarding comment #10. How does it taste?

By: Jose and Maria of 5A

Jose and Maria of 5A — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:16:52 +0000

God Bless you Vito Lopez and everyone who works with you! What a great team serving the public!
You are history in the making! Bushwick is looking Great! Also many blessings to Angela, Maritza, and Sonia for your great services and professionalism to the public! Thank you All!

By: maria

maria — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:37:04 +0000

yea please take a look at Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council i mean they provide services to hard working parents at no cost when other places charge close to a hundred dollars for the same services. Oh and dont forget about all the things they do during the holidays for the children in the community there is something definitely wrong with that.

By: drr

drr — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:21:11 +0000

Yeah, see if you can find out what’s up with the senior citizens…I hear some of them get their meals for free! Delivered right to their homes! Seems pretty shady…

By: threehegemons

threehegemons — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:19:36 +0000

More local politics please. You might want to look into the Bushwick-Ridgewood Senior Citizens Council, which apparently is an important element of Vito Lopez’ base.

By: Ando

Ando — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:12:03 +0000

Yes please more local politics! Especially given Vito Lopez’s significant sway in Brooklyn and Erik Dilan’s generosity with city funds.

By: drr

drr — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:27:34 +0000

Hmm. I did find this.

By: drr

drr — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:47:03 +0000

Erik Dilan definitely helped me (I’m a “young” professional who recently moved to the neighborhood). I posted about it here before–I wrote him as part of an effort to do something about a rogue car alarm on my block.
I got a nice informative non-form letter back, along with a cc: of a letter from him to the DOE containing the specifics of my complaint, and within a week inspectors came, ticketed the car (its alarm went off maybe a hundred times a day, all day), and the problem hasn’t reoccurred.
Maybe it’s just a little thing to you but it was like a miracle to me.
So, maybe there’s a machine keeping better qualified people out of the seat, I don’t know, but I’m *really* thankful for what he did, and from what little I know this guy is doing the job well. If there are specifics about “rampant corruption” in relation to this councilman of course I’d like to hear them, but as far as I’m concerned he seems to really care about the quality of life in Bushwick.
I do commend these interest groups for taking an interest, and if they can find someone better, great.

By: j

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:21:45 +0000

i was pretty excited about the possibility of running until i got to this part:

“THE LAST DAY TO CHANGE ENROLLMENT IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE SEPTEMBER 2008 PRIMARY ELECTION WAS OCTOBER 12, 2007. So in other words, if you did not “convert” your registration from another Party by last October, you cannot run or vote in the Primary Election!”

fuck, i bet i’m not the only recently converted obama-crat facing this same problem. still, i’m glad to hear nkd is at least starting to confront the rampant corruption in our local politics, even if it’s just baby steps for the time being– you gotta start somewhere.

By: Hrag

Hrag — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:18:53 +0000

Thanks for the useful primer. Though wasn’t there rumors of housing developers and kickbacks to the candidates a few years back? What ever happened to those?