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Rangel race gets messier
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| Contributor | Imperator |
| Last Edited | Imperator Jul 07, 2012 09:58am |
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| Author | CHARLES MAHTESIAN |
| News Date | Saturday, July 7, 2012 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The disputed primary election between Rep. Charlie Rangel and second-place finisher state Sen. Adriano Espaillat is getting even messier.
According to a New York Daily News report, the deputy chief clerk for Manhattan’s Board of Elections held a meeting in Harlem with key Rangel campaign operatives and local leaders supporting Rangel three days before the June 26 primary.
But there were clear signs of foul play in this race before the first vote was cast.
The News has learned that on Saturday morning, June 23, Timothy Gay, the deputy chief clerk for Manhattan’s Board of Elections — and the person currently supervising the count of the votes in the Manhattan part of the 13th Congressional District — held a meeting in Harlem with key Rangel campaign operatives, and with district leaders supporting Rangel.
Asked about the meeting, Gay said he attended at the request of state Assemblyman Keith Wright, the Manhattan Democratic chairman, to provide “district leaders with lists of their Democratic inspectors assigned to their specific districts” and to “discuss election matters in general.”
So why did candidate Rangel’s campaign staffers attend, while no Democratic district leaders who supported Espaillat were invited?
Gay said he was “fairly certain” that only Democratic district leaders were in the room, and he hastened to add that he attended “on my own free time.”
Traditionally, district leaders are the ones who get to name the poll workers that the board will hire for their districts on Election Day.
Yet a half-dozen district leaders who supported Espaillat told me this week that the Board of Elections rejected virtually all the people they recommended as poll workers.
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