Charles Barron
Congressional Black Caucus chair says they won't side with Jeffries or Barron
The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus sees a silver lining in the divisive primary fight to replace Representative Ed Towns in Brooklyn.
"The good news is there is hardly any chance we won't have a C.B.C. member elected from that seat," said Emmanuel Cleaver, a longtime congressman from Missouri who has chaired the caucus since 2010. More
Barron announces endorsements from two City Council members, and the Sierra Club
"He is a people's candidate and a man whose words resonates among many households," said City Councilwoman Diana Reyna of Brooklyn. She acknowledged Barron had abrasive rhetoric, but said it served to "reminds all of us [in the City Council] what communities, what communities are voiceless. It's worth noting that Reyna also has a long-running feud with the Brooklyn Democratic County Leader, Vito Lopez, who is supporting Barron's rival, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries. The vice-chair of the Sierra Club's New York City chapter, Irene van Slyke, said Barron was an early and outspoken critic of the Atlantic Yards project and attended the group's endorsement meeting. "His opponent has been absent, not sometimes but all the time including not showing up at neighborhood debates and the Sierra Club endorsement interview," she said, with Barron's hand on her left shoulder.
Later, Slyke said, "On Atlantic Yards, Mr. Barron showed up when it really counted" early on "when we needed political support to fight a project that was totally out of control."
Barron, she said, "spoke out when it really counted. Mr. Jeffries came after all the decisions had been made. It didn't count anymore. It was just recently." More
Welcome to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Ohio
On Thursday night, beneath a framed picture of Robert Mugabe, a big dry-erase calendar and a map of the newly configured eighth congressional district, about a dozen campaign volunteers for Charles Barron were toiling away inside a little cafe called Sistas' Place on Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. More
(2)Nervousness about Charles Barron prompts a flood of national money for Hakeem Jeffries
The fear that Charles Barron might actually win next week's primary for a Brooklyn-Queens congressional seat has triggered a flood of contributions from all across the country to his opponent, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries. More
(2)Jeffries calls on Barron to denounce an unsolicited endorsement from David Duke
Charles Barron got an endorsement today that he probably wasn't looking for, in the form of a long video message from former Louisiana congressman and KKK leader David Duke.
Duke's argument, such as it is, seems to be that he'd rather have the anti-Zionist candidate, even if he's a black nationalist. Barron, who has picked up a few endorsements of late after initially being seen as an after-thought, has tried to downplay his controversial foreign policy statements in recent weeks. He called the endorsement "foolish" and irrelevant. More
Charles Barron, not surging in fund-raising, reports $11k on hand
Charles Barron may have the attention of the national media and concerned Democrats, but he still doesn't have much money.
Five days after the filed deadline, Barron finally posted his pre-primary disclosure report on Wednesday night. More
Chuck Schumer endorses Hakeem Jeffries, mentioning Israel but not Charles Barron
Senator Charles Schumer endorsed Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries today in the Democratic primary for Ed Towns' soon-to-be-open congressional seat in Brooklyn and Queens, citing Jeffries' support for Israel and avoiding any mention of the other candidate in the race, Councilman Charles Barron. More
(3)Chuck Schumer will address the Charles Barron situation 'in the near future'
Senator Chuck Schumer wasn't ready to sound any alarms about Charles Barron at his Sunday press conference yesterday.
"I'll be speaking about that in the near future," Schumer said, cutting off a question about whether he was concerned the outspoken Barron could win an open congressional seat in Brooklyn. More
(1)Charles Barron's Orthodox Jewish former 'odd couple' colleague says he must be stopped
Notably absent from a large press conference on Monday at which Jewish Democrats denounced Charles Barron as an enemy of Israel was an Orthodox Jew who served on the City Council with Barron for almost a decade: Simcha Felder. More
Does Charles Barron have your attention now?
The unapologetically confrontational councilman and former Black Panther is running for an open congressional seat against Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a moderate African-American Democrat with broad support. More
(3)Hakeem Jeffries and Charles Barron try to out-Obama each other
In Brooklyn's new eighth congressional district, it's still an unconditionally good thing to be seen as close to President Obama. More
Council members to Bloomberg: Why do you care about soda more than X?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on the sale of super-sized drinks doesn't need City Council approval, which is just as well. More
Accepting his first big endorsement, Charles Barron says he's not the controversial one
Charles Barron accepted an endorsement today.
On the steps of City Hall, the controversial councilman picked up his first big show of support from DC 37, the city's largest public employees union.
It's something of a coup for Barron, who has consistently shrugged off the steady stream of support for his more palatable opponent, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries. More
(4)The Kovners, Giske and Ellner co-host cocktails for 'rising star' Jeffries
Brooklyn congressional candidate Hakeem Jeffries was dubbed a "rising star" in yesterday's local power spread in the Metropolitan section of the New York Times, which Jeffries' campaign duly emailed to supporters today.
But a better measure of Jeffries' star power is in another link in the same email, to a cocktail reception at the home of Victor and Sarah Kovner. More
(1)The City Council distributes money a little like how Charles Barron said it does
Millions of dollars in discretionary City Council funds are distributed based on politics, rather than the needs of the districts that receive them.
According to a report from Citizens Union, the chairmen of the finance and housing committees, Domenic Recchia and Eric Dilan, who also happen to be close allies of the powerful Brooklyn Democratic County leader, got more than $100 million. Republican Dan Halloran and his predecessor, maverick Democrat Tony Avella, combined, got $9.5 million. More
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