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August 3, 2006
Connor Seeks to Knock Primary Challenger from Ballot
Claims Ken Diamondstone missed residency requirement by one day
City Hall News
By Edward Isaac Dovere
State Sen. Martin Connor (D-Manhattan/Brooklyn), who was knocked out of his post as State Senate minority leader in 2002, is looking to do a little deposing of his own. He has filed a complaint with the board of elections looking to remove his Democratic primary challenger, Ken Diamondstone, from the ballot. Diamondstone was served Wednesday morning, with a Board of Elections hearing expected Thursday and a court case expected sometime during the week of Aug. 7. ...
“Whatever it is, we’re not particularly concerned with what’s in there, but what he’s doing again what he always does,” Diamondstone said, calling Connor a man who will use his expertise in election law as an alternative recourse to campaigning.“We’ve always thought that he would try and use his skills. He’s not campaigning, he’s not raising money. The only thing he has left is using his skills as an election lawyer,” Diamondstone said. “This is his stock and trade, trying to knock people off the ballot.”
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But Diamondstone is not concerned.“We can prove everything,” he said. “These are not issues that will be in dispute.”
NoLandGrab: The Party Machine is turning over every rock, looking for a way to kick insurgent candidate and Atlantic Yards-critic Ken Diamondstone off the ballot.
NLG readers may be familiar with the byline — in what was probably not the high point in his journalistic career, Edward Isaac Dovere was listed as the Executive Editor of Bruce Ratner's phony newspaper, The Brooklyn Standard.
Posted by lumi at August 3, 2006 8:15 AM