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August 12, 2009
The Day: Have You Seen This Woman?
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]
by Michael Szeto
Interesting story from The Times's Brooklyn blog.
She’s running for City Council and has been since March. She must be running some kind of campaign because she has spent $23,392 and raised $22,585, according to her latest filing in July.
But Delia Hunley-Adossa remains oddly invisible, at least to the media.
Last week, The Local made many telephone calls to Ms. Hunley-Adossa and left several voice messages. All went unanswered and unreturned. In fact, The Local dialed her number so many times we can remember it.
Calls to friends and supporters didn’t help.
...Ms. Hunley-Adossa’s opponents do not seem to know what is going on, either.
City Councilwoman Letitia James says she hasn’t seen Ms. Hunley-Adossa for at least a month.
“It’s a bit perplexing,” said Medhanie Estiphanos, the other candidate in the race.
Nor are we the only news outlet that is having trouble contacting Ms. Hunley-Adossa.
“We at The Brooklyn Paper have been astounded by the lack of response to our questions from Delia and her campaign,” said Gersh Kuntzman, editor of The Brooklyn Paper. “She aspires to a very lofty position –- public servant –- and, as such, she needs to answer questions from independent media.”
...Ms. Hunley-Adossa, 52, was last spotted on July 30 next to State Senator Marty Golden and Bertha Lewis, an organizer for the activist organization, ACORN, at an Atlantic Yards hearing. The three of them were at the hearing to show support for the Atlantic Yards project.
NoLandGrab: It's more than highly unusual for a candidate challenging a popular incumbent in a primary race less than five weeks away to disappear, or at least to appear to disappear. Let us offer our sincere hope that Ms. Hunley-Adossa is ok and missing only from the media.
Posted by eric at August 12, 2009 1:08 PM