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September 15, 2010
No surprises at all in local primaries
The Brooklyn Paper
by Aaron Short and Andy Campbell
The headline overstates the absence of surprises, but one thing was very clear: candidates with a strong record of fighting Atlantic Yards won big.
State Senate — Democrats
Velmanette Montgomery, 12,742
Mark Pollard, 3,10418th District
Fort Greene, Park Slope and Red Hook
Incumbent Velmanette Montgomery won in an 81-19 percent landslide over newcomer Mark Pollard, yet another weak challenger to a senator who has been in Albany since 1986.
Some said Pollard was a fresh face, but Montgomery won big, in part due to her support for the federal Superfund clean-up of the Gowanus Canal, the fetid waterway that now has a federal budget, and her longtime opposition to the Atlantic Yards mega-development.
...District leaders
Chris Owens, 2,154
Jesse Strauss, 1,361
Stephen Williamson, 771Jo Anne Simon, 2,645
Hope Reichbach, 1,65752nd Assembly District
DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope
Posted by eric at September 15, 2010 12:19 PM