If you live in Brooklyn's 57th District, Write-In Metz

I think there may be a fair number of Brooklyn Kossites out there. For those of you who are registered in the 57th Assembly District, I urge you to vote, by write in, for Susan Metz.

Susan Metz is running against the indicted incumbent Roger Green. Roger Green was indicted, and under the pressure of having an Assembly ethics report released, resigned on June 1st. The next day he announced he would be running again. That ethics report has never been released.

The number one issue in this district is the 17 high-rise and basketball arena development proposed by Forest City Ratner.


Roger Green supports this project, while a majority of the district opposes it. The approval process for this proposed development is corrupt and stinks to high heaven. Bruce Ratner, the CEO of Forest City Ratner, is Gov. Pataki's old law school buddy. Mr. Pataki is doing all he can to roll out the red carpet for the development that would use enormous taxpayer subsidies, displace hundreds of residents through the abuse of eminent domain, and would create an environmental and traffic nightmare.

Susan Metz, who gathered 2,000 petition signatures for ballot placement was kept off the ballot due to a very small technicality, but clearly due to the extremely corrupt Brooklyn Democratic machine (its leader, Clarence Norman, is under investigation and is likely to be indicted).

Therefore Susan has run a write-in campaign. Here is an example of how to cast a write-in (its not so simple.)

If you care about the communities of the 57th District, if you care about having an unindicted represenative in the State Assembly, and if you are opposed to a corrupt development process, and opposed to Mr. Ratner's proposal, you have only one candidate to vote for, Susan Metz, independent.

And while you are at, if you are opposed to this development, vote for David McReynolds, Green for Senate, against Schumer. Obviously Schumer will win, but for his support of the Ratner development, and his undying support for the War, I cannot vote for him.

And, GOTV, GOTV, GOTV, GOTV!

•  I did, this am

  at the school on Adelphi St., but there were "mechanical problems" with people trying to write in Metz at some of the machines.

  by Passing Shot on Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 06:57:12 AM PDT