With respect to Israel, although David is now a State elected and was a City elected prior to becoming an Assemblyman, there is no other elected official with the exception of Dov Hikind who has been as big a supporter of Israel as David. He has sponsored and passed numerous resolutions in the City Council and State Senate supporting Israel and demonstrating when he thought that Israel was being treated unfairly.

The two main criticisms on David Weprin are his vote for Gay Marriage and his support of the placement of the mosque in downtown Manhattan.

Lets tackle both of these issues.

Gay Marriage – David Weprin voted for Gay Marriage in the Assembly but the assembly has voted for Gay Marriage and PASSED gay marriage 3 times prior to this vote. The Assembly always votes for gay marriage in a heavy majority. The reason why gay marriage passed was because of the State Senate passing it. I can go through the internal political logistics on the phone or in person but David had no choice but to vote yes on this and it passed by over 70 votes and would have passed with or without David Weprin’s vote.

Placement of the Mosque – This is a simple issue. The Mosque had all proper clearance to be built near ground zero. If the JCCMP had a property that it was allowed to build a community center on and didn’t need a variance to do so, a large part of Marine Park residents would be very opposed to this but if the JCCMP had legal clearance to build it, I would imagine that they would build it. Its the same thing with the Mosque. They had a right to build it there, though they ended up not building it there. Did most people want the mosque to be built there ? No. Were the Allowed to build it there and did they have a legal right to do so ? Yes, they did. And that is exactly what David Weprin said.

I’ll leave you with a couple of tidbits on your candidate of choice – Bob Turner:

Bob Turner lives in Breezy Point, NY. Breezy Point now has about 10,000 residents. Its a gated community in Queens and to live there, a person needs to be sponsored by 3 families who live there. Therefore, there are NO Observant Jews and NO minorities who live in Breezy Point. It is unofficially known as the most racist neighborhood in New York City. That is where Bob Turner lives.

Bob Turner was the creator and principal funder of the Jerry Springer show. In case you are not familiar with this program, here is a link where you can learn more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Springer_Show . The Jerry Springer show regularly addressed “important” topics such as: such adultery, zoophilia, divorce, homophobia, incest, infidelity, pedophilia, pornography, prostitution, racism, strange fetishes, dwarfism, or transvestism. There was an episode that caused much controversy and was not aired on TV stations across the country entitled “I married a horse”. It is very curious that there is a backlash against David Weprin for casting a meaningless vote for Gay Marriage but its OK to create a show regarding bestiality.

As an aside, Bob Turner fully supports Civil Unions which is virtually identical to Gar Marriage.

EDUCATE YOURSELVES!

I think that says it all.

I think my head just exploded. I have no dog in the race since I’m not a NYer, but that’s a bit of chutzpah, no?