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Next week whom are you planning to vote for, Hikind, Yaeger or Tischler?
Vote No on Referendum Ballot Question #1, so that the liberals shouldn’t amend the constitution for the worse.
I don’t live in Brooklyn, B”H, but I’m wondering about all the Yiddish ads Hikind is running in the Torah Times. Pages of them, but no ads at all in English. What’s with that?
Joseph, I don’t think amend is the right word. Isn’t the point of a constitutional convention to rewrite it from scratch? BTW, many people of various political persuasions oppose it because it would cost a lot of money.
The council district Hikind is running in has a huge proportion of Yiddish as a first language demographic. And the others are mostly also Yiddish capable.
No, the point of the convention is to propose amendments to the existing state constitution.
I understand the Yiddish ads, I just don’t understand the absence of English ads. Surely there are many voters in the district who either can’t read Yiddish or are more comfortable reading English.
From the NYC Campaign Finance Board’s voter guide: “Delegates can recommend changes to any part of the constitution or even rewrite the entire constitution.” Whatever they decide, it requires voter approval before becoming part of the constitution. It’s obviously a very different process than amending the Federal constitution.
Theoretically they can propose a new Constitution, but in every past constitutional convention since the 20th century that occurred in New York they’ve only proposed amendments to the existing Constitution. (In the 19th century they’ve replaced the previous Constitution.)
The Federal Constitution also has a process to call a constitutional convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution. It has never yet occurred but can be done.
Yager
I vote in the 48th so Chaim Deutsch
Kalman Yager originally was running against Chaim Deutch. (When Greenfield retired, Yaeger switched to Greenfield’s district as he figured it was easier to not run against an incumbent.)
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