I Voted For Bob

I was bombarded with Mail and phone calls, I got at least 10 yesterday

And I voted for Weprin

The #1 Issue is Israel and people are claiming Weprin is Anti-Israel which is not true

How many people in Flatbush are actually in this district?

The #1 Issue is Israel and people are claiming Weprin is Anti-Israel which is not true

how does turner stand regarding Israel (he’s the same if no one guessed as much)

Weprin Lives in Queens and has lived there all his life

He just doesnt live in the 9th CD (He lives just outside it, which is legal in NY) but its only a few blocks

Its so stupid,

I went to vote and they said I’m on the wrong side of the street, (I’m in the 6th across the strees from me is the 9th)

Biggest obsurdity of my life (yes bigger than mandatory recycling)

I don’t know where Turner davens, but Weprin davens at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates. This race has gotten out of hand with the ads, accusations and non stop robo calls. Simplistic ads insulting the voters intell1gence from both sides.

coffee:

Lol. So then what happens to the people around your corner?

*kapusta*

Kapusta,

Everyone knows that’s a different street so that could be a different district

I’m So anxious 2 see the results on the yeshiva world…

oops that was a bit premature the article on the front page said 100 precints reporting i thought that meant 100 pct lol

Me too.

Incidentally, the DrudgeReport is a few minutes ahead on this.

for those that stay only on YWN and don’t go to goyishe websites

here are excerpts from CNN and Fox News

I’ll start with CNN

“We’ve asked the people of this district to send a message to Washington, and I hope they hear it loud and clear,” Turner said at his election party in Queens with a packed room, many of them Orthodox Jews.

“Mr. President, you are on the wrong track.”

Fittingly, in a race largely centered on U.S. policies toward Israel, Turner stood on a stage with Israeli and American flags behind him.

Koch, a Democratic Jew, hoped his support would send a message to the White House that Jewish Americans were dissatisfied with Obama’s policies on Israel — namely the president’s position that a future Mideast peace solution requires Israel to return to its pre-1967 borders, with land swaps.

“I like President Obama … I helped get him elected,” Koch said at Turner’s election night party. “But he threw Israel under the bus.”

minutes after the election, the Republican Jewish Coalition released a statement in support of Turner.

“Jewish voters are coming to see that Republicans offer real solutions to our economic crisis, are resolute friends of Israel, and represent a way forward to a better future,” said executive director Matt Brooks.

He added that the election has “huge implications for 2012 races in states with large Jewish communities, such as Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”

now for FOX

Weprin, a 56-year-old Orthodox Jew and member of a prominent Queens political family, seemed a good fit for the largely white, working-class district, which is nearly 40 percent Jewish.

Weprin became embroiled in New York-centric disputes over Israel and gay marriage, which cost him some support among Jewish voters.

Orthodox Jews, who tend to be conservative on social issues, expressed anger over Weprin’s vote in the Assembly to legalize gay marriage. In July, New York became one of six states to recognize same-sex nuptials.

Former Mayor Ed Koch, a Democrat, endorsed Turner in July as a way to “send a message” to Obama on his policies toward Israel. And Weprin was challenged on his support of a proposed Islamic center and mosque near the World Trade Center site, in lower Manhattan.