In a Facebook post announcing, “Consider the gauntlet thrown,” the Bay Ridge Democrats indicate that the club is ramping up a possible primary challenge to Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind (who has endorsed a number of Republicans for various offices lately).
Hikind has indicated that he will work to defeat President Obama for reelection — ideally on the side of Newt Gingrich, which would place him on collision course with the ultimatum.
“If Hikind does comes out and officially endorse a GOP candidate against Obama, we plan on giving him a primary,” a Bay Ridge Democrats spokesman told me, referencing a resolution they recently passed calling on Hikind, among others, to support the President. “And we already have the guy lined up.”
Hikind’s district, based outside of Bay Ridge, has a plethora of conservative Orthodox voters registered as Democrats, so it’s hard to see this as anything but an uphill fight against the unreliably Democratic Assemblyman.
(Source: Brooklyn Politics)
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We know who YW is endorsing.
Hikind can chose between being a DINO (Democrat in name only, due to his views on social issues and lack of loyalty to the party overall) or a RINO (Republican in name only, due to his willingness to support “tax and spend” policies). He has no incentive to switch parties in the Assembly where a Republican has no influence at this time.
Hikind made a huge mistake, when he publicly stated on Zev Brenan’s show, that, “He was shocked Lieby Kletsky’s murderer, who was actually born to a Jewish mother, can be so cruel”.
It’s bad enough even to imagine such an idea.
let em come. if they unseat hikind in a primary, a republican or even , gasp, a tea party candidate can then win the incumbentless seat. think bob turner taking a.w.’s seat
He should run against Gillibrand in the Democratic primary for New York’s Class 1 seat in the U.S. Senate.
I’m a registered Republican conservative, and would probably not even vote for Hikind, but he can actually win.
Maybe he’d be the next Moynihan.
Hikind will win, most people in BP dont know the diffeence anyway.