�Ken Thompson�s campaign is like a Seinfeld episode,� Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes charged at a campaign stop this morning. �It�s a campaign about nothing because he has no experience.� Mr. Hynes was campaigning with volunteers outside of a Brooklyn subway stop at the beginning of a 8-day borough-wide bus tour.

Mr. Hynes defended his campaign amid anger over a recent Yiddish ad in in the Satmar weeklies, that was interpreted as racist and hate-mongering. �It�s not my advertisement. I didn�t put it in. I had no control over the content,� Mr. Hynes told Politicker. �What I was told was that the minority word refers to turnout and not African-Americans. I had nothing to do with the ad.�

Mr. Hynes was asked to respond to Mr. Hikind’s claim. “This is the guy who has blackface? You know, nobody pays attention to Dov Hikind,” Mr. Hynes told YWN. “Dov Hikind, a relatively mature man wearing blackface.. That’s a schmuck.”

Mr. Hynes further dismissed a BuzzFeed report that accused one of his allies, Sol Wachtler, of using an anti-black Yiddish slur in emails with Mr. Hynes.

�That I would seriously allow anyone to use that derogatory term in my presence without condemning them�it�s an outrage,� Mr. Hynes said, claiming a hacker had obtained and altered the emails. �There�s no question that the hacker who hacked into my account substituted those words to embarrass Judge Wachtler and me.�

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)