Friday, March 13, 2020

Early voting for Borough President election will proceed during coronavirus scare


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 THE CITY

Queens residents will be able to cast their votes early beginning Saturday to decide who will become the next borough president.

With anxieties about the coronavirus pandemic high, the city Board of Elections and several candidates for borough president are encouraging people to vote ahead of the March 24 special election to lessen the opportunity for large crowds at polling locations.

“This is an opportunity for Queens residents to avoid the highest turnout on the final day of voting,” said Councilmember Costa Constantinides, who is among the half-dozen candidates vying for the seat vacated by Melinda Katz, now the borough’s district attorney.

Candidates said they’re rolling with the race’s current changing landscape, and at least three of the six are pressing pause on get out the vote efforts in the field.

Constantinides announced Thursday his campaign was halting handing out fliers at subway stations and knocking on doors to speak to voters.

“Our organizers and volunteers go door-to-door or to mass transit hubs everyday, and we do not want to put the health of them or anyone else at risk at this time,” said Patrick Jordan, Constantinides’ campaign manager.

Former City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley’s campaign also announced on Thursday it would suspend in-person canvassing.

“Our campaign is halting canvassing because of the coronavirus pandemic to protect the safety and health of all,” Crowley said. “We are following all guidelines from public health officials during this fast moving crisis.”

Councilmember Donovan Richards’ spokesperson also said they would halt canvassing.
Retired NYPD sergeant Anthony Miranda said he harbored concerns that his campaign volunteers might be endangering their health. They have reported fewer people were opening their doors.

“It’s presenting a lot of challenges right now to the known methods of collecting signatures,” Miranda said. “We are in a scary place right now in terms of just community health.”

33 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ironic how, after ignoring you while they sit on your tab years in office, our collective in-baskets are flooded for months with breathless aides extolling how exciting all this is.

Anonymous said...

Is it true that after Jimmy dropped out over concerns of his mother's health, she walked the entire distance of the St Pats for All Parade?

Anonymous said...

Useless election and useless office. However, to get that interim Linda Sarsour-loving bigot out, I'll take the election this month.

Anonymous said...

I could not give a flying fart about this totally crappy third world borough. Thank you to the all the hippies who allowed open borders saying all immigrants are good and we should let people in without reviewing their merits, whether or not they speak English, whether they have employable skills, whether they will create new jobs and if they affect jobs for citizens, whether or not they have a criminal history or links or any other red flags.
Having a system that assesses people based on their own individual character and history is "racist" to you goddamn liberal PC hippies, and thanks to you this city and country is forever ruined. I never even mentioned race because I have met people who have come here, integrated, raised good kids, I love those people, not someone who does not bother to blend into our society which make up a good number of the current inhabitants of Queens.

Anonymous said...

don't worry Cuomo, who just said his father was the best governor in the history of this state, will take care of us. Big daddy will be there... as long as you vote him and his collection .

Anonymous said...

What's worse, Coronavirus or a useless political position like boro pres.?

Anonymous said...

PART One:

Don't waste your time, ALL QUEENS taxpaying (Taxation WITHOUT Representation) peasants, scullery maids and indentured servants for life: Voting doesn't work; there IS no freedom and democracy, and the entirely hyper-corrupt, entrenched, corporate fascist obedient and establishment-rigged, two-party-machine-failed duopoly DISEASE has taken root in ALL public elections——from the bottom rungs of extreme, City Council cronyism, to the mid level authoritarian, government bought henchmen of State Assembly, Senatorial Subjugation and right up to the top of ALL monstrously failed, empowered idiot positions of the mayoralty and governor (which is why thousands of fed up, overburdened, overtaxed, marginalized and dehumanized people are leaving this padded cell of a cesspool by the droves).

❝Voting has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs pre-selected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices who perpetrate the countless violations of the people's natural rights.❞ —―Robert Higgs

❝Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'❞ ——Wendy McElroy

❝If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it.❞ ——Mark Twain

❝Nothing in politics happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.❞ ——Franklin Delano Roosevelt

❝People spend so much time mocking President Donald TRUMP, or waiting for him to be impeached. And, the danger with that kind of obsession with a single person is that you don't see the system that produced him.❞ —Arundhati Ray, Indian novelist, human rights and environmental activist

You gotta wonder how much money TRUMP has, if he is able to hire the entire Democratic Party to run his reelection campaign!

❝It's ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society that is dominated by huge, oligarchical corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside of a corporation? They're totalitarian institutions—you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There's about as much freedom as under Stalinism.❞ ——Noam Chomsky

❝No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.❞ —―William Blum, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

❝American government is corrupt. Those who have enough money can almost get anything they want from our government, whether it is tax breaks, or subsidies, or policies and laws changed, removed, or added.❞ - Ravi Batra ―—The New Golden Age

❝What is masquerading as government is a crime syndicate with a flag. The US Government is an instrument of organized crime.❞ ——Nikki Alexander

❝The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.❞ —―Ralph Nader

❝The forest was shrinking, but the Trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever, and he convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood—he was one of them.❞ ―—Turkish proverb

Anonymous said...

PART Two:

❝When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. ❞ ―—Socrates

❝There's simply no polite way to tell people they've dedicated their lives to an illusion.❞ ——Daniel Dennett

❝The war was not meant to be won, it was meant to be continuous.❞ ——George Orwell

❝Terrorism, first and foremost, is an instrument of statecraft.❞ ——Neil Kramer

❝It's dangerous to be right when government is wrong.❞ ——Voltaire

❝Belief is the death of intelligence.❞ ——Robert Anton Wilson

❝To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.❞ ——Gore Vidal, 1961

❝We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.❞ ——Aesop

❝The Earth is not dying, it is being killed. And, the people who are killing it have names and addresses.❞ ——Utah Phillips

❝Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.❞ —―Robert LeFavre

❝A nation of sheep soon begets a government of wolves.❞ —―Edward R. Murrow

❝Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.❞ —―Friedrich Nietzsche

❝If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.❞ —―Malcolm X

❝The further a society drifts from the truth, the more contempt that it will have against anyone that speaks it.❞ —―George Orwell

❝The most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, that the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, and when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure―these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power ❞ —―Howard Zinn

Finally, when injustice becomes law——then resistance becomes duty!

❝I think that our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think that we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think that they are all insane. But, I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what is insane about it. Don't you agree?❞ —John Lennon

❝The nihilism and rage sweeping across the globe are not generated by warped ideologies or medieval religious beliefs. These destructive forces have their roots in the obliterating of social, cultural and religious traditions by modernization and the consumer society, the disastrous attempts by the United States to carry out regime change, often through coups and wars, and the utopian neoliberal ideology that has concentrated wealth in the hands of a tiny cabal of corrupt global oligarchs.❞ ——Chris Hedges, The Age of Anger

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-age-of-anger/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMntvVwwWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycuw9Cvh6W4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycuw9Cvh6W4

http://www.pbs.org/pov/darkmoney/

Anonymous said...

Go to
https://vote.nyc/
to find your early voting location

georgetheatheist said...

BTW It's not the "Corona" virus. It's the "WUHAN" virus.

Anonymous said...

With anxieties about the coronavirus pandemic high, the city Board of Elections and several candidates for borough president are encouraging people to vote ahead of the March 24 special election to lessen the opportunity for large crowds at polling locations.


That's a laugh, they are lucky if 5000 people throughout the whole borough even show up to vote for these elections. I'll definitely go to vote though even though I know some idiot dumbocrat will win it again. The candidates get worst and worst by the year.

Anonymous said...

Coronacrats to the rescue.

Anonymous said...

Well the Mad Ranter killed another discussion.

JQ LLC said...

last anon:

Just immediately scroll down.

@Anon re:vote

Just leave the ballot blank.

JQ LLC said...

George and the NY Post have a valid point.

I personally think the clinical COVID-19 should be used more often, but it's not catchy enough

https://nypost.com/2020/03/13/coronavirus-name-blame-game-is-an-insane-distraction-playing-into-beijings-hands/

Anonymous said...

@Blogger georgetheatheist said...
"BTW It's not the "Corona" virus. It's the "WUHAN" virus."
There goes your social score George !

Anonymous said...

On #TDS awareness day this November, wear an Orange ribbon and give a Red pill to anyone you know who suffers.

georgetheatheist said...

The Post's litany of geographical disease nomenclature is spot on:

Spanish Flu
Hong Kong Flu,
Asian Flu,
Rocky Mountain Fever
German Measles

And now the ChiComs are trying to divert attention from the fact that the current virus - the Wuhan virus - originated smack dab in the middle of central communist-led China. These ChiComs are a shifty bunch of bastards. Check out Queens Crap's and yours truly's expose of the ChiCom's devious methodology from the recent Lunar Parade in downtown Flushing HERE.

Congresswoman Grace Meng, a Taiwanese-American, do you know these things?

georgetheatheist said...

Friends, New Yorkers, Countrymen.

Just take a good look around you today at how your lives have been totally disrupted by what these asshole bastards in mainland China have perpetrated.

JQ LLC said...

Chicoms?

OK, we all know where the disease originated, that no one likes a commie and political correctness is ongoing problem in the dissemination of information and in public discussions, but let's take it down a big notch here.

Anonymous said...

It's always the case, Twain is a step ahead of the pack!

Anonymous said...

To two public fools JQ, and Anonymous who made the 'mad ranter' comment.

That person is neither mad, nor ranting. If both of you QUEENS County 'do nothing, know nothing,' political sycophants had ever bothered to listen and learn from those informative posts, instead of excoriating and vilifying an evolved and educated person, so unlike yourselves (who is merely trying to save you and the REST of the poor, invisible peasants from your own self-imposed beggary, obscurity and obviously quiet desperation - which is why you IRONICALLY keep coming back to this practically useless blog of great uselessness and bloviation, in the first place), then you just might have learned something, like what it means to lead by example, not to mention activism, protest, rally and resistance, to name but a few proactive exercises that actually COULD change New York State's corrupt system of rot and decay.

But, NOOOOO, all of you brave, noble 'Keyboard Warriors' would rather attack one of the ONLY decent learning tools on this vacuous thread, which is why you still need to post here, instead of taking your lazy asses to the streets to demand accountability that you will never see before the end of your unnaturally lazy (and, mentally lazy) life spans.

Good job, JQ - scroll your life away, plebeian, it's a good workout for any one of your hooves, and that's why ALL obedient animals deserve their QUEENS Animal Farm!

georgetheatheist said...

The Uighurs and the Tibetans should "take it down a big notch"?

Anonymous said...

Is anyone else annoyed by those stupid stickers they give out after you vote?
Waste of good money

Anonymous said...

To two public fools JQ, and Anonymous who made the 'mad ranter' comment.

That person is neither mad, nor ranting. If both of you QUEENS County 'do nothing, know nothing,' political sycophants had ever bothered to listen and learn from those informative posts, instead of excoriating and vilifying an evolved and educated person, so unlike yourselves (who is merely trying to save you and the REST of the poor, invisible peasants from your own self-imposed beggary, obscurity and obviously quiet desperation - which is why you IRONICALLY keep coming back to this practically useless blog of great uselessness and bloviation, in the first place), then you just might have learned something, like what it means to lead by example, not to mention activism, protest, rally and resistance, to name but a few proactive exercises that actually COULD change New York State's corrupt system of rot and decay.

But, NOOOOO, all of you brave, noble 'Keyboard Warriors' would rather attack one of the ONLY decent learning tools on this vacuous thread, which is why you still need to post here, instead of taking your lazy asses to the streets to demand accountability that you will never see before the end of your unnaturally lazy (and, mentally lazy) life spans.

Good job, JQ - scroll your life away, plebeian, it's a good workout for any one of your hooves, and that's why ALL obedient animals deserve their QUEENS Animal Farm!

JQ LLC said...

@GTA

I know you're just abbreviating but there's been a scourge of xenophobic attacks lately against Chinese and Korean people in this city in the last month over this pandemic. I know you're not responsible for them, but it's something to think about if that term is weaponized.

You can use that word whenever you want here, just letting you know that I don't and will never subscribe to it.

And @"Anon"

I was only telling that anon to just scroll down, didn't say anything critical about what that commentor wrote or what that commentor copied and pasted.

But now that I disappointed and am rendered useless by you "anon",you can easily choose to stop reading and commenting on this blog if you like (especially sending the same comments twice). Which is a damn shame because we need as many voices as we can right now.

And if you don't like my suggestions or opinions or feel that I am just a "lazy hooved keyboard warrior", you can always email the original crapper and register a complaint.

Thank you most sincerely

JQ LLC, Impunity City.

P.S. It's going to be hard to get my lazy ass on the street and protest when crowds of 500 aren't permitted during this global pandemic thing going on.


georgetheatheist said...

Add to that geographical disease list:

Lyme Disease (a town in Connecticut)
Ebola Virus (a river in Africa)

Anonymous said...

They're delusional if they think this election will draw a 'large crowd'.

Anonymous said...

Add to that geographical disease list:
Hantavirus was named for the Hantan River in South Korea.

Anonymous said...

Add to that geographical disease list:
Norovirus
Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an outbreak in 1968.

georgetheatheist said...

@JQ: Just curious about your personally not going to use the abbreviated "Chicom" for "Chinese Communist". Do you ever use for the followers of Hitler, then and now, the abbreviated "Nazi" for "National Socialist" ("Nationalsozialist")?

Luv ya. :)

Anonymous said...

George you must stop it now !
You are using way too much logic...

JQ LLC said...

@GTA re: chicom.

Just preparing for the media xenophobia monitoring blowback.