St. Michael's Cementery?

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How not to publish a headline

Oh my.

Katz as Katz can

The first thing you notice when you go to melindakatz.com is that her "news" hasn't been updated in more than a month and apparently her children haven't grown either. The older one is 5 and the younger one is 2, but you wouldn't know it from that photo.

You'd think the County candidate would have the resources to hire someone that knows that the Senator's name is spelled Toby Ann Stavisky, not Stavinsky. Pretty impressive that she got Ed Koch to endorse her, but he's now deceased. Bragging about the endorsement of a dead man? Really, this woman has NO shame whatsoever.

I like the fact that her campaign is also too cheap to pay for photo hosting.

My favorite line from her bio: "In 2009, Melinda was the only woman running in the Democratic primary for New York City Comptroller." Now there's a qualification.

These are the things you have to highlight when you spent your political career harming the borough instead of helping. Not one constituent or civic endorsement appears on the page.

Actually, this unprofessional woman is the absolute perfect choice to represent modern-day Queens.

Shafran campaign headscratchers

When you take a look at Austin Shafran's website, the top of the page under the banner contains tabs highlighting the candidate's endorsements. Here's the one for the Teamsters.  (His mom works for their president, you see.)



But when you get to the tab for Governor Cuomo, it's not an endorsement, just a screenshot of an old announcement from when Austin was appointed as a spokesperson for the Empire State Development Corporation, one of those useless money pits of a state agency (think Atlantic Yards and Columbia University eminent domain projects and Moynihan Station).  Also of interest is the following press release that contains some grammatical/spelling issues. And this guy was once a state spokesman...



Team Shafran likes to post photos of themselves hard at work.  At this strategy meeting was Manhattan Young Democrat Sarah Dinhofer, who was apparently the target of this Facebook page and, as evidenced by the comment on the bottom right corner of the page, thinks it's hilarious.  She's also apparently a fan of very politically incorrect language, and either likes or dislikes it "when Tanvir scoops her chesticles." This is going to be one interesting campaign!



Now here comes the one part of this post that I made up for April Fool's Day:

Austin Shafran:  District 19's man of mystery.

Vicky's colossal mistake

Instead of Astoria Boulevard, where the pro-life center is located, whoever typed this up accidentally put in "Abortion Boulevard."