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Yetta Kurland, district 3 challenger
Christine Quinn, New York City Council Speaker, faces tough competition from challengers Yetta Kurland and Maria Passannante-Derr. Kurland, an openly gay civil rights attorney, has received substantial support from the LGBT community. Quinn, also openly gay, seems to have alienated a large section of the LGBT community. Several major endorsements from the gay community have gone to Kurland over Quinn. Passannante-Derr, an attorney, also chairs Community Board #2 and comes from a family with deep political ties to the area.
So, how seriously is Quinn taking the challenge? We will see next Thursday, August 13, 2009 during a debate held at New York University, Room 101, from 7:00 - 8:30pm. All three candidates are scheduled to appear and hash out the issues. A hot issue during the debate will be Quinn's support of term limit extensions. Quinn voted to extend term limits from 2 to 3 which allowed Mayor Mike Bloomberg to run for a third term. Constituents of New York City had previously voted against extending term limits.
Quinn has yet to build a political campaign website. The future site consists of a landing page welcoming the public and informing them that the site will be available in the future - the primary election is in approximately 6 weeks. For voters "in the know", Quinn has held several fund raisers and is holding weekly events at her campaign office headquarters for the public. Both challengers are actively campaigning and have fully functional websites, photo streams, video, up to date event calendars, information about their campaigns and links to several social networking websites offering more information about the candidates. The District 3 race is largely seen as a throw down between Quinn and Kurland. However, with the debates, Passannante-Derr has a chance to position herself as a real contender in the race.
Comments
Here is website on Quinn
christinequinn.com
Christine Quinn tries to play the gay community but we seen her true colors. she shuns gays issues to get non-gay votes. She doesn't even give literature with pictures of her and her partner. She tries her best to look heterosexual and shuns us for the straight community. She is SELL OUT
Quinn failed to act aggressively or speak out during and following the questionable arrests of 50 middle-aged gay men, some of them European tourists, who were busted in an NYPD campaign to shut down adult bookstores. Facing a threat from protesters to picket the Bloomberg mansion, she eventually called a meeting of the PD, mayor's office and community activists but failed to show up for it. Months later, some of those arrested are still trying to get their names cleared.
*Quinn struck a "back room" deal with the NYPD that would limit Freedom of Assembly. The rule required that any gathering of 50 or more people had to go through the city's onerous permit approval process.
*Quinn's flip-flop on term limits, which allowed Mayor Bloomberg another term, was fueled not by concern over the economy, as she claimed in October, 2008, but her ultimate goal of being elected mayor. Moss also suggests that her flip-flop resulted in the slush fund investigation being placed on the back burner
from dumpchristinequinn.com
Chris Quinn learned all the bad things about unions from her father, and has ignored the good. She has learned about all the corrupting aspects of wealth from Mr. Bloomberg, without studying the power of money to do good. She has learned about pork from, among others, a politician whose religious traditions proscribe its consumption.
I do not support Christine Quinn because she is bad for New York City -- and because she dishonors a gay history that reaches back to the Mattachine Society to make her possible.
My only hope is that the reason she has to beg her home club, Chelsea Reform Democratic Club, to come out and help her carry home the third term that she believes she has stolen "fair and square" is because they, too, recognize the dishonor she brings to us. They, too, recognize that she has wasted the opportunity that New York City gave her to be the first openly gay/lesbian Speaker and one of the "50 most powerful women" not to fulfill the miss
Chris Quinn learned all the bad things about unions from her father, and has ignored the good. She has learned about all the corrupting aspects of wealth from Mr. Bloomberg, without studying the power of money to do good. She has learned about pork from, among others, a politician whose religious traditions proscribe its consumption.
I do not support Christine Quinn because she is bad for New York City -- and because she dishonors a gay history that reaches back to the Mattachine Society to make her possible.
My only hope is that the reason she has to beg her home club, Chelsea Reform Democratic Club, to come out and help her carry home the third term that she believes she has stolen "fair and square" is because they, too, recognize the dishonor she brings to us. They, too, recognize that she has wasted the opportunity that New York City gave her to be the first openly gay/lesbian Speaker and one of the "50 most powerful women" not to fulfill the mission she proposed to lead, but
QUINN BETRAYS VOTERS ON TERM LIMITS
Quinn vowed to voters last year that she would respect the term limits
law approved in 1993 and 1996 by citywide referendums. "The voters
have made their will very, very clear," she said. But now Quinn has
changed her mind and supports a third term for Mayor Bloomberg. As
the most powerful member of the City Council, she will use her
leverage to circumvent the democratic process.
QUINN BETRAYS PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
Speaker Quinn has shown no leadership on HIV/AIDS. She has opposed
comprehensive harm reduction and HASA for ALL and has slashed $6
million of funds directed towards HIV/AIDS programs from the 2009
budget. According to Housing Works, budget meetings were highly
secretive and many councilmembers were cut out of the decision making
process.
QUINN BETRAYS TAXPAYERS WITH ILLEGAL SLUSH FUNDS
Speaker Quinn continues to be investigated by the US Attorney for
hiding millions of dollars in the city budget in 2007-08.
what the hell, Quinn doesn't have her own website?????? LOL
Inez Dickens is cut from the same mold when it comes to informing her constituency
Inez sold out to Quinn who promise her the speaker role once she moved to her mayoral ambition. blah
Hello, Quinn is rotten and unqualified. I read up about this Yetta person and she is civil rights attorney, teacher, has own law practice and create her own school and taught overseas in Korea. She is smart and we need a change since Quinn dump on us. Someone told me Quinn has a 2 year associate and feel into this position. I guess she sold out to keep her job but it is up to us now to clean the city council and restore the power of the people. Yetta Yes.
No third term for politicians, who subverted the will of the voters. Quinn: out. Yetta: in !
I have to say with this article I find the last sentence to be quite ironic. Maria Passannante-Derr's performance last night in the debates was truly horrible. I went in as a Quinn supporter who was very open to learning about the other challengers (and came away quite impressed with Yetta- she really handled herself well) but Ms. Passannante-Derr came across as far, far too angry and emotional to even discuss the issues. I don't doubt Ms. Kurland's passion, but I can only assume that Maria Passannante-Derr was just running for the chance to snarl almost incoherently at Quinn. That is a shame, as I met several of the people working for her and they all seemed sincere in shaking things up. Politics often involves trying to have discussions with people you hate about issues that really fire you up. I came away clearly seeing there were two people on the panel that could handle that situation and one who could not.
These comments are idiotic and uninformed. As an example of the kind of misinformation that people are circulating, let me address what"Quinn Betrayed Me" (QBM) wrote. He wrote that Quinn betrayed people living with HIV/AIDS because she opposed HASA for all, and QBM cites Housing Works as an authority on whether or not that's good policy. HASA was intended to provide housing for people whose immune systems are so compromised by HIV that they couldn't work. But today, for most people, HIV is neither a death sentence, nor a bar to holding down a job. Think of all the rich white circuit boys who party, party, party. They are lawyers, doctors, bankers, entrepreneurs. And a lot of them are positive. Do they deserve free housing? Hell no. Does Housing Works want taxpayers to pay for free housing for every single person who has HIV? Yes. I'm glad that Chris Quinn has the strength to stand up to such ridiculous ideas.
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