The fact is that the audience last night responded most warmly and excitedly to McMillan’s so-crazy-it-just-might-work rent reduction plan, and Hawkins’s general decency and exasperation, and Redlich’s idealistic anti-government stance, and Davis’s tongue-lashings. These are not, in the parlance, “viable” candidates. But they — well, Hawkins and Redlich, anyway — offer viable plans. via Cuomo […]
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Hofstra Debate: Notes from an eyewitness…
Kimberly writes: So, I was able to attend the debate as a friend of the Green Party. I was sitting in the special seating on the ground floor. Though, in the last row (right in front of the stand for the still photographers.) Some impressions: It was all very exciting. The moderators were Doug Geed […]
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