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23 Jun, 12 tweets, 4 min read
Oh wow this is very not good – Chris Marte, the NIMBY FiDi/Chinatown Council candidate, is waaaay ahead web.enrboenyc.us/CD243400.html
Arthur Schwartz, the NIMBY running for Corey Johnson's west side seat, is losing handily to Erik Bottcher though web.enrboenyc.us/CD243210.html
No surprise that Gale Brewer is cleaning up on the Upper West Side web.enrboenyc.us/CD243610.html
Flushing was apparently not too enthused about the guy who was once accused by the South Korean government of running a group controlled by Pyongyang...looks like Sandra Ung will triumph over John Choe web.enrboenyc.us/CD243460.html
Tiffany Cabán is running away with it in Astoria web.enrboenyc.us/CD243490.html
It's about halftime in Ridgewood, and not looking great for Juan Ardila. The Republican anti-homeless shelter asshole is probably going to be the Democratic nominee web.enrboenyc.us/CD244140.html
Lincoln Restler is above 50% on the Williamsburg waterfront...it's the coronation is wanted. I was rooting for Elizabeth Adams, but at least ultra-NIMBY Cambranes has been trounced web.enrboenyc.us/CD243090.html
In Crown Heights, the more moderate Crystal Hudson has a decent lead over leftist tenant organizer Michael Hollingsworth web.enrboenyc.us/CD243350.html
Warrior in the Garden (group that led a lot of last summer's protests) Chi Ossé is gonna win Cornegy's Bed-Stuy seat web.enrboenyc.us/CD243790.html
Sandy Nurse is waaaay ahead of Darma Díaz in outer Bushwick/East New York. Díaz was the machine candidate, and once gave these ridiculous quotes to Streetsblog web.enrboenyc.us/CD243890.html
Sunset Park is emerging as a real hotbed of socialism. DSA- and AOC-endorsed Alexa Avilés is running away with it, and the more pro-development community board guy César Zúñiga is stuck in fourth place web.enrboenyc.us/CD243520.html
What the fuck web.enrboenyc.us/CD244240.html

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