A Hateful Racist Like Barron is the Last Thing NYC Needs

A number of my fellow elected officials met this morning along with former Mayor Ed Koch to address the press regarding our shock and dismay over Charles Barron's candidacy.

It has been made very clear that Charles Barron is unrelentingly racist and hateful. From his rabid attacks on whites and refusal to salute the American flag to his endless rhetoric about Jews and Israel, Barron proves again and again that his is a voice of divisiveness, a dying breed that sane New Yorkers no longer care to hear from.

Front row: Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz, Councilman David Greenfield, former Mayor Ed Koch, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein

Ed Towns Endorses Charles Barron: A Bad Dream or Insanity?

It is outrageous that retiring Congressman Ed Towns has endorsed the infamous Charles Barron. Barron’s resume of race baiting and contemptible anti-White statements should disqualify him as someone worthy of public office.

Ed Towns has either gone mad or this is a terrible joke. Ed knows what Barron is all about. Our communities have stood with Ed through thick and thin and now he’s destroyed his legacy by endorsing someone who is as radical as they come? Someone who hates Whites? It’s a shock and an embarrassment.

I’ve always considered Ed Towns a friend and now he’d stabbed us in the back. Barron’s statement that he’d like to slap the nearest white person is just one example of the kind of person that Towns is inviting into Congress. Barron wrote an editorial praising Muammar Gaddafi. He refuses to salute the American flag. The list of his radical antics goes on and on. This is the type of person Ed Towns wants as a lawmaker? It’s either a bad dream or its insanity.