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It actually tells you all you need to learn about City Councilman and comptroller-candidate Justin Brannan that a dozen or so clergy just known as him out for falsely claiming their endorsements.
“I felt violated,” Bishop E.M. Davis informed The Post.
“Let me make my own decision,” fumed Pastor Louis Bligen.
After a number of religion leaders stood up to complain, some saying they’d by no means even heard of him, Brannan’s marketing campaign deleted the social-media post.
It blamed an exterior vendor for the screwup — although getting bishops, pastors and so forth to endorse you appears a really weird factor to outsource.
That is: Even Brannan’s excuse has to make you ask why he ought to be given big energy over metropolis pension funds, among the many different tasks of the comptroller’s workplace.
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As the chosen candidate of the far-left Working Families Party, Brannan can a minimum of console himself with the backing of a slew of pro-Hamas Israel-haters, resembling anti-cop Councilwoman Tiffany Caban (D-Queens) and the notorious Linda Sarsour.
Of course, Brannan has earned Caban’s love on many fronts: He endorsed the council Progressive Caucus’ 2020 plan to defund the NYPD by $5 billion over 10 years and was one of 11 members who pledged to vote no on a metropolis price range that “does not significantly #DefundNYPD.”
And when the City Council nonetheless handed a price range that didn’t cut the NYPD deeply, he vowed that “the work doesn’t stop tonight.”
Not that he didn’t attempt going after Mark Levine, his opponent within the major, as a cop-defunder, till the controversy moderator known as out Brannan for throwing stones in a glass home: As the clergy fiasco reveals, Justin isn’t one to let info get in his approach.
The excellent news is, if Brannan can’t con the voters into making him comptroller, time period limits will quickly pressure him off the council — and maybe out of metropolis politics fully.
