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The Bipartisan Crowd at McCain's Speech in Bay Ridge

April 10, 2008 | 12:45 p.m
Republicans Marty Golden and Andrew Lanza wait for McCain<br /> (Azi Paybarah!)
Republicans Marty Golden and Andrew Lanza wait for McCain
Azi Paybarah!

John Turnbull, the owner of Windows We Are, Inc. in Bay Ridge, where John McCain is set to deliver a speech with an introduction by Michael Bloomberg, just told me he's a Democrat and voted for Al Gore in 2004 2000.

But being a Democrat in Bay Ridge is sort of like being a Republican on the Upper West Side.

When I asked if he thought Bloomberg would make a good vice presidential candidate, he smiled politely and said he didn't know.

Walking by in a blue suit and green tie was George Prezioso, a vice chairman of the G.O.P. in Brooklyn. He told me he thinks McCain needs a vice president with strong conservative credentials, like Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida.

So, not Bloomberg, I said.

"He's a Democrat," he said.

 

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