James Genarro
'Damn Good Democrat' Jim Gennaro on Padavan, Long Odds, and the Democratic Majority
Jim Gennaro says his time is now.
“My opponent very much represents the past,” Gennaro, a Democratic councilman, said last night about the Republican state senator he's trying to unseat, Frank Padavan. “This is clearly an election between the past versus the future.”
Padavan was first elected to the State Senate in 1972; Gennaro was elected to the City Council in 2001.
The councilman was speaking to supporters at a fund-raiser at the Woolworth Kitchen last night. There, Gennaro sought to cast Padavan as part of a dwindling Republican apparatus. “They’re not getting the people’s business done because the people’s business is not on their agenda. read more »
Back in Fashion?
This invitation to Jim Genarro’s Dec. 4 fund-raiser is the first piece of literature I’ve seen in a while in which a Democrat is advertising an association with the governor.
Also featured on the invitation are Joe Crowley, Christine Quinn and Malcolm Smith.
Genarro is raising money for a possible race for state Senate against Frank Padavan, the Republicans' go-to guy in the city.
Yes To Buddha, No To Goat Tying
A new City Council sessions means a round of new, and re-introduced, legislation, from essential to ridiculous.
The full list is here. Some highlights:
Tony Avella wants to end "goat tying" and "horse-tripping."
He would also prohibit the resale of undergarments, which is "certainly repugnant to general standards of hygiene and responsibility."
James Genarro plans to add the birthdays of Lord Krishna and Lord Buddha to the no-alternate-side-parking list.
(I am signing on to another McMahon proposal: outlawing those horrible supermarket circulars that come in huge numbers in plastic bags. )
