The candidates for Manhattan district attorney raised thousands of last-minute dollars, including a $50,000 infusion Monday by Richard Aborn into his own campaign.
Filings with the state Board of Elections show big-ticket contributions made over the last few days, including over $32,000 sent to Cyrus Vance on Friday by William Wachtel. Leslie Crocker Snyder Read More
Here’s a video from Richard Aborn, who basically takes credit for writing the script Leslie Crocker Sndyer and Cy Vance are now following.
Which, no matter the numbers show tonight, is a victory in its own right.
Leslie Crocker Snyder hoisted her granddaughter onto her hip, kissed her on the cheek and said, “Hopefully she won’t have to face the kind of discrimination that many of us had to face, [like] when the D.A. asked me for a letter of permission from my husband to go to the homicide bureau. She won’t Read More
Two out of the three Democratic candidates for Manhattan district attorney said they are gun owners, they said during a debate at WABC’s studios in Manhattan.
Leslie Crocker Snyder said she got a gun “at the suggestion of the police department when I had the death threats” while she was a judge during the 1980s Read More
Cy Vance’s campaign announced endorsements today from 1199, the health care workers union, and 32BJ, the city’s largest private union.
They’re major unions with well-proven Get Out the Vote operations. It’s also worth noting that they are part of the labor coalition that runs the Working Families Party which, as an umbrella organization, backed another Read More
“I’ve been here through all the worst times Read More
Here’s former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton’s robocall for Manhattan district attorney candidate Richard Aborn.
“He knows how to keep crime down, the right way,” Bratton says, before talking about Aborn’s fight against guns and plan to “give at-risk kids an alternative to crime.”
Part of Aborn’s strategy of not running as the Read More
Last night’s debate among the Manhattan district attorney candidates was completely devoid of the fireworks and direct confrontation that marked their televised debate earlier this week.
Leslie Crocker Snyder, who took a shot at rival Cy Vance in her opening statement and pounded away at him during the earlier debate, had nothing negative to Read More
--compiled by Azi Paybarah and Jimmy Vielkind
Surrounded on the City Hall steps by supporters from the New York Women’s Bar Association, Leslie Crocker Snyder said she hoped her election as Manhattan D.A. would break one more glass ceiling in the legal profession:
“When I went to the southern district, they laughed at me when I asked for an application Read More
His opponent Leslie Crocker Snyder is already on the air. His other opponents, Richard Aborn, isn't.
An interested reader obtained this draft of a "Dear Neighbor" letter being worked on by Leslie Crocker Snyder’s campaign for Manhattan district attorney.
In it, she mentions only one of her rivals, Cy Vance (and uses the same attack line she showed the Daily News).
Manhattan district attorney candidate Richard Aborn picked up the endorsement of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, an umbrella organization working on affordable housing issues.
“Richard Aborn has the vision and experience to tackle violent crime while at the same time standing up against abusive landlords who resort to criminal measures,” the group’s president, Scott Read More
Here’s a robocall from State Senator Jose Serrano, who is supporting Richard Aborn for Manhattan district attorney.
Serrano says he’s supporting Aborn because “he knows there’s something wrong with our criminal justice system when nearly one in three African-American men end up spending some time in prison.”
The call is of a piece with Read More
