Brooklyn Dems call for apology from DA Hynes
A group of Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders and elected officials stood on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall to call jointly on Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes – a Democrat who is running on the Republican and Conservative lines in November — to apologize for using what they call “divisive rhetoric” in his re-election campaign against Kenneth Thompson, who beat Hynes in the September 10 primary for the Democratic Party nomination for D.A.
They allege that Hynes’s campaign has distributed flyers that invoke racially-charged imagery of black men in handcuffs, has lied about disgraced Kings County Democratic Party (KCDP) chairperson Clarence Norman, Jr.’s involvement in Thompson’s primary campaign, and that he compared Thompson to gun runners in an October 17 interview with NY1.
“[Our candidates] are supposed to be professional. This [rally] is to remind candidates that, like the Hebrew National [hot dog] commercial, ‘We answer to a higher authority,’” said Frank Seddio, the current Kings County Democratic chairperson.