Golden and Kemmerer battle it out
State Senator Marty Golden and his opponent, Democratic challenger James Kemmerer, came out swinging during a candidates forum held at Our Lady of Angels on Tuesday, September 23.
Kemmerer started out by challenging the Republican-Conservative incumbent on a host of fronts during the event, billed as the Great Bay Ridge Debate by its organizers, the Bay Ridge Community Council.
Among the charges he hurled at Golden was giving grants amounting to tens of thousands of dollars to “a shady non-profit” cited in the Moreland Commission report, he said, as doing nothing to benefit New Yorkers. Kemmerer also charged that Golden had “funneled” business to the family catering hall, the Bay Ridge Manor.