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Tim Smyth's avatar

Do you think some of the Democrats who voted against this from the Outer Boroughs like Bob Holden might switch parties? Holden in a somewhat unrelated move just called for Kathy Hochul to remove Alvin Bragg from office despite the fact Holden isn't from Manhattan

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Brian Howard's avatar

Thorough article, although you suggest at one point that opposition in one section of Queens was motivated by racial animus, which was a little out of place in an otherwise straightforward piece. In my opinion and experience, people who like where they live, which is most of us, are motivated first and foremost by a desire that things don’t change.

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