New machine for voting comes to boro
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, City Council, District 23, District 24 on August 19, 2010 | No Comments
Gone are the big, bulky voting machines with the red levers city voters have used for the past five decades. In their place will be paper ballots with fill-in ovals — something reminiscent of multiple choice tests — that will be fed into a scanner. The scanner records the voter’s choice, but the physical evidence of the vote will remain.
Friedrich, Mark Weprin spar for van plan credit
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, City Council, District 23, District 24 on July 15, 2010 | No Comments
The recently shuttered Q79 bus line that ran from Little Neck to Floral Park is being considered for the Taxi and Limousine Commission’s group ride livery program and both City Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) and Weprin family archnemesis Bob Friedrich are taking credit for the development.
Students rally for free MetroCards
Posted by Nathan Duke and Anna Gustafson in Assembly, District 15, District 19, District 22, District 23, District 25, District 28, State Senate on December 23, 2009 | No Comments
State Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D-Flushing) joined Queens students last weekend in Flushing to protest cuts in the MTA’s 2010 budget that will force schoolchildren who receive free MetroCards to start paying fares. Meng and a small crowd of students held signs reading “No Cuts to Student Aid” as they decried the Metropolitan Transportation Authority actions [...]
Volunteers were backbone of my campaign: Weprin
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 23 on December 2, 2009 | No Comments
For Cardozo High School senior Patrick Jordan, volunteering for state Assemblyman Mark Weprin’s (D-Little Neck) City Council campaign was an intense crash course in the political life. He spent nearly every day of the summer working for Weprin’s successful campaign, logging more than 1,000 hours for the legislator and doing everything from staying up all [...]
David Weprin eyes brother’s seat
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, City Council, District 23, District 24 on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
Outgoing City Councilman David Weprin (D-Hollis) has decided to run for his brother’s soon-to-be-vacant state Assembly seat as one possible contender, Glen Oaks Village President Bob Friedrich, is mulling his options. Assemblyman Mark Weprin’s (D-Little Neck) seat will open once he is installed in the City Council Jan. 1, taking his brother’s seat. Gov. David [...]
Friedrich’s co-op letter questioned
Posted by Nathan Duke in City Council, District 23 on October 14, 2009 | 4 Comments
City Council contender Bob Friedrich defended a letter he sent last month as president of the Glen Oaks Village Co-op’s board to the housing community’s tenants after his opponent, state Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D-Little Neck), accused him of using the co-op’s official letterhead to promote his candidacy. Friedrich was defeated by Weprin in the Sept. [...]
Mark Weprin easily wins primary for brother’s Council seat
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 23 on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
State Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D-Little Neck) handily beat his two challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primary race to replace his brother, City Councilman David Weprin (D-Hollis), according to unofficial results from the city Board of Elections. Weprin garnered 50.96 percent of the vote in the primary for Council District 23, which covers Fresh Meadows, Queens Village, [...]
TimesLedger Makes Endorsements in Six Democratic City Council Primaries
Posted by TimesLedger Newspapers in City Council, District 19, District 20, District 23, District 25, District 26, District 29 on September 10, 2009 | 5 Comments
There have been primaries and general elections in the past when Queens voters could have done their patriotic duty just as well by staying in bed. But in the Democratic primaries that will be held next Tuesday, voters in many districts will have the chance to nominate candidates in close races that will go on [...]
Weprin pledges to form Co-op and Condo Caucus if elected
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in City Council, District 23 on September 4, 2009 | 9 Comments
State Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D-Little Neck), a candidate for City Council in the 23rd District, said he would create a caucus representing co-ops and condos in the Council should he win the race. “This caucus will provide a forum for Council members to analyze and discuss issues of particular concern to co-op and condo owners,” [...]
Debate week on the Queens Campaigner (VIDEO)
Posted by Stephen Stirling in City Council, District 19, District 20, District 23, District 25, District 26, District 29 on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
As you may have read, TimesLedger Newspapers hosted a series of debates for six City Council Democratic primaries in Queens last week at Flushing Library. You can read our full print coverage here on the Queens Campaigner, while full video of each of the debates is now available at our sister site BoroPolitics.com. Each of [...]
Trio of Dist. 23 candidates square off on health-care access, schools at TimesLedger debate
Posted by Ivan Pereira in City Council, District 23 on September 2, 2009 | No Comments
The three Democratic candidates vying to replace outgoing City Councilman David Weprin (D-Hollis) focused their arguments on how they would help bring parents into the forefront of their children’s health care and education during last Thursday’s TimesLedger Newspapers Council debates at the Flushing Library. State Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D-Little Neck) and community activists Bob Friedrich [...]
Video of three more TimesLedger City Council debates now available
Posted by Stephen Stirling in City Council, District 23, District 25, District 29 on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
Full video coverage of three more of the TimesLedger/CNG debates held last week at Flushing Library can now be viewed in full at our sister site BoroPolitics.com. To watch City Councilwoman Helen Sears (D-Jackson Heights) trade barbs with challengers Daniel Dromm and Stanley Kalathara in our District 25 debate, click here. For the District 23 [...]
