Ummm... Isn't Stuy Town on the EAST side, Norman Adler?
Mark Green, the Democratic candidate in 2001, argued that a Bloomberg landslide would show that blood is not always thicker than water. Ethnic pride in Mr. Ferrer and partisan kinship among Democrats "seem to be submerged in a tidal wave of spending by Mayor Bloomberg," he said.
Mark Brown doesn't get it (not that I'd ever expect him to). Ferrer's parents came from Puerto Rico. But he was
born in New York City. He's not from the Dominican or Haiti or Mexico or Central or South America. "Hispanic" is as descriptive a term for Latino immigrants as "European" would have been for immigration at the turn of the 20th century. You wouldn't have expected an Italian to back a German or a Belgian to back a Frenchman out of "ethnic pride". Why would you expect a Dominican to back a Puerto Rican out of ethnic pride? Same language, perhaps. But a different country.
Whoops! Mark Green, Mark Brown, Mark Purple... whatever... He's still never been elected to any office that ever mattered. And never should be. (No, Public Advocate doesn't count. And he'd make an awful attorney general)