[maggief]

http://www.lidbrooklyn.org/bp061603.htm

EXCERPT

35th: Incumbent James Davis will be challenged by Tony Herbert (an aide to several elected officials over the years), perhaps Abraham Wasserman (a Crown Heights resident who ran in 2001), and maybe the unknown Othniel Boaz Askew. "I've never heard of him. Or her," Davis said.

[Catspaw]

Rick Leventhal: Bloomberg just announced one of the two is dead. They're looking for a man in a blue suit.

[AppyPappy]

See. Davis disrepected him....or her

[Shermy]

Re: 292

Interesting...

"Othniel Boaz Agnew" appears as a candidate in this undated, google cached site:

http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=%22Othniel+Boaz+Askew&ei=UTF-8&url=J5FAbCvqJGwJ:www.gothamgazette.com/searchlight/council.candidates.2003.shtml

HOWEVER, his name is omitted in the same site, updated July 14, 2003. What happened? (See District 35)

http://www.gothamgazette.com/searchlight/council.candidates.2003.shtml

[browardchad]

Lots of tidbits about Davis in past issues of the um, interesting, newsletter you linked. It seems he didn't play nice in the political sandbox (not unusual in NYC, or among Dems). Here's a sample, from 10/14/02, complete with a shot at Ariel Sharon:

JAMES DAVIS IRKS VELMANETTE: Councilman James Davis went bonkers when he saw that his name was omitted from the latest list of helpful phone numbers that state Senator Velmanette Montgomery distributes to her constituents annually. Davis called Montgomery and began ranting on her answering machine, only to be cut off before he finished. So he called back and ranted some more until being disconnected. Still not satisfied, he called a third time until he'd finished his soliloquy.

Davis demanded Montgomery publicly apologize for the omission, threatened to go to the press if she didn't, and vowed to run against her and oppose candidates she supported in future elections. Davis obviously picked up some tips on diplomacy from Ariel Sharon during his recent visit to Israel. Montgomery, for her part, was none too amused by Davis's threats. She said his name was "inadvertently left off the form," but, "I'm not apologizing because he was very discourteous in the way he approached me about it." Davis, who's never been close with Montgomery, surely feels the omission was anything but inadvertent. We'll be scouring the black market for copies of the tape from Montgomery's answering machine and hope to quote some excerpts, along with an explanation from Davis, in a future column.

[Petronski]

REPORTED AT 292:


EXCERPT

35th: Incumbent James Davis will be challenged by Tony Herbert (an aide to several elected officials over the years), perhaps Abraham Wasserman (a Crown Heights resident who ran in 2001), and maybe the unknown Othniel Boaz Askew. "I've never heard of him. Or her," Davis said.