Bill De Blasio Wins Democratic Runoff for Public Advocate
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
New York, NY –
Brooklyn councilman Bill de Blasio won the Democratic runoff for public advocate, handily defeating Mark Green. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.
REPORTER: De Blasio won 62.5 percent of the vote, while Green got just 37.5 in his latest, and possibly last, run for office. Although the turnout in the runoff was really low (about seven percent), de Blasio's camp included hundreds, maybe thousands of union members.
De Blasio gave them much of the credit for going door to door and urging voters to get to the polls, for an election most people weren't paying attention to. Now, de Blasio has his sights set on serving as a counterweight to Mayor Bloomberg, starting with school reforms.
DE BLASIO: I think the mayor and the chancellor, if given their way, might look the other way on some elements of those reforms. I'm going to make sure each and every one of those reforms is implemented to the maximum.
REPORTER: First de Blasio will have to win in the general election. But he's expected to do quite well against the 26-year-old Republican candidate, Alex Zablocki. For WNYC, I'm Arun Venugopal.
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