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For Immediate Release

The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association Presents Candidates Night – East and Central Harlem Meets 30th State Senate District and the 15th Congressional District Contenders

NEW YORK, NY, September 2, 2010 – On September 8th, the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association (MMPCIA) will present: Candidates Night – A Vision For Uptown New York Beyond 2010 for the 30th State Senate District and the 15th Congressional District.

In order to educate the East and Central] Harlem communities and alleviate potential confusion about who the candidates are and what they stand for, MMPCIA is hosting what promises to be compelling discussion forum, moderated by Ted Shaw.

Confirmed candidates scheduled:
30th State Senate District: State Senator Bill Perkins and Basil Smikle
15th Congressional District: Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, Michel Faulkner, Joyce Johnson, Vincent Morgan and Craig Schely

Invited candidates for the 15th Congressional District: Congressman Charles Rangel, Jonathan Tasini and Ruben Vargas

Time: 7:00 to 9:30 pm – Doors open at 6:30 pm
Location: Mt. Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church, 15 Mount Morris Park West (At the Corner of 122nd Street and Mt. Morris Park West)

About Theodore M. Shaw
Mr. Shaw was the director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) from 2004-08, and is one of the nation’s leading voices in civil rights. Shaw joined LDF in 1982 and in 2004 became the fifth person to lead the organization.

As a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1979-82, he litigated civil rights cases at the trial and appellate levels and before the U.S. Supreme Court. He currently serves on the Legal Advisory Network of the European Roma Rights Council based in Budapest, Hungary. Shaw has also taught at Columbia, University of Michigan, Temple and CUNY law schools.

More about MMPCIA
For almost 30-years now, the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association, a neighborhood non-profit 501(c)(3), has been dedicated to revitalizing and preserving the Mount Morris Historic District, and to fostering an environment of open and active opportunities to reflect the spectrum of voices, ideas and opinions of those who share the neighborhood.

MMPCIA continues to be a catalyst for the future of Harlem as a spearheading force behind projects such as the weekly Farmer’s Market in Marcus Garvey Park on Saturdays.

THE MOUNT MORRIS PARK COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY POLITICAL PARTY OR CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE.

CONTACT:
Craig Harris
info@mmpcia.org

"What more can Congress do to reduce unemployment?"

That the responses of 4 of the 5 candidates was an incoherent and non-specific mush of warmed over platitudes is truly terrifying. They all should all have well thought out and specific answers to this question. Four of five failed miserably.

Jonathan Tasini is the only candidate talking today who is saying anything worthwhile.

Adam Clayton Powell IV - clearly the front runner thus far.

Should someone really be allowed to have their name on street signs when they are running for office in NYC?

please Charlie, leave already...

pleaaaasssseee

just go away

Latrice Wilson
ANYONE BUT RANGEL

Morgan sounds like a fast-talking stuffed shirt.

All of these candidates keep talking about small businesses. Don't most small business launches fail in their first year or years after? Brian, can you do a show on the survival rate of small businesses?

The reason why is that I do not see the logic in stimulating an area that does not have a high rate of success.

Wouldn't be better to work with middle market and larger companies that are already established or have the government hire people on the projects of national significance?

Or would be better to use small businesses as government contractors?

For all her talk about 40 years of activism, she only sounds like she's read a couple of books on governing and the economy.

She wants to "put the foot to the fire of the President and the congress itself."

More mangled cliches. FAIL.

Goldman Sachs and Citigroup were results-oriented, and We the People got screwed!

Joyce Johnson's apologias for big business make her perfectly _unqualified_.

But, to her credit, she can puke out an unbroken string of cliches.

Joyce Johnson's corporate career doesn't sound impressive. I mean working on a factory line? And any Director of Diversity or Equal employment jobs at a corporation are quota jobs. They are just window dressing. It's not like she was running a major department or launched a business.

She probably is qualified because she worked as an political insider. But, an assistant to Rudy Crew? Ok, I am sure she is good at entering information into outlook calendars and answering the phones..

Joyce Johnson doesn't know about the effect of stimulus spending until she's "on the inside."

What does she think economists are doing?!

And what does she thinks will happen if she is elected? That she needs a security clearance to make decisions about the economy?

Give me a break.

How'd she rise up through corporate ranks if she doesn't have the faintest clue about economics or business?!

Ugh! In the first minute she drags out the line that "the American public is hurting."

I am sure he has learned from the best whites on capital hill JOHN.

Can you imagine a congressman explaining that the reason we have such anemic job growth is because the federal government doesn't have enough of our money?? Or that we should've borrowed twice as much money for the "stimulus"? We are quite simply doomed with this mindset that the federal government creates jobs, with any of these candidates.

I like Tasini. But I think he is the next Mark Greene. Smart guy, but will never win an election.

Politics is about comprise and putting together coalitions that represent all constituencies.

Who is the Tea Party Candidate for Lower Manhattan?

Can you post the last 4 interviews with him on WNYC just for fun?

[[Shanice, just click on any guest name and you'll get an archive of all WNYC appearances. -BL Show-]]

I am Craig Schley, and I am the Independence Party and the VOTE People for Change party candidate for US Congress in the General Election on Nov. 2. Additionally, I am one of 3 candidates that is in the General election, Nov 2. Moreover, I am part of the debate involving your guess this evening held at Convent Church and should be part of this discussion too. Please reach out to me via my campaign number (347-756-4927), all candidates should be part of this discussion. Thank you and I look forward to your call.

Charles Rangel, me thinks thou dost protest too much.

How do you like the Iraq war which Rangel voted against?

Do you own 4 rent controlled apts? Did you cheat on taxes?

Annoying sounds,
could be his dentures?

Ha, ha, ha, good for you! Pull Brian back on topic! as he tries to skate around the question.

I am Craig Schley, and I am the Independence Party and the VOTE People for Change party candidate for US Congress in the General Election on Nov. 2. Additionally, I am one of 3 candidates that is in the General election, Nov 2. Moreover, I am part of the debate involving your guess this evening held at Convent Church and should be part of this discussion too. Please reach out to me via my campaign number (347-756-4927), all candidates should be part of this discussion. Thank you and I look forward to you call.

Brian, roll out a black guest host for all black guests. You are unable to confront a black guest.

This man is a tax cheat. In charge of tax policy.

TELL THE CONGRESSMAN TO STOP EATING OR CHEWING CANDY OR WHATEVER IT IS HE IS DOING!

OR WHILE HE IS NOT SPEAKING, PUT THE LEVELS ON HIS MIKE DOWN.

Rangel is GOD. He can not pay taxes, use a rent stab apt as a political office, lean on and pimp donations for the "monument to me", and all the while claim he's a victim of "the system".

REPUBLICANS LOVE CHARLES RANGEL!
We will thank him this election season. Charles Rangel will get more Republicans elected than any Republican!

I wish he would just shut up

Maybe Rangels friends can buy him a newspaper that he DOES like

Charles Rangel just gives me the creeps!! What a slim of a man.

rangel is a crank

Rangel is talking about the economy, and getting the wealthy to pay taxes that the Republicans want to cut.

Let's see what his challengers say that is as important to us.

As Mayor Koch said, Rangel is one of the original poverty pimps.

Brian of course is doing a soft ball interview with the a tax cheat, in charge of tax policy

please ask all want to be senators and reps to end the corn subsidies. High-fructose corn syrup is cheap enough.
while they are at it stop the red state subsidies. my taxes are too high to keep pouring down a black hole
http://www.taxfoundation.org/UserFiles/Image/Blog/ftsbs-large.jpg

Rangle relies in pouring on the avuncular charm with language that marginalizing his corruption to "slight missteps" and errors of others in his charge, on his staff, etc. but not him. When in real life he won't answer a straight question about the charged crimes. In the recent past he's been very arrogant to Brian L, to Luke Russert, that's who Rangel truly is, a very arrogant old machine politician who assumes entitlement and dares anyone who questions him fairly.

video news from AP
Rep. Rangel: 'Ain't Thinking About Giving It Up'
New York's Democratic political establishment came out for embattled US Rep. Charles Rangel on Wednesday, packing a sold-out 80th Birthday fundraiser honoring Rangel's service to the city and state over a 40-year career recently tainted by ethics charges. http://www.newslook.com/videos/240644-rep-rangel-ain-t-thinking-about-giving-it-up?autoplay=true

Charles Rangel voted against the Iraq war, which cost us 4,000 American lives, $3 trillion, and 600,000 Iraqi lives.

We should support Rangel for that reason alone.

That's more important than every other issue put together.

Even our New York State senators supported the war in Iraq.