Dear Zohran (A to Z):working hard
to lose us.
Dear Zohran
Your acceptance of Jamaal Bowman’s (“I wish I didn’t pull that damn fire alarm.”)endorsement in Co-op City brings back memories of my internist father, who made house calls there to his elderly patients 24/7 as part of Montefiore’s Home Care Department from his solo practice on Webster Avenue, near Morrisania.
Does this mean a “No” on your vote for the NYS Assembly Bill A2139 by Assemblyman Charles Lavine, an amendment to NYS Hate Crime Law 485.05 that will make anti-Semitism a hate crime?
I hear other fire alarms ringing.
I see you are working hard to lose us.
Best Wishes, with your Movement.
“A wolf loses his hair, but not his nature.”
(((Philippe)))
©Philippe du Col, 2025
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Dear Andrew, Zohran, Scott, Whitney, and Congressman Dan, too:
I have not heard back from either of you, Andrew or Zohran, so I am re-sending my question and looping in Scott, Whitney, and Congressman Dan.
The NYS Assembly has not passed Bill A2139 by Assemblyman Charles Lavine, an amendment to NYS Hate Crime Law 485.05 that will make anti-Semitism a hate crime.
One politician in NYC with 960,000 of us to govern must have an opinion on giving prosecutors more tools to include Jews in the NYS Hate Crime Law !!
46 days left to the NYC primary on June 24th.
Where do you stand on the Hamilton College student who inscribed “Kill All the Jews wherever you find them” in upstate Oneida County, who cannot be prosecuted for a Hate Crime?
And keeping Jessica Tisch as NYPD Commissioner?
What about pointing plastic weapons at a Jew's head and yelling: "Kill All Jews, Hitler had it right" on video?
What about a landlord who won't surrender the video of the same attacker stalking his victim?
Neither of you is a target for these predators; I am. So, being "scared" of losing a primary seems like a sophomoric mindset.
Cordially,
(((An Old Jew))) leashed to an Old Service Dog
Sent April 9th:
There should be more free buses. Could you keep Jessica on?
The NYS Assembly has not passed Bill A2139 by Assemblyman Charles Lavine, an amendment to NYS Hate Crime Law 485.05 that will make anti-Semitism a hate crime.
Words matter. Silence too.
Where do you stand?
The Splitting Sea, Carol Racklin-Siegel
©Philippe du Col, 2025
Shabbat Shalom!