Interested readers can visit NYLCV’s list of press releases to read about the rationale behind each endorsement.

Over Congestion pricing? Harrison was against the mayor’s congestion plan, but not necessarily all congestion plans. He was against it because he felt it was a regressive tax on those too poor to live in Manhattan or near a decent commute to it. The Congestion plan would also transfer pollution to areas closest to the Congestion zone because people would drive to and then park near the trains stations and bus stops adjacent to where the fees would begin to be collected.

Or could it be that the process was rigged against Harrison. Jon Del Giorno who has been campaigning for McMahon is on your board of directors and your policy director used to Domenic Recchia’s chief of staff (McMahon decided to run for this seat only after incumbent Vito Fossella choose not to run and no current elected Republican official decided to enter the race. For more than a year before he entered the race McMahon was undermining Harrison, who as the 2006 nominee did better than any Democrat since the Molinari took over the Island, by promoting Recchia’s candidacy over Harrison. Recchia, who represents Coney Island in the Council, did not live in the district and could not vote for himself. The former Recchia chief of staff donated money to Recchia’s campaign.).