azi paybarah

From: Mark Winston Griffith
Sender: Mark Winston Griffith
To: ####
ReplyTo: Mark Winston Griffith
Subject: Higher Ground
Sent: May 23, 2012 7:03 AM

Dear ####,

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been discussing the prospects of my running for the New York City Council in 2013 with my family, friends, co-workers and neighbors. After testing out the effects of a campaign and an eventual City Council schedule, I’ve concluded that there is no campaign and career path I can imagine within the City Council, starting in 2013 or any other year, in which my family will remain happy, healthy, and intact.

As a result, I’ve decided that I will not run; given the choice between my family and a political career, I unflinchingly choose my family. I also believe that there is a profoundly more effective and integrity-filled way to serve Central Brooklyn.  

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via Syracuse Post-Standard:

Just emailed out:

Azi —

Today, I was asked a direct question and gave a direct answer:

I believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

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Briefing:

This afternoon, de Blasio will be on the City Hall steps with other lawmakers to announce a plan his office says will “dramatically reduce” the use stop-and-frisk.

De Blasio previewed his plan in an interview with the Times; it entails, among other things, a demand that the mayor “request an internal audit by the Police Department of its statistics on what occurs after each stop-and-frisk episode.”

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An earlier attempt to curb the use of stop-and-frisks by NYPD officers actually wound up increasing use of the tactic. In a lengthy (and worth-reading, if you haven’t already) look at the NYPD, Chris Smith of New York magazine quoted an unnamed Brooklyn officer who said the paperwork already generated from stop-and-frisks “is an easy way for supervisors to feed the statistical best, to show that action is being taken to deal with spikes in crime.”