For those of you with free time on Wednesday nights, now you can spend every Wednesday until the primary phone banking for Gustavo Rivera, courtesy of the excellent group, ACT NOW. RSVP here.
Thank you for joining ACT NOW's efforts to unseat the notoriously corrupt Pedro Espada and to elect progressive reformer Gustavo Rivera to the New York State Senate.
We'll be meeting every Wednesday at 211 East 43rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), Suite 306, and phoning from 5:30-8:30PM.
In other Pedro-related news, he has snagged one illustrious endorsement, ridden with the typos one would expect from campaign workers dumb enough to work for Diaz:
Earlier this afternoon, at 1:30PM, while standing in front of the beautiful Church of the Mediator located at 351 East 231 Street in Riverdale, New York State Senator Ruben Diaz,Sr. endorsed the Re-Election of New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr for another term. Senator Esapda was described as the seminole [sic] leader who worked closely with Senator diaz [sic] to save senior centers from closing. Senator Diaz exhorted the public to prevent the election of an unknown rookie who, "does not know where the Senate is".
Senator Diaz extolled Senator Espada's many years of fighting for the community, and he enthusisastically [sic] endorsed Senator Espada 's Re-election [sic] in the September 14, 2010 Democratic Primary.
Several members of the Bronx Clergy also publicly endorsed Senator Espada att [sic] the press conference.
Senator Espada thnaked [sic] Senator diaz [sic] for his support and he made brief remarks, and he took questions from news reporters afterward.
Funny, I thought Diaz couldn't support any legislator who voted for marriage equality. But I guess Espada is corrupt enough to warm Diaz's completely straight heart. That, or Diaz is impressed with his leadership of a storied Florida Native American tribe.
Update: Here's video of Diaz's endorsement of Clay Davis Pedro:
