ברעיקינג! וויטא לאפעז צו UJC: לאמיר זיך אראפזעצן.

By reading the political blogs and newspapers you would never know that Brooklyn Democratic County Leader Vito Lopez lost most of the important contested contests over the past few years.  

This year Lopez backed Senator Martin Connors and lost.  More importantly his power block of voters in Williamsburg is clearly split, with the new Satmar faction headed by Rabbi Glanz/UJCARE, followers of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum winning over a third of the vote for Squadron. Connor received 90.86 percent of the Chassidic vote when he ran against Diamondstone two years ago, Vito and his Williamsburg faction of Rabbi Niederman/UJO, followers of Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, no longer have the field all to themselves.   A bigger problem for Lopez with Connor's defeat was that Squadron is a Schumer backed candidate.  Our senator has a long memory; part of that remembrance is Lopez heading up Democrats for D'Amato.  Will the emerging Schumer machine defeat Vito's smoke and mirrors operation?