Angelo Maragos, the Republican candidate seeking the 26th District seat, submitted a letter to the Sunnyside Post this morning challenging Jimmy Van Bramer’s claim that he is not a resident of area. The letter can be found in its entirety in the “letters section” of this news site.…
Category: Politics
Jimmy Van Bramer’s Block Party
Jimmy Van Bramer, the Democratic candidate vying for the 26th District council seat, sent out an invitation to his friends on Friday asking them to join him in a “phone banking party” this Sunday at 2:00pm at his Skillman Ave. (45th-46th Sts) headquarters.…
Jimmy Van Bramer Punches Back
Supporters of Jimmy Van Bramer, the Democratic contender for the District 26 council seat, released an attack ad in today’s Queens Chronicle that questions whether his Republican opponent Angelo Maragos lives in the district. The ad claims that Maragos lives in Manhattan and has never voted in Queens.…
Maragos Runs Attack Ads Against Van Bramer
Angelo Maragos, the Republican candidate for the District 26 council seat, has started running attack ads against his Democratic opponent Jimmy Van Bramer, as the November 3 election nears. The change in strategy follows a series of weeks in which Maragos and his volunteers have been blanketing the neighborhood with political placards and have been handing out leaflets at subway platforms.…
Van Bramer, Nolan Pan ‘Gentlemen’s’ Club
The New York Daily News reported that the Democratic candidate for District 26, Jimmy Van Bramer, and Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan are against the idea of a strip club coming to Long Island City. http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_poles_apart_on_club_outrage_over_planned_jiggle_joint_in_lic.html…
Van Bramer: Voters Ask About Graffiti and Parking
By Christian Murray Jimmy Van Bramer, who is the Democratic candidate for the District 26 council seat, continues to face the same thorny questions from voters that he heard during his hard-fought primary campaign. “People want to know what can be done about graffiti and parking problems,” Van Bramer said.…
Maragos, The New Kid on Jimmy’s Block
Angelo Maragos, who is the Republican candidate running for council, has recently set up his campaign office on Skillman Ave. between 45th and 46th. He is operating out of Century 21 Sunny Gardens Realty office. The office is on the same block (just seven stores down) as his Democratic rival,…
Dems. Warm Up to Van Bramer
The Democratic party will be showing its support for Jimmy Van Bramer next week, despite failing to endorse him in the party’s primary for the District 26 council seat in September. During the primary, Van Bramer was not endorsed by the party and many of this area’s heavy hitters.…
Maragos in limelight as election nears
By Christian Murray, Sunnyside Post. Angelo Maragos, the 24-year-old Republican candidate who is vying for this neighborhood’s city council seat, may be young in age but he has a slew of mature ideas that he is eager to bring to the staid council.…
Sunnyside Post to speak with Angelo Maragos
Angelo Maragos, the Republican candidate vying for the District 26 NYC council seat, will speak to this news blog on Saturday. Maragos will face a tough battle in the general election when he takes on Jimmy Van Bramer, the winner of last week’s Democratic primary,…