Posted by GET NY on 20:07:59 02/09/05
Brooklyn Brawl Rages On
By Tom deignan
It sounds like a story right out of the days of Tammany Hall. A political brawl involving lads with names like O Hara and Brennan and Keefe, and even a district attorney named Hynes.
But this is a battle still raging in Brooklyn. Yes, in 2005, dueling Irish American factions of the Brooklyn Democratic Party are still waging war with each other over accusations of fraud, intimidation, clubhouse politicking and more.
The latest salvo in this war came in a series of scorching letters sent by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, as well as New York State Assemblyman James Brennan, to Harper s magazine. The letters were spurred by a lengthy report in Harper s which chronicled the strange political career of perennial reform candidate/gadfly John Kennedy O Hara.
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