Castro Opponent Skips Debate On Bronx Talk Axelbank Calls Him an "Absentee Opponent"

On Monday August 2nd, 2010 Assemblyman Nelson Castro was to have debated his opponent; a District Leader that has the support of the County Leader Carl Heastie & Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. However the opponent was a no show. The moderator of the show, Gary Axelbank was noticeably disturbed referring to the unwillingness to debate  unfortunate and surprising and calling the challenger  an "absentee  opponent" .Nonetheless the show proceeded as a one man debate. Axelbank who is known as a no nonsense interviewer questioned Assemblyman Castro on everything from...

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Remembering Lolita Lebron

Lolita Lebron arrested 3/1/54"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."Thomas PaineThe American Crisis No. 1December 19, 1776Lolita Lebron, the Puerto Rican independence activist who led three others to attack the U.S. House of Representatives with pistols on March 1st, 1954, died at age 90 over the weekend. No members of Congress died in the attack, but the group, including Lolita Lebron, was sentenced to 50 years in prison. Upon being arrested, Lebrón yelled "I did not come to kill anyone, I came to die for Puerto Rico!".In 1979, President Jimmy Carter granted her and her partners of the March...

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