I have known Yassky longer than I have known Chris and I supported his run for City Council. Yassky courted the support of my wife and me fairly aggressively for awhile. I think Yassky's heart is in the right place. But, I think he lets his ego get in the way. He is so convinced he is right that he sometimes overlooks why he is wrong.

Mainly I just plain like Chris better. A diary I wrote for the Daily Gotham sometime back (which was praised by BOTH Chris and Yassky) compares them. I need to update that and maybe post it here. I think it captures them pretty well. Sadly, I have soured more on Yassky since then. He endorsed the most corrupt candidate for Brooklyn DA last year (the Clarence Norman supporter, Sampson), he has expressed some support for Bush bombing Iran, he told an opponant of DRE voting machines that he "didn't care" about the issue, and he has sponsored a bill that would use $3 million of city money to fund a jobs program that Ratner had promised to fund, thus bailing Ratner out of one of his promises. And, just before he sponsored that bill, he was endorsed by a pro-Ratner organization. It smelled too much like a dirty deal. No single one of those would be a deal breaker for me. But put together it is starts to be hard for me to like him. Meanwhile, Chris impresses me each time I discuss an issue with him.