is anyone really surprised by
this...
Only a handful of senior black elected officials have endorsed him, and many others, like Representative Charles B. Rangel and State Senator David A. Paterson, both of Harlem, have quite prominently endorsed his opponents.
This development has not gone unnoticed: Mr. Sharpton issued a threat this week, making it clear that he intends to put his political organization's machinery to work against the re-election of those local officials who abandoned him.