The New York City Campaign Finance Board just announced the general-election debates: Mayoral candidates will slug it out Oct. 16 and 22, comptroller candidates Oct. 14 and 23 and public-advocate candidates Oct. 21.
Yet there’s radio silence on a debate for the Manhattan district-attorney race.
Why the cowardice, Alvin?
Back in 2021, incumbent Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg duked it out with other “Defund the Police” radicals in Democratic primary debates hosted by heavyweights like New York Law School and Citizens Union.
But he chickened out of a direct face-off with GOP candidate Tom Kenniff, only agreeing to a pathetic 30-minute Zoom call where they never shared the screen while speaking. Talk about gutless!
The contest matters more this year with Democratic Socialist and wannabe police-