The Huffington Post.    Biv, you whack! Longshot candidate goes ballistic on 'machine' pols.   The organizers of Tuesday’s 33rd Council District debate dubbed their Williamsburg forum a “Verbal Smackdown,” but it seemed like only one of the City Council hopefuls took that name literally.

The vociferous upstart and Brooklyn Heights resident Doug Biviano attacked front-running candidates Jo Anne Simon, Evan Thies, and Steve Levin — who was not even at the debate, his fourth such absence during the campaign — for being “machine politicians” who were complicit in the controversial 2005 rezoning of Williamsburg and Greenpoint that has not resulted in long-promised parkland and affordable housing.

“They were there at the table with the city — they were cutting deals,” said Biviano, who went straight at his rivals in response to the first question. “They are part of the Democratic machine. They never stood up."   Read article...

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