Craig Hammerman is running for Bill de Blasio's city council seat (Bill is running for Public Advocate). He sent this around today:

WE'RE TAKING IT BACK!

I've
spent nearly two decades as an appointed City official working to
organize, support and empower the communities of my district.

I've been holding government's
feet to the fire and delivering projects and programs in an
unprecedented and exciting period of growth and change.

And I've been transforming the neighborhoods of my district into the hottest destinations in the City of New York for people to live, work and visit!

Great challenges lie ahead.

Grassroots
democracy and our community's values are increasingly under attack from
powerful special interests and out-of-touch politicians from the
national to the local level.

And,
in what will be a seasoned City Council in 2010, we'll need to have
strong, experienced representation to get our fair share from
government, for our voices to be heard.

With less than 9 months until the 2009 New
York City Primary, we're ramping up our grassroots campaign for New
York City Council's 39th District being vacated by Bill de Blasio.

In 2008 we took back our nation;