Coming this week: Candidates Doug Biviano and Ken Diamondstone face OTBKB's coffee cup. Now I just have to make a plan with Issac Abraham, Ken Baer and Steve Levin and I've got them all. Look for new BOC's on Thursday and Friday! And in case you missed these:

Breakfast of Candidates: Jo Anne Simon. Read about her career a teacher of the deaf and a disability rights attorney. Her career trajectory will make you feel like a slacker  and wonder how she had time to becme such a strong voice in her community and the female Democratic District Leader and State Committeewoman for the 52nd Assembly District. A proponent of the art of listening, she believes that there's a place for all viewpoints atx the table and that "someone who is elected to office can work with everyone."

Breakfastof Candidates; Evan Thies. A former aide to City Councilmember David Yassky, Thies also worked in
Hillary Clinton's upstate senate office and for Andrew Cuomo. Raised in
New Hampshire, public service was the family business and his
grandmother, Mary Mary Mongron, was appointed by NH governor John Sununu to be the New Hampshire's Commissioner of Health and Human
Services. Struck as a child with Fibromatosis, a chronic disease, he was
homeschooled during the worst of his illness. When he was 11, he and
his mother wrote and passed a bill about his disease. Evan studied his
twin interests, political science and journalism, at Syracuse
University but knew that he was called to public service like he
grandmother.