Breakfast of candidates

City Council, Comptroller and Public Advocate Candidates Debate on BCAT Next Week

BCAT is the place to watch the candidates for City Council Districts 33, 39, and 45, Comptroller and Public Advocate got at it. Organized by Ed Weintrob (publisher emeritus of the Brooklyn Paper) these debates are a collaboration between 
Community Newspaper Group and  Brooklyn
Independent Television on the BCAT TV Network.

All the major races will be cablecast on BCAT, which is channel 56
on Time Warner customers and channel 69 for Cablevision subscribers:

• City Council District 33 (currently held by David Yassky): Monday, Aug. 17.

• City Council District 39 (currently held by Bill DeBlasio): Tuesday, Aug. 18.

• City Council District 45 (currently held by Kendall Stewart): Wednesday, Aug. 19.

• Comptroller (featuring Yassky, John Liu, Melinda Katz and David Weprin): Thursday, Aug. 20.

• Public Advocate (featuring DeBlasio, Mark Green, Norman Siegel and
Eric Gioia): Friday, Aug. 21 (repeated on Tuesday, Aug. 25).

All broadcasts will be at 9 pm. And all shows will be available online roughly 24 hours after its initial airing at www.bricartsmedia.org/BITspecials and the Community Newspaper Group’s new political Web site BoroPolitics.com.