Mr. Charles Ober

Charles Ober
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"We won this race," Sam Esposito, a spokesman for Democratic candidate Charles Ober, wrote in an email to supporters, which was forwarded to me by a Democratic operative.
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We had 2 goals, 1 Charlie would win but more importantly was to not let Crowley take that seat."
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Also, Ober is looking for someone to challenge Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan, who is from Ober's Democratic club but did not support him for reelection.
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I will run your petitions with Charles in certain areas and I will run the petitions for you in the other areas also.All I need are 2 people who would like to run for office."

I left a message for Esposito and was unable to reach Ober via cell phone.
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We had 2 goals, 1 Charlie would win but more importantly was to not let Crowley take that seat.
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Charlie did not embellish himself like the other candidates did, he did not make up shit like the other candidates did, he did not threaten peoples jobs, positions or even friendships like the others did and we used community people to help us in our entire campaign unlike the others.
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The 3 of them knew since Dennis got arrested that Charlie was going to run.They may deny that now but it is true and Charlie saved the emails that he sent to Cathy about his race.Cathy Nolan underestimated Charlie and figured that he would never be able to mount a successful campaign and she promised him she would endorse him and the club would endorse him.She promised him that he would have her support. in the end Cathy lied flat out.Cathy sent out a damaging letter to all the board members of the club saying very hateful things about Charlie and basically letting the club members know that if they support Charlie she will not be their friend anymore, so no one in the Cathy Nolan Independent!Democratic club supported or endorsed Charlie because they are so afraid of not being able to play with Cathy anymore.
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Not to mention the fact that Cathy threatened her employees that they would be fired if they supported Charlie.
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If not for Charlie she would have never had such successful events.But now that Charlie is not helping her lets see if they can top 260 like last year I doubt it.
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All along her and Lois tried to set Charlie up for a fall and they failed and now they have to face county.
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Her and her cohorts tried everything to get Charlie to not run.They even tried to see if they could buy him out of the race. what no one knows is that Charlie cannot be bought and he will not compromise his principals and morals like Cathy did.Charlie is true to himself.He is a man of integrity and honesty.He is a man that stands on those same principles he was taught as a kid.Money and power does not motivate him for a seat.He is absolutely a caring person.
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Cathy does not want to have an opponent. that is why Nolan did not want Charlie to run because county threatened an opponent against her.
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All these wonderful endorsements and kind words about Charlie are really true.I think that a combination of Crowley's people sending out that letter to the community and making homosexuality an issue is part of our down fall.But that only shows you how hypocritical the democrats are.Being gay is only good enough when they need our money, our time and our energy.But when a gay person wants to run for office that is where they draw the line.They are all 2 faced individuals who have to live with themselves for how they acted in this race.Charlie Ober never once used the gay issue as something to run on.
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That letter was a vicious attempt by the Democrats to come after Charlie because they had nothing else to go after him with.He has nothing to hide.He is completely clean and scandal free. so they used his sexuality to scare the people from voting for Charlie.Plain and simple.

We lost because we would not have people go in the poling sites voting under dead people's names, we would not threaten people if they did not support us, we did not fight with people, we did not use horrible tactics to hurt any of the candidates all we did was tell the truth all along and even though we lost the race CROWLEY is not the councilwomen of the 30th district and that is great.Now we need to start again and we hope that the people in the 30th district take this more seriously and see why the NY Times, the Independence party and the 504 Democrats endorsed Charlie, because he really is a man of integrity and honesty and that he will never compromise for anyone.Charlie cannot be bought out.
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I will run your petitions with Charles in certain areas and I will run the petitions for you in the other areas also.
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We will announce after petitioning what our plans will be but do not count out Ober because we have only started and have a lot more fight in us.

Charles Ober
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Last night, both Elizabeth Crowley and Charles Ober were invited to speak to the Stonewall Democratic Club in Manhattan.
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Mr. Ober gave a brief, but impressive, presentation and took a few questions."
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"I would think that that the more support in a special election like this, the better," said Algaze, who described Ober's support in the club as "overwhelming."