Boy, that was easy! In landslide victories, Velazquez crushes Brooklyn’s Democratic Party ‘machine’; Jeffries KOs anti-Israel, anti-gay Barron

June 27, 2012 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
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By the Brooklyn Daily Eagle

In the end, there wasn't much of a contest in either of Brooklyn's closely watched Democratic Congressional primaries.

Incumbent Rep. Nydia Velazquez crushed a challenge inspired by the leader of the Kings County Democratic Party, far outdistancing four rivals in the 7th Congressional District. She ended the night with approximately 58 percent of the vote.

In the 8th CD, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries defeated City Councilman Charles Barron by an even wider margin —  about 72 percent — in a race that turned on Barron's loudly voiced anti-Israel and anti-gay views.

Soon after the polls closed, NY1 reported that a member of the Jeffries campaign team said of Barron, "We're killing him."

UPDATED: With at least 97% of election districts reporting, this was the tally as of 10 am Wednesday—

In the 7th CD:
Nydia Velazquez 16,011 (58%)
Erik Dilan 8,589 (31.1%)
Daniel O'Connor 2,264 (8.2%)
George Martinez 752 (2.7%)

In the 8th CD:
Hakeem Jeffries 25,712 (71.9%)
Charles Barron 10,063 (28.1%)

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