DEM BACKERS SHOW UP FOR ADDABBO: As the election calendar showed the start of the final month of the 2008 campaign, City Councilmember Joseph Addabbo Jr. turned his campaign for state senator against incumbent Senator Serphin Maltese up a couple of notches.
At one of his biggest rallies of the campaign, the Ozone Park/Howard Beach lawmaker was joined by City Comptroller William Thompson, Congressmember Anthony Weiner and other Democratic Party supporters, as well as members of several labor unions who have endorsed him and pledged to hit the pavement for him from now to Election Day on November 4.
All told, about 300 Addabbo supporters showed up at the Ridgewood Democratic Club to start the countdown to Election Day. To Addabbo, the large turnout represented the "people power" component of the campaign, and when the day ended, the labor union volunteers had accomplished one of their missions: ringing some 3,000 doorbells to pass the word about Addabbo's candidacy.
Thompson and Weiner, who both plan to run for mayor next year, gave pep talks to the energized crowd, both hitting the same theme about the need for change in Albany.
Addabbo also promised to "deliver for all New Yorkers" and to keep the pressure on until Election Day.
