Posted by Alternatively slinging barbs and touting their records, the two candidates vying for an Assembly seat in Queens made the most of their first and only debate before next week’s special election.
Civic leader Bob Friedrich slammed former City Councilman David Weprin as a clubhouse politician, while Weprin dismissed Friedrich as a “perennial candidate” during Monday’s hour-long slugfest at the Queens High School for Teaching.
The two face off at the polls Tuesday in a contest for the 24th Assembly District seat.
Friedrich criticized Weprin as a “tax-and-spend” politician, and repeatedly hammered him for signing on to an 18% property tax hike in 2002. Mayor Bloomberg had asked the City Council for a 25% hike to balance the budget.
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