Knowing How Clinton Dissed Her Black District, Yvette Clarke Must Be Dying to Bolt for Barrack

Okay, this is based on circumstantial evidence, but that's the only way to know what a politician is really thinking in Central Brooklyn.

I recently came across  a clipping about Yvette Clarke's race for the historic black Congressional seat that she won two years ago.

The seat, you may recalled was first won by the late Shirley Chisholm exactly 40 years ago, and it was created to give Brooklyn's substantial and then still-growing black population a voice in the halls of Congress.

Well, in 2006 the seat, vacated by Major Owens, was up for grabs and Yvette Clarke was running against a field that included white City Councilman David Yassky, who was widely perceived by black pols as a reverse carpetbagger.

Yassky, who moved into the district in order to legitimately compete in the race, would have, had he won, gone down in history as the one who broke the sting of black representatives in Shirley Chisholm's Congressional District.

And who was apparently backing him in that effort, at least according to strong circumstantial evidence?

Hillary Clinton!

You see, it seems Clinton's very close aide Howard Wolfson, through his company, the Glover Park Group, worked for Yassky during the heated and racially charged campaign. And there are those who say there's no way he would have done it without Clinton's support.

Now, given what Hillary Clinton has been saying of late about her appeal with struggling white voters -- comments that even her strongest black backers like Charlie Rangel have called "dumb" -- one has to wonder about Clinton's instincts when it comes to matters of race.

It's said that irritation over Clinton's suspected involvement in the Yasssky campaign is why Yvette Clarke took so long to endorse the New York Senator. Clarke was the last New York Democratic Congressmember from the state to do so.

And so now we understand the joy that we saw on Clarke's face when she greeted Barack Obama in Congress last week, in his pre-victory lap. That's when she asked him to sign her copy of The New York Daily News that had Obama on the front page, declaring, "It's His Party."

Perhaps what we were seeing was relief that maybe her day of deliverance is finally at hand. (see previous BrooklynRon post.)

That is to say, maybe -- if and when Clinton ever concedes she can't win the nomination -- she'll be free to dump the Hill and opt for Barack, as the voters of Clarke's district did in the Feb. 5th primary.

By the way, this photo we discovered from last year, with Clarke standing next to Clinton, doesn't show Yvette looking very happy, does it?

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