CookieGate – Senator Marty Golden and John Quaglione
Politicians can not be visiting polling sites other than their own on Election Day.
I have see Marty Golden at my polling site (the Fort Hamilton Senior Center) 9941 Fort Hamilton Pkwy, on Election Day several times. Yet, Golden’s election site is Fort Hamilton High School – 8301 Shore Road. Golden was seen and photographed inside John Quaglione’s polling site this election.
Quaglione and Golden contend that it is okay for them to bring poll workers cookies at the polling site. It is okay for them to give cookies to the workers, but they can’t be in any polling site but their own. Apparently, John Quaglione was seen inside a polling site in Dyker Heights giving out tins of butter cookies. See here
Mallory wrote: The same thing happened in Council District 43, where candidate John Quaglione–accompanied by the current State Senator, Marty Golden, who Quaglione works for–was at various polling places not his own, giving out cookies to poll workers. According to Quaglione, gifts for poll workers are allowed, as long as they don’t exceed $20 in value.
However, this article makes it clear that being inside a polling place that is not your own–which Quaglione did both during the primary and the general election is against the rules. He and his supporters maintain that he and Golden hanging around inside polling places is A-OK, even as people complained it made them uncomfortable, as was reported by Kings County Politics (https://www.kingscountypolitics.com/bay-ridge-polls-grow-contentious-hotly-contested-election/)
Hugs,
marlene
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