Hynes: "I'm Out"

In a New York Law Journal interview today, Brooklyn District Attorney Charlie Hynes, who lost the Democratic Primary to Ken Thompson earlier this month, said he won't campaign on the Republican or the Conservative lines in the November general election, as Republican and Conservative supporters have urged him to do.

Hynes' denial ended a very public effort by manager Dennis Quirk, Republican

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The Second Coming of Hynes?

No sooner had Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes been defeated by rival Democrat Ken Thompson in the September 10 Democratic Primary than the Republican and Conservative parties, undoubtedly with Hynes' knowledge and consent, placed an item in the New York Post urging Hynes to run on the Conservative and Republican lines in the November 5 general election -- something the 78-year-old had vowed not to

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Failed Messiah Makes a Quirky Connection

In a recent post, muck-raking haredi Brooklyn blogger Failed Messiah, a foe of Brooklyn D.A. Charlie Hynes, attributed an insulting email calling him an "asshole" to the family of Dennis Quirk, who heads the New York State Court Officers Union and is a major Hynes campaign contributor.

Quirk, waggishly dubbed "The King of the Courts", is known for ad hominem attacks on sitting judges. Quirk

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