Anthony Dawson has endorsed John DeStefano for Mayor, after getting creamed by him in a primary where Dawson was doing the bulk of the negative campaigning. Remember Dawson’s flier excoriating nearly all his rivals? Under DeStefano’s watch, Dawson alleged, “Our children are being murdered.” Another primary rival, Clifton Graves, was labeled “puppet of DeStefano.” Jeffrey Kerekes, the only other candidate in the primary—and, since switiching his party affiliation from Democrat to Independent, the only candidate from the primaries running against DeStefano in the general election—was charitably left out of Dawson’s old campaign brouhaha entirely.
Dawson availed himself of the most evil, children-murdering rhetoric for DeStefano, insulted Graves simply by associating him with the mayor, and let Kerekes off the hook by not saying anything about him at all.
Now Dawson’s continuing to ignore Kerekes, who by mounting a sustained challenge to nine-term incumbent DeStefano (and insisting on term limits for the gig) may be creating untold future chances for others to become mayor someday, and instead endorsing a man who not two months ago he was attacking with vitriol seldom seen on campaign fliers in this city.
Should Dawson run again, how will this look for him? He should start cutting the “Puppet of DeStefano” statements out of those fliers and making badges for himself.