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What we have here, is a failure to communicate. Or, more precisely, a failure to connect, with the voters. It’s bad enough being a perpetual loser. It’s even worse being one in the very public political spotlight of New York City. Mark Green is one of those guys that seems to stand for all of the right things, but always manages to come up short on election day.

In what is likely the end of his political career, Green recently lost the primary to Andrew Cuomo. He was out shaking hands until the end.

Earlier on primary evening, Green had stood at a subway entrance on 9th Street in Park Slope, trolling for a last few votes in a bright white shirt with rolled-up sleeves and a loosened tie.

“You’ve always reminded me of Bobby Kennedy,” an awestruck middle-aged man said as he stuck out his hand.

Green beamed. “I used to be called the Jewish Bobby Kennedy,” he replied.

Another commuter shook Green’s hand and said shyly that he had met with the candidate some 30 years ago, when Green was running one of Ralph Nader’s advocacy organizations in Washington. He assured Green that he had his vote, but at the corner the voter paused. “I agree with his politics,” he told a reporter. “But what I remember about that meeting was that he seemed most interested in showing me this book he had just written. It’s too bad. He’s just a little too full of himself.”

Green seems like the epitome of “when bad things happen to good people”. There’s just something about Green that, on a broad scale, doesn’t make him a very likable character. Maybe it’s pheromones.

Mark Green Exits, Stage Left [Village Voice]

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