Can you produce any evidence of a money gap? My understanding is that the candidates don't file their fundraising numbers until July. Do you have any way of knowing how much money either Newell or Henry has raised?

On organization, it seems like Henry has a pretty aggressive outreach effort going on in Chinatown, with Mandarin and Cantonese speakers working on the campaign, and key alliances with Fujinese business leaders. He's also really focusing on getting volunteers out to Battery Park where there are a lot of new young families who are not in the bag for Silver. I feel his organization is hitting the right pressure points to put together a coalition that can unseat Silver.

And isn't that what the early stages of primary campaigns are all about? I really don't understand this hostility between the Newell and Henry camps. Each side seems to think it's entitled to take on Silver. The filing deadline has not even passed. There is plenty of time to figure out whether Henry or Newell is better positioned to beat Silver. That's what these endorsements are for. That's what fundraising disclosure is for. That's what community forums are for.

If both sides are going to get bent out of shape over every single endorsement, then this primary is going to be about Newell and Henry instead of Silver. Can the Newell camp just take stock in it's endorsement from Blue to Bluer and the Henry camp tout it's DFNYC endorsement, and then we can all move on?