MAY
15, 2005 --
Manhattan
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau faces a challenge in a Democratic
primary from Leslie Crocker
Snyder, a former assistant district attorney and state supreme court justice.
Mr. Morgenthau, 85 years old has been Manhattan D.A,. for thirty years and
apparently not a few people, including the challenger, believe it is time for
a change.
Judge Snyder announced her candidacy at a May 10 breakfast that drew some 800
people. (The breakfast program included a clip of a Mike Wallace interview
of Judge Snyder. Mr. Wallace told Bob Schieffer, last week, that he had just
marked his 87th birthday.)
The
following evening, a smaller numberr of supporters attended the
telecast at a lower Manhattan pub of a new Law and Officer episode
in which Judge Snyder -- now in private practice -- plays a judge.
LPR got a photo at the second event of the candidate and her husband,
Dr. Fredric Snyder, a pediatrician.
Promising to revitalize the Manhattan district attorney office, in her remarks
at the May 10 breakfast, Candidate Snyder indicaed tht she would bring a district
attorney presence to various sections
of Manhattan, starting with Washington Heights -- which is the area in the
borough that was the site of the Great Wall Tumbledown of May 12.
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