Freddy Ferrer may be tanking and it may be too late but he just got a small lifeline by netting the endorsement of the Transport Workers Union in NYC. I’m not going to give the whole history here but, for those of you outside NYC, Ferrer is the former Bronx borough president who ran in 2001 and got beat by Mark Green in the Democratic primary. The primary got ugly when Green operatives spread leaflets in white neighborhoods tying Ferrer unfavorably to Al Sharpton. Green, then, lost, partly because of the primary ugliness, to our current mayor billionaire Mike “I’ll Spend Whatever It Takes To Win” Bloomberg.

Then, Ferrer stepped in his own pile of doodoo recently by pissing off the African-American community, saying that the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo by four NYC policeman was not murder—which everyone in the community still felt strongly it was since Diallo was hit 19 times…for reaching for his wallet. Since his dumb-ass remark, Ferrer has been dropping in the polls, trailing Bloomberg (he ahd been leading him) and barely leading at least one of his primary opponents.

Anyway, since TWU Local 100 has about 38,000 members, many of whom are African Americans, this ***might*** help Ferrer regain some traction and put the Diallo controversy behind him. But, hard to tell how much the union will be able to influence their members on such an emotional issue.