Judicial candidate in tough spot on ballot
Photo credit: Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | Jerome C. Murphy, GOP candidate for State Supreme Court. (Sept. 29, 2011)
The political odd couple of former New York Mayor Ed Koch and Rep. Peter King showed up together in a television ad campaign last week touting a candidate in a highly unusual way -- citing his position on the Election Day ballot, B-10.
While it might sound like electoral bingo, what B-10 officially signifies is Row B, the horizontal Republican ballot line. The number 10 means that the candidate...