Cursed a blue streak
B’klyn Dem leader’s F-bomb fury vs. ally
What is it they say about seeing how the sausage is made?
Brooklyn Democratic Party powerhouse Frank Seddio was captured on video threatening to rip the “f-–king heart out” of a party activist and wishing him a “terrible death” after a dispute over the selection of state judges.
“What I am is a f--king Sicilian who will take your f-–king heart out. You are absolutely done. Never f--king call me again. Don’t go call me for anything. Drop dead,” the septuagenarian former Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman raged — as he was restrained by colleagues from charging at district leader David Schwartz.
An alarmed Schwartz is then seen videotaping Seddio, who still holds clout in the party as “chairman emeritus” and a district leader.
But the recording of the tirade — first reported by The City — did not faze the enraged Seddio.
“Here I am, David, you should only suffer a terrible death,” he tells Schwartz.
Another executive-committee member, Doug Schneider, attempts to calm Seddio down.
“Frank, let’s go outside,” he tells Seddio.
The confrontation occurred at the end of a meeting of the Brooklyn Democratic Party’s executive committee last week at Nick’s Lobster House in Marine Park.
Rush to judgeships
The executive panel was recommending a slate of 12 candidates for judgeships to the state Supreme Court in Brooklyn for a judicial nominating convention two days later, which generally amounts to a voice vote among district leaders that is largely called the way party bosses have predetermined it should be.
Shaquana Boykin, a Democratic representative in attendance, said she viewed the heated argument as she walked out of the restaurant at the end of the meeting.
“They were very angry with each other,” said Boykin, a member of the reform-minded New Kings Democrats club, which has been pushing for changes to the party. “Frank yells a lot.” Boykin said she later apologized to Schwartz for “Frank’s bad behavior.”
Schwartz was attending his last meeting. He lost his primary for district leader to a candidate backed by Mayor Adams’ team, Pinny Ringel. Schwartz backed Andrew Yang over Adams in last year’s Democratic mayoral primary.
The selection of judges in New
What I am is a f--king Sicilian who will take your f--king heart out! — Frank Seddio (left), in a caught-on-cam spat
York, particularly in the city, has long been a source of controversy and corruption. Scandals involving candidates and party leaders have included former Brooklyn Democratic leader Clarence Norman’s 2007 conviction by the feds in a judgeship-selling scheme.
“It’s a very archaic way of doing it,” ex-Appellate Court Judge David Saxe, now a partner at Morrison Cohen, said Tuesday. “The Democratic Party controls the delegates.”