| We don't often hear from old-fashioned machine pols anymore. |
Brooklyn Democratic Party powerhouse Frank Seddio is captured on video threatening to rip the "f—ing heart out" of a party "What I am is a fu—ing Sicilian who will take your f—ing heart out. You are absolutely done. Never f—ing 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 videotaping of his 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, 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.
The executive panel was recommending a slate of 12 candidates for judgeships to the state Supreme Court
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...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.