Former Bronx Borough President

Former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer will endorse Brooklyn City Councilman Bill de Blasio for public advocate on Tuesday, passing over the man who beat him in the bruising 2001 mayoral primary.

“Looking over the field of candidates in this race, to me there is no question that Bill is the only one who will make sure the people’s voice is heard in City Hall,” Ferrer said.

Ferrer passed over former Public Advocate Mark Green, one of four Democrats in a primary skirmish to replace the departing Betsy Gotbaum.

Ferrer and Green tangled bitterly when both ran for mayor eight years ago.

Green’s campaign was accused of distributing a cartoon depicting a fawning Ferrer kissing the backside of an obese Rev. Al Sharpton.

Green won the 2001 primary against Ferrer - only to lose the race to Mike Bloomberg in a squeaker following the terror attacks of Sept. 11.The following year, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes officially cleared Green of any wrongdoing in the flyer flap. Read more..

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Count Councilman Joel Rivera as one of the Mark Green detractors - a group that has grown more vocal since the former public advocate announced earlier this week that he intends to try to get his old job back.
Unlike most Green opponents, however, Rivera’s beef is new.

The councilman put out a press release/open letter yesterday that slammed Green for reinforcing an “old, outdated stereotype that is as offensive as it is out of touch” when he mentioned single parents and the Bronx in the same sentence in his Web video campaign announcement.

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