Volume 76, Number 5 | June 21 - 27 2006
Scoopy's Notebook

From spanker to spankee: Apparently William Stricklin’s comments last week in The Villager about the club’s renegade state committee members, Larry Moss and Rachel Lavine, didn’t go over too well with the Village Independent Democrat powers that be. Stricklin, V.I.D.’s president, had assured us that Moss and Lavine were in for “a public spanking” and that there would be “repercussions” after the pair didn’t hide their support for hawkish Hillary Clinton at the Democratic State Convention, despite the club’s overwhelming endorsement of antiwar candidate Jonathan Tasini. But at the end of last week we received a letter with Stricklin’s signature (see letters, Page 14) in which he claims the club is allegedly “extremely proud” of Moss and Lavine for helping pass a “bold and true” antiwar resolution (one which Tasini, on the other hand, complains was “watered down.”) The e-mail was sent — not by Stricklin — but by District Leader Keen Berger, and cc’d were District Leader Brad Hoylman (a major Hillary supporter) and Assemblymember Deborah Glick (a major Moss and Lavine supporter). We asked Stricklin if he indeed wrote the letter. “I worked on it,” he said. So did that mean others worked on it too? “Nothing — I wrote it, I wrote it,” Stricklin corrected himself. He added something about his “butt getting kicked” big time by multiple individuals after The Villager article, and sounded none too happy about it, and tried to tell us his comments about Moss and Lavine had been “off the record.” Meanwhile, Lavine says she wasn’t really even at the convention, but in Albany to follow the gay marriage court trial. But she told us that, yes, she thinks Hillary’s terrific.