A week before an officers’ election at Teamsters Local 237, dissident candidate Jakwan Rivers sat opposite a cardboard cut-out of his opponent, incumbent president Gregory Floyd. At times during the one-man show at the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, he jokingly turned to ask the silent mock-up, which sat with a bottle of water in front of it, for a response.
Without the real Mr. Floyd, what was advertised as the “first-time-ever debate” became a 90-minute-long campaign rally where Mr. Rivers spoke to a receptive crowd of approximately 300 people. The M.C., WBLS radio host Bob Lee, asked why his opponent didn’t show up and Mr. Rivers dismissed any suggestion Mr. Floyd didn’t know about the debate.
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