For the first couple months of the campaign, state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, Oakland Gardens attorney John Messer and New York Lottery winner and former chemistry professor Isaac Sasson of Flushing largely
avoided appearing at events together, but they verbally sparred Aug. 24 at a MinKwon Center - sponsored event, then again at the Aug. 25 Queensboro Hill Civic Association meeting.
That will make the most prominent Florida politician
appearing at the
event Senate candidate Rep. Katherine Harris, who
appears headed for a crushing defeat and whom the Bush family has tried to
avoid this fall.