The primary elections are Tuesday. Earn your right to complain by voting! If you don’t know where, visit the New York City Poll Locator. And it’s always a good idea to have your Election District and Assembly District numbers with you, so look them up before you leave for the polls.

If you don’t already know for whom you’ll be voting, perhaps these endorsements will help guide you. In my opinion, and despite their various flaws, the citywide newspapers have the best handle on the situation. And because I’m a blogger, I’ve thrown in my opinion. I genuinely welcome yours—but if you’re affiliated with any of these campaigns, I respectfully insist that you not participate.

MAYOR
••• “Christine Quinn inspires the most confidence that she would be the right mayor for the inevitable times when hope and idealism collide with the challenge of getting something done.” —The New York Times
••• “Christine Quinn because she combines the clearest understanding of the difficulties facing the city with the most extensive record of getting things done as a councilwoman and accomplished City Council speaker.” —New York Daily News
••• “Christine Quinn is the only candidate who has shown the basic common sense any mayor needs.” —New York Post
••• My two cents: Christine Quinn knows how the city works—and how to work the city—and I want a pragmatic mayor above all else. Also, I have grave concerns that moderate voters in the general election could get scared by de Blasio’s across-the-board liberalism—and that he could actually get beaten by Rudy Giuliani crony Joe Lhota. (I don’t trust anyone who pals around with that clown.) If I were running against de Blasio, I’d mock him for days about his promise to make banning horse-driven carriages the first thing he does as mayor, and I’m an animal-lover. You can say Quinn is hotheaded and a hardass—to which I say, so what? And also, that’s jawdroppingly sexist when you realize that most male politicians are, too, but that never gets held against them.

COMPTROLLER
••• “Scott Stringer has done an outstanding job as Manhattan borough president and would make a fine New York City comptroller. He is not a flashy candidate and he has no measurable notoriety. […] Mr. Spitzer entered the race at the last minute, seemingly for no reason except to thrust himself back into the limelight and to offer his services again as sheriff of Wall Street. But that is a problem: it’s the same character, in a different play, on the wrong stage.” —The New York Times
••• “Stringer’s word has been rock-solid and he has worked diligently for advancement, while ex-governor Eliot Spitzer hopes to waltz in on nerve and notoriety.” —New York Daily News
••• “Spitzer came to office [as governor] with an approval rating in the 70s—only to see the numbers completely flip in scarcely a year. It was entirely self-inflicted. His governorship read like a script for FX’s ‘Anger Management,’ with Spitzer unable to get along with anyone: not Republicans, not Democrats, not even members of his own staff. Now he’s seeking to be put in charge of city contracts and $140 billion in pension funds. […] Whether it’s asking us to put him in charge of the city’s books when he won’t let us see his, insisting on full transparency from businesses while refusing to release e-mails a judge says should be made public, or running an Occupy Wall Street-themed campaign possible only because of daddy’s millions, the double standards never stop with Spitzer. […] Stringer is a sober, honest man who understands how the city works and how important the job of comptroller is. He is not hellbent on crusading against Wall Street, settling personal political vendettas or ripping up the rule book—instead, he aims to do what the office requires, and do it well.” —New York Post
••• My two cents: I abhor the way Eliot Spitzer used his office as attorney general to shame businesses into failing rather than actually press charges and let the justice system do its work; he abused power in ways that make me shiver—and his grandstanding agenda clearly goes far beyond what this role calls for. Please vote for Scott Stringer.

PUBLIC ADVOCATE
••• “We recommend Daniel Squadron, who has the credentials and temperament to step into this job and to run the mayor’s office in an emergency. […] Mr. Squadron has shown himself to be a strong advocate for ethics reform in Albany. He helped pass tough gun laws earlier this year; forced the Bloomberg administration to stop charging rent to homeless families; proposed an alliance to get wealthier park lovers to help fund poorer parks; and helped end the interminable negotiations over Brooklyn Bridge Park, now a celebrated part of the city’s waterfront. He promises to fight for the city’s ‘overlooked orphans in our political system’—just what a public advocate should do.” —The New York Times
••• “We don’t agree with all Squadron stands for. But give the man credit: He’s the only candidate for public advocate who’s stated the obvious on a key issue affecting the public purse: for what our city unions want, the money’s just not there.” —New York Post (this appears to be closest thing the Post has done to an endorsement in this race)
••• My two cents: I’ve never met Daniel Squadron, our state senator, but through his actions, he has struck me as honest, thoughtful, and intelligent—qualities all too rare in politics. He’s one of the good ones.

MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT
••• “Gale Brewer stands out, even in this impressive field. Ms. Brewer most recently was the guiding force behind the city’s humane new sick leave policy of five days a year for most workers. She promises to focus the office on helping constituents, like those who will almost certainly be confused next year about health care reform, and to work for more affordable housing in new developments. As she has in the past, she plans to hire interns who go on to become more responsible leaders or simply better citizens. Ms. Brewer is too rare a public official to retire.” —The New York Times
••• My two cents: Not entirely sure how Brewer’s hiring interns is relevant…. Anyway, given that Julie Menin comes from Lower Manhattan and knows our issues very well, I think we’d be smart to vote for her. That said, I found her mailing yesterday about “breaking with the Bloomberg/developer agenda” to be distressingly pandering, but I guess that’s what you have to do in a citywide Democratic primary, because the farther left you are, the more likely you are to vote.

CITY COUNCIL
••• My two cents: I don’t think any of the papers has made an endorsement in our City Council race. But if I found Menin’s anti-developer mailing off-putting, you can imagine how I’ve felt about all the mail and phone calls (and there have been far too many for a city council race) from Jenifer Rajkumar. (If your youth is an issue, why would you have your father repeatedly robocall me?) Yesterday’s Rajkumar mailing was a cringe-inducing piece of work masquerading as journalism; it once again railed against “billionaires” and touted her union alliances. That sort of thing might be necessary in a Manhattan-wide or citywide contest, but if you want to represent Tribeca—all of Tribeca—you should really think twice before class-baiting. Ambition is to be admired, as long as it’s tempered by good judgment. I’m voting for Margaret Chin.