Ghoulish Democratic bosses promoted a dead man as a\u00a0candidate in southern Brooklyn while soliciting petition signatures to help get House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries back on the ballot, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
Robert Gevertzman, a longtime community leader who died in March 2025 at the age of 76, shockingly cleared the petition-checking process, records show. <\/p>\n
He is now slated to be below Jeffries on the Democratic ticket and run unopposed in next month\u2019s primary for a seat on the Kings County Democratic Committee.<\/p>\n
The Democratic dirty tricks didn\u2019t end with raising the dead.<\/p>\n
Borough party leaders also deployed a one-armed man who was caught in a series of bizarre videos this week claiming longtime lefty operative Joey Cohen-Saban<\/a> isn\u2019t a Democrat to help him secure enough signatures to qualify for a third-party line and boost his candidacy in a tight race<\/a> to unseat state Assemblyman Michael Novakhov (R-Brooklyn).<\/a><\/p>\n Ghoulish Democratic bosses promoted a dead man as a candidate in southern Brooklyn while soliciting petition signatures to help get House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (pictured) back on the ballot. REUTERS<\/p>\n Cohen-Saban, as the local Democratic district leader, along with Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairperson and state Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, are the main culprits in the alleged efforts to mislead voters, Novakhov and other borough Republican honchos contend.<\/p>\n Robert Gevertzman, a longtime community leader who died in March 2025, is slated run unopposed in next month\u2019s primary for a seat on the Kings County Democratic Committee. FaceBook, Ari Kagan<\/p>\n A now-certified petition sheet Brooklyn Democrats distributed in an election district covering parts of Sheepshead Bay and other neighborhoods included a dead candidate. Obtained. by the NY Post<\/p>\n \u201cRunning dead people shocks the conscience, and so does lying to and misleading the voters about which party you represent. It is disgraceful, dishonest, and an insult to the voters of this district and to the Gevertzman family,\u201d said Novakhov.<\/p>\n Gevertzman, a former long-serving member of Brooklyn Community Board 15, was a centrist Democrat.<\/p>\n His wife, June Gevertzman, said she was unaware her husband was mysteriously listed as a shoe-in candidate, adding she found it \u201csilly\u201d and prefers him off the ballot.<\/p>\n Democrat Joey Cohen-Saban (pictured) is running to unseat state Assemblyman Michael Novakhov (R-Brooklyn). Instagram \/ joeysaban<\/p>\n The bogus petitions highlighting Jeffries circulated earlier this year in parts of the President Trump-loving 45th\u00a0Assembly District \u2013 a rare section of Brooklyn considered a GOP stronghold that includes parts of Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend and Manhattan Beach.<\/p>\n The petitions \u2013 copies of which The Post reviewed \u2014 also included Gevertzman and two others backed by the Kings County Democratic Committee who are running unopposed for three of its 4,400-plus committee seats.<\/p>\n The obscure elected posts\u2019 duties include overseeing committee bylaws, and many county committee members have historically been cronies willing to amend rules to party leaders\u2019 benefit and help keep them in power. <\/p>\n Brooklyn Dems were caught on video bogusly claiming Saban and state Sen. Sam Sutton, a fellow Democrat, aren\u2019t Democrats while trying to help them get a second ballot line. Obtained by the New York Post<\/p>\n Although Jeffries\u2019 camp wasn\u2019t involved in the signature-gathering process, critics say he benefitted by having Gevertzman also on the same petition.<\/p>\n This is because the late activist was more popular in the conservative Sheepshead Bay-Manhattan Beach area and likely helped Jeffries draw some signatures from registered voters there who normally wouldn\u2019t sign his petitions, they added.<\/p>\n The powerful Democrat, however, has more than enough support in other parts of the borough to secure the required signatures anyway, critics conceded.<\/p>\n The Dem shenanigans resurfaced again Monday when an unidentified 20-something-year-old male amputee was filmed outside a supermarket on Avenue U in Gravesend, repeatedly insisting\u00a0that Saban and state Sen. Sam Sutton, a fellow Democrat, are \u201cindependents.\u201d <\/p>\n He and another man collected petition signatures for both candidates to secure them a second ballot line under the \u201cFight Antisemitism Party.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese guys, they\u2019re not Democrats?\u201d asks an undercover GOP operative in video provided to The Post, after being handed Cohen-Saban campaign material and a petition to sign.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, no,\u201d replied the one-armed signature bandit, who was wearing a black-leather baseball cap worn backwards, a crystal around his neck and sporting a goatee. <\/p>\n Assemblyman Michael Novakhov (R-Brooklyn) said Saban and other Brooklyn Democratic honchos \u201cowe this community a full apology for this shameful political fraud.\u201d Michael Nagle for NY Post<\/p>\n On Tuesday, the same man and a different sidekick were filmed in a separate video again falsely claiming Cohen-Saban isn\u2019t a Democrat while trying to get a prospective voter to sign his petition.<\/p>\n