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During a summer spruce-up, its pontoon hatches were opened to catch the dirty runoff from hydraulic hoses that were being used to clean it.
Ammiano, who would have been the city's first openly gay mayor, forced the runoff after launching a write-in campaign just three weeks before the November election.
The top two finishers, who got 25 percent and 22 percent, respectively, will compete in a runoff.
Al Sharpton forced Democratic front-runner Ruth Messinger into a runoff in the New York City mayoral primary.
The three-candidate runoff that results is a loose parody of the '96 presidential election, which makes for "a moral fable with rare comic bite" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein the film "exuberantly caustic."