Tuesday is Primary Day So Please Remember to Vote and Email.

2009 is the 400th anniversary of the founding of New York City, tracing back to when Henry Hudson first sailed up a river that now bears his name. And it was 110 years ago that the five boroughs were consolidated into One City by Andrew Haswell Green (hmmm).

So please vote tomorrow thinking about what our City could be like for the next 110 or 400 years. For in the words a poet, "voting is the way you speak to your grandchildren."

I'm proud that we've run a positive campaign for Public Advocate trying to appeal to the best in voters, laying out my history and my ideas for the next New York. And we're honored to have attracted endorsements from such leaders as Gloria Steinem and N.O.W. to legislators such as Denny Farrell and John Sampson locally and Congressional Chairs Henry Waxman and John Conyers nationally.

My friend and supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put it eloquently last week: "The post he is running for is the Conscience of the City. It is the post that is supposed to remind all of us how democracy should function, how the little guy should have as much power as big wealthy voices. There is nobody who understands that office and those principles better than Mark."

I'm very grateful for those words and all that support. But the most important endorsement of all, of course, is voters tomorrow, Primary Day.

To help win that "endorsement", could I trouble you to email your friends and family today? Please urge them, in your own words, why you believe that my performance, promise and independence make me the best person to again be their Public Advocate, helping keep NYC a 21st Century City where anyone can succeed, contribute and live up to their potential.

That's been my message in six months of campaigning. If now you carry that message to your friends in this final day, we win and change New York. Can I count on you?