McMahon's karate stunt: neat trick or low blow?

The McMahon campaign has taken of the gloves, and kicked Mike Grimm right in the nut sack.

The Advance did some deep investigative work to find out that Mike Grimm's ex-wife was given a preferential front row seat in Tuesday night's Battle Royale debate between Grimm and Mike McMahon.

"Observers saw four Team McMahon placeholders, who had arrived early to stake out front-row seats, give them up just before the debate began to Grimm's ex-wife, Susan Kim, her father and two brothers. The four took seats directly in front of the podium at which Grimm would stand."

Add to the mix that the Kim family are taekwondo experts who own a chain of karate schools.

The apparent goal: to make Mike Grimm shit himself in fear.

But, it's not like McMahon plucked them out of obscurity.

The Kim's are big McMahon supporters, live in the neighborhood, are very involved in local affairs, and are - a personal opinion - very cordial, stylish, and in general, lovely people.

Of course we may be biased in this. (We already basically endorsed McMahon.) But when your opponent openly declares that you are "ruining our country" shouldn't you have a chance to punch him in the balls?

Mike Grimm has plastered lawn signs all over the Island lambasting McMahon's 2002 vote, while in the city council, to raise property taxes in a successful effort to stave off a massive city fiscal shitstorm after 9/11. Isn't that a low blow as well?

Because Grimm has no political past on Staten Island, can we talk about his failed marriage?