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… And, of course, John Heyer is endorsed by God.

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Today is Primary Day, so if you have not been able to make up your mind after a full year of the campaign, perhaps these last-minute endorsements will push you over the edge:

• In the 39th District, which covers Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens and part of Cobble Hill, Josh Skaller was endorsed by Rep. John Hall (D-Upstate New York). Can’t place the name? Hall was once the lead singer in the cloying, soft-rock band Orleans, famous for its lone hit, “Still the One.”

Skaller’s press release chose instead to highlight Hall as “a leading voice in Washington for energy independence” and “green” fuels.

• In the same district, Skaller’s rival Brad Lander picked up the endorsement of the New York Daily News and, more important, Brooklyn Paper parenting columnist Louise Crawford on her Web site, “Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.”

• Meanwhile, John Heyer, a religious Catholic who has assiduously courted support in the district’s large Borough Park section, got an endorsement from Senior Borough Park Rabbi Moshe Wolfson.

“Candidates like John Heyer don’t come around every day,” Rabbi Wolfson in a letter. “Heyer openly supports issues that really matter to our community.” Such “issues” include Heyer’s anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage and pro-school voucher positions.

Heyer’s campaign put out a statemtn claiming that the candidate has been endorsed, “whether formally or informally,” by Rabbi Yisroel Belsky of Torah Vdaas, Rabbi Shlomo Gross, Rabbi Asher Eckstein, Rabbi Shulem Pesach Langsam of Belz, Rabbi Shulem Meir Twersky of Foltitchan, Rabbi Meir Yosef Rottenberg of Koson, Rabbi Hsraga Hager of Kosov, Rabbi Simchah Bunim Erenfeld of Materesdorf, Rabbi Yakov Perlow of Novominsk, Rabbi Moshe Menachem Weiss of Pupa, Rabbi Michel Steinmetz Dayen of Square, Rabbi Gavriel Zinner Rav of Nitei Gavreil, Rabbi Mordchai Zeev Wosner Rav of Machzeh Avrohom, Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Twersky of Rachmestrivke, Grand Rabbi Mordchai Dovid Unger of Bobov, Grand Rabbi Mechel Twersky of Square BP, Grand Rabbi Yeshyay Twersky of Tchernobil, Rabbi Chaim Eluzur Friedman of Tenka, and Rabbi Mechel Daskal of Viznitz.

It is unclear how Heyer got the Twersky of Tchernobil endorsement.

Heyer also landed the endorsement of Hugh Carey, though the majority of voters may forget that Carey was governor three decades ago.

©2009 Community Newspaper Group