RIP My Little Ray of Hope Reichbach

Sometimes, I hate this fucking Internet: especially when it brings me such sad news.

My favorite local politico, 22-year-old Hope Reichbach, was found dead yesterday in her Brooklyn apartment. The Brooklyn Paper is reporting it was likely an overdose of prescription drugs.

Man, I'm sad. This really sucks. 

I first met her during her unsuccessful but kind of awesome campaign to unseat Joan Millman for the still perplexing post of female district leader. Her day job was communications director for Councilman Steven Levin.

She was a great sport when I wrote this about her:

Holy Shit, I was just chased down Garfield by Tracy Flick. I signed her petition to get her on the ballot for "female district leader."

I will def be voting for her come November, if only because her bio says "when she was a senior at Hunter College High School, she brought a suit against then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for illegal military recruitment tactics."

And there is that awesome photo above. God, I want her to unbutton a few buttons on that blue oxford. 

Also, I will be voting for Hope for her forward-thinking in buying up that domain name (hopeforbrooklyn.com) when she was still in kindergarten.

I watched with pride her transformation to grown-up, loved that she liked our FIPS campaign coverage, and got to know her as a generous, big-hearted and smart young woman.

She was a very nice person, Hope Reichbach. I'm so sorry for her family and friend's loss. And ours too because this girl was going somewhere. And she would have taken Brooklyn with her.