The "Big News" here is that Michael Allegretti has re-surfaced in Brooklyn as an Adolfo Carrion flack

The sidebar story is that Brooklyn Republican Chairman Craig Eaton is again prematurely "supporting" a candidate to run on the Republican line --- as is too often the case, that candidate is not a Republican  ---  even better, the candidate is a proud veteran of the Obama Administration  ---  making the candidate a "three-strikes-you're -out" kind of guy, he has been adjudicated as ethically challenged and has been punished for that little bit of corruption --- that candidate is named "Adolfo Carrion" and he is being "Shepherded" by a former failed Eaton candidate, "Big News" Michael Allegretti

Two key independent activists emailed me with the cites for three different posts/ articles about all this: "Shepherding A Possible Adolfo Carrion 2013 Run: Michael Allegretti" by CELESTE KATZ, NOVEMBER 13, 2012 12:51 PM, Daily News - Daily Politics; "Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton: Adolfo Carrion Jr. Could Be 2013 'Gamechanger' " by  CELESTE KATZ. NOVEMBER 13, 2012 10:57 AM, Daily News - Daily Politics; and "Brooklyn GOP Chair Backs Carrion (Updated)" posted by Liz Benjamin on November 13, 2012 at 11:57 am at Your News Now – Capital Tonight.

A quick survey of  Brooklyn independent GOP activists completely agree that Craig Eaton is "the gift that keeps on giving."