Brooklyn Young Republican Club President Glenn Nocera posts congratulations to “Official” YRs’ new President Diana Sepulveda and new Vice President Frank Morale

Nocera thinks the time is right to make a positive response to the Brooklyn GOP’s overtures to become re-associated with Brooklyn’s traditional and independent Young Republican Club and for the two groups of Brooklyn Young Republicans to work together

At an earlier meeting of his own Brooklyn Young Republican Club, President Glenn Nocera had reported that sometime before Russell Gallo, president of the “rival” Brooklyn Young Republicans, had made contact for the purpose of exploring ways to bring the two “Young Republican” clubs together for the overall benefit of the Republican Party in Brooklyn. At that time, Nocera indicated that he had given a generally positive response to Gallo. As recently as this past Sunday’s Brooklyn Young Republican Club meeting at Ceol in Downtown Brooklyn, BYRC President Nocera made a sort of report about relations with the other Brooklyn young Republicans when he had told some of those gathered that he’d gotten no responses to his voice mails to Gallo and that he suspected that the Brooklyn YRs’ president was no longer interested in any joint activities.

Overnight, Glenn Nocera listened to Brooklyn GOP [Blog] Radio’s 2/20/13 show and heard everything that Russell Gallo and Gene Beradelli had to say about bringing the two Brooklyn Young Republican organizations into some kind of unity; and earlier tonight, Glenn Nocera had a lengthy interview with a  representative of this blog. Here's what Glenn thinks about what he had heard from Gallo and Berardelli.

Mr. Nocera indicated that he was gratified by a lot of what Russell Gallo had to say about him personally. He was very thankful that at long last he was getting an acknowledgment from the Brooklyn YRs and Brooklyn GOP Radio for the work he had put-in alongside Gallo and the rest in campaigns for Bob Turner, David Storobin, Michael Grimm and Marty Golden. He noted that he was involved in a fund raiser for Turner in 2010 called the “Weiner Roast” and that a substantial donation had been made to the Turner Campaign.

Glenn  Nocera went on to say  that he wished to take the proposals advanced by Gallo and Berardelli as an olive branch (Nocera’s words not ours) to his Brooklyn Young Republican Club. Nocera said that the actions taken Wednesday night by two “Official” Brooklyn GOP operations, The Brooklyn YRs and Brooklyn GOP Radio, would be taken seriously; especially in light of the fact that Brooklyn Republican Leader Eaton seemed to be behind the effort.  Glenn said he would treat it all as an offer for some degree of fraternity and mutuality between the two clubs some time in near the future, unless he learns that it is not. Nocera said he had no problem trusting Russell Gallo and Gene Berardelli, and by implication Craig Eaton, but that he would follow the lead of one of his heroes, Ronald Reagan —  “... to trust, but also to verify.”

With that, Nocera did sound a note of caution, saying that several things he’d heard in the recorded blogcast by Gallo and Berardelli needed clarification before he would publicly comment any further. He also indicated that he wanted to get back to the Brooklyn Young Republican Club’s Officers and Board of Directors about these developments and get a sense of where the longtime members of his club stood on any or all of it.

Nocera then told this blog that as President and on behalf of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club he had posted congratulatory social media messages on the pages of the Brooklyn YRs’ newly selected President Diana Sepulveda and newly selected Vice President Frank Morale. He said it was his hope and expectation that the current Brooklyn Young Republican Club and Brooklyn YRs would be able to work together on lots of things going forward.