Quick – Somebody Tell Craig Eaton The Republican Mayoral Field Doesn't Need More Carrion Problems

Somebody needs to remind the Brooklyn Republican Chairman that the GOP has enough home grown problems  —  dealing with the problems of choosing among its OWN mayoral candidates is part of what GOP leaders have to do  —  bringing in other distractions, like what a “liberal Democrat” did in bygone days is not.

The Adolfo Carrion "hits" just keep on coming. Now it's a campaign filing problem for a little known PAC from long ago and far away (well, kinda long ago, but not so far away). The News has done a little bit of digging and found another instance of Mr. Carrion or those acting on his behalf failing to have properly handled and/or accounted for some PAC  "Cash" during his days as Bronx Borough President.

So it looks like Craig Eaton’s favorite mayoral hopeful, Adolfo Carrion, may be in more hot water over his political finances back in the days when he was Bronx Borough President. While serving as the Bronx BP, Mr. Carrion created a PAC that regularly made cash disbursements in apparent violation of the New York State election law. According to a Daily News article by Greg Smith, records show that something called the BXNY PAC received $172,000 in contributions, mostly from developers and other business interests with dealings in the Bronx and BXNY PAC made up to $15,800 improper "Cash" disbursements based papers filed with the BOE.  The existence of  BXNY PAC was not widely known until Smiths' report appeared yesterday in the News (See  "Politics -- EXCLUSIVE: Adolfo Carrion's mayoral campaign hits new snag as improprieties with borough president war chest discovered" by Greg B. Smith, 3/5/13, NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/adolfo-carrion-mayoral-campaign-funding-legal-trouble-article-1.1280424]).

This is yet another instance of possible improprieties involving Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton’s personally chosen mayoral candidate’s  past. Again, the problem appears to involve Carrion’s dealings with money and/or services from those doing business with government agencies under his control, and his failure to follow the rules and/or make proper disclosures. According to the Daily News, Carrion’s BXNY PAC  made several prohibited cash payments up to $500, totaling $15,800 in all. In addition, the PAC didn’t properly account for how the money was spent, leaving open the possibility that the disbursements specifically were used for otherwise illegal purposes, as well .

It’s long past time for Eaton to cut the tie that binds him to Carrion and to give up on the idea of that non-Republican’s running in the 2013 GOP primary.