Really Not Quite “Republicans for Change” mailer appears in some of our mail boxes

“Republicans for Change”  —   Sort of sounds familiar  —   Sort of sounds a little strange  — Sort of sounds “Not Quite Republican”

Could it be that Conservative Party Chairman Jerry Kassar had his hand in it ?   Woops there it is !

One of my Baker Street Irregulars called me earlier this afternoon with the news that there was a glossy mailer being delivered to certain homes in Dyker Heights. As soon as the snail mail arrived at my Owls Head  villa, an abode that rivals the “stately Wayne mansion” in size and luxury, I had my staff deliver it to my personal underground bunker where I was working on other important things.  Atop the pile of routine postal correspondence was a flashy mailer, emblazoned with a schematic red, white and blue GOP elephant over the large print headline,  “Republicans for Change.”

The aforementioned “flashy mailer” announced that this so-called  “Republicans for Change” group  “... is working to revitalize the Republican party in Brooklyn and in our City.”  Then it summons the recipient to “a special meeting to learn more”; and it then gives the names of  “Joe Lhota for Mayor and John Quaglione for Council” as “special guests.” The special meeting is scheduled for an evening next week at .................. wait for it.................. the Bay Ridge Manor.

So who are these “Republicans for Change” and what is their plan for “Revitalizing Our (underlined and in red) Brooklyn Republican Party” or to “Help build a stronger Brooklyn Republican Party” ?   Well, that remains a secret, “need to know only,” confidential, arcane, abstruse, mysterious, played very close to the vest, quite hush-hush, enigmatic code inside of a cipher.

Luckily, we do have a Rosetta Stone to help with the translation of all of this code.

Not long ago an item appeared in Ross Brady’s Brooklyn Conservative Party Blog entitled “Read Chairman Jerry Kassar’s Common Sense Column - April 29: Republicans for Change”  (See “Read Chairman Jerry Kassar’s Column in Home Reporter and Brooklyn Spectator” by Ross Brady, May 2, 2013 [http://brooklynconservativeparty.com/?p=852]). Brady’s article then quotes the whole of Jerry Kassar’s column from the Bay Ridge Home Reporter and Sunset Park News with a very similar sounding title  —   “Common Sense: Republicans for change” Oddly, there is only one item in the Kassar’s column that remotely relates to Kassar’s title. That lonely item is a reference to a series of proposals supported by Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and  The New York State Assembly Republican Conference that called for a New York State constitutional  amendment that would give the New York voters the right to recall elected officials. Irrespective of the merits of those proposals, the key line in Kassar’s column is this: “The New York State Conservative Party supports all three proposals....”

Now let’s see we have Jerry Kassar doing a column that announces he supports the proposals of  “Republicans for Change” —  we have John Quaglione and Joe Lhota appearing as “guests” —  we have a function being held at the Bay Ridge Manor.  Who could it possibly be that are these  “Republicans for Change,”  who are hosting this event at the Bay Ridge Manor ?  

Could one of these "Republicans for Change" be State Senator Martin Golden ?   NAH !  He’s a not quite Republican RINO  who wants no change at all.  Besides, his name doesn't appear anywhere on the glossy mailer  —  that's so "not Marty Golden."

Could it be Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton ?  Nah !  His idea of change is Adolfo Carrion or John Catsimatidis, not Joe Lhota.

That leaves only Jerry Kassar and his Brooklyn Conservatives  —  they're the only ones who could be hiding behind the pseudonym "Republicans for Change" in Brooklyn.