Interesting bits of “Common Sense” from Jerry Kassar this week

“.... One last note on voting: If you wish to vote in one of this year’s Democratic or Republican primaries [What !!!  No Conservative Party Primaries ??? ], you only have a short time left to register. This only applies to non-registered voters. If you are presently enrolled in a political party and hope to vote in the primary of another party, a change in enrollment takes a year to go into effect. ***  Nevertheless, it is well known that a full third of all eligible voters in Southern Brooklyn are not registered.  So here is your chance to register and vote in some very important primaries. ***  Oh, and if you simply want to register in a party that gets it right the first time, join with me and register in the Conservative Party.”  

                     — Jerry Kassar, “Common Sense: The Democratic Dilemma”

Assuming that Brooklyn Conservative Party Chairman Jerry Kassar actually wrote the “Common Sense” column quoted above ( See “ Common Sense: The Democratic Dilemma” by Jerry Kassar, 7/15/13, Home Reporter/ News/ Opinion [http://www.homereporternews.com/opinion/common-sense-the-democratic-dilemma/article_da6aad14-ed95-11e2-8de1-001a4bcf887a.html]) and that a proper legal foundation could be established for the introduction of those written words, they could be used as evidence in  various actions and proceedings as admissions of some of the factual predicates on the issue of unlawful inter-party raiding under the NYS Election Law.

Several potential witnesses have said or described many activities by Mr. Kassar that demonstrate his active participation with a group that rightly or wrongly calls itself  “Republicans for Change.” The material from Kassar’s column quoted above shows that he has at least some current knowledge and awareness as to the requirements of Section 5-302 et.seq. of the NYS Election Law [prior to 1977 re-codification.at Sections 186 & 187 of the NYS Election Law]. Taken together, Kassar’s actions and acknowledgment of need for timely re-registration prior to participating in a party’s primaries shows that any such participation without a proper and timely re-registration would be both an intentional act and an act done in knowing violation of the Election Law. That would be a bad enough thing for anybody to do; but as a party official of the New York State Conservative Party, that might be an especially problematic thing for Jerry Kassar to be doing and/or to have done.

In this 2013 election cycle, Kassar is not the only Conservative Party official or member to actively take a hand on behalf of certain Republican candidates who are running for REPUBLICAN  PARTY  POSITIONS IN A REPUBLICAN  PARTY  PRIMARY.  For certain Republican candidates participation by (a) Conservative Party member(s) permeates the entire petition. For the record, many of those candidates are running for Republican Party positions on the slate supported by the possibly falsely-named  “Republicans for Change”  —   I’m told that the appropriate use of that name alone might be a very important question of fact to be determined in several possible court proceedings.

Of course, Mr. Kassar and some of the others might say that their activities on behalf of “Republicans for Change” are part of the jobs that they might be doing for their employer, State Senator Martin Golden. Golden is clearly behind the whole “Republicans for Change” thing, as part of his dump-Eaton strategy, and the buzz is that Golden has leaned hard on anybody that he could to push this “Republicans for Change” ticket in 2013.

Now, if Kassar wants to admit to doing all of this as part of his job as Golden’s Chief of Staff in next week’s “Common Sense” column, I’m sure I’ll have a little more to say about that based on my own common sense.