IT'S OFFICIAL -- IN A BIG LOSS FOR "REPUBLICANS FOR CHANGE" -- MARCUS AURELIUS NUSSBAUM AND LUCRETIA REGINA-POTTER VICTORS IN THE 46th AD !

With all votes tallied, the official results provided by the New York City Board of Elections show that 46th Assembly District Republican State Committee candidates Marcus Aurelius Nussbaum and Lucretia Regina-Potter have been victorious in Brooklyn's only hotly contested Republican leadership race  --- This a turnover over of the two key State Committee spots formerly held by Golden and Grimm insiders, Simon Shamoun and Clorinda Annarummo

Nussbaum and Potter were able to withstand everything that came their way.  In spite of opposition that included endorsement  material for their opponents from Joe Lhota, Marty Golden, Michael Grimm, and negative attacks including  everything but the kitchen sink,  Lucretia Regina-Potter and Marcus Nussbaum  were elected the new Republican District Leaders of the new 46th AD -- in essence defeating the long-time entrenched local establishment.  The attacks on Potter and Nussbaum included literature that was mailed all over the district, live telephone banks and robo-calls, and a virtual laundry list of endorsements for the defeated exhausted Republican old guard, whose bedrock strength turned out to be localized in only a small part of the former 46th AD.

The Nussbaum-Sarta race was close and very hard-fought; and although the Potter-Annarummo contest was equally hard-fought, the outcome was not nearly as close as  both sides and most outside observers had expected.

According to her post-election statements, when she was asked why she thought she was able to defeat her opposite number from the Seergy Club and State Senator Golden's "Republicans for Change,"  Lucretia Regina-Potter's answer was simple, “Their plan of attack back-fired on them. Republican voters in the 46 AD are smarter than our opponents thought. They realized that our opponents were only interested in perpetuating their 'divide and conquer' strategy that has so badly damaged our Republican Party in Brooklyn. What Marcus and I want to do is to rebuild our beleaguered Republican Party and bring it back to the times when it was possible to elect good Republican public officials and everyone worked united towards such an objective.”

Throughout the 2013 primary election process, Nussbaum and Potter  ran as the 46th AD Leadership Candidates endorsed by Dr. Arnaldo A. Ferraro's  Fiorello LaGuardia Republican Organization of Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Bath Beach Brooklyn and several community groups in the Brighton Beach and Coney Island part of the 46th AD.  Some time before primary day, GOP County Chairman Craig Eaton and the Kings County Republican Party adopted them as the Republican Party endorsed candidates for Leadership and State Committee spots for the 46th AD against the 46th incumbent Clorinda Annarummu and her newcomer running-mate Dominic Sarta. That pitted the Eaton cadres against those of State Senator Golden in several key Bay Ridge EDs.