Saturday, November 9, 2013

Is Jerry Kassar's "Radio Silence" for now really a cry for help ?

One of the architects of the 2013 Republican-Conservative fiasco in Brooklyn, Golden's Chief of Staff and the Conservative Party Chairman would rather talk about last year’s disaster than the one that happened just three days ago


Kassar, Golden & Co. are showing a pattern here


If nothing else, the Golden political apparatus remains true to form. Going back quite a while, and through several reversals for Marty Golden, Jerry Kassar and company, the typical response from the Golden-Kassar team has been a period of “radio silence” –  that’s why it was no surprise when Jerry Kassar’s “Common Sense” column this week had nothing to say about this year’s election results.

Last Tuesday was a day of cumulative  reversals for Mr. Kassar and his two bosses, State Senator Martin Golden and NYS Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long.  Kassar, Golden and Long were heavily invested in the races of Joseph Lhota for Mayor, Charles “Joe” Hynes for Brooklyn DA and John Quaglione for City Council, the latter two from their home base area of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. All three candidacies crashed and burned like they were mid-fifties rockets trying to orbit America’s first satellite.

The individual failed candidates – Lhota, Hynes and Quaglione  –  shared the same fate and identifying markings, even though they had very different genealogies. All three ran as Republican-Conservatives, but how they got that way was very different, one to the other. Hynes, a lifelong Democrat, was picked without opposition, as the long-time incumbent DA.. Quaglione was picked early by Jerry Kassar for the Conservative line, but faced a primary on the GOP line until a deal was made to lure Andy Sullivan into the adjoining district, with the offer of an uncontested Republican-Conservative line there for Sullivan. Lhota, who was in no way conservative, was picked early by Mike Long and Jerry Kassar to be the Conservative Party’s nominee for mayor; however he didn’t secure the GOP line until a narrow primary victory over John Catsimatidis in September 2013.

Through each tortuous step of each of these Republican-Conservative candidates were the guiding hands of Kassar, Long and Golden – nudging things along. According to the best laid plans, all three of these candidacies were supposed to be mutually supporting and held the early promise of  possible cumulative successes.

The glitches with these plans began almost with each of the initial roll-outs. And additional heavy lifting and last minute adjustments had to be made to coax DA Hynes out of his initial concession following a surprise Democratic primary loss, and to give his Republican-Conservative DA campaign virtual top billing on the ticket in Brooklyn.

Early on, a real wet blanket fell on all of this when Golden, Kassar and company became embroiled in the 2013 GOP organizing process. Who knows what motivated it (there have been some whispers that it is part of a 2014 master plan, but let's wait and see). In any case, it came into the open with Marty Golden’s unprovoked  surprise attack on his longtime GOP ally Craig Eaton. There was a major uptick in the drama and intensity of all of it when mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis joined the fray; and both the Lhota and Quaglione campaigns were drafted into the global war in a teapot under the banner “Republicans for Change.” That fracas went through the summer, into the fall, and because of a bizarre lawsuit continued through election day. That nominally "intra-party" fight soiled and encumbered everything up to that fateful end.

The final failure of this election cycle was there for everybody to see on November 5th. Typical of the Kassar-Golden approach to failures and other inconvenient facts of life is a period of silence on their part. If they continue true to form, stand by for their next stages, denial and dissembling.

As with so many who show patterns of destructive behavior, these guys really do need an intervention of some sort.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Quaglione Already Saying He Is Running Again And Leading Candidate For Open Seat In 2017. I Think The Brooklyn Gop Will Have Something To Say About That. A Russ Gallo Would Be More In Line.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm... [chuckle]... "A Russ Gallo..." perhaps, but not Russ Gallo himself, right ?

Who is number one ? And I'm Spartacus.

Anonymous said...

Quaglione is a zero

Anonymous said...

Rumor has it Russ Gallo is being dug out of his political grave to slay one more dragon.

Anonymous said...

Thinking about 2017 with 35% of the vote - heck, capano and russo who were horrible candidates even did better than that. Maybe Q should think about another career other than politics - he clearly is not well like in Bay Ridge and Dyker. Or maybe Timmy Hot Dog was the reason nobody voted for him???

Anonymous said...

One thing is certain, Kassar has not gone on a hunger strike

Anonymous said...

Who is number one ?

Anonymous said...

You, sir, are a Clark Kent closet Christie-ite, living the dream like Brucie Springsteen and....

Anonymous said...

Marty Golden will be running for Council in 2017. As a private citizen, after a failed 2016 race to regain the Senate seat he lost in 2014.

Galewyn Massey said...

Now, that is an interesting possibility....

Do you think he would step aside if John Quaglione announced for the GOP nomination first ?

Anonymous said...

He can rise on his own power.

They failed to bury him face down, with a stake through his heart and his bodily openings filled with garlic

Anonymous said...

No.

Galewyn Massey said...

Why not, doesn't Quaglione get two shots if he wants them ?

Anonymous said...

C'mon Gale. you saw Quaglione ran a high school campaign. It wasn't backed by anyone just a few of Gentile's stranglers. The GOP needs a real, likeable candidate that that can actually beat a democrat.