Brooklyn GOP Primary Results Reflect ... Nothing !

Many meanings of “nothing” reflected in Brooklyn Republican Primary Vote

“Steve for New York” overcomes minimalist effort by and on behalf of Lucretia Regina-Potter —   with a chunk of potential “support” for either side sitting on the sidelines

Mysterious 45th AD has Cymbrowitz winning over Akselrod on the Dem’s line and nothing to show for the GOP OTB

The New York Times reports that Stamatis Lilikakis with 540 votes (58.5%) defeated Lucretia Regina-Potter with 383 votes (41.5%)

—   Hmmm !   What does it mean, what does it mean ?  Well, probably whatever you want it to mean.  All of the GOP factions that were involved or not very involved in this race can take whatever “credit” and in some cases self-aggrandizing kudos from this outcome. To me, they look a lot like the 46th AD GOP primary results from 2012 — with L R-P not working nearly as hard as she did in 2012, and a very big effort put forward by “Steve” Lilikakis, Marty Golden and the rest of that faction making a real push for the relatively unknown Stamatis Lilikakis. The “difference” in this race might have been due to several key Brooklyn GOP organization types sitting this one out on the sidelines.

The Lilikakis campaign clearly showed that it was top heavy with paid consultants, who obviously could not deliver the BIG victory over the embattled GOP District Leader Lucretia Potter that State Senator Marty Golden was really hoping for. Former District Leader Clorinda Annarummo has to be one person that is none to happy with the 2014 Primary results in the 46th AD. Let’s spell it out with these numbers 2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2014-.......... (fill in the blank).

In the 45th AD, Ben Akselrod seems to have lost some ground to Steve Cymbrowitz on the Democratic side, with nothing being reported about any GOP opportunity to ballot.

There seems to be some very good news from across the Narrows on Staten Island, with Republican Joseph Tirone taking the Conservative Party line away from incumbent Michael Cusick, a Democrat and former Conservative Party endorsee for the so-called Mid-island Richmond County Assembly District (See “Tirone: Upset victory over Cusick in primary battle a 'vindication' for Conservative Party voters” by Tom Wrobleski, 9/10/14, SI Advance/ silive.com [http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/tirone_upset_victory_over_cusi.html]).  The two candidates had  completely different views about Tirone’s OTB victory.  Needless to say, “Joe” Tirone saw his “two-to-one” victory as a major stepping stone to winning the assembly seat now held by Mr. Cusick.  On the other hand, Assemblyman Cusick said that the Conservative Party OTB primary was never viewed as the election that would re-elect him to the assembly — that one certainly would be the election held in November.