Bob Capano gears up for a City Council Campaign…

...   While John Quaglione does his mixed message(s) on all kinds of social media…. 

 

...   And Liam McCabe keeps having formal & informal meetings at local watering holes…..

 

...  And, If Marty Golden is running for ANYTHING, he seems to be keeping it kind of "on the down low"……

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CAPANO ANNOUNCES A CAMPAIGN TREASURER FOR 2017 RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL

Bob Capano recently made this announcement to his insiders and others friendly to his candidacy for the NYC Council: 

“…  I wanted to share some exciting news with you. I have formed a campaign committee in preparation for the 2017 City Council election in the 43rd district in Brooklyn, and have brought aboard an outstanding Treasurer to help lead this effort….  Alexander Buchholz, CPA, MBA, CGMA, is a Senior Audit Manager in the Not-for-Profit and Health Care sectors. He has 13 years of experience in public accounting and was the Treasurer of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club from 2006-2009. Alex is also an adjunct professor of accounting at several colleges [affiliated with] the City University of New York. Alex has [presented numerous journal publications [at the professional and academic level] that have covered accounting, audit, tax, and education topics….  [Alexander Buchholz] serves on many professional organizations and committees including the Foundation for Accounting Education Curriculum Committee, the NYS Society of CPAs Health Care Committee, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Healthcare Financial Management Association (Metropolitan New York Chapter), and the Berkeley College School of Business Advisory Board. Alex was also a member of the NYS Society of CPAs Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing Committee….  I also wanted to let you know that I will be working with the Electoral Media firm and in the next few weeks, we will be launching a BobCapano.com website….  We will have more official announcements of these actions in the coming weeks!” 

MY INTERVIEW WITH CAPANO’S WEBSITE ARCHITECT  ---  “THIS IS A SPECIAL SITE FOR A SPECIAL CAMPAIGN”

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to conduct a telephone interview with Frank Floridia of Electoral Media.  Frank is the man charged with designing and putting together the components of the projected Bob Capano Campano website.

At the outset Frank Floridia said that Bob Capano’s new website will be anything but a cookie-cutter webpage of the sort done by most local officials and candidates.  Even in this day and age, according to Mr. Floridia, most candidates go through the motions of putting-up a webpage just to be able to say they have a webpage.  He emphasized the Bob Capano Campaign website will be anything but that;  he  said,  “This is a special site for a special campaign.”

Mr. Floridia told me that this particular piece of website development is particularly newsworthy, because  ---  in addition to the traditional political webpage subheadings such as “HOME”;  “ABOUT”;  “ISSUES”; “PRESS RELEASES"“CONTACT”; and  “VOLUNTEER”  ---  the Bob Capano Campaign website will have several tools, which will  directly connect the campaign to the public.

Among the interactive tools will be one that will allow “Neighborhood Polling” --  such polling will allow the campaign to break-out various pieces of data from the broader responses by the public.  In addition to the basic polling, there will be several prompts for either or both sides to “get in touch” or for further “follow-up” on the issue; also,  it will allow for related follow-up outreach, either immediately or at a later date…..

Another tool that will be available to the Bob Capano Campaign through its interactive website will be an on-line petitioning capability.  It is expected that the first on-line petition will involve the newly enacted NYC Bag Tax --  and proposed roll-back legislation to head off that onerous piece of NY City government overreach. Again, there will be prompts for additional interaction beyond the on-line petitioning…..

Even the current & prior press release subheading will have a prompt to go over to  the interactivity features.

Without giving any details,  Frank Floridia indicated that as soon as the Bob Capano Campaign had fully complied with all of the filing requirements, the website would most likely implement  a complete interactive fund-raising component on the website.  Several sophisticated fundraising features are available, but the campaign’s fundraising folks will need to be involved in deciding what they want and think they might need in and on the website

This is what candidate Bob Capano has to say about Frank Floridia and the prospective BOB CAPANO FOR COUNCIL website:  “I am happy to have such a well respected professional campaign team on board with me, many of whom like Frank Floridia, have successfully worked with so many other Republican officials….  This website will allow people to learn more about me and the importance of the next round of city-wide and council district elections.”

MEANWHILE THE OTHER POSSIBLE GOP CANDIDATES FOR THE COUNCIL ARE SORT OF JUST HANGIN'-OUT IN THE SUMMER HEAT

[Musical interlude]  “… Lazy bones, sleeping in the sun How you espect to get your day's work done? You'll never get your day's work done Sleeping in the noon day sun…. Lazy bones, sleeping in the shade How you espect to get your corn meal made? You'll never get your corn meal made Sleeping in the evening shade…. When them 'tatos need sprayin' I know you keep prayin' That the bugs fall off their vine And when you go fishing I bet you keep wishing The fish won't grab at your line….  You know, lazy bones, loafin' all the day How you espect to make a dime that way? You'll ever make a dime that way You never hear a word I say….  Lazy bones, sleeping in the sun How you espect to get your day's work done? You'll never get your day's work done Sleeping in the noon day sun….”                         
                    ---- Johnny Mercer & Walter Donaldson

John Quaglione is staying “ACTIVE” on social media, tweeting about the trees falling down in Bay Ridge: American flags flying in “BREEZY…” ;  the ups and downs of the Mets;  annual Summer Strolls; the electrical daisies over Third Avenue and other “Summer Dining Out” stuff;  and his real “heavy lift” a 15 question quiz about Bay Ridge -- with JQ bragging about getting 12 right.

But Quaglione was an absolutely fabulous dynamo compared to Liam McCabe, who seems to have decided that he’d engage in a throw-back John Larney-type pub-crawl campaign.  Will [Liam] is meeting and greeting folks in the rapidly disappearing drinking spots around Bay Ridge – some at formal gatherings like with the Brooklyn Young Republican Club – others less formal;  sometimes dropping Dan Donovan’s name --  sometimes not.

Then there’s the venerable Silver Fox of Brooklyn GOP politics – Marty Golden.  Not only does he NOT look like he’s running for City Council in 2017,  he doesn’t even look like he’s RUNNING for re-election to the NY State Senate in 2016.

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IF YOU’RE NOT BORED BY ALL THIS YET,  YOU’LL HAVE TO SEARCH FOR MORE OF THIS STUFF ELSEWHERE, BECAUSE IT SURE IS BORING ME…..

[Cue the Louis Armstrong version (not that Stalinist Paul Robeson’s) ]  

“… Lazybones, sleepin' in the sun
How you spect to get your day's work done?
You can't get your day's work done
Sleepin' in the noon day sun….