Sunday, August 21, 2016

FLASH UPDATE: NYS CONSERVATIVE PARTY CHAIRMAN MIKE LONG GIVES "EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW" TO THE "GAY CITY NEWS"

NOW  ---   THAT'S NEWS ALL BY ITSELF


LONG TRIES TO DEFEND HIMSELF AND HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY AFTER BULLYING-INDUCED SUICIDE OF TEEN STUDENT


IT'S INDEFENSIBLE ---  LONG'S PAST HISTORY OF HOSTILITY TO VICTIM GROUPS SHOWS WHY HE IS UNFIT TO SERVE AS CHAIRMAN OF HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY --- HE NEEDS TO RESIGN 


THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY NEEDS TO GIVE HIM THE BOOT TOO



Let's start in the middle ---  "....  Long, in an extensive interview with Gay City News, said that [City Councilman Daniel] Dromm 'doesn’t know what happened here — all the work and care the teachers and principal gave to little Danny. We were aware Danny was a troubled kid. I’m not blaming him. We took him back. Thought we could help him. He was a good boy, but he really had lots of issues. Guidance counselors made recommendations that he get professional help and the family wouldn’t follow them. I’m not blaming them. Principal spoke to me. I’m not saying some kids didn’t make a face at him or there weren’t incidents. He was searching for someone to like him. He would latch on to someone and then they might push him away. He was failing badly and the principal called me in and said, ‘I’m going to call his father in and recommend he go to another school.’ The father agreed. He wasn’t coming back. Even his note he says he was happy he was leaving.'...  Long said the school 'has a whole anti-bullying program. We brought in the precinct. The teacher’s handbook includes it.'...   As for his opposition to the state’s anti-bullying law, Long said, 'I have opposed legislation that I believe sets up separate categories of people. We don’t need special legislation for skinny people or fat people. Bullying happens in every school. These teachers and this principal reacted to every incident with Danny or every other kid. The principal does intervene. She is caring. She knows every kid by first name.'..." (See "In Wake of Student Suicide, Dromm Demands Long’s Ouster" by Andy Humm, 8/18/16,  Gay City News [http://gaycitynews.nyc/wake-student-suicide-dromm-demands-longs-ouster/]).  BOY, DOES MIKE LONG SOUND DEFENSIVE, OR WHAT ?????

There is much more in the "Gay City News" article by Andy Humm --- which goes over Mike Long's long and virulent campaign against all sorts of victims' rights -- most notably gays -- even mentioning a long ago dust-up with a much younger Councilman Long over the NYC Gay Rights Bill.


MIKE LONG'S VIEWS ON TOLERANCE ARE WAY OUT-OF-STEP ---  HE MUST RESIGN

Mike Long is way out of step with contemporary views of tolerance, both in American society and even within the Catholic Church. Even though Mike Long looks like he is one of DiMarzio's guys, the Bishop of Brooklyn needs to PUSH Mike Long for a quick resignation from Queen of Angels Academy.

Andy Humm's article shows that libertarians and young conservatives active in the NYS Conservative Party need to push for the ouster of Long  ASAP.  This Neanderthal character has long overstayed his "once upon a time days" on the NYS political scene.


19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why is any conservative speaking to gay news? I thought Conservatives were against gay marriage? What a bunch of bullies.

Anonymous said...

So Gale, just who do you side with?
Mike Long who supports a libertarian approach that does not believe creating laws to prosecute 12 year olds, or, the, well, you know what I mean?

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME MIKE LONG" EDITION

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE GUY WHO GAVE THE VERY DEFENSIVE INTERVIEW TO "GAY CITY NEWS" --- YOU KNOW THE MIKE LONG WHO ONCE ASKED IF WE ARE REALLY GOING TO TRY TO STOP THE BULLYING OF FAT KIDS ?????


"Mike Long who supports a libertarian approach...." Seriously -- I mean "SERIOUSLY!!!!"

Long supports insulating school operators and administrators from liability when they negligently failed to properly intervene in a bullying situation that had become critical. Also, what did he know and when did he know it. His deposition could be very interesting on lots of this stuff.

Let's see what comes out of the Holy Angels Academy scandal -- so far Long says the school and all of its employees did "all they could" for the suicidal young boy --- but he's not blaming ANYBODY. You know it's the "stuff happens" defense.

Anonymous said...

such a sad story, but any suicide by a teen boy in a catholic school usually has more to it

Anonymous said...

All this bullying stuff, first with Liam McCabe and now with Mike Long, is not very good for the Conservative Party brand. The brand especially has been tarnished here in Brooklyn; and that is a place where they can't afford any trips or stumbles. Things are coming to a rapid conclusion for them in the County of Kings

Facts are facts, except for some deals with a few Democrats, the Conservatives are just about out of gas in Brooklyn. Everybody saw how Kassar tried to take over the Brooklyn GOP last year and two years before that he tried the same thing. Both times Kassar had Brooklyn's only elected Republican on his side along with some legal help from the Republican senate caucus. Both times Kassar and his guy Golden failed.

Just like the GOP in Brooklyn, the Conservatives are having a hard time finding new blood -- generational and other demographics have been going against them for a long time and wide open immigration has been making that worse in recent years. Long and Kassar have been worried about this for lots of those years, sometimes they even talked about it openly.

Lately, top Conservative Party folks suddenly seem much less worried, they are even cocky and talking like world beaters. Don't go thinking it's about Golden and Ghorra or even any pipedreams about Liam. Mike Long, Jerry Kassar and some other geniuses have what they think is a great pivot plan. All they have to do is move their whole operation and inner circle to Staten Island and set up shop there.

The facts are that they are working on that right now. Insurgents supported by Long and Kassar are in a major organizational fight to oust Joe Molinaro. They've been building up to it for a few years now, including deals with many of the Staten Island Republicans that hate Molinaro and want to stay on Long's good side.

Anonymous said...

To the nanny above. You left out that Molinaros grandson got busted 2 days ago with 100 pounds of pot in his trunk.

Anonymous said...

Your Mike Long sure changed his tune since he gave his interview to the gay papers. Then he said he didn't blame anybody. Now he blames the kid's parents, but more than the parents long is now giving interviews blaming the Fitzpatrick kid.
Look and see what this monster Long is saying about this dead kid and the kids parents in the Sunday Post. I didn't know that the head of a Catholic school could reveal so much confidential information about one of its students.
Your Mike Long looks like some piece of work, too and he looks like a real dirty street fighter who wants to win this case in the New York Post

Anonymous said...

Kassar didn't try to take over anything. Lucretia stabbed Craig in the back in an epic betrayal but Craig still got the last laugh.

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE “MIKE LONG UNLOADS ON THE VICTIM'S FAMILY AND EVEN DANIEL FITZPATRICK, THE YOUNG VICTIM HIMSELF” EDITION

UNLIKE THE PASSIVE DEFENSE THAT CONSERVATIVE PARTY CHAIRMAN MIKE LONG GAVE IN HIS “GAY CITY” INTERVIEW [MENTIONED ABOVE] --- THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY TOOK PART IN A REAL HIT PIECE IN THE SUNDAY NY POST THAT WAS ALL ABOUT DRAGGING A DEAD KID AND HIS PARENTS THROUGH THE MUD --- ANYBODY OTHER THAN HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY

WHAT KIND OF PERSON TAKES PART IN ALL THAT --- THE KIND OF PERSON WHO THINKS THE SCHOOL AND ITS EMPLOYEES ARE THE REAL VICTIMS WHEN ONE OF THEIR STUDENTS COMMITTED SUICIDE


I’m flabbergasted --- my words are not enough. You need to read it for yourself (See “ School says suicide kid’s family never answer ‘cry for help’ “ by Melissa Klein & Joe Tacopino, 8/21/16, NY Post/ Metro [http://nypost.com/2016/08/21/school-says-suicide-kids-family-never-answered-cry-for-help/]).

Don’t let the article's title fool you: even though it proclaims: “School says…”; a lot of the quoted material in the article are from Michael Long or Mike Long’s quoting other people. And even though the title says “… suicide kid’s family…” most of the article is about what Mike Long and others said was wrong with the “suicide kid” “Danny” himself and/or how much of it was “Danny’s” own fault. Adding insult to injury, Mike Long even played the ”victim card” for the school and its employees --- telling stories that showed, as a result of Daniel Fitzpatrick’s suicide, his parents’ complaints, earlier media coverage and the public’s reaction --- the school, school employees and other students have been victimized.

Anonymous said...

Larry Craig was a Conservative

Anonymous said...

Gail, you've been all over this for a few days now. Like you I didn't think that all the piling on in the Post article was in any way the right thing to do.

It looks like Long and the legal eagles advising the principal and teachers from Holy of Angels Academy have planned a brass knuckle beat down on the parents to bully them into silence an submission.

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE “BACKFILL-UPDATE” EDITION

THE COUNCILMAN DROMM-MIKE LONG DEBATE OVER HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY STUDENT SUICIDE GETS NEWLY REPORTED IN A QUEENS PAPER

A QUEENS PAPER COVERS THE DROMM-LONG DEBATE OVER THE TEEN SUICIDE AT BAY RIDGE’S HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY AS IF IT WERE SOME KIND OF QUEENS STORY --- NEAR THE TOP IT POINTS OUT THAT COUNCILMAN DROMM IS FROM QUEENS AND MIKE LONG USED TO BE FROM QUEENS…..

A line like “…. Long, who grew up in Richmond Hill before moving to Brooklyn where he raised nine children with his wife, was a city councilman himself from 1981-1983….” is something that looks like it would appear in a local newspaper’s obit about a dear departed home boy.

An article in the Queens market “Times-Ledger” was anything but that. Wrapped around that line about that bit of Mike Long’s background was this: “In the aftermath of a Staten Island schoolboy’s suicide, City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) is calling upon state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long to resign his position at the Brooklyn school the child attended. Daniel Joseph Fitzpatrick, 13, was a student at Holy Angels Catholic Academy where Long is the chairman of the board…. ‘Michael Long has been negligent in his duty to protect Daniel from bullying and, in fact, holds some responsibility for his death because of his longstanding, staunch opposition to anti-bullying education,’ Dromm said. ‘Mr. Long should not serve on any school board because of the hatred and malice he has shown toward many groups of people in our society, but especially against lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender people.’ --- that was followed by a report of Long’s retort, “…. [Long] called Dromm’s remarks irresponsible and a low shot over a young man’s demise…. ‘He knows my track record and he knows my politics, and I know his politics and that’s why this is just so hollow,’ Long said. ‘We probably disagree on everything possible in the world. What he did was make a cheap political statement which involved a young man’s death for a cheap political headline. Shame on him.’…” (See “Dromm calls on Conservative leader to resign after student suicide” by Bill Parry, 8/22/16, Times-Ledger [Queens] [http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2016/34/drommlong_2016_08_19_q.html]).

The article later noted that “Dromm points to a 2009 article published in the Guardian in which Long, who opposed the creation of the Harvey Milk School for LGBT students, was quoted as saying, ‘Is there a different way to teach homosexuals? Is their gay math? This is wrong. What next? Maybe we should have schools for chubby kids who get picked on.’… Dromm was shocked to learn that Long was the chairman of the Holy Angels board….”; adding this: “…. ‘He does not make the connection between his style of bullying and how it affects young people,’ [Dromm] said. ‘I suspect that Daniel [Fitzpatrick]’s pleas were not taken seriously because Mr. Long doesn’t take bullying seriously.’…”

Mike Long responded by trying to play the victim card combined with a little local parochialism --- “…. Long said the principal, faculty and staff at Holy Angels Catholic Academy tried to do everything they could to help the “young man from a troubled home” despite tantrums, fits and failing grades…. ‘We heard his cries for help and tried everything we could, but there was one thing we couldn’t do and that is go home with him,’ Long said. ‘If I thought for one moment the principal and staff had been negligent, I would have gotten rid of them myself. And that’s why I feel sorry for the onslaught (against) the principal, faculty and staff who are now receiving death threats. There’s a real lynch mob mentality taking place here and the sad thing is Councilman Dromm probably doesn’t even know where the academy is located. He doesn’t know us at all.’…”

Anonymous said...

The days of the Conservative Party running the Brooklyn GOP are quickly coming to an end!

Anonymous said...

GM, I'm sure that you noticed, or maybe you did it on purpose, that your recent posts about the Conservative Party bigs Long, Kassar and McCabe showed three different kinds of bullying. I've heard that's how they act in Albany too, and I'm sure if Trump hasn't come to them, that's how it will be with him too.

Anonymous said...

The Sstory in the post was horrible, it's was pure character assasinations of the poor boy and his parents by mike long, principle mCGoldrick and the schools faculty

Anonymous said...

People in community are talking..conservative party doesnt have respect and weight it once did.

Galewyn Massey said...

BACKFILL: THE "MEANWHILE, THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE SOLID REPUBLICAN WITH A HEART AND SOUL" EDITION

GLENN NOCERA GOP LEADER IN THE 44th AD WAS UP-FRONT WITH HIS FULL SUPPORT OF DANIEL FITZPATRICK AND HIS FAMILY


Here's what Glenn said:

Glenn Nocera [on Twitter] August 13 at 1:12am ...
"Bullying must stop we cannot allow one more child to be lost to Suicide due to bullying. Please read the story below about Danny Fitzpatrick who took his life at age 13 just a couple days ago due to being bullied at school. May God bless him and may God bless his family and give them the inner strength to get through this truly horrible time in their lives. This will always be with them forever. Please pray that the Lord will give them strength to get through this, and please pray that bullying stops and that we don't lose another child and that another family will not be hurting from the pain of losing a Young child to suicide."

Anonymous said...

There seems to be no record anywhere of the Eaton/Ferraro attorney even bein paid at all. not in any accounts filed with the Board if Elections by their Treasurer Stephen Maresca or any account publicly filed by the LaGuardia Club. Even if Ezra Glazer donated his services it would need to be shown on a report by now either the July 15 report or the January 15 report or more likely both.

Anonymous said...

Maybe, this "Ezra" was paid a small fee personally by one of the real parties in interest; who, oddly, wasn't named or served, even though many of his functions and duties were put into question and reversed by the Court.