THE FOLKS SCHEDULING A “KINGS COUNTY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION” FOR NOVEMBER 4th ARE VIOLATING LOCAL AND STATE GOP RULES, --- AND --- A NEW YORK STATE SUPREME COURT ORDER
There are at least some reports (news media and from some of
my individual sources inside the undisputed duly-elected Kings County
Republican Party Organization) indicating
that there is some kind of unlawful conspiracy between Brooklyn GOP State
Senator Marty Golden, his handpicked gunzel to be Brooklyn GOP County Leader,
lawyer Theodore Ghorra, the Staten Island GOP Chairman John Antoniello and NYS
Republican Chairman Edward Cox to schedule another one of Marty Golden’s rump-style Republican conventions. Right off the bat, calling this gathering to order as a Kings County Convention is in violation of the Brooklyn Republican County rules, the New York State
Republican Party Rules (sorry folks, even as recently amended) and the current binding order
of New York State Supreme Court Justice Edgar Walker. The main and most open act of that unlawful conspiracy, another
of Marty Golden' swag Brooklyn GOP conventions, appears to be scheduled for November 4th (See e.g.,
“Brooklyn GOP Day
Of Reorganizational Reckoning Is At Hand”
by Staff Writer, 10/26/16,
Kings County Politics (Blog)/ Brooklyn Politics [http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/brooklyn-gop-reorganizational-meeting-set-nov-4/]).
According to the “Kings County Politics” report, cited above --- “Fireworks between Brooklyn’s
fractured Republican Party members will be flying hotter than the fourth of
July come Friday, Nov. 4…. That’s the
day New York State Republican
Party Chair Edward F. Cox set for the Kings County Republican Party
Committee organizational meeting to elect officers including a Chair, Secretary
and Treasurer…. Cox also ordered
Richmond County Republican Chair John Antoniello, to preside over the
meeting…. Cox set the meeting on the
order and decision of Kings County Supreme Court Judge Edgar G. Walker, who
ruled for a do over of the September 30, 2015 Brooklyn GOP reorganizational
convention to elect a county chair and
members of its Executive Committee….”
My sources have indicated to me that there are some real problems
with some of what that report says. Even though
Golden, Ghorra, Cox and Antoniello might be trying to set up a meeting, it is not being conducted pursuant to either
the Brooklyn or State Republican Party rules.
More important, it appears to be in complete violation of an order
issued by the Supreme Court Justice with jurisdiction over the disputed Brooklyn
Republican Convention(s), Edgar Walker, JSC.
Thus, not only is Ed Cox’s attempt to take over the Brooklyn process an
ultra vires act in the performance of his duties as the New York State Republican Chairman, it is in apparent
violation of an existing NYS Supreme Court Order governing all the matters at hand, including things like who is supposed to
be conducting the upcoming Brooklyn GOP convention.
The November 4th gathering of some elected members of the GOP County Committee AND OTHERS at the Baron DeKalb K of C
Hall will probably only attract the Marty Golden faction of the Brooklyn GOP and Golden's allied officious interlopers. ---
Everybody else that I spoke to, who are now undisputed elected members of the Kings County Republican Committee, indicated that they will most likely treat the Golden-Cox-Antoniello meeting as a nullity and take
any business purportedly conducted there back to Justice Walker in due course.
35 comments:
well folks, that's a wrap. It can now be said that Mr. Eaton is totally irrelevant from Brooklyn GOP politics.
Craig Eaton is one of the few Republican leaders in Brooklyn with any integrity left. Team Golden has rotted the Brooklyn GOP in favor of their Conservative and Democrat cronies.Ted Ghorra wasn't even sure he was a Republican until Golden approached him about becoming Chairman. And no matter how many times Golden operatives are caught breaking the law they insist on doing the same thing over and over again. Flanagan made a deal with Cox on behalf of Golden, it doesn't change the fact that we saw more GOP wins and upsets in Brooklyn under Craig Eaton than any other Chairman in recent memory.
Since Golden and the Trump Republicans are so keen on talking about fraud and rigged elections:
1. Senator Golden's government employee testifies under oath that he knowingly initiated a fraudulent phone call to thousands of Republican voters, and that he knew this fraud would benefit Golden's candidate.
2. This same staffer also testified he and other Golden operatives visited the homes of hundreds of Republican voters, perpetuating the fraudulent message of those phone calls.
3. This same staffer then testified he and others gave the tainted proxies that resulted from their fraudulent communications to Senator Golden personally, and that he himself used them to cast votes at the county committee convention for Golden's anointed candidate.
4. The judge then redacted large amounts of this staffer's testimony, permitting only such information that was not damaging to Senator Golden to appear on the record.
5. This judge decides the case in favor of the plaintiff, Marty Golden's ally Diane Rudiano, who was recently fired from her $125,000 job at the Board of Elections after improperly removing thousands of Democrats from the voter rolls before the Democratic presidential primary.
6. There is no number 6. The judge redacted it too.
7. The State Republican Party, at Senator Golden's behest, calls a new convention, without any legal grounds to do so.
Wow. Maybe Trump is right about things being rigged.
RESPONSE: THE "I DON'T THINK SO" EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 5:02 AM"
EATON IS TAKING A STAND-OFFISH SIT BACK AND WATCH THE WRECK POSITION --- HIS THINKING IS WHY DO I NEED TO GUESS WHAT MISTAKES THEY WILL MAKE, WHEN I CAN WAIT AND SEE THEM MAKE ALL THEIR MISTAKES FIRST
I've heard that Craig Eaton is completely on top of all of these machinations by Golden, Ghorra, Cox and Antoniello, and he has pretty much decided to let it go forward for a while, instead of jumping right in to help fix things for them in all the ways that it is wrong.
GM I think you should follow up with Craig Eaton, you may surprised at what he says...
Looks like order has been restored and Trump can now win the election
RESPONSE: THE "DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT ALL OUT FOR YOU" EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 9:22 AM"
SOMETIMES SOMETHING LIKE A "FOLLOW-UP" IS COMPLETELY REDUNDANT --- IF YOU FOLLOW MY DRIFT.....
I followed your advice --- "... I think you should follow up with Craig Eaton, you may surprised at what he says..." Well, I did and I wasn't surprised vis a vis anything that I wrote about above...
However, something NEW >>> HAS HAPPENED.....
--- and Mr. Eaton has given me some good leads about a story concerning how Marty Golden and his crew of bad operators just keeps making the same mistakes --- over and over and over again. It looks like the "Golden faction" is repeating one of the same mistakes that they made before --- AND WOW --- it again involves a catered affair at the Bay Ridge Manor..... OMG, will they ever learn ???
After I talk to some "eye witnesses" I hope to be able to discuss the details of some potential brand new election frauds committed right under State Senator Martin Golden's nose, possibly even involving SSMG's active participation. And yes, those potential frauds might directly be connected to the proceedings at the >>> so-called <<< November 4th Republican County Convention.
Eaton used to be a paper tiger. Now hes not even that.
Golden will go down to defeat on election day and it will be the Trump factor
What is it with Preacher Comey? Every shit'en little email needs to be disclosed immediately. Is that how investigations work? Comey spends all his time demonstrating his integrity should never be in question. I had a fiend like that. He's in prison.
RESPONSE: THE "'PREACHER COMEY' WHAT 'PREACHER COMEY'?" EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 11:35 PM"
FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY JUST GRABBED A HANDFUL OF HILLARY'S CRINKLY OLD MUFF AND GAVE IT A GOOD SHAKE --- AND THERE WASN'T ANYTHING THAT SHE COULD DO
ALSO AG LORETTA LYNCH SAYS SHE TOLD COMEY: "DON'T DO IT" -- "IT WON'T BE NICE" -- "IT'S JUST NOT DONE"
Here's what somebody said in the "New Yorker": "On Friday, James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting independently of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, sent a letter to Congress saying that the F.B.I. had discovered e-mails that were potentially relevant to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private server. Coming less than two weeks before the Presidential election, Comey’s decision to make public new evidence that may raise additional legal questions about Clinton was contrary to the views of the Attorney General, according to a well-informed Administration official. Lynch expressed her preference that Comey follow the department’s longstanding practice of not commenting on ongoing investigations, and not taking any action that could influence the outcome of an election, but he said that he felt compelled to do otherwise...." (See "James Comey Broke with Loretta Lynch and Justice Department Tradition" by Jane Mayer, 10/29/16, The New Yorker/ The News Desk[http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/james-comey-broke-with-loretta-lynch-and-justice-department-tradition]).
Does anyone notice that in addition to Marty Golden, Nicole Malliotakis and Dan Donovan are at all of Chairman Ghorra's events? Eaton has lost their support also.
This is going to be another county convention invalidated by lawsuits and we are going to have to do this all over again. It would make much more sense to wait until next year. Whoever wins is going to be either Golden or Eaton's puppet. Nothing will change.
Good point above. None of this matters.
Chairman Ghorra? There is no Chairman Ghorra; he has no position in the Brooklyn GOP whatsoever.
UPDATE: THE "WHUMP ! THERE IT IS... AGAIN..." EDITION
IS IT THE DARK KNIGHT RISING TO THE CHALLENGE OR THE JOKER FALLING INTO BAD OLD HABITS ONE MORE TIME ???
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT NOT LONG AGO AT STATELY GOLDEN MANSION --- SOME OF MARTY GOLDEN'S GUESTS AT THE BAY RIDGE MANOR LAST WEEK WERE AGAIN CONFRONTED AT THE DOOR AND TOLD WHAT THEY HAD TO DO IN ORDER TO BE ADMITTED TO THE GOP VICTORY EVENT
GOP COUNTY COMMITTEE MEMBERS TOLD THEY HAD TO "SIGN-IN" BY PUTTING THEIR NAME ON A SHEET --- AND --- EXECUTE A PROXIE WITH BLANK SPACES FOR THE UPCOMING SO-CALLED BROOKLYN COUNTY CONVENTION
MY BAKER STREET IRREGULARS REALLY WAGGED THEIR CHINS ABOUT ALL THIS AND THEY GAVE ME THE SUPER-SECRET INSIDERS' HIGH-SIGN
According to my sources.... several people heard State Senator Martin Golden himself say that >>> "They have to sign both...." <<< within easy earshot of the sign-in table.
One wag put it like this --- "Marty's slogan, which has long been 'If you feed them, they will come" has morphed into 'If you feed them, they will sign...'."
Somebody has to take this information to all the proper authorities and/or give it to Julianne Cuba..... Wait, a minute, I think they already might have done both of those (Wink, wink, nod --- right-hand pointing finger rubbing the right side of the nose.....)
The fix is in for the convention meeting on Friday, they just needed the proxies as window dressing. Ghorra new Chairman meeting just a formality. Craig is going to fight back by getting Bob Capano elected to City Council and that will be just the beginning of a GOP civil war that will make what happened in Queens the last ten years look like a polite misunderstanding.
The Friday event is much bigger than all of what's been gabbed about in this post and any of the earlier comments. It is about corrupt dealings at the highest levels of the New York State Republican Party.
NYS GOP Chairman Ed Cox has allowed himself to get down into the mud in the local fight here in Brooklyn. That local fight directly involves Marty Golden, who has been the subject of one of Preet Bharara's investigations and also Golden's staff, who are paid NY State employees. For his part, Cox has engineered a change of the NYS Republican rules that he thinks gives him the personal authority to intervene to help Marty Golden's side.
Using that gimcrackery, Cox has now injected himself into dictating how, where and by whom the Brooklyn GOP will conduct its convention. What Cox is doing now, is very similar to what he had proposed in a letter that is part of the record of the case in front of Judge Walker. That letter was before the court when the judge made his final order, and the judge did not incorporate any part of the Cox offer to conduct the Brooklyn Republican Convention into any part of his final order.
To put it another way, what New York State Republican Chairman Cox is doing is unlawfully ignoring a Judge's ruling that had ignored the Cox proposal, and he is substituting his own plan instead of what Judge Walker ordered.
All that will be known publicly and in Bay Ridge circles is that Ted Ghorra is Chairman of the Brooklyn GOP and that Craig Eaton is more of a non-entity than he already was.
What everyone already knows in Bay Ridge is that Ted Ghorra is the latest Marty Golden puppet and has no support among the grassroots. Marty's support comes only from the Conservatives and they only care about how many jobs they can get for their members, they don't care if its for a Republican like Donovan or a wacky liberal like David Greenfield. They don't care about conservative principles. Golden used to be able to get away with it but the charade is over and Craig will have the last laugh.
Ted Ghorra is a big nothing in the Republican Party and in Bay Ridge, that's why Marty Golden and Jerry Kassar picked him up off the street.
Ed Cox is a visionary, who can see that Ted Ghorra is a "NEUTRAL" in the Eaton-Golden dispute just like Simon Shamoun.
why is anyone even talking about craig eaton anymore?? Even his "friend" John Antoniello has deserted him, he will be presiding over Chairman Ghorra's election Friday.
Ghorra is a Golden Conservative party puppet. Wait until the conservatives ask him to tank a race so that they can get jobs for their members and see what happens.
Ted Ghorra should refuse to be nominated and demand the convention elect by acclamation the real leader of the Brooklyn GOP as its new chairman -- Timmy Cochran.
Just announced by John Antoniello & Ed Cox- Craig Eaton is now officially obsolete from the Bay Ridge & Brooklyn GOP. Al are unified by Chairman Ghorra & Marty Golden!!
HAIL, HAIL THE WITCH IS DEAD. DEAD IS SHE. THE WITCH IS DEAD
RESPONSE: THE "NOT SO FAST" EDITON
TO; "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 10:51 AM" & [PRESUMABLY] "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 11:16 AM"
JOHN ANTONIELLO & ED COX JUST MADE SOMETHING UP TO COVER UP THE FAILURE OF THEIR UNLAWFUL CONSPIRACY.....
I'M TOLD THERE WAS A VERY SMALL GATHERING AT THE "SO-CALLED BROOKLYN GOP COUNTY CONVENTION" --- WHICH WAS NOT CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO REPUBLICAN PARTY RULES AND AN ORDER BY A NYS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
Estimates are that there were fewer than 55 people in attendance at the Baron DeKalb Council, K of C. (that would be a klatch about one-third the size of the last official Brooklyn GOP Convention crowd at Remsen Hall in 2015).
Even counting proxies, there probably were fewer than 400 votes recorded by the scribes, with the legitimate vote count about one-half that obviously inflated number.
The Ted Ghorra regime just got launched under very dubious circumstances --- not good for a schlock-hack from a less-than-prestigious Manhattan lawyer barn only trying to build his credentials with no heavy lifting.
That's not to say that Marty Golden's crew didn't try some of SSMG's signature maneuvers --- "if you feed them they will come [and sign proxies]". One of my more reliable BSIs reports that, in addition to the recent "Victory Event" at the Bay Ridge Manor (where the coercive signing of blank proxies was observed and experienced by several attendees, and reported-on in a comment above by me "October 30, 2016 at 9:39 AM"); there were at least two invitation only breakfasts for elected members of the Kings County Republican County Committee.
As stated above, that was done by wholly by Marty Golden's crew, who also made up about 90% of the attendees at the Baron DeKalb Council gathering.
As one wag recently said to me, "Where does Marty find these guys, first Cochrane, now Ghorra; one worse than the other."
GM you would know better then most about political hacks with from two bit firms
Ghorra has already agreed to give McCabe a Wilson Pakula. Quaglione not backing down and Capano raising more money than a prohibition bootlegger.This is going to be awesome to watch.
This will be Eatons victory, winning with Cap.
Golden is not going to pick between mccabe and quaglione? He is going to let them fight it out?
The only way Quaglione bows out is if the Conservatives make a deal with Abbate.
The fat lady sung. It is over
Which fat lady and what did she sing?
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