The key folksperson at the Kings County Politics blog seems to think so…..
According to the blogger[s] (?) at KCP --- “Although there is still a lot of track left in the 2017
Bay Ridge Derby to succeed term-limited 43rd District City Councilman Vincent
Gentile (Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights), Democrat Justin Brannan and Republican Bob
Capano are clearly
showing the fortitude, will and political organizational skills that defines
frontrunner status….” (See “43rd City Council Race: Brannan, Capano Jump Out of
the Gate Galloping” by Kings County
Politics, 1/13/17, KCP/ BayRidge [http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/43rd-city-council-race-brannan-capano-jump-gate-galloping/]).
KCP ON JUSTIN BRANNAN
The article immediately
lays out one of the reasons that its views about Justin Brannan have some real cred,
with this: “…. Brannan, who recently left his job with the
de Blasio Administration to concentrate on the upcoming November Primary (sic),
announced yesterday he has already pulled in $57,000 from more than 400 donors
in just over one month after opening his campaign committee. He also cleared
the 75 in-district contributor threshold, making him eligible to receive the
max in public funding, which will give him $6 in public money for every $1
dollar he raises within certain guidelines….”
KCP ON BOB CAPANO
The KCP piece devoted
almost as much enthusiasm for the candidacy of Republican Bob Capano, however
it focused on different attributes of Capano as a campaigner -- thus: “…. On[ ] the Republican side, Capano is almost [as] frightening with the amount
of press releases he puts out, but deserves a lot of credit for weighing in on
the issues of the day, including a good many that have direct impact on
residents in the district… For example,
Capano recently fired off a press release standing up for local residents after
Gov. Cuomo announced his plan for Verrazano Bridge toll reductions for Staten
Islanders but not for Brooklynites…. Capano
has also taken a stand against the city’s plan to charge residents a nickel for
plastic bags and other issues. Most recently, he assailed [Linda Sarsour, a Bay
Ridge Democrat activist, who is Muslim and] one of the national co-chairs of
the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Washington as saying that all opponents of the
progressive movement were “united around racism.”
THE KCP ARTICLE MADE AT LEAST ONE NEGATIVE COMPARISON ABOUT REPUBLICAN CAPANO AND HIS POSSIBLE/PROBABLE GOP OPPONENTS --- QUAGLIONE AND MC CABE
There was this little bit of slop on the track in front of Bob
Capano, whom the KCP blog called the GOP “frontrunner.” Here’s how the big man at KCP sees this very
important thing: “Capano’s two
perspective (sic) opponents, Laim (sic) McCabe, who works in Congressman Dan
Donovan’s office, and John Quaglione, who is the communications director for
Sen. Marty Golden, have thus far been fairly quiet…. That said, both McCabe and Quaglione have
shown the ability to raise money within the district, which would make them
elegibile for public campaign financing, while it remains to be seen what kind
of local financial support Capano will get.”
8 comments:
To The Fake News Editor:
1- Brannen? Are you serious or delirious? Abate entered the race with a million dollars. I heard he has to give some of it back. Yeah right. Peter Abate giving back money. Thats rich !!
2- Capano? Is the criteria to be in front runner status tonnage?
its Abate v McCabe
>>> WHY <<< is Glenn Nocera still trying to get out from under an August 2016 post and eighty comments about his Brooklyn Young Republican Club's support of a recent Democrat, Staten Islander Janine Materna, in her race against a conservative Republican incumbent assemblyman on Staten Island?
>>> WHY <<< is anonymous at 5:30 PM always misspelling names that aren't his friend Liam McCabe's?
We know one thing for sure, McCabe will report raising zero dollars
McCabe will get the Conservative party and that is all that counts.
Be careful because Mc Cabe will be asking for donations from anybody who rides in his Uber
Then it sounds like McCabe will Max out on his matching funds. $50 checks become $300.
Abbate is going to win this in a blow out. Brannan is disliked by most of the people in his own party. Capano could barely raise $10,000 and only 30 people donated to him. Even Brannan raised six times what Capano raised. At least if he still lived on Staten Island he'd have an excuse. Liam might win the Primary but the Conservatives will hang him out to dry in a deal they've already made with Peter Abbate.
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