Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Curtis Sliwa --- The Reform Party --- AND --- “The Good…. and the Ugly” in less than a day


Curtis Sliwa got close to a hero’s welcome by the organizers of a Bay Ridge racket held at The Salty Dog yesterday   ---   Well,  let’s go so far as to say he got close to a “Local Hero’s” welcome…..

Almost as if to keep Sliwa and his Reform Party from gaining any momentum early in its 2018 campaigning,  or even any traction whatsoever,  for that matter,  the editors at the Daily News came out with a savage attack on the Reform Party on the same day as Sliwa’s unveiling in Bay Ridge


It was like night and day…..

In what some are describing as “Curtis [Sliwa’s] first public appearance as a possible gubernatorial candidate” at  the pro-veterans  Memorial Day Parade Benefit event held at the Salty Dog on Sunday,  many,, many people came up to Mr. Sliwa, in his iconic red beret just to get selfies and other pictures with him in frame.   In addition,   several other folks walked up to him,  talked about his conjectural run for the governorship and urged him to commit to entering  the NYS Governor’s race.   Oh,  and Curtis Sliwa was introduced by the Memorial Day Parade Benefit organizers and thanked for his participation in the event.

During the rather lengthy time that Curtis Sliwa was at the Salty Dog,  there was only one other pol In the house   ---   Max Rose,  the Democrat running for congress against GOP incumbent Congressman Dan Donovan.  However,  my sourceS have told me that several recognizable “unfriendlies” were in the house,  just inside the large garage-type door in the big area between the Salty Dog’s  bar and the old fire engine.   They were trying hard to look invisible and probably they were waiting around for one of their own local stalking horses to show up;  they were also obviously rattled about the fanfare for Mr. Sliwa.

But alas for the leadership of the Reform Party, there is no joy in Mudville…..

On the very same day, the Daily News Editorial Board launched an extremely harsh attack on the Reform Party as a whole  (See “Vote down this waste of the empty Reform Party primaries”  Daily News Editorial Board,  4/30/18,  Daily News/ Opinion/ Editorial   [http://beta.nydailynews.com/opinion/vote-waste-empty-reform-party-primary-article-1.3959753]).  

Here’s a taste of what the News’ editors had to say about  Curtis Sliwa’s Reform Party:   Like locusts, the pests of the Reform Party, with only 360 registered voters out of 4,420,737 in the city, are once again causing the city Board of Elections to waste money, over a million dollars, to conduct essentially empty primary elections….They did this two years ago in four districts; the Board responded by only opening a few polling places to handle the tiny number of Reform voters….   The Reform Party then changed its rules to let both Reform and unaffiliated voters participate. So it's not just the 59 Reform voters who can cast ballots but 113,518. Which means now the board will need 230 polling places and 5,000 workers paid at least $200 each….   Reform this, right now.”

Reform Party supporters were quick to see and describe this as an attempted preemptive attack by insiders and their friends, who are afraid of the Reform Party’s prospects in 2018.

14 comments:

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "ON ANOTHER FRONT" EDITION

HIGH TRUMP HAND TO PUT AN APPEARANCE IN FOR MIKE GRIMM AT A FUND RAISER --- BUT THE TRUMP TEAM MOVE IS AIMED SQUARELY AT DAN DONOVAN

THIS NEWS TAKES THINGS TO "A NOTCH ABOVE INTERESTING"

Here's the gist of what looks like a NY 1 "EXCLUSIVE": "Trying to lure donors, an invitation to a Michael Grimm rally and fundraiser in less than three weeks has an enticing detail: the event will have a 'very special guest speaker.'... NY1 has learned that guest will be former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci...." (See "Scaramucci to headline fundraiser for Grimm on Staten Island" by Courtney Gross, 4/30/18, NY 1 [http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2018/04/30/anthony-scaramucci-to-attend-rally-on-behalf-of-michael-grimm-congressional-campaign]).

Now things are really starting to get interesting in this race --- wait a second, let's make that "a notch above interesting".

Anonymous said...

I hear Kassar is scheduling event for Donovan on same night.

Anonymous said...

Ted Ghorra suggested that Sebastian Gorka might be available.

Anonymous said...

Grimm has run his campaign with a great message.

Donovan is such a zero. That stupid blond girl he has as his spokesperson is a mess.

Anonymous said...

11:02 is about Jessica Proud. She made Bob Astorino what he is today. Unemployed

Anonymous said...

Is Liam backing off Assembly race..he has been very quiet???

Anonymous said...

Liam/Grimm 2018

Anonymous said...

Saperstein/Donovan 2018

Anonymous said...

Enquiring minds want to know why Teddy Ghorra gave Liam the blessing to run for the Pamela Harris seat and then took it away.

Galewyn Massey said...

MORE UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "DONOVAN ROBOCALL" EDITION

TO ME, IT SMACKS OF DESPERATION --- BUT WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT BIRTHIN' BABIES AND RUNNIN' FOR CONGRESS ???

A DONOVAN ROBOCALL GIVES OUT A PRISONER'S SERIAL NUMBER --- AND THEN GOES THROUGH A LAUNDRY LIST OF THINGS FOR WHICH GRIMM WAS "FOUND GUILTY"..... NOT ONLY WAS IT BAD FORM BECAUSE OF THE OBVIOUS SLANDEROUS OVERREACH, IT SEEMED A LITTLE OVER-REACTIVE BY AN INCUMBENT TO SAY THE LEAST

Right now two bad things are happening to Congressman Dan Donovan and his campaign for re-election: 1) Grimm is campaigning like a winner; and 2) Donovan is campaigning like a loser.

Equally important, Democrat Max Rose' campaign stuff looks like a series of "Be All THat You Can Be" and/or "An Army of One" ads.....

Anonymous said...

Donovan is going to lose bad in both republican and conservative primaries.

Anonymous said...

Max Rose is a resident of brooklyn and staten island. Hes a war vet but now works for a Pam Harris type of non profit. A progressive but conservative.

Anonymous said...

It looks like all the Democrats no longer want Simcha Felder on their line. Even Governor Andrew Cuomo has finally gotten into the act and is looking to back the strongest candidate to go against Felder in a primary.

One by one, the wheels are coming off Conservative Mike Long's and Jerry Kassar's bus. With Cuomo now saying that he wants somebody to replace Felder in the State Senate, it looks like a key part of his long time deal with Mike Long is over.

In 2018, Felder and not Marty Golden is the key to Long and Kassar holding onto any power in New York State. All four are in real trouble.

Anonymous said...

State Senators Martin Golden and Simcha Felder are disgusting pedophile protectors, who are using lies about imaginary attacks on their Catholic and Orthodox Jewish communities and their positions in the state senate to block justice for those that would be protected by 'The Child Victims Act'.