Thursday, September 13, 2018

Brooklyn Reform Party Chairman Bob Capano is very public with his preferences for candidates vying for the Democrats' line for state senate


I know that he is a journalist/columnist too;  but didn't Bob Capano cross some kind of line by expressing his preferences for certain candidates for the state senate running in the Democratic Party Primary  ---   After all,  Bob is the county chairman of a party other than the Democratic Party.....


What the heck !!!   Bob is only giving Jerry Kassar a taste of his own medicine  ---  And as they often critically caution refs in all sports, don't call the rinky-dink fouls and penalties  ---  LET 'EM PLAY THE GAME.....


BTW,   Capano's way of  "playing the game"  with Simcha Felder seems to be >>> put him in a headlock, not let go, gouge his eyes and try to bite his ear off..... 



It's very clear that Bob Capano is going after both the Conservatives and two of their key endorsed candidates, and the Republican majority in  the NY State Senate,  all in one fell swoop in Capano's very heavy hammering of incumbent State Senators Marty Golden and Simcha Felder.....

Based on Capano's first paragraph in his column for Courier Life's Brooklyn Daily that came out a little while ago,  he has made his opinion available, and it's clear and unambiguous:  "Two Brooklyn Democratic primaries this week will determine which party controls the state senate.  Currently, only one vote keeps the Republicans in control of the upper chamber in Albany...."  (See "Today’s primaries decide who controls tomorrow’s senate"  by Bob Capano,  9/13/18,  Courier Life/ Brooklyn Daily/ Opinion   [www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2018/37/all-right-view-2018-primary-2018-09-14-bd.html]). 


Without missing  a beat,  Capano shows that he too has come down with "Golden Derangement Syndrome"  [don't worry it don't hurt at all  ---  I sort of like it].....   His next paragraph goes like this:  "One of the races that could shift this balance of power is the contest between Republican Marty Golden and the winner of the Democratic primary between Andrew Gounardes and Ross Barkan. A key consideration for voters choosing between these two Democrats will be who they believe has the best chance to take down the incumbent....   Flipping this district from red to blue would likely give Democrats control of the Senate. In addition, defeating a local Republican icon like Golden would be a bellwether for an even larger blue wave than expected in New York...."


CAPANO PUTS HIS FINGER ON THE SCALE IN FAVOR OF GOUNARDES

No surprise there  ---  Capano's Reform Party line has gone to Andrew Gounardes already.  But here are Capano's words that actually show the Chairman-Columnist's "TILT !!!" on this one  ---  "It would seem that Barkan’s race to the left doesn’t fit this district, while Gounardes’ [ ] slightly more moderate views give him an advantage in his primary — and against Golden in a general election...."  Then,  Bob drives his point home with this bit of tea leaves reading:  "[Senator Golden's] camp believes this as well as evidenced by his staff lighting up social media claiming Barkan won the NY1 debate. By pumping up Barkan and attacking Gounardes, Golden’s loyalists have made it clear that they view Gounardes as the strongest challenger in November...."


THEN CAPANO WENT AFTER "DEMOCRAT" SIMCHA FELDER  ---  BOY DID HE EVER.....

Here's how Capano  pitched the Simcha Felder -- Blake Morris race:  "Democrats have 32 of the 63 seats in the senate, giving them a technical majority; however Simcha Felder, a Democrat, continues to caucus with Republicans. This gives the GOP the needed majority vote to control the power of the chamber. Not surprisingly, Simcha Felder’s primary challenge from Blake Morris is the other borough race that can determine control of the Senate....   If Morris [were] elected to the Senate, he would caucus with his party and give it its needed 32nd vote to take charge. But, winning this week will not be enough for Morris. He would still have to face Felder on the GOP line in November. That’s right, Felder will be on the Republican line so they will have a re-match if Morris prevails in the primary. If Felder wins, he will walk back into the Senate virtually unopposed in November...."

Not so fast to finish on Simcha,  Bob Capano had more to say about this particular race  ---  like this:   "In a recent ad, the Morris campaign assails Felder for his relationship with the GOP writing 'While Simcha Felder works only for himself and his fellow Trump Republicans, he ignores the needs of his constituen­ts.'  Morris also points out Felder’s role in stopping the senate from renewing the city’s speed-camera legislation...."

But wait, there's still more:   "....  Felder has also been involved in the “Yeshiva-Gate” issue that has been reported on during the past several months. He held up the state budget process earlier this year to change the law that lowers the educational standards for these schools that have already been the subject of a years-long city probe of their secular education proficiency. The Young Advocates for Fair Education even filed a lawsuit that this Felder amendment violates the religious establishment clause of the first Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by creating a special carve out standards for Yeshivas...."



62 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bob is irrelevant.

Anonymous said...

... but his article seems quite relevant

Anonymous said...

At around this time in Marty Golden's office Quaglione is asking Kassar what to do about Capano's newspaper column, and Kassar answers by grumbling something about supermarkets and cleanups, and something else about leashes, Craig Eaton and John Catsimatidis.
Ahahahahaha..

Anonymous said...

Gale, now we have proof that you are letting Bob Capano write his own posts on your blog under your name.

Anonymous said...

12 more hours till the Barkan revolution

Anonymous said...

Barkan gets 2%

Anonymous said...

Nobody winds up with 2%.

Except you know who

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "SHHHSH !!! I CAN'T ADMIT TO THAT" EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 7:10 AM"

JUSTIN BRANNAN THINKS THAT HE'S THE ONLY ONE ALLOWED TO DO POSTS UNDER MY NAME ON MY BLOG --- PLEASE, DON'T TELL HIM ABOUT THE BOB CAPANO THING ABOVE


If nobody tells him, he'll never find out, because he only reads his own postings here.....

Anonymous said...

Gale likes her men well fed.

Anonymous said...

It's Primary Day, and Fight Back Bay Ridge is doing something really LEFT WING and RADICAL. It is urging people to vote and get in on a commercial promo at local merchants. How Marxist-Leninist of them!

Anonymous said...

Actually Kassar gets 0% cause he never had the balls to run for office
Ahahah

Galewyn Massey said...

ANNOUNCEMENT: THE "JULES VERNE" EDITION

COMING UP SOON --- "PHILEAS FOGG DAY"

October 2nd is Phileas Fogg's Wager Day. The little known holiday celebrates a key event in the Jules Verne novel, "Around the World in Eighty Days." In that book by Verne, on October 2, 1872, Phileas Fogg, the main character of the 1873 novel, while playing whist at the Reform Club in London, makes a wager of 20,000 pounds that he could actually physically circumnavigate the globe within the time frame of eighty (80) days.

Anonymous said...

5 more hours until Capano wins with Gournades...Capano certainly took a big role trashing Barkan throughout this primary

Anonymous said...

Chairman, Professor, Columnist, Executive Capano
I can't wait for your big win with Gournades tonite

Anonymous said...

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:

The Barkan revolution has been postponed.

Anonymous said...

Capano wins again

Anonymous said...

UPDATE:

The Barkan revolution has been cancelled.

Anonymous said...

BULLETIN: |

The Barkan revolution has been renamed.

Henceforth, it will be known as the barking revolution, a systematic attempt to reclassify the sounds of Canine-Americans, for the purpose of redistributing table scraps in a more equitable manner.

Galewyn Massey said...

UPDATE: THE "WISHIN' & HOPIN' & PLANNIN' & DREAMIN'....." EDITION

BOB CAPANO APPEARS TO BE ONE HAPPY CAMPER TONIGHT --- HIS " PLAN 'A' " IS STILL ON TRACK

FORMER DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE ANDREW GOUNARDES WON A SOLID VICTORY OVER A SPIRITED CHALLENGER ROSS BARKAN --- GOUNARDES WILL TAKE ON STATE SENATOR MARTIN J. GOLDEN FOR A SECOND TIME


In many ways, the 2018 Democratic Primary of 2018 seemed to follow the well-worn path(s) of the 2017 primary in the overlapping areas of the 2017 City Council Primary and the 2018 State Senate Primary --- Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Bath Beach and some other parts of Bensonhurst.

However, the 2018 dynamics in the two person race are quite different from what occured in the 2017 multi-facetted primary. And though, at first glance, the 2017 primary numbers for City Council might appear to line up somewhat with the 2018 numbers for the Democrats' State Senate Primary --- the 2018 voter bases for Andrew Gounardes and Ross Barkan are not congruent with the earlier voter bases for Brannan, El-Yateem, Tong, Carroll and Chirico.

But this much can be said, Gounardes does appear to have added to the base Brannan vote, and Barkan added to the base El-Yateem vote.

This isn't my last word on this primary --- I need to talk to some more gurus about it.....

Anonymous said...

The very Leftish Blue Wave that knocked most of the IDC State Senators did not get Diane Savino.

In an adjoining district, Gounardes, whose politics is much like Savino's, also was able to hold off Barkan, whose politics is more like those who challenged most of the IDC-ers.

Anonymous said...

The blue wave is going to swallow Marty.

Anonymous said...

Marty has got to be worried tonight. He could lose in November.

Anonymous said...

Frontus won. Saperstein has a shot.

Anonymous said...

King Brannan rides again. it was a big night for the big man
Hey the big man knows how to pick winners and if Gournades bests Golden, Brannan will be the undefeated King of Bayridge! #bluewavecoming

Anonymous said...

Frontus won. Saperstein has no shot.

Anonymous said...

Now the screws come to Marty..Sliwa and Capano now can push Republicans to vote for Gournades on the Reform line and we know there are many GOPers not liking Golden and it's easier for them to vote for Andrew on the Reform line than Democratic line

Anonymous said...

I am a Democrat and no fan of Capano but have to admit it was pretty ballsy of him to predict the Gournades big win in his column for all to see BEFORE the election . His analysis seemed spot on. If Barkan won, Capano would have looked real bad on many fronts. Now, so hear the Golden camo is realizing how much the Reform line can help Andrew peel away Republican votes from Golden and cost him the election

Anonymous said...

If Saperstein isn't careful, some knucklehead working for him will send out a mailer that makes thinly-veiled references to her race and color.

The resulting outcry will generate a wave of sympathy for her, and brand Sap as another race-baiting extremist, blowing whatever chance he might have had.

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Anonymous said...

Capano backed Gournardes because everyone else did. Balls?

Anonymous said...

Quaglione didn't back Gournades?????

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "SO QUICK WITH THE FAKE HISTORY" EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 7:33 AM"

WHERE DID THIS CHESTNUT COME FROM: "CAPANO BACKED GOUNARDES BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE DID...."

THERE WAS A VERY COMPLEX DYNAMIC LEADING UP TO ANDREW GOUNARDES' GETTING THE REFORM PARTY LINE AND THEN CAPANO'S SUPPORT --- INCLUDING OFFERING BOTH MARTY GOLDEN AND ROSS BARKAN A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN AN "OPEN" REFORM PARTY PRIMARY ALONG WITH MR. GOUNARDES

And who else is part of the "everyone" who backed Gounardes ???

My closest and most repeatedly commenting Democrat BSI kept touting Ross Barkan here on this blog, and even urged me to write more pro-Barkan stuff..... (So much for the nonsense about Justin running this blog.....) And what about all those folks that actually still strongly support Marty Golden and keep saying it on this blog ?????

".... Balls?" I'll say !!! It's "... at 7:33 AM" that has the so-called "Balls".....

Anonymous said...

Capano wins again

Galewyn Massey said...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: THE "PLEASE, RELEASE ME --- LET ME GO....." EDITION

THE FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF THE RECENT RELEASE BY BOB CAPANO ON BEHALF OF THE REFORM PARTY:


"STATEMENT ON ANDREW GOUNARDES PRIMARY WIN...
(Brooklyn, NY)- Today, NYS Reform Party Chairman Curtis Sliwa and Brooklyn Chairman Bob Capano released the following joint statement... 'We congratulate our Reform Party candidate Andrew Gounardes on his big primary victory. We have both supported Marty Golden in each and every one of his elections, but believe it is now time for a change. Andrew has the common sense, experience, and civic background to be an outstanding senator. His presence on our Reform line will allow Republicans to more easily vote for him in November and give him the extra boost he needs to win in this district.'..."

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "WELL SAID..." EDITION

TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 8:01 AM"

HERE, HERE !!! BUT ONCE MORE WITH FEELING !!!!!


You said, "Capano wins again" --- but you should have said, "Capano wins again and again and again....."

Anonymous said...

When Golden wins the Senate contest handily again will Capano need to find a new bs party to chair? There are only a handful of people registered with the Reform party in Brooklyn.

Anonymous said...

The Reform Party also represents the thousands of "blank" voters who outnumber Republicans in the Senate district ...these voters participated in the NYS Reform Party primary for Attorney General ...which was won by Nancy Sliwa, Curtis's wife.

Only the Reform Party allows these blank voters to participate in their primaries

Anonymous said...

Wow, I just read Capano's column in the Courier right now, which clearly had to be written BEFORE the election last night..he looks like a genius accurately predicting Andrew's big win...he took a real chance as if Barkan won, he and the column would have looked silly...ballsy move..

Capano really hit a home run with the column and backing Andrew...if Ross won giving the Reform line to Andrew would gave been a waste as Andrew would have backed Barkan.

Capano bet big on Andrew and won!!!
Wow

Anonymous said...

Marty and his minions have to be worried after last night. If Jeff Klein can spend 3 million dollars and get beat, anything is possible. Beware the ides of King Brannan

Anonymous said...

Brannan is a joke who rode the wave of the ConCon and massive union support and only beat Q by a few hundred votes. He had to force his chief of staff and confidante to drop out of an Assembly race that he clearly could have won but Brannan wasn't able to raise more than a couple of dollars for him. Treyger told him to sit down and shut up which he did. The only place where Brannan should be called "King" is at the all you can eat joints.

Anonymous said...

King Brannan is right. All hail King Brannan!
Beating Marty will be just another jewel in his crown

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Anonymous said...

Mark Treyger sat on a wall,
Mark Treygerhad a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Mark Treyger together again.

Anonymous said...

Brannan is a low IQ political hack but Treyger does look ridiculous I must admit.

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Anonymous said...

Its a repeat. Marty wins and Gournardes goes on Justins payroll.

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Anonymous said...

the only thing Serevalli can do is call Brannan fat
You will notice he doesn't dispute that while Brannan may be fat he is also KING

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Anonymous said...

Q and his wife have a beautiful family, and are very happy together which far more than one can say about some of the other creeps posting on this blog.

Anonymous said...

Justin Brannan has a very happy family and is in fact a Councilman, unlike u know who that is out of a job soon

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Anonymous said...

Justin is Councilman and Q is not. Obviously all know Quaglione is still bitter..in January, Q will be lucky to get a job anywhere !!!

Anonymous said...

Q finished college and can get a job in a lot of places as he's known as a hard worker and not someone who spends all day on his fake social media accounts. Brannan never had a job in the private sector, once he's done with council he'll be lucky if Wicked Monk lets him get on stage with a tip jar.

Galewyn Massey said...

RESPONSE: THE "IT'S LIKE HERDING CATS" EDITION

TO ALL THE DELETED COMMENTERS ABOVE --- I FOUND YOUR COMMENTS PARTICULARLY OFFENSIVE TODAY --- SOME OF WHAT I LEFT WILL PROBABLY BE GONE ON MY NEXT PASS; BUT ONLY AFTER I CALM DOWN A BIT


What is wrong with you people ??? Didn't your mothers love you as much as your siblings ?????

Anonymous said...

1212 pm or aka Quaglione should be the last one talking about never having a job in the private sector

Anonymous said...

After council Brannan will be Congressman while Q is delivering pizza

Anonymous said...

Brannan hit lotto by getting on Council, only Congress he joins is annual all you can eat buffet fans organization.

Anonymous said...

Quags excuses for losing to Justin never end...what was his excuse in 2013..

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