After almost two weeks, Marty Golden finally throws in the towel with only a very slight change in the vote tally since Election Night
It's the end of an era in Southwest Brooklyn politics.....
Is it the end for all Kings County Republicans, as well ?????
On Monday, November 19th, State Sen. Marty Golden conceded that he had lost his state senate seat to Democratic challenger Andrew Gounardes, as the NY Board of Elections completed its final count of absentee ballots.
Said Marty in a formal statement --- "I congratulate Andrew Gounardes and wish him well in his service to the people of the 22nd State Senate district.... Although we came up just short this election, I am grateful my career in public service has been full of much success as a police officer and as an elected official.... As I think of the future, my supporters, neighbors and friends can be sure that I will still always look for opportunities to make our neighborhoods an even better place to live, work and raise a family."
According to the unofficial New York Board of Elections results, Gounardes was leading by more than 1,000 votes; and there were still about 1,400 absentee ballots that needed to be counted after election day.
The information above is from an "AM New York" report by Nicole Brown [https://www.amny.com/news/elections/golden-concedes-1.23586208].
102 comments:
Marty should have thanked Jerry for engorging his campaign full of flunkie losers that led to this disastrous defeat.
Oh Uncle Marty ... with the pitiful campaign you ran, 1,200 votes is amazing. You could have won with a professional, sophisticated campaign. I know you don't do sophisticated... but it was definitely doable.
Thank God.
Now Kassar and the other idiots are definitely unemployed.....
Under Craig Eaton we had an Office Headquarters, phones, volunteers, and real grassroots operations. Under the change of GOP leadership triggered by Jerry we lost the office, the phones, the volunteers, and bless Vito Bruno’s heart for everything he did to help the Brooklyn GOP but one man does not a grassroots operation make.
All kidding aside this race was winnable by Marty. Gerry Kassar blew it. How did he blow it you ask? a) Cocksure from years of ham sandwich challengers, he didn't take the challenge seriously and b) by letting people like Liam McCabe take the wheel. Marty was in the fight of his life and with how much money he had in the bank, he should have hired a top flight staff of professional campaigners from Washington. Insted they hired Liam and Steve Maguire's kid for $15 an hour and this is the result.
SAVE THE BAY RIDGE MANOR!
BOOK YOUR EVENT TODAY!
Cats is sponsoring the Brooklyn GOP Holiday Party there.. of course Eaton will say he said it was ok
Cats had his good friend Craig on the air with him on his radio program the only current or former Chair. Craig openly called corn Ghorra to resign on the air without any resistance from Cats. Keep talking about mentoring and other nonsense.
It's time for Craig Eaton to talk tough to John Catsimatidis. If Johnny Cats wants anything from the Brooklyn GOP in 2021, he needs to pay all the bills for rebuilding the party over the next two years, and he has to do as he's told by the new Brooklyn Republican leadership. if he doesn't do that, then it has to be an anybody-but-Catsimatidis for the 2021 mayoral candidate for the Brooklyn GOP.
Otherwise, Marty Golden will milk Cats like an overfull money tit over that same period.
Cats isn't a problem, but Marty Golden and his Bay Ridge Manor are.
Removing Golden from his long held office was only step one.
Next, Golden has to be treated like the demon we now know him to be; and he has to be removed from any kind of activity as a Republican.
Maybe, something like a Republican version of Fight Back Bay Ridge has to make sure Marty is completely retired from public life.
Marty Golden has made it clear privately and publicly he still intends to be involved with the Brooklyn GOP and maybe even be chair himself. Either way, the vast majority of county committee members are still loyal to him and will support whoever he wants as chair , including Ghorra .
He has also made it clear for Cats to even be considered by the Brooklyn GOP for Mayor in 2021, Cats must publicly rebuke Eaton. Cats will get this message soon enough.
Cats is a shrewd man and if he wants to be Mayor , he will do it. Besides, he already threw Eaton under the bus the last week of the campaign by supporting Golden big time. But this will be much worse and will be the final nail in the coffin of Eatons diminished relevance.
5:17 is so out of the loop it’s a strong possibility they work at BOE and perhaps they feel they need to keep posting clueless comments in order to keep their job. It’s the likeliest explanation why someone so removed from what’s actually taking place insists on commenting with the same old lines of bs.
It really doesn't matter if Ghorra remains chairman, or if Marty becomes chairman, or even if they turn it over to Q: Marty's power has been broken, and it can never be restored. He's done.
Unless there is some seismic shift in national and state politics, Republicans are done in cities and neighborhoods like Bay Ridge and Marine Park.
So let Marty play his games. Opposition to him can beat most of his district leaders if they want to. Why bother? Let the rats have the sinking ship.
Yes, it does matter. And Marty's games do matter.
The last vestiges of Marty Golden's Manson-cult have to be eradicated before the GOP can begin any kind of comeback.
When Cats separates himself from Eaton for the Brooklyn GOP and mayoral race, Eaton of course will say he approved it
I love how this one idiot on here keeps demanding Eaton prove he didn't support Golden.
Or the other mook who blames Kassar for train delays and the weather.
If doesn't work and Kassar is in charge, nor further inquiries need be made.
I spoke to Cats's political guys today and they showed him this Blog and word is that he is not happy at all that Golden and Ghorra are claiming to be such great friends, when they are not.
He said he will address it when he gets back into town. He said that if Ghorra and Golden in fact have been saying these things, there will be problems.
This is going to really backfire on Golden and Ghorra - thanks to the guys who keep posting the lies. They will be the ones to blame.
Not a good idea to keep lying since you never know who will see this!
Indeed Craig should stop lying about Cats not really being with Gounardes with him...Ed Cox and Golden are close ...and Ed will not be happy with Cats. Not a good idea for Craig to keep lying as you never know who will see this..I hear Cats will address this with Eaton when he is back in town and if he said this there will be problems .
Cats will be pissed Eaton saying he was really with Gounardes and that they celebrating Golden's loss ..
This blog was sent to Cox and he 2asnt happy and will b3 addressing it with Cats when he is back in town
Some of these guys crack me up. Cox and Weingartner went against Andrea for the Vice Chair role but somehow the Cats family will care about what Cox has to say against their good friend Craig. No chance.
Considering FBI now classifies the far-right Proud Boys as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism”. Jerry and his crew need to stop acting like Ian Reilly's association with the Proud Boys had no effect on costing both Golden and Donovan their seats. Golden should have immediately distanced himself from Reilly and his Proud Boys and maybe the results would have been different!
The following people are no longer relevant: Marty Golden, Jerry Kassar, John Catsimatidis, and Liam McCabe. Why do we insist on mentioning them in every comment? It is over. O-V-E-R. Marty wants to be Chairman of our Party? What Party? It is done, my friends. We have no Party. There is no Party. Marty set it up so he wouldn't have any young guns threatening to Primary him and then Jerry ran the whole operation into the ground. Ray Riley and Georgia saw the writing on the wall and hit the eject button. Now it's your turn. You want to be a Republican in New York City? Move to Staten Island. The Brooklyn GOP is D.O.A.
or my name ain't Nathan Arizona!
4:10 post spot on. How could the Golden Campaign not know how devastating this would be to their campaign? Up until all the claims about racism couldn’t be backed up with much by Gounardes campaign. Brannan brilliantly trolled members of the Golden and Saperstein campaign who played even the flimsiest role in the Proud Boy’s event and they fell for it hook line and sinker. In the end Golden’s campaign thought they could make this go away by threatening a lawsuit, that’s all they had aside from the now infamous “he’s a friend” comments to the press. Hey guys stop blaming others for Golden’s loss. You own it.
An old friend made a good point to me the other day while we were getting pedicures: all things being equal, Marty had a good run. Let's be real folks, Uncle Marty should probably have been indicted a number of times over the years between money laundering at the manor, juggling 3 different pensions, being a slumlord, and all those fugazy movie tax breaks and catering deals with Haddad's, the fact that he got beat fair and square and didn't go out in a hail of corruption and shame is a good thing. Now he can retire to Boca with his 4 pensions and his dignity in tact. I would have sobbed to see Marty on the stand like Skelos and his son.
5:22 more fake news. Preet investigated Marty extensively came back with nothing. But I guess it’s easier to talk bs than admit you ran a shit show campaign.
No link of Eaton saying Ghorra should resign on Cats show
Heresay
Kassar must be furious that Brannan is getting all the credit for beating Marty. Kassar is the one who should be getting the credit!
RESPONSE: THE "LESS IS MORE" EDITION
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TO MANY BUT NOT ALL OF THE COMMENT MAKERS ABOVE
SO MUCH OF THIS IS OLD AND REDUNDANT MATERIAL --- IF SOMETHING IS TRUE, REPEATING IT OVER AND OVER DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUER --- THE SAME EXACT FORMULATION IS EQUALLY VALID IF SOMETHING IS FALSE
Who is or isn't friends with John Catsimatidis won't be established or confirmed by any repetition of anonymous comments on this blog.
Now, who is, was or might have been with Andy Gounardes or against Marty Golden, openly or even under deep cover, in 2018 isn't easy to keep secret for very long. Besides, I don't know that anybody is trying to keep anything about any of that secret anymore.
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AND SPECIFICALLY TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 5:51 PM"
YOU ARE SOME VERY SPECIAL KIND OF RETARD: "MORON"; "IMBECILE"; "IDIOT"; AND/OR "CRETIN" WOULD LEAVE SO MUCH UNSAID ABOUT YOUR COGNITIVE DEFICITS.....
"Hearsay" you say ??? Are you kidding me ?????
None of the comments on this blog would even qualify as "rank hearsay" --- even on their best days. Also, what makes you think that any "link" [by whatever you might mean, intend, connote or even denote by that word] would change any "hearsay" into anything but hearsay with ever so slightly more attribution ?????
I hear that "links" and hearsay go well with eggs for breakfast, or even lunch in a pinch. YUM-YUM !!!
3:43 You mean Cats is going to throw away his friendship with Craig for the “vaunted” (actually nonexistent) Brooklyn GOP? Cats could take over the Brooklyn GOP in a few seconds if he wanted to and there’s nothing anybody would do to stop it.
True Dat!
Dear terrified BOE hacks and KCCP party hangers on,
The party’s over. The patronage mill has been shut down permanently. Only people in Brooklyn still loyal to Jerry live in Manhattan. Ted is still wondering if it’s even worth suggesting that he stay one next year. Craig got the last laugh. Enjoy your “mentoring”.
HA! Someone used the phrase "Brooklyn GOP" in the same sentence as the word "leadership"
RESPONSE: THE "YOU KNOW WHO I MEAN" EDITION
TO THE MOST RECENT FORMER COMMENTERS --- YOU KNOW, THE DUMB AS DIRT GOLDEN & GHORRA GROUPIES.....
WHEN MR. CATSIMATIDIS ACTUALLY REBUKES CRAIG EATON FOR ANYTHING, I'LL BE GLAD TO LET YOU COMMENT ABOUT IT --- UNTIL THEN STOP WITH THE FAKE NEWS
Both Eaton and Cats wanted Marty to fall on his ass on his own..... Maybe, there was a nudge here and there, but not enough contact for the refs to blow the whistle or throw a flag.....
If it were Craig and Cats on the DWTS Finale, their complex content and artistic execution would certainly have won them the "Mirror Ball Trophy".....
He rebuked Eaton when he sent out an endorsement letter , social media endorsement, call, etc. when Eaton said he wouldn't do ANYTHING.
That's a rebuke
You are a real loser 10:35.
You appear to be grasping at straws and keep attacking Eaton. Everything you say about Cats and Eaton are not facts, but are mere speculation.
The only true facts are the following:
a) Golden lost - we know he did, he conceded;
b) Kassar, Golden, Kepi, Daley, McClelland, etc. and all the other Golden employees are out of work, unemployed and unemployable - we know this because Marty lost to a novice policitian;
c) Ghorra lost bigtime and let a Senate and a Congressional seat slip away while he jerked himself and everyone else off telling them "I have over 1000 volunteers on the streets" - we know this because, duh, they lost.
These are the facts. Everything you say is mere speculation. Keep dreaming but focus on the facts.
10:35 is just trying to get under Eaton's skin, and Eaton couldnt care less, because he is laughing so loud about Golden's loss.
These are not true facts:
Eaton told all Cats would not lift a finger to help Golden
Cats then wrote a letter, Did call, had Golden on his show, etc, etc
These are FACTS..now Eaton can say it didn't matter and give the BS he "approved" it , which No one beleives..
How are the facts above not true facts?
You are clearly in denial. You are either mentally disturbed or drank too much Golden Kool-Aid.
All that read this Blog will agree with me.
By the way, show me one link where Eaton told all Cats would not lift a finger for Golden?
And, the facts are that Cats wrote a bullshit letter, had Golden on his Sunday show two days before the election, and didnt give him any money at all. Not a rigning endorsement.
Have a great weekend.
Daniel, stop embarrassing yourself with rants about Eaton.
I too am tired of all the rants about Cats and Eaton.
All posters on this Blog should not respond to any Cats/Eaton posts and maybe he will get the idea that nobody believes him.
I agree.
Please tel me “Daniel” isn’t another BOE hack...another one really? Get some hobbies guys.
Ed Cox was even on the call with Cats, Ghorra, and Golden when Cats laughed that Eaton wouldn't be happy camper
Daniel is one of Sap's guys, working his way up to intern.
Daniel is a rising star in our GOP
It Cats and Andrea donated a dollar for every ignored call of Ted Ghorra from the spring until now New York State could pay off its debt. Daniel is easily goaded into doing stuff he shouldn’t do just like last year.
If Ted raffled off his toupee, he could fund an aggressive recruitment, training, and voter outreach program for one very lucky Election District.
RESPONSE: THE "AFTER ALL, IT'S THANKSGIVING" EDITION
TO EVERYBODY
LET'S GIVE THE OVER-REACTIVE NONSENSE A REST FOR T-DAY.....
LET'S TRY SOME CAMARADERIE AND BONHOMIE FOR A CHANGE.....
Just a thought; carry on.
Gail, that's just great.
Earlier this month, you were celebrating burning down the barn of Marty Golden's Brooklyn Republican Party and saying all his supporters weren't welcome anymore . And now, you want 'camaraderie' & 'bonhomie'.
Are you nuts or kidding or what?
RESPONSE: THE "IT'S 'GALE' NOT 'GAIL'" EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 7:09 AM"
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND THAT YOU CALL ME "GAIL" JUST TO ANNOY ME..... NOT VERY LOYAL FOR A BSI, UNLESS IT'S A GOOD-NATURED JIBE !!! SO I HOPE YOU SMILE WHEN YOU CALL ME "GAIL".....
For the rest of the world, Galewyn Massey really doesn't have a nickname; and if he did, it would be "Gale" not "Gail".....
Gale and the Forces of Light prevailed in SD22, so he is well within his right to call for camaraderie and bonhomie. He'll just book the celebration elsewhere than the Bay Ridge Manor.
I hear with Reform Party gone,,Capano ready to Become Republican again and he, Eaton, and Cats ready to make move in bklyn
RESPONSE: THE "ONE AWAY FROM A CLEAN SWEEP" EDITION
[To my avid fans and casual readers: This comment appears on two (2) comments threads simultaneously --- it's that relevant and important.....]
TO: ANY AND ALL ONCE & FUTURE KASSAR COMMENT MAKERS.....
IT'S ALL A MATTER OF RECORD --- IF YOU WANT TO RUN A POLITICAL RACE AND LOSE --- THEN JERRY KASSAR SHOULD BE YOUR COMBINATION OF SVENGALI & EISENHOWER
"Trilby" by George du Maurier is so NOT about Jerry Kassar; however, a negative comparison to du Maurier's Svengali works very easily for purposes of demonstration. Similarly, Kassar could only be compared to Eisenhower if there were no operations: "Torch"; "Bolero"; "Overlord"; or liberation of Antwerp and final push into Germany. In fact, it would almost be like Kassar's political career only paralleled Eisenhower's Army career, if it ended as Eisenhower's only being a West Point football player.....
Many people think that Jerry Kassar can take any sow's ear of an amateur candidate for any Office "X"; and, hocus-pocus, make them into a competitive seasoned pro with a reasonable shot at winning.
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha !!! Almost nothing could be further from the truth. Over the years, Kassar has engineered, or been part of Mike Long's engineering of many, many more losses than wins; and those few wins were far more attributable to analyses and planning by a guy named Roth than either Long or Kassar. As for Kassar all by himself, it's probably damn close to NO winning races, none.
Locally, the Kassar slate is now very likely to be swept completely clean by 2020, when the BR Dems zero-in on Nicole M, along with a few GOP and Dem allies on Staten Island. Yes, somebody is getting a very special brew together.....
If the BR Dems get behind a competitive Staten Islander, and a rump group of SI GOPers get behind a "no name" for a primary against Nicole, then you know the game's afoot; and Kassar is LIKELY TO LOSE the last jewel in his crown.
Kassar is down, but yet out. However, that day is coming very, very soon.
Agree with you Gale and if you only knew a little more!
“Bob Capano is a well respected”.... ithats what it says in his bio! Hahahaha. I hear Bob is trying to one up Liam and Ulrich here with their forum. Nice try.
4:12 is right and it’s driving Jerry nuts. As usual the Cons must have their cake and eat it too, the next opportunity for patronage is on the Ulrich campaign of course, but Jerry can’t afford to alienate Malliotakis who Ulrich can’t stand. After the nasty social media confrontation between the Ulrich and Malliotakis teams, it’s a lot harder for Jerry to act like he’s on both sides but if anyone will give it the old college try it’s him.
Capano playing this great ..
This is great..guess we will see who has more people, and press and their event...Capano or Liam.
I hear Capano has 9 Public Advocate candidates coming, and nY1 and Ch. 9 confirmed for covering it , not to mention local press .
Plus Liam on defensive big time, getting lots of grief from Malliotakis supporters for backing Ulrich aftwr Ulrich screwed her and endorsed No Dietl
412.
I think the "one up" is working perfectly .
Capano will one up them again that’s not a surprise. The surprise is that Ted and Jerry would give the go ahead for Liam to bring Ulrich to Nicole’s back yard. What Some of you saw on Twitter is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of hostility between the two camps.
Liam, the leader of a new GOP club in Brooklyn just alienated Brooklyn's only Republican elected official..great job Liam..
Ted allowing this is just another nail in his coffin
What most of you don’t get is that Jerry has far more control over Malliotakis than he could have dreamed of with Marty. If Jerry tells her to show up to Ulrich event and wash Ted and Liam’s cars, the only question she’ll ask is whether to wash the cars before or after.
What a waste of time all of this stuff is.
I love that Liam and Kassar are so clearly caught between Malliotakis and Ulrich..c ant have it both ways.
C apanos column just out online really calls it out by saying something like if your a friend of Malliotakis , you can't be a friend of Ulrich...it puts out for all to see how Ulrich went against Nicole in mayoral election .. perfect timing on heels of Liam forum bringing Ulrich to Nicole backyard ...Will make many Brooklyn GOPers wonder what Liam doing and question his judgment
Everybody knows Liam is close to Ulrich, and Jerry doing the usual song and dance telling everyone that Malliotakis and Ulrich patched things up thanks to him. Nobody really believes it. The most interesting part of the whole Ulrich event will be to see who goes there and pretends to still be Malliotakis friend. Ulrich is still the same guy who was mocking and taunting Malliotakis on Twitter last week, so anybody who shows to support Ulrich event will clear a lot of things up for her.
How sad, this is all we have left. We're here arguing over scraps and scrubs when we were once kings. I keep hearing names of people like Nicole Malliotakis, Liam Mccabe and Eric Urich. My friends, these people are not leading us to the promised land.
I hear Capano has 12 candidates attending monday, more than any other candidate forum so far.
Wow
I guess none of these 12 candidates heard that the Reform Party lost its ballot status a few weeks ago.
This is two, three or four people doing a very tight circle jerk and telling everybody, who're bothering to watch, what great lovers they are.
'.... No names, please, and strictly off the record.'
To 809 and everybody else reading this blog. The Reform Party under Capano and Sliwa was a vanity thing, and they never did the real work of real leaders of a real party.
Meanwhile, after many years of trying, the Libertarian Party attained ballot status because their leaders and activists did the real work.
809 must not be astute politically.
The public advocate election in February is a NON PARTISAN special election..no parties involved
Do your homework
Ahahaha
And Liam does the "hard work" alienating Bklyn's only GOP elected official and her GOP supporters by cozying up to Ulrich, who worked against her and as recently as last week attacked her on twitter..
Ahahaha
I’ve heard that people wondering about the Ulrich event have been told by Jerry that he and Nicole buried the hatchet after their Twitter war last week. I think that’s highly doubtful and I also think she’s going to take a look at who shows up to see who are her real friends.
Nicole and Ulrich didn't bury anything..it's all k assar trying to minimize damage to his puppet Liam, because word is spreading about what Liam is thinking giving Ulrich a platform in Nicole's own backyard ...expect a very small crowd..
Also, if Nicole and Ulrich were going to bury the hatchet it would have been done long ago..the Twitter war just made it worse..Capano exposed the specific war of words in their tweet dispute in his column just out...it's out there for all to see
8:09 and 8:17 have a point: the Reform Party isn't, and never really was.
I don't see Curtis or Bob or the other 9 people they have going out in January or February to get thousands of signatures.
For all you "link" fans, after reading the one below how can Liam or any Hopes support Ulrich
-voted for Melissa Mark Viverito for Council Speaker
- shunned Malliotakis in Mayor's race for that clown Bo Dietl and just attacked her again last week on Twitter
- has divided his own borough GOP
www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2018/48/all-sliwa-for-public-advocate-2018-11-30-bk.html
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Let's see how many people at their event tomorrow compared to Liams on wed
They have more candidates coming to their forum Monday than any other previous public advocate forum
Ahahaha
Gale
What a your thoughts on all this?
8:51 signatures? With the way things have hit rock bottom the last few years, who in Brooklyn GOP is going to go out and get signatures unless Marty campaign funding it? No one. Let’s get real. Yea there is a groundswell of people in the Brooklyn GOP who can’t wait to go and collect signatures for Eric Ulrich in the bitter cold after repeatedly insulting Assemblywoman Malliotakis. Even Ted Ghorra wouldn’t go along with that no matter who told him.
More and more people talking about Liam poor decision to not only bring Ulrich to Nicole backyard in his capacity as a "GOP Club leader" but also his personal strong support of Ulrich for Public Advocate..alienated a lot of local republicans because of their support of Nicole..
Anyway, it will be just another loss for liam
All you need to know about Liams candidate Eric Ulrich is in 2013 he split from his GOP colleagues in the city council to vote for that leftist Melissa Mark-Viverito for Speaker.
Guess Liam ok with that..republicans aren't
Come on guys, the cons don’t care about ideas it’s all about the patronage for them. Ulrich is the ultimate rino but this is about getting some jobs and contracts. If Malliotakis keeps making all this noise about one little Ulrich visit l, she’ll be told to quiet down.
The Special Election this winter could field several prominent Democrats, and they would all outpoll any Republican who would run.
Liam McCabe should be 100% done in politics. The fact that he is not shows that he is somebody's sock puppet.
Let's put his severe drinking problem aside, and look at Liam's history. What's he done, more important, what has he done well?
Jerry Ted and the couple from the Upper East Side are behind Liam 100%. That’s all he needs.
Idiot Liam will be in for a surprise when he realizes on Wednesday night that his club meeting space has been converted into a Christmas village
Liam loses again
Capano wins again
Make sure you take a look at who is and isn’t the room on Wednesday. A lot of people from Sap’s team who are also friends with Liam are pissed he’s introducing the RINO Ulrich as his candidate. More importantly as the Brooklyn GOP or what’s left of its candidate.....
If people from Saps team are genuinely upset about Ulrich coming to Brooklyn they should express it publicly and make it clear where they stand.
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