DUH !!! "There is no there, there..." Ted Ghorra tries to defend Assemblymember-elect Lester Chang in looming residency dispute without mentioning the real legal and factual issues involving another in the long line of his badly-vetted candidates for public office.....

 

Nobody really listens to Ted Ghorra, but now we need to wonder  >>>  does he even listen to himself ???

According to today's NY Post, here's what our illustrious Kings County GOP Leader had to say ---  

".... 'Democrats, who successfully defended their Assembly supermajority despite the Abbate loss, would be 'committing political suicide' with key groups like Asian American voters if they prevented their preferred candidate from taking office, according to Brooklyn Republican leader Ted Ghorra....  'They don’t have a legal leg to stand on,'  Ghorra said about Democrats questioning the residency of Chang, who Ghorra said lives with his mother just outside the district lines....  'The Democrats are going to challenge the residency of a decorated 24-year Navy vet who is taking care of his 95-year-old mom?' Ghorra added. 'There is no there, there.'...”

Maybe, Ghorra needs to stop being his own lawyer.....  That's because Mr. "... They don’t have a legal leg to stand on..."  might well be a named party and a key witness if any case is pursued by the Democrats taking issue with the legitimacy of Lester Chang's having been the 2022 Brooklyn GOP candidate for the Assembly from the 49th AD.....

Ted, it's a residency and time is of the essence case  ---  the issues are simple and straight forward  >>>  since it is a reapportionment year,  all you need to prove is that Lester Chang was a resident of Kings County for 12 months immediately preceding the 2022 general election  ---  surely you can testify to all the things that you did to establish Lester Chang was a legitimate and qualified candidate before you put him on the line to be your candidate against Assemblyman Peter Abbate

Ted Ghorra needs to stop all these distractions and get to work on that book based on his personal experiences screwing up everything possible  ---  and some things not thought to have been possible  ---  having to do with each and every aspect of running a Republican County organization in Brooklyn. 

He can start by explaining what this part of the NYS Constitution means to him:  "....  No person shall serve as a member of the legislature unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and has been a resident of the state of New York for five years, and, except as hereinafter otherwise prescribed, of the assembly or senate district for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election....";  and then this part which follows immediately in the text of the NYS Constitution:  "....  if elected a senator or member of assembly at the first election next ensuing after a readjustment or alteration of the senate or assembly districts becomes effective, a person, to be eligible to serve as such, must have been a resident of the county in which the senate or assembly district is contained for the twelve months immediately preceding his or her election...." (Both quoted texts from NYS Const.,  Art. 3, Sec. 7)

Surely, somebody with Ted's extensive experience as a lawyer and Republican County Leader all these years should have all the skills necessary to explain exactly what that means;  and why he thinks that those who might oppose Lester Chang's being seated as the elected member of the NYS Assembly from the 49th AD "...  don’t have a legal leg to stand on...." 

[[[ Note:  On Election Day 2021, Lester Chang was a candidate on the ballot for the NYC Council from a district in Manhattan, and he voted in the 2021 Election based upon his  enrollment as a voter in New York County.  According to reports, Mr. Chang 's residency for voting purposes was not changed from New York County to Kings County by the NYC Board of Elections until March 1, 2022 ]]]