Abandonment of their top issue against Brannan --- Are the Republicans really endorsing a "Defund the Police" candidate like former Democrat Ari Kagan to run as THEIR candidate for City Councilman for the 47th Council District ???

 

In spite of open grumbling by some leaders and activists in the Brooklyn GOP  >>>  it looks like most of the top guys in the Brooklyn Republican Party have decided to back the incumbent 47th City Council District representative Ari Kagan  ---  as their best shot to beat Councilman Justin Brannan in 2023 

However, in order to back Kagan's run against Brannan, Republicans like Brian Fox, Liam McCabe and their ilk will have to abandon their favorite line against Brannan  >>>    because their new man Kagan ran and won that 47th Council District seat just two short years ago as a strong Democrat advocate for and defender of the 2021 "defund the police" budget.....

As a matter of fact, several of today's top Brooklyn Republicans openly confronted Kagan about that during Kagan's 2021 campaign to take over the council seat being vacated by Kagan's boss, Mark Treyger  >>>  who openly, even proudly, touted his part in crafting that 2021 "defund the police" budget  ---  especially his hand in diverting a very large tranche of 2020 and earlier NYPD-budgeted funding to the city's 2021 budget for the NYC Board of Education 

For his own part on that particular issue in the 2021 campaign, Kagan strongly defended his work with Treyger as his top staffer  ---  including sharing credit for the 2021 diversion of NYPD funds to the Education Department 

One has to wonder how Republicans like Mark Szuskiewicz and Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny and other key 46th AD and 47th Council District Republicans will be able to back Ari Kagan's run for the City Council in 2023 when they pounded Kagan so hard on issues like >>> defunding the police <<<  just two short years ago during Kagan's first run for the 47th AD Council seat as the Democrat nominee.

But we suppose that is no stranger than the complete volte-face of the biggest grifters at the top of the Brooklyn GOP right now, Liam McCabe and Brian Fox.  In 2021, they were saying that Justin Brannan's support of the 2021 NYC budget, with some decreased funding for the NYPD,  was disqualifying for Brannan's continuing on the NYC Council, but now in 2023 it isn't disqualifying for their man Ari Kagan, who probably had a bigger hand in crafting those portions of the 2021 budget that actually "defunded" big parts of the NYPD 2021 budget  ---  and who, both as a candidate in 2021 and a top Treyger staffer during the 2021 budget process  ---  openly supported Mark Treyger's work on that budget, the diversion of NYPD funds to the Board of Ed.,  and his Council vote for the 2021 budget in 2020.

As a reminder to some Republicans who might not have been watching Kagan during his  2021 campaign for the City Council in the 47th Council District  ---  a "REPUBLICAN" made this statement at the time  >>>  "...  thoughts on 'Brook-Krasny Asks Ari Kagan To Stop Lying'...   Anyone who is endorsed by Mark Treyger is not worth saying good morning to. Mr. Treyger voted to defund the New York City Police of one billion dollars then had the gall to post his smiling face on Facebook showing how delighted he was in his stupidity....  I am a registered Republican... my vote goes to Alex Brook-Krasny...." 

  

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