Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov has made allegations that Grigoriy Davidzon, the owner/operator of the Russian-speaking radio station WSNR-AM, tried to extort $30,000 in ads from her for his political support in 2021 --- and now Davidzon is attempting to exact his revenge against Vernikov for her failure to accede to Davidzon's 2021 demands
In 2023, Davidzon is backing Igor Kazatsker in his run against Republican incumbent Councilwoman Inna Vernikov in the 2023 GOP Primary for the Republican City Council line nod for the 48th Council District --- Grigoriy Davidzon and Igor Kazatsker are part of a cabal that includes Ari Kagan --- both Kagan and Kazatsker have been employees of Davidzon's
Also the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and city’s Department of Investigation have been asked by Republican City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov to investigate as a criminal matter the allegations of "straw donors" against Republican Primary challenger Igor Kazatsker --- Vernikov also filed complaints with the NYC CFB accusing Kazatsker of illegally relying on “straw donors” to help him qualify for public matching funds and also receiving free ad time on Grigoriy Davidzon's WSNR radio station that Kazatsker didn’t report as in-kind donations in his campaign filings
Brooklyn City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov has accused the owner/operator of the major "Russian-speaking" media across the southern Brooklyn beachfront communities from Seagate to Manhattan Beach and inland along Avenue U and Neck Road from Gravesend to Sheepshead Bay and out past Gerritsen and to Nostrand Avenues into Midwood and Marine Park of trying to extort her into paying over $30,000 for political ads — in addition, she also claimed that Davidzon was also part of a cabal backing a challenger to Republican Councilwoman Vernikov in next month’s Republican Party primary because she refused to pay him offin 2021/
The NY Post reports that Councilwoman Inna Vernikov told Post investigative reporter Rich Calder that reps for the local Brooklyn Russian media maven Grigoriy Davidzon first approached her campaign operatives during her earlier political campaign in 2021 to demand that she “hire someone from his team” — and also specifically to spend $30,000 for commercial airtime on his AM radio station WSNR 620.
Vernikov refused to be “bullied” and went on to win her 2021 City Council race to represent Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and other neighborhoods in southern Brooklyn; and in so doing, delivered “big blow” to Davidzon’s reputation as a necessary local “kingmaker” in the heavily Russian-speaking parts of Vernikov's district.
The cabal now opposing Inna Vernikov inside the Brooklyn GOP includes many of the very same backers and "straw donors" that are behind the GOP City Council campaign of former Democrat Ari Kagan in an adjoining district.
This is shaping up as a big fight about whether the Davidzon-Kagan cabal can come in and take over the Brooklyn GOP in the only part of Brooklyn where the Brooklyn GOP has shown any real sustained growth potential. Davidzon and Kagan have been together since Kagan swooped into Brooklyn as a former secret media operative in the former Soviet Union and a likely secret state security agent/operative during the end stages of the Soviet system; and Davidzon has always backed Kagan's runs as a Democrat, even defending Kagan against GOP charges against Kagan that he was a former KGB agent/operative.
As usual Ted Ghorra stands around looking confused and out-of-place in all of this. He is obviously feckless and clueless about any of what's going on among Davidzon, Kagan and Vernikov.
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You got a little typo there…. Igor Kazatsker and Ari Kagan ARE employed by Davidzon, both get paid via contributions to their campaigns. Ari ran Igor for 45th AD Democratic district leader 3 times to no avail. Both are a joke, unfortunately Mr. Toupee doesn’t have the berries to take these people on. He’s still confused about life outside of bay ridge.
What Ghorra doesn't know can't hurt him
808, the only berries that Ghorra can manage to find are dingleberries at the tips of the only real hair that he has on his bod. However, he keeps finding enough of them to made the Brooklyn GOP into a real dingleberry pie of bad candidates and 'consultants'.
RESPONSE: THE "LATEST BERRIES PICKED BY TED GHORRA" EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 8:08 AM" & "... AT 11:31 AM"
THANKS TO YOU BOTH FOR YOUR INFORMATION AND OBSERVATIONS ABOUT YKW & YKW >>> WHAT THEY ARE AND THE PETTY OLIGARCH THAT THEY WORK FOR
WHEN PHIL RIZZUTO USED TO CALL ANY BONEHEADED BALL PLAYER OR OUT-OF-LINE BASEBALL COMMENTATOR "A REAL HUCKLEBERRY" >>> EVERYBODY KNEW THAT PHIL REALLY MEANT "A REAL DINGLEBERRY"
AND BOY. ARE ARI KAGAN, IGOR KAZATSKER, AND GRIGORIY DAVIDZON A BUNCH OF REAL HUCKLEBERRIES, OR WHAT !!!
SINCE HE IS LEAST KNOWN TO YOU --- WE'LL FOCUS A BIT ON LITTLE IGGY KAZATSKER --- IGOR KAZATSKER CHANGES HIS ETHNIC IDENTITIES AND POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS LIKE THEY ARE SWEATY SUMMER SHIRTS
Igor Kazatsker's published political material starts out by saying that he is "PROUD TO BE A REPUBLICAN" And then he goes on to say that "... I am thrilled to announce that I have entered my candidacy for the New York City Councilman in the Republican Primaries for the 48th district in Brooklyn...."
But very quickly Kazatsker starts pitching the Grigoriy Davidzon lies and propaganda >>> ".... Contrary to the popular language, I am not going 'against' someone. I am going 'for' - for you, my future voters, for the safety and cleanliness of our streets, for the prosperity of small businesses, for order in our schools and homes in which you live!... The experience of an engineer, teacher, journalist, and businessman acquired before emigrating to America will help me in my future work when (and if) you choose me...."
But somehow, he also let these truths slip out >>> "... I have been moving to this choice for a long time, and I am glad this is finally happening!.... I am also confident that my rich American professional experience as a radio, television, and newspaper journalist, immigration attorney’s assistant, manager in Jewish organizations, and leader and activist of public organizations will be very useful in solving the problems of our community.... Like many of you, I went through a difficult immigrant path of becoming, a path of failures, losses, and victories. So I know about the community’s problems, about the district’s issues not by hearsay but, as they say, 'first hand'...” All of that is about Igor Kazatsker, who's had a life being manipulated directed and ruled by powerful OTHERS both back in the Soviet Union and FSU, and here in America as a toadie in Grigoriy Davidzon's and Ari Kagan's cell of propagandists and agents of influence.
Lately, Igor Kazatsker has made much of his having been from Ukraine and being ethnically "Ukranian" --- howver, familial testimony indicates that when Kazatsker was back in Odessa until around 2001, his family was "Russian-speaking" and that most of the Ukrainian culture in the Kazatsker family was absorbed since moving to Brooklyn. As late as 2010, when Igor Kazatsker was gathering data on individuals at community centers in Brooklyn, Kazatsker specififally noted that his cultural background was "Russian" or "Russian Jew" because he said people must be proud of their heritage.
Also, even though he has lately asserted that he is "Proud to be a "Republican"; that is a very recent conversion to sheeps' clothing for a life-long wolf --- IGOR KAZATSKER SPENT MOST OF HIS POLITICAL LIFE AS A MACHINE DEMOCRAT WORKING FOR OTHER MACHINE DEMOCRATS LIKE MARK TREYGER AND ARI KAGAN, AND ROUTINELY BASHING THEIR LOCAL REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS --- EVEN THOUGH HE IS NOW TECHNICALLY A "REPUBLICAN," HE IS CONTINUING TO DO WHAT HE DID AS A LONG-TIME DEMOCRAT ACTIVIST AND BASHING THE CURRENT GOP INCUMBENT CITY COUNCIL MEMBER INNA VERNIKOV FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHER LIFE-LONG DEMOCRATS LIKE KAGAN AND DAVIDZON.
Does Borat know about this?
307, make jokes all you want.
Wait 'til "Borat." Davidzon and Kagan are running the Brooklyn GOP instead of Kassar and Ghorra.
The Post article got lost in translation. Extortion in Russian translates to business in english.
Doesn't anybody remember this Gregory Davidzon quote from the NY Times in 2012 - The 'NY State Republican Party has disrespected our community by drawing new electoral lines that divide and hurt our community. So we must teach them a lesson they will not forget and vote for Democratic Lew Fidler. He’s the right man for our community. Remember: not one Russian vote for his Republican opponent! [David Storobin]'
Back then, Davidzon and everybody associated with him was 'Russian' or 'Russian-speaking' and there wasn't a peep about Ukraine or being Ukrainian or from Ukraine.
If you look in the dictionary under the word bottom feeder there is a picture of Davidzon
1032, Gregory Davidzon performs a necessary ecological function. That's why he now can be found feasting off the rotting carcass of the Brooklyn GOP that died under Ted Ghorra. The Brooklyn Republican Party isn't anything but inert carrion laying on the bottom of its tiny corner of water that is really neither a part of a great ocean, nor a powerful river.
1032 & 1057, speaking of 'bottom-feeders' there was a sighting of the increasingly rare silver catfish Marty Golden, who was 'headlining' for an Ari Kagan fundraiser a couple of days back. Obviously, since this affair was not up to the 'full buff' standard at Golden's favorite joint, Marty didn't give it his A-1 headliner effort for his good buddy Ari; and it showed.
There were barely 25 of the usual suspects in the house, I guess that shows fundraising for a former KGB-type Soviet Communist era operative isn't as easy in Bay Ridge as some might have thought.
BTW, somebody needs to tell 'Groyper' Brian Fox what all this former Soviet Communist KGB-type operative stuff is all about. All the pix with Kagan aren't really the best way to build a credible political resume, jes sayin'.
Who can forget where they were the day Tim Scott entered the race foe President? Tim Scott
Every race Ted touched in 2022 turned into victory.
122, so Ted didn't do anything for Vito LaBella and Brian Fox, is that what you're saying?
QUERY: THE "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN AND IF SOMEBODY MENTIONS
'B.R.A.V.O.' NOWADAYS ???" EDITION
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE ASKED THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS HEREIN BELOW --- AND IF NOT, WHY NOT ?????
What happened to the B.R.A.V.O. headquarters, equipment, and $$$$$ millions in grants and fund raising dollars? Why have so many Brooklyn electeds with districts in or including large parts of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights averted their eys over the years; and not acted to stop it, raised any alarm, or even looked into any part of this massive movement of money and other assets away from such a prominent NFP/NGO public/private partnership? Maybe, the key Bay Ridge players involed with B.R.A.V.O. had very important friends in high places who just looked the other way. >>> Many years later, several of those previously secret alliances became items of the public record and general knowledge. Several but not not all.
Let's see what happens next.....
Why chase ambulances when the real money is in owning them
BRAVO+CASH=KA$$AR
RESPONSE: THE "OMAGOSHNO !!!" EDITION
TO: "ANONYMOUS SAID... AT 1:31 PM"
NO, BASED ON ANOTHER MATTER ABOUT THIRTEEN OR FOURTEEN, MAYBE EVEN FIFTEEN, YEARS AGO --- JERRY KASSAR DIDN'T HAVE THE JUICE TO TAKE CARE OF SOMETHING BIG BECAUSE IT WAS WAY BEYOND HIS PAY GRADE --- AND THAT CASE DID INVOLVE THE KEY MAN AT B.R.A.V.O. WHO VERY MUCH WANTED IT TO GO THE OTHER WAY --- AND HE WAS THE ONE THAT HAD THE JUICE WITH THE BROOKLYN DA TO MAKE IT HAPPEN --- IT'S VERY HARD TO PUT IN A FIX WHEN SOMEBODY BIGGER AND STRONGER PUTS IN THE OPPOSITE FIX
You'd think that getting an old lady dying of cancer out of jail on a compassionate furlough as a favor to a friend and Conservative Party supporter would have been an easy lift for Chairman "K" given his good relations with Hynes in 2009 >>> but not when DA Hynes was giving the case the special treatment for the B.R.A.V.O. honcho.
so who was that man a BRAVO, was it BRAVOMAN?
Its Nick
Gail, I thought you were smart enough to leave this BRAVO stuff alone. Why go there? Bay Ridge BRAVO ain't nothing like Howard Hawks movie Rio Bravo, and it never was; and you ain't no kind of John Wayne in this story. Lots of people know who you really are, and a few of them know your connection to the big man from BRAVO and the bad blood floating around since the incident in the big man's office thirty years ago. That's a very long time. Just let it go, and let sleeping dogs lie.
we all know its Nicky Chambles
Nicky has been completely ostrasized in the NYC GOP..The best he can do is work for Avery
is it that guy Bob?
1214, even a blind squirrel can find his nuts occasionally. Some folks did/do call Senor Honcho BRAVO 'Bob'.
Hey, all you blind squirrels!
Maybe, y'all need a hand-around and some gentle coaxing. The money is probably in some 'XYZ' trust not paying any taxes because it is a 501(C) type charity. Go to BRAVO's diclosures and look for the money tralis.
I found one by another means, but there should be more.
Is nicole talking to Nicky yet?
Nicole gave the ok for Nick to become an intern in 2026. Maybe.
It explains why the floors at bravo had a nice shine
Lots of envy here for nick chamberas i see
Everyone knows Nick has the internship with nicole in the bag.
Nick, Nick, bo bick, banana fana fo fick, fee fie mo mick, Nick, what's up with all this 'Nick' schtick?
Nick is running rings around all
I walked by BRAVO today and looked in the window. A mop was in the aisle. So it is Bob.
We love u nick
It's 2023, and time for Nick to save the Brooklyn GOP in the nick of time.
The Chambles policy from 2022 on is no involvement in GOP primaries. Unlike Trump Chambles only takes on Democrats.
Notice how DeSantis tanked after Nick walked away
I M with Chambles..
Nick is the only one that can put it all together.
Nicole gets her own coffee. Why would she bring on Nick?
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Good point
Gross to think of what else little Bob is doing while posting about Nick all the time.
355 is trying to cause problems between nick and bob. They are good friends.
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