tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post135683984382354942..comments2024-03-29T01:18:48.058-04:00Comments on The Brooklyn & Staten Island Independent GOP Fountainhead: State Senator Martin Golden’s Chief of Staff, Jerry Kassar, covers the Dyker Heights Civic Debate — WITH BASELESS INSULTS FOR RECCHIA — AND WITH A WET BLANKET FOR EVERYBODY ELSE Galewyn Masseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-20524221721855146632014-10-22T03:37:16.391-04:002014-10-22T03:37:16.391-04:00I knew if I lived long enough the Home Reporter wo...I knew if I lived long enough the Home Reporter would finally publish an article worth reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-25776458833544807402014-10-22T01:28:40.339-04:002014-10-22T01:28:40.339-04:00UPDATE: THE “GOLDEN-KEMMERER DEBATE AT DYKER CIVIC...UPDATE: THE “GOLDEN-KEMMERER DEBATE AT DYKER CIVIC” EDITION<br /><br />HOME REPORTER GIVES A LITTLE OF THE SUBSTANCE OF THE ARGUMENTS AND POSITIONS IN THE DYKER CIVIC DEBATE<br /><br />GOLDEN MISREPRESENTS HIS TAX BREAKS FOR MANHATTAN DEVELOPERS OF UPPER INCOME LUXURY PROPERTIES WERE FOR MIDDLE CLASS HOUSING<br /><br />The Home Reporter’s Helen Klein was able to give a little overview of the subject matter covered at the Dyker Civic Debate last week, but gave none of the details of the shortcomings of the format and the handling of the debate by its organizers (See “State Senator Marty Golden and James Kemmerer debated at the Dyker Heights Civic Association” by Helen Klein, 10/21/14, Home Reporter/ Brooklyn Spectator [http://www.homereporternews.com/news/government/golden-and-kemmerer-butt-heads-at-dyker-debate/article_1c351e7e-5973-11e4-8fad-63eb1987d806.html]).<br /><br />Helen Klein’s introduced her article, thus: “Veteran State Senator Marty Golden and Democratic challenger James Kemmerer tangled at a candidate’s debate sponsored by the Dyker Heights Civic Association. *** At the forum, held at St. Philip’s Parish Hall, 80th Street and 11th Avenue, on Tuesday, October 14, the two sparred over numerous issues, with Kemmerer focusing on the issue of corruption and Golden stressing both his years of experience and his plentiful plans for the future....”<br /><br />What followed was a description by the incumbent Golden, of his claimed “accomplishments,” many of which involved a targeted distribution of funds from taxes and NYS borrowing on projects favored by Golden and general spending in the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach and Marine Park. This part of his presentation made Golden sound like any typical liberal Democrat that equates throwing money at problems as solving them, or at least trying to do something about them. And here was Golden’s kicker: “...[H]e promised, if re-elected, ‘I am going to continue to get things done, I am going to continue to bring money into the community and into the city, so we can use it where we need it.’...” That’s Golden all over — A TAX, BORROW AND SPEND BIG GOVERNMENT >>>>> RINO ! The packed audience of Golden supporters loved it because Marty said it.<br /><br />Jamie Kemmerer came back with his populist good government anti-corruption message that Golden had supported giving “...a $50 million tax break to one Manhattan real estate developer, a $100 million tax break to five Manhattan real estate developers and $500,000 to a very shady medical non-profit.” Kemmerer also said that Golden had “spent $541,000” from his campaign funds “at the family catering hall,” the Bay Ridge Manor, reiterating an issue that had come up at the first debate between the two. Kemmerer also made much of a U.S. Attorney’s investigation of Golden’s campaign fund raising and expenditures. Also according to the report, “In response, Golden contended that the tax breaks to which Kemmerer referred were given to developers in return for affordable housing creation....” <br /><br />The format of the debate and the control of podium by the debate organizers prevented a proper rebuttal that such an assertion by Golden was largely false, and that facts contrary to what Golden stated had been widely reported around the time the tax breaks had been given for Upper Income Luxury Housing.Galewyn Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-4689149725906959902014-10-22T01:18:38.897-04:002014-10-22T01:18:38.897-04:00I believe the point is Recchia keeps dodging debat...I believe the point is Recchia keeps dodging debates which begs the question. If Recchia cant face a bunch of old ladies at the Dyker Heights Civic Association than how will he hold up on the floor of congress?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-21373335260788313662014-10-21T22:30:36.428-04:002014-10-21T22:30:36.428-04:00Kassar is Jerry with a J.Kassar is Jerry with a J.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-31397893894096265752014-10-21T21:00:48.451-04:002014-10-21T21:00:48.451-04:00Don't the first four lines of Eliot's poem...Don't the first four lines of Eliot's poem you quoted from remind you of the Republican Party in our lovely borough? Just the first four lines. Bet you thought that too.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-74078744772319643702014-10-21T20:53:23.787-04:002014-10-21T20:53:23.787-04:00It's Gerry with a "G". Don't you...It's Gerry with a "G". Don't you ever listen?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com