Berardelli and Gallo voice support on Tonight's Brooklyn GOP Radio Show for GOPer John Catsimatidis in his run for Mayor

In a program largely devoted to other matters, a late call from Conservative Liam McCabe moved the discussion to an entirely different subject --- Preferences for Candidates for Mayor of New York --- and in a surprising revelation of their personal preference, both  Gene and Russell spoke out in favor of John Catsimatidis

After much evasion and then parenthetically qualifying their answers to the phoned-in question by Mr. Liam McCabe, a new Club President in the Brooklyn Conservative Party, both Gene Berardelli and Russell Gallo expressed their current preference for John Catsimatidis. Mr. McCabe  seemed gratified by the mention of Catsimatidis and suggested that for the first time in several elections, the Republicans and the Conservatives could unite behind a single candidate.

In arriving at their preference, both Messrs. B and G mentioned that Kings County Leader Craig Eaton supported Adolfo Carrion, but they then specifically noted that Carrion was not a Republican. (In an interesting aside unrelated to the Brooklyn GOP Radio program, Gene Berardelli, speaking as the Brooklyn GOP Law Chairman, expressed an opinion to the Crain's Insider in response to a Roger Stone article in Stone's own blog ---  Berardelli clearly implied that Carrion would require the support of three out of five  County Chairmen for a Wilson-Pakula, not a majority of the weighted votes of  all the county committees.)

Among the reasons Gallo and Berardelli cited for preferring Mr. Catsimatidis was loyalty, with the Brooklyn GOP Radio duo pointing out that  John C. had a long history of supporting the Brooklyn GOP and its candidates.