Board of Elections Coup by GOP Councilmen still being fought — But not by Craig Eaton or the crack Brooklyn GOP Law Committee

".... We can talk about politics and government all day, but elections -- and the way they're run and by whom -- are the bedrock of the entire process...."

                                — Celeste Katz, 2/19/13, NY Daily News/ Daily Politics 

The folks at the Daily News are still trying to unravel what's going on at the NYC  Board of Elections; and it seems like they are pulling the knot apart one strand at a time (See “NYC Board Of Elections: Inquests & Invoices” by Celeste Katz, 2/19/13, NYDailyNews.com / Blogs  [http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/node/135910]).

All that can be said with certainty, is that the Republican City Councilmen have already replaced Brooklyn Republican Commissioner Nancy Mottola-Schacter with lawyer Simon Shimoun. It's also known that Mr. Shimoun is a Bay Ridge (L)lawyer who is close to Marty Golden, as well as the current Republican District Leader in the 46th AD.

There is only one pending case to stop the actions of the Republican Council Members in replacing the GOP Commissioners without consultation by the GOP County Leaders – it was brought on behalf of the Queens Republican Leader Phil Ragusa and the ousted Queens GOP Commissioner  Judith Stupp.

Oddly, the Brooklyn Republicans did not bring any legal proceedings to force the GOP Councilmen, none of whom were from Brooklyn, to reconsider or restore Nancy Mottola-Schacter.  Odd because  Kings County Republican Chairman Eaton was reported on his blog to have vehemently denied any part in the replacement of Ms. Mattola-Schacter with Simon Shimoun; such that he even claimed that the way it was done was a humiliation and like being stabbed in the back. Of course, that only happened after Eaton had attempted to thank NM-S for her years of service and she recoiled somewhat from what she considered a premature expression of gratitude for years of service prematurely ended.

I await patiently for somebody to say it ain't so ! ? #  @ <  ....

If this was a surprise attack on Brooklyn's exalted leader, I wonder who specifically played the role of Brutus to Eaton's Caesar; or for you O'Reilly fans, Booth to Lincoln or Oswald to Kennedy. State Senator Martin Golden was reported to have openly lobbied for Shimoun’s appointment; and interestingly Mr. Shimoun was the MC at Golden’s 2013 Swearing-in Ceremony which was conducted at the Kingsborough CC, very near Mattola-Schacter’s home turf. It remains to be seen, if in fact there was any such an unkind cut thrust upon the Brooklyn GOP County Leader; and who might have made such an ugly mark upon the boss would remain a speculation as well..

The SI Advance is looking into the Staten Island part of the BOE commissioners' story; and the Daily News is doing its bit as to the Queens part of the whole mess, including the interesting riddle of the three, count ’em three,  Phil Ragusas  —  but so far nobody in is asking the important questions journalistically about what’s behind the dropping of one Brooklyn GOP Commissioner and the selection of another.

Personally, I think it might be directly connected to the paltry 2012 GOP petition for State Senator Martin Golden, and the relative dearth of good signatures collected by signatory witnesses who also had temporary positions as GOP appointed Elections Inspectors and Coordinators; but that’s pretty much just a guess. Requiring such a thing as a quid pro quo is a crime.  The possibility of such illegality had been raised and then dropped as part of a “settlement” of  Brooklyn GOP Election Case in 2011 involving a district leader’s race and a hard to locate BOE employee that later mysteriously became  “unsettled,” but without the possible criminal aspect being revived against the higher-up alleged to have been involved in all of it.