The supermarket billionaire’s most embarrassing endorsement to date [the one by Kings County Republican Chairman Craig Eaton] has been kept under wraps for a very, very, very long time ...
Wait a minute ! This just in !
EATON AND CATSIMATIDIS COME OUT OF THE "ENDORSEMENT" CLOSET TOGETHER --- EATON SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT TO CAUSE ANY UPSET OR OFFENSE BY HIS ANNOUNCEMENT
According to Celeste Katz, “After months of mayor's race machinations, it's official: Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton is supporting John Catsimatidis. *** Eaton, long expected to grant the endorsement, praised the billionaire businessman in a lengthy statement -- and made a concerted effort not to slight anyone else...” ( See “Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton On Board With John Catsimatidis For Mayor” by Celeste Katz, 3/9/13, NY Daily News/Daily Politics [http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2013/04/brooklyn-gop-chairman-craig-eaton-on-board-with-john-catsimatidis-for-mayor]).
Ms. Katz does a lengthy piece including comments by Eaton and Carrion. I wish that I could comment about all of that right now; but, quite frankly very little of those comments seem credible or even make much sense when taken “whole cloth.” I will have more to say once I’ve had a chance to analyze all the quotes and other background information that I have over the next few days.
Until then, somebody should find out if Eaton will make himself available for questioning concerning all the circumstances of his Catsimatidis “endorsement”; and in addition, what, if any, was Eaton’s part in the scandal surrounding the attempts to get a Wilson-Pakula authorization for State Senator Malcolm Smith. You know, stuff like --- what did Eaton know and when did he know it ?
When will we hear Eaton's other shoe drop ?
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: Only the New York Post’s Carl Campanile’s terse coverage of Kings County Republican Chairman Craig Eaton’s endorsement of John Catsimatidis clearly zeroed-in on a key fact — that Brooklyn State Senator Martin Golden, Brooklyn’s only elected Republican, has endorsed Catsimatidis’ principal rival for the GOP line for mayor, Joseph Lhota ( See “B'klyn Republican Party chairman backs John Catsimatidis for mayor” by Carl Campanile,
ReplyDelete4/9/13, NY Post [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/klyn_republican_party_chariman_backs_unEQCRpnNJqal8RXVF632I]).
This leaves open the following questions: First, did Craig Eaton only individually endorse John Catsimatidis on his own behalf, or as an agent and representative of some entity called the Kings County Republican Party? Second, whether Eaton acted on his own or with some mandate from the Brooklyn GOP, how much of the Brooklyn GOP will follow Eaton when somebody like State Senator Golden obviously is not.
In addition to that, there are at least two other independent GOP operations in Brooklyn that aren't behind Eaton. First, the large independent club of the 46th, 47th and 49th ADs, The Fiorello LaGuardia Independent Republican Organization, is not following Eaton's endorsement, but is conducting its own interviews of mayoral candidates as part of its independent endorsement process. Second is the Brooklyn Young Republican Club, which has been hosting a series of presentations by various Republican mayoral candidates; there has been some indication that after the presentations have been completed, the Brooklyn YR Club will take a vote as to which of the mayoral candidates is preferred by the Young Republicans.