The GOP Organization’s internet postings, emails and printed handbill flyers are being disseminated, even as I write this post, inviting all Republicans to various organizing events across the county — In addition, Chairman Eaton’s outreach includes new openings to prior insurgent independent Republicans and even to some of those behind the scenes leaders and workers who might have moved over to the “Republicans for Change” but are wavering
Posted on the Brooklyn GOP homepage is an announcement, dated May 23, 2013 from “Old Abe” that accuses “.... Corrupt legislators in Albany... [of counting] on Republican voters like you ... [of not being] involved in local politics... [so] they can get away with anything...” Old Abe then urges Republicans to “Join the County Committee. It’s the Republican Party’s single most important grassroots organization...” That announcement was/is accompanied with an invitation to two Republican Neighborhood Meetings —
(1) Wednesday, May 29, 7:00 PM, Buckley’s, 2926 Avenue S, Corner of Nostrand and S, Marine Park, Brooklyn NY 11229 – B44 Nostrand Avenue bus line — and —
(2) Thursday, May 30, 7:00 PM, Grand Prospect Hall, 263 Prospect Avenue, (near 5th Avenue), Park Slope, Brooklyn 11215 - 1 block from R Train at Prospect Ave (See “Fed up with political corruption? The only way to change things is to get involved in politics at the grassroots level. Join the Republican County Committee and make a difference” by Honest Abe, 5/23/13 [http://brooklyngop.com/?p=982]).
On Friday a reworked version of the “Old Abe” piece was posted by Gene Berardelli on the “Brooklyn GOP Radio -Official- Show Blog” – it contained similar arguments and made the same invitation to the May 29th and 30th meetings mentioned above ( See “The Only Way to ‘Change’ Things: Get Involved! Join County Committee” by Gene Berardelli, 5/24/13 [http://brooklyngopradio.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-only-way-to-change-things-get.html#more]).
Perhaps the most interesting battleground in all of Brooklyn is within the boundaries of the 46th AD, headlined by a full-contact MMA cage-match between incumbent Republican State Committee Members and District Leaders Lucretia Regina-Potter and Clorinda Annarumo. The way things look now, that brawl will overflow into this year’s City Council races; and, more than likely, into next year’s legislative and congressional battles in the 46th AD and surrounding districts.
The 46th AD leadership fight exposes an interesting contradiction within the core of the “Republicans for Change” crowd, who are forced to have a contradictory-exceptional identity and hyphenated slogans to reflect their leading 46th AD leadership candidate. It all looks like this: “Republicans for Change — Except in the 46th AD where change is bad”; “Revitalizing OUR Brooklyn Republican Party — Except in the 46th AD where the old are better than the young, and the old ways of doing things are the only ways they’ll let us try to get things done”; and “Be part of a New Day for Our Party” — Except in the 46th AD where “Yesterday all our troubles seemed so far away... Oh, in the 46th AD we all believe in Yesterday.”
In addition to the meetings mentioned above, the Brooklyn GOP is sending out flyers and emails to announce a meeting in the 46th AD sponsored by the Brooklyn GOP and Gloria Hacken, a longtime Trump Village community activist, to take place at the Community Room in 2942 West 5th Street, Brooklyn NY at 6:00PM on Tuesday, May 28, 2013. The purpose of the meeting is to recruit and instruct County Committee members in that part of the 46th AD and surrounding districts and to involve Republicans in the campaigns of John Catsmatidis for Mayor and for Brooklyn GOP City Council candidates. The principal attraction at the event is Margo Catsimatidis, wife of candidate John Catsimatidis, who is also described as “...the youngest person ever invited to dance with the [ ]Bolshoi Ballet.”
UPDATE: Another medium clicked in tonight for the county-wide operation of County Chairman Craig Eaton's Brooklyn Republican Organization.
ReplyDeleteEven while his supporters were gathered in the flesh to press flesh at the Catsimatidis-Eaton get-together in the Community Room at 2942 West 5th Street, Eaton's technical agents were doing a large scale robo-call announcing the next two (2) meetings: (1) at Buckley's and (2) at the the Grand Prospect Hall (for details of those events, see the main post above).
FURTHER UPDATE: Those robo-calls by Craig Eaton's side were coordinated with a mailing about the GOP County Organization's next two (2) meetings that communicated the same details for those events as mentioned above.
DeleteUPDATE: Apparently the Eatonian’s media initiative and schedule of meetings prompted the “Republicans for Change” crowd to respond in kind, as best they could.
ReplyDeleteEarlier last evening, one of my Baker Street Irregulars called to report that a ROBO-CALL WAR had broken out all across Brooklyn. I placed some calls and several people informed me that they hadn’t gotten a buzz from the “Republicans for Change” robo-call; as a result, I decided to wait to put out this “UPDATE.” Now it looks like there might have been some limited calling about a Thursday event at Garguilo’s on behalf of some “Republicans for Change” in Brooklyn South by Southwest and Southwest by South. I’ve received a late report from another Baker Streeter, about twenty minutes ago ( @ 6:05 EDT), that certain members of the Brooklyn GOP County organization did a specific counter-call to the one from the Brooklyn GOP County “...Changers.”
I don’t know whether it's fair to say a “ROBO-CALL WAR has broken out all across Brooklyn..." between/among various factions of Republicans, but I can confirm that there are some hot GOP skirmishes here and there, and at least one or two caller(s) is/are naming names.