WHAT THE HE...CK ! I was looking at the Politicker Blog and guess whose good old Brooklyn GOP name popped up — “GEORGE SMITH”

According to this morning’s Politicker blog, “...When Mr. Spitzer arrived at the Board of Elections headquarters in Lower Manhattan Thursday night to drop off his boxes of signed petitions, he was joined by a gaggle of supporters, including a gentleman named George Smith. Numerous photographs taken that night show Mr. Smith, standing next to Mr. Spitzer, with a Board of Elections name tag affixed to his blue shirt identifying him as ‘George’....”

YES,  IT’S  THAT  “GEORGE”   —   YES, IT’S THAT "GEORGE SMITH" !

If there is any doubt in your mind, just read this excerpt from the Politicker post, as follows: “... Mr. Smith, who ran unsuccessfully in 2009 for now-Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s City Council seat as a Republican, also has some skeletons in his own closet. According to articles published at the time of his run, he spent time in jail on robbery charges and for allegedly impersonating a cop. He also reportedly faced a slew of misdemeanor charges, including forcible touching, sexual misconduct, harassment and sexual abuse. At the time, his attorney had blamed the charges on his estranged wife....  Mr. Smith, a former Board of Elections employee, told Politicker that he was indeed at the headquarters with Mr. Spitzer Thursday night, but denied he had any formal role on the campaign.... ‘None, none. I just knew him when he was governor,’ Mr. Smith said when reached by Politicker Monday. ‘I like him. He’s a nice guy’....   He claimed he neither helped collect petition signatures nor had any current plans to join the campaign. ‘Not that I know of right now,’ he said.” ( See “EARLY SUPPORT —  Eliot Spitzer Attracting Some Controversial Supporters” by Jill Colvin, 7/16/13, politickerny [http://politicker.com/2013/07/eliot-spitzer-attracting-some-controversial-supporters/]).

This epiphenomenon might or might not be a big deal for somebody like Elliot Spitzer, who is proud of the fact that he has rather blunted sensibilities when it comes to embarrassment over any questionable history with respect to sexual impropriety. However, the full story and full glory of the “George Smith Candidacy for City Council” might well get played out yet again as  part of the Brooklyn GOP leadership wars.

Let’s see what happens next.