Good News Garbage Morsel is Really a Bitter Mouthful for Lhota Campaign and His Conservative Supporters

Politicker article about "Anti-Trash Station Democrats" rallying with Joe Lhota highlights major contradictions of his campaign

Quotes by Lhota’s liberal supporters shows-up a justification given by Long, Kassar and Golden for supporting social liberal-libertarian Joe Lhota for the lie that it is  

 

This is the takeaway from yesterday’s bit of  “good news” for the Lhota campaign reported by Jill Colvin in the New York Observer’s Politicker blog:  “ ... ‘I feel that there should have been some kind of more appeal to people who are Democrats—some kind of outreach,’ [a woman Democrat supporting Lhota] said, arguing that Mr. de Blasio had managed to paint Mr. Lhota as a typical, national Republican, even though he’s far more liberal on social issues. *** ‘That’s what a lot of people that I’ve met have felt frustrated about with his campaign,’ she said. ‘Most of us are so frustrated and angry at the national Republican party right now. So I think that hasn’t been said enough. He hasn’t been able to separate himself enough from the national Republican party’ ” ( See “TRASH TALK –  Anti-Trash Station Democrats Rally for Lhota” by Jill Colvin,  11/2/13, NY Obeserver/ Politicker [http://politicker.com/2013/11/anti-trash-station-democrats-rally-for-lhota/]).

The “good news” for Republican-Conservative Candidate Lhota, of course, was that there was a reportable breakthrough with a group of self-identified Democrats. However, in digging into the nature of that support for Lhota’s candidacy by these Manhattan-style Democrats, you would see that their support is based on two things. First and foremost, Joe Lhota was able to make a local connection with a group of voters, whose predominant concern is halting the implementation of a plan to make a 91st Street facility into an East River Sanitation Transfer Station. Second, that Lhota, the Republican-Conservative candidate for mayor, actually holds many liberal Democratic positions on a variety of issues.

The Politicker post also reported that these Democrat supporters of Joe Lhota were extremely critical of the Lhota Campaign in two key areas: 1)  a lack of organization and outreach to liberal Democratic voters, who would be willing to join with Lhota on specific issues; and 2) that the Lhota campaign has not separated itself from the National Republican Party.

Jill Colvin’s article about Joe Lhota’s “TRASH TALK” Democrat supporters actually points out the problematic and contradictory logic of the Lhota campaign as a whole, and the key conservative Republican and/or Conservative Party reasoning in support for the Lhota candidacy.

Especially perplexing is the open tolerance by Conservative Party leaders like Mike Long and Jerry Kassar, as well as certain self-styled social conservative Republicans like State Senator Martin Golden of Lhota’s often-expressed liberal social policy positions. The glib dismissals of the importance of those positions in a race for mayor, by the likes of Long, Kassar and Golden is completely shown to be “the lie that it is” when liberal Democrats, like those quoted in Colvin’s article, always mention up front that they are necessary elements of their support for Lhota.