Tempests, Teapots, Teacups, The Brooklyn GOP, Hayon, Akselrod, Pinkus, Davidson, Berardelli, Gallo, Eaton and “a cast of hundreds”

When factions within factions within factions in the Brooklyn GOP fight things out in public, how can anybody take any of this seriously ? Seriously, I mean SERIOUSLY ! ! !

In spite of several Emails and links sent to me in Margaretaville, Florida, I stayed focused on my quest for a lost shaker of salt, figuring all of this  would blow over. Well, I’m back in Brooklyn, so I am now I’m getting phone calls from y/k/w, who says things are worse than ever. Why am I not surprised ?

This is all about a fight over an opportunity to ballot on the GOP line in one of the Southwest Brooklyn assembly districts on behalf of Democrat Ben Akselrod.  It seems like the local Republican organization is fighting to keep its line blank rather than allow a hostile takeover by a rump group of Republicans that want to get the line for Akselrod as he pursues his multi-year fight with Steven Cymbrowitz.

Once again, Joseph Hayon has leveled charges of anti-Semitism against Kings County GOP Law Chairman Gene Berardelli. This time, it’s all about whether Berardelli would consent to an adjournment of a hearing at the Board of Elections so that it would not interfere with the celebration of a minor Jewish holy day by his very observant Orthodox Jewish opponents.

All of that is passed, and the adjournment was granted by the BOI.  Gene said he consented to the adjournment ( he even broadcast and Email about it), Joseph says that isn’t so and the tape of the proceedings prove that Berardelli is lying. Now, Gene and the rest of the crowd at Brooklyn GOP [blog-talk] Radio are referring to Hayon as a Brooklyn GOP Orthodox Jewish “Al Sharpton” during a recent Brooklyn GOP Radio program.  All of this has entangled people like Craig Eaton, Russell Gallo, Diana Sepulveda, Boris Pinkus, Grigory Davidson, Marcus Nussbaum, Lucretia Regins-Potter and a few others.  Hayon now maintains that Craig Eaton no longer has support of over 300 County Committee delegates that voted for him at the last GOP County Convention, and he can’t get them back unless Gene Berardelli is removed as the County Law Chairman.

How thin can you slice the factions of the Brooklyn GOP for them to be thin enough to be having a fight like this one ?  This is too small even to be referred to as a “Tempest in a Teapot”;  furthermore, I doubt that all of this might succeed in making a noticeable ripple across a full cup of tea. Nonetheless, all these guys seem to want to “have at it” –  so who am I to say, “Nay!”