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[Bob Capano -- CITY COUNCIL (Logo)]
LINDA SARSOUR WELCOMED TO BROOKLYN
CITY COUNCIL RACE
CAPANO: SARSOUR
IS "RADICAL AND WRONG"
August 8th, 2016
{Brooklyn, NY} –
Bob Capano, a staunch supporter of the NYPD and the leading Republican
City Council candidate for Brooklyn's 43rd district (Bay Ridge, Dyker
Heights, Bensonhurst) race next year, welcomed Linda Sarsour to the
contest by calling her "radical and wrong" after she all but
declared her candidacy in a recent interview. Councilman Vincent Gentile
will be vacating the seat next year due to term limits.
Sarsour, who is
Executive Director of the Arab-American Association of New York, stated
in an interview with Brooklyn Paper Radio, "Someone who
is Arab-American is definitely running in 2017. That is a
fact". It has been widely reported over the past year that
Sarsour has a strong interest in being the Democratic candidate
to replace Gentile.
Capano, who
manages a business and is an adjunct Professor of Political Science, has
been a fierce critic of Sarsour and said that she is "radical
and wrong on many issues, and has a long record of extreme rhetoric and
actions". He added, "I look forward to highlighting the polar
opposite visions Ms. Sarsour and I have for our city, and bringing new
leadership to City Hall." Capano noted that as he
was walking through the 68th Precinct National Night Out
Against Crime in Bay Ridge last week with former Brooklyn GOP Chairman
Craig Eaton, a number of residents, including several Arab-Americans,
commended his outspoken criticism of Sarsour.
Mr. Capano
pointed to her participation at an anti-police protest outside of Gracie
Mansion on December 3, 2015 where Sarsour was arrested. Video
from the protest shows one of the participants yelling in the face of a
police officer "Nobody looks at you like a hero, just a
racist". It also shows Sarsour and others chanting about
"the violence of racist police". In addition, last
October Sarsour posted on her twitter account a photo of a
Palestinian boy preparing to throw a rock at Israeli soldiers and called
it “The definition of courage". When Democratic Queens
Councilman Rory Lancman condemned Sarsour’s comments that same day
by stating, “Attacking Jews at their homes, schools, supermarkets,
cafes, buses, roads, synagogues and Seder tables is barbarous, and
enlisting children to commit those acts is even more
so,” Sarsour responded by stating, “The Zionist trolls are out
to play. You will never silence me."
Last month,
Capano, who was the District Director to former Republican Congressman
Bob Turner (Brooklyn-Queens), condemned the NYC Fiscal Year 2017 Expense
Budget allocation of at least $23,750 to the Arab-American Association.
He said, "It is outrageous that taxpayer money is being used to fund
an organization whose Executive Director encourages violence, does not
condemn terrorist attacks against Israel, and views our police
as racist". In December, 2015 Capano called on Sarsour to
resign or be removed from Brooklyn Community Board 10.
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I am not the biggest Capano fan but he has set himself up as the most public critic of sarsour and strong defender of the NYPD, not bad positions to have in a GOP primary.
ReplyDeleteNext Bob Capano will be holding a press conference demanding that the City build stables so that people traveling to Bay Ridge can leave their horses somewhere while they are shopping. I'm told that during the same press conference Bob will vociferously condemn the stranglehold that Tammany Hall has on the politics of this city. Bob try spending some time in Bay Ridge Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights and you'll have plenty to discuss with voters. No one cares about Linda Sarsour, people are starting to notice you for all the wrong reasons...
ReplyDeleteCapano and Sarsour will both lose the primaries.
ReplyDeleteIts Brannen v McCabe
A fly on the wall told me that a GOP consultant recently chided Bob Capano for not having put together his fund raising team. When Capano wanted to get into the details of what the consultant might have to say, the consultant cut him off. The consultant then told BC that he didn't want to get any inside information from BC, because the consultant believed that he might very well be working for one of Capano's opponents.
ReplyDeleteLook for both Bob Capano and at least one of his opponents to engage in some early non-matchable fundraising, which can be used for preliminary, pre-pre-primary organizing and other things related to that under the NYC Campaign Financing rules.
what happened to justin brannen?
ReplyDeleteis he in hiding?
You must be talking about a different Justin Brannen.
ReplyDeleteQUERY: THE "DOES THE NAME, TODD HOWE, MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYBODY LOCAL" EDITION
ReplyDeleteHE SEEMS TO HAVE GOTTEN A BIT OF A COOPERATION-LENIENCY DEAL FROM YKW
Always remember this >>> Preet Bharara has said that not bringing Federal charges against somebody doesn't mean that they didn't do something wrong.
Bob was at National Night Out in bay ridge last Tuesday. .there was no mvcabe, quaglione or brannan there..
ReplyDeleteBrannan was there in a suit no less. Event was typical of Bob's problem, no one knew him remembered him. He had to stay glued to Craig Eaton's side for any attention whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteEven if what 501 am is saying is true, which it is not, money and mail solves all..
ReplyDeleteFirst, what money and mail?
ReplyDeleteSecond, is Craig Eaton really standing behind Capano in this City Council race, or is he just latching onto all of Capano's smoke and mirrors action as a chance to annoy Marty Golden, just like Eaton did with Arnaldo?
I'm surprised to hear about Todd Howe.
ReplyDeleteHis family ran a good steakhouse
The comment above has it all wrong.
ReplyDeleteHowe never owned Nightfalls. That was Al Nahas
I don't think Todd Howe is from the same Bay Ridge family that owned Howe's Steakhouse. Besides, it wasn't Nightfalls,it was Chadwiick's, and at the times that the Howes owned it, I think it was called Howe's Steakhouse.
ReplyDeleteI just got this in an email from info@bobcapano.com
ReplyDeleteSeems well written with a lot of political consulting type language..
"New leadership" logo and theme, says capano "leading republican" sets up race as capano vs. Sarsour
Bob Capano is clueless and now he clings to Eaton burying the hatchet long enough to help him hang in the City Council race. Almost everyone knows that Sarsour won't be running and even if she did would not be the nominee. He is confusing Brooklyn with Staten Island where many are obsessed with Trump and the Muslim ban, next Bob will be issuing press releases about the effects of property taxes in the Rockaways...depending on how much progress his Queens real estate agents make.
ReplyDeletePolitics 101..you always go after the front runner and person you most fear..my hunch is Bob Capano and his team are very happy reading the commentators on this blog!!
ReplyDeleteYes they should be otherwise they are so grossly uninformed and behind the times, Bob's next press release might be about how Bay Ridge needs to have more pay phones installed.
ReplyDeleteRumor has it Mouse Capano caught a pair of hardened crooks red-handed trying to snatch a coupla pints of Häagen-Dazs at a Chelsea Gristedes Supermarket.
ReplyDeleteMouse Capano caught the devilish duo as they were trying to stuff 49 – not 50 – but 49 pints of Häagen-Dazs and 31 Ben & Jerry’s pints into several bags they had brought with them when supermarket workers stopped them. Capano started to yell at them about the bag tax but became embarrassed when a passerby told him “to shut the hell up already!”
What’s more, The Cat Man Catsimatidis had originally offered up a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the two ice cream thieves but when he heard that his main man Mouse Capano was the guy who cracked the case, he just gave him 2 extra vacation days to which Capano replied, “Thank you, sir, may I have another?”
Police believe the creamy duo was part of a widespread ice cream theft pattern where pints of frozen cream are stolen from supermarkets and re-sold to neighborhood bodegas (for the record, Capano is anti-bodega). Cops say there have been more than 250 ice-cream theft complaints this year and 130 arrests mostly related to Linda Sarsour and Cherry Garcia.
Yes indeed, Capano has been all over TV and radio on behalf of John Cats..more great PR
ReplyDeleteI just heard Capano on 1010 wins talking about the Cats reward, he was also refereed to as " a Brooklyn law and order city council candidate"...great messaging..
ReplyDeleteI just heard Capano on 1010 WINS and it said he's the candidate most likely to sit in front of his TV in Staten Island and watch Law & Order while his wife cooks and cleans.great messaging..
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