It now looks like one of the best kept secrets inside the Brooklyn GOP during mid-2018 was that Marty Golden was in the fight of his life to hold onto his state senate seat right from the beginning --- and maybe it wasn't just some "Blue Wave" in November that gave Marty the boot
A July 14th 2018 article in "City & State" actually has these words in its lead paragraph --- "State Sen. Martin Golden's.... time in office is finally up...." --- the real verbal stiletto is that the words "has been" appear next to Marty's name in the first six words of the piece --- all that was missing were a couple of quotation marks to make the message clearer "State Sen. Martin Golden['] has been[']..."
I had reported here that people advising the Golden Campaign were not happy with some of the indicators inside Golden's early polling numbers --- while his staff and normal flacks were telling everybody that Golden was well ahead of all possible challengers and everybody was satisfied with where he was
Folks, that is a prescription for more disasters for the Brooklyn GOP going forward into 2019 and 2020. It's like your doctor telling you that, even though it makes you sicker and sicker, keep taking the same medicine..... Or, as Harry Nilsson put it half a century ago --- "Put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up... DOKTOR !!!"
Basically, Golden wants to put his same crew of hacks, flacks and ciphers that gave us all the GOP losses in 2018 back in charge of the Brooklyn Republican organization so they can win it all back in 2020. That ain't "pie in the sky"; it's blueberry stains and crumbs on your shirt.
The truth is political comebacks are rare; Marty Golden looks and sounds older all the time; and he is using Colleen as a "stand-in" more and more (Now, don't say that I am suggesting that he is like Woodrow Wilson in 1919; I am NOT.....).
Possibly, more important than that, an analysis of Golden's loss in 2018 shows that he completely lost Bay Ridge in 2018, even while Nicole Malliotakis was carrying some of those EDs. What 2018 showed is that the people across Marty Golden's state senate district were tired of him, and his old-style Bay Ridge accent and, most important, his old-style Bay Ridge attitudes.
For some reason, the reports about old man Golden show that he is fighting to stay relevant in politics..... He is willing to do that on the backs of and at the expense of some of his most loyal supporters, many of them long-time activists in the Brooklyn GOP. The sorrow and the pity there is that Marty Golden has not been the real "Old Marty" for a long, long time. Unfortunately, for people who actually care about the Republican Party in Brooklyn and the rest of New York State, Brooklyn Republicans don't seem to get how out of step they are with so many of their neighbors in their continued affection for Marty Golden.
MAYBE THERE IS SOME HOPE --- WITH A "BACK TO THE FUTURE" PLAY
Last week, Craig Eaton burned up the phone lines or micro-wave transmitters calling his faction of Brooklyn GOPers and telling them that he has some things going for 2019, 2020 and 2021..... On a different, more localized front, Lucretia Regina-Potter was reported to be planning to take back her GOP leadership spot, with her own slate in the 46th AD.
Craig and Lucretia aren't cut from the same cloth. Mrs. Potter was never a passionate Golden supporter, whereas Eaton was once Marty's strong right arm inside the Brooklyn GOP. However, now, they do agree on one thing --- that the Marty Golden-Ted Ghorra team is NOT the "Back to the Future" solution for the Brooklyn Republican organization --- but something involving Lucretia and Craig might be.....
The only good thing about this is that Marty never learns from his mistakes, and will go into the 2020 election with none of the advantages he had in the past, but all the disadvantages he's gained since then. A third rate county organization, filled with yes men and toadies, none of whom know the first thing about recruiting, training, or organizing. And Marty's consultants are an inartful collection of untalented hacks. Marty will build 2020 up as his great comeback -- and Gounardis will win by a huge landslide next time.
ReplyDeleteStrange thing is even if Marty does get it back next year re-apportionment will eliminate his only stronghold in Marine Park. Marty lost every area of Bay Ridge.
ReplyDeleteFour minutes between comments? That's pretty fast, or quite a coincidence.
ReplyDeleteDid you have a second thought, or did you want them to appear as two separate comments?
7:49 PM, I don't understand how you settled on your lead in line.
ReplyDeleteHow can it be that Marty Golden never learning from his mistakes is a good thing for most of us?
Everything you said after that looked kind of solid, but how does Golden never learning benefit anybody, except the third raters, yes men, toadies, the inartful and untalented hack consultants, and State Senator Andy Gounardes?
It's a good thing because it spares us from being 'represented' by him in Albany.
ReplyDeleteI suddenly realized why Long resigned.
ReplyDeleteBut I'll let Gale explain about the recent goings on in Albany.
It is sad for Golden. He made so many enemies the last few years, all caused by Kassar, and then he lost - big time.
ReplyDeleteVery embarassing for an old timer like him, getting taken out at 70 yrs old by a young Dem
Even more embarassing is that he says he wants to run again in 2020 when he will be 72 - and when he loses then, what will he do - move to Florida?
Whjat
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