Brooklyn GOP politically weaponizes 9/11 Memorial Event --- by launching an event that competes with the long -time memorial event held on the 69th Street Pier

The flyer announcing a Friday evening gathering at the "McKinley Park Flagpole" demonstrates the obviously partisan political nature of the event  ---  supposedly to honor 9/11 victims  ---  jointly sponsored by the Brooklyn Tea Party and Glen Nocera, along with Vito Bruno, Nicole Malliotakis, along with others like Marty Golden


Meanwhile, the more traditional and longstanding event at the 9/11 Memorial on the 69th Street Pier is still scheduled to go forward 

There can be no real explanation for the dueling events other that pure and naked politics by the people mentioned above.  It's clear that Vito Bruno had a hand in this with Glen Nocera,  because Vito Bruno topped the lists of "Special Guests"  ---  ahead of the mention of the names of Nicole Malliotakis and Marty Golden.....  Interestingly, the flyer that I was given misidentified the location of McKinley Park  (I don't know if that error was caught and corrected at any point.....).

A local leader in Bay Ridge said this is just "Low !!!"  And elsewhere the words 'Just wrong" were used about the event inexplicably being held away from the formal 9/11 Monument on the 69th Street Pier and the traditional ceremonies being held there this year, just like last year, and the year before that, and the year before that,  etc., etc., etc.,  and so forth.....