OMG !!! Did Brian Fox get caught in a big bad lie about his opponent ?????

 

Things just seem to be going from bad to worse for Brian Fox and his Campaign for City Council 

At this early stage of things, it looks like the Fox campaign has made the unforced error of being caught in a major lie  --- by falsely claiming that his opponent, City Councilman Justin Brannan, was responsible for cancelling the Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade 

Unfortunately for Brian Fox, that lie was exposed by none other than the Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade Committee on their Facebook Page early on Sunday, May 30th  >>>  when they announced that Councilman Brannan Brannan had offered to help stage a more regular style Bay Ridge Memorial Day Parade, but that the Parade Committee had been "locked-in" to alternative plans (their complete comment on Facebook is quoted below)

This is what appeared on the "Brian Fox for City Council" Facebook page a couple of days ago:

"Brian Fox for City Council is in Bay Ridge....   May 28 at 11:10 AM....  On Memorial Day we remember those that made the ultimate sacrifice, the least we could do is honor them properly. Sad to see Staten Island elected officials went to bat for those who have served our country, but Brooklyn's elected officials did not. I guess making sure the Memorial Day parade marched down the streets of Bay Ridge was not a priority of Councilman Justin Brannan who is a longtime ally of the Mayor. He should have made an effort - our servicemen and women deserve nothing less." (See "Brian Fox for City Council" Facebook page, 5/28/2021  [https://www.facebook.com/BrianFox4NYC/posts/143923474445536]) [together with a misleading newspaper clip; all followed by a very disingenuous series of anti-Brannan comments, responding to a handful of serious and truthful comments trying to correct the false charges made by Fox and his team.....]

THE BAY RIDGE PARADE COMMITTEE PUBLISHED RESPONSE

Here' s the response by the Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade [Committee] on their Facebook page:  "Brooklyn's Memorial Day Parade....  May 30, @ 9:00 AM....  Veterans have staged Brooklyn’s Memorial Day Parade since I became involved almost 30 years ago, and many years before that. The community has supported us with donations and assistance for many years. We are very grateful for that. Brooklyn’s Memorial Day Parade is not, and has never been run by politicians. If you wanted to know anything about the parade all you had to do was reach out to me or any member of the executive committee. All of our local politicians have supported this parade and they all respected the solemnity of the day. Both Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis and Councilman Justin Brannan did call me and ask if they could help. I said that we were already locked into holding another motorcade that included a float and vintage military vehicles going over to the VA hospital on Poly Place and then onto John Paul Jones Park for our memorial service. The committee of mainly Veterans that runs this parade did this as a collective decision. Brooklyn’s parade is very different from the one in Staten Island. It is much, much bigger and involves a yearlong effort to organize. We did not have enough time to put together a conventional parade to honor all those service members who paid such a terrible price for us. For anyone to politicize this event is just wrong, and highlights the negatives of social media, pick up a phone. All those who are using the parade to bring up the past and to snipe at one another, stop it. All the men and women who lost their lives in selfless service to our country deserve better." (See "Brooklyn's Memorial Day Parade" Facebook Page, 5/30/2021  [https://www.facebook.com/510623472446914/posts/1909243372584910/]).

Now that it's all been explained to me.....

A bunch of Conservative Party types from around New York State,  and a few  Republican officeholders, and assorted conservative minded movers and shakers gathered at a NYS Conservative Party sponsored event in Rockland County quite recently

Many talked about big plans for next year's statewide elections, and some of the NYS Senate races here and there  ---  what nobody cared all that much about, and what was left largely undiscussed by almost everybody, were any real upside prospects in the 2021 NYC municipal elections

What made all of that seem very strange was that, not only was Jerry Kassar there as the virtual MC of the event, almost his full crew of Brooklyn Conservative leaders were there, including Fran Vella-Maronne and Ross Brady, along with the Conservative Party Candidate for mayor, Bill Pepitone  and NYC's only GOP-Conservative Party-elected Member of Congress, Nicole Malliotakis   (who also had been the joint Republican-Conservative candidate for mayor in 2017)  ---  of course they did say a few of the good old by-jingo lines in some of the prepared remarks; however, in the informal networking and among the little group conversations, New York City's various elections were not at the top of anybody's list of favorite chat-'em-up stuff.  

Modern Day Lepers

The Brooklyn GOP and it's so called "allies" in the local Conservative Party are nothing but political lepers

All their events are conducted in the leper colony, attended by lepers  ---  and even the healthiest newcomer participants are quickly infected with the disease

So, it's not really fair to single out the latest casualty, Brian Fox, the City Council candidate chosen by the team to "take one for the team"

It is pointless to expect any kind of winning campaign on behalf of any candidate that will do all that is  necessary to get the support of the NYS Conservative Party  ---  especially in Brooklyn, even in the once-upon-a-time GOP stronghold of Bay Ridge.  

The real problem with that crowd is that they can't add  ---  they can only subtract.  And when the math doesn't work they resort to magical thinking to make it sound like it will next time.  And that's what a candidate like Brian Fox is stuck with from the start.

It's time for somebody in the Brooklyn GOP to say something really revolutionary  ---  and it needs to be about the so-called alliance with the Conservative Party.....

Who is running the "Brian Fox for City Council" operation? How were they selected to do the job ??? Do they have any clue what needs o be done in a NYC Council race ?????

 

Now, it's clear that "OPTICS" is only a very small part of the Brian Fox fiasco.....   

The Fox folks have fallen down coming out of the gate; and it looks like they won't be getting up anytime soon

Their latest NYCCFB filing, which shouldn't have been difficult at all since the funds collected were so small, has been completely botched for all the world to see  ---  almost everything that could be done wrong has been  ---  both with respect to the filing itself and what the filing shows about how things are being done in the campaign

So much for Brian Fox' being a private businessman, who knows how to run things !!!!!

It seems that the Brian Fox Campaign needs to do some amending very fast of what's been filed with the New York City Campaign Finance Board  >>>  or Fox & Co. will be getting cited for violations right off the get-go.in their 2021 campaign for City Council.  And the left is jumping up and down saying that "dark money" is involved  in the Brian Fox Campaign  ---  "... so far in @BrianFox4NYC's campaign finance report seems to be a clear campaign finance violation indicating dark money: A combo of unmarked campaign posters, and no expenditures for printing [and also website services]...." (See "Radio Free Bay Ridge" Twitter feed [https://twitter.com/RadioFreeBR/status/1395835598410289153?s=19]).

Those of us on this independent Republican blog that have been looking at this whole Brian Fox thing for over a month now think that there is a much more obvious answer >>> COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE INCOMPETENCE, both by Fox himself and the people behind him.....

So far the man's personal history is completely missing HIS STORY about anything in his life, except for an incomplete list of where he's been, and an even barer account of what he has accomplished. Practical "fund raising" is almost non-existent. And, as been oft-repeated on this blog, the "Brian Fox for City Council Campaign" really doesn't have a clue when it comes to imaging and message.

SADLY,  FOR EVERYBODY INVOLVED, THERE IS NO NEWS HERE  ---  IT'S JUST MORE OF THE SAME FOR THE FOX CAMPAIGN

Top questions on Brian Fox' own campaign page on Facebook say-it-all about somebody called "Brian Fox" --- the so-called GOP-Conservative candidate for the NYC Council for the 43rd Council District

 

These main questions remain about Brian Fox:  1) Who is he ?  2) Is he a worthy and competent candidate for City Council or any other public office ???  and 3) How did the Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party come up with this guy ?????

 
Somebody knows that something is very wrong, because this is something that appears very near the top of the official "Brian Fox for City Council" FB page:

"...  Ask Brian Fox for City Council

'Can you tell me more about yourself?'                   [-]Ask
'Can I learn more about your background?'            [-]Ask
'Are you available to chat?'                                       [-]Ask
'Where are you located?'                                           [-]Ask
...."

This is another obvious question that needs to be asked  >>>  Is the Brian Fox for City Council Campaign that is now being pitched to the public a complete and absolute sham ?????

Is the apparent act of sabotage by the architect of the "Brian Fox for City Council" Facebook Page really a cry for help by some insider in the Fox campaign  >>>  trying to let everybody know that there is something very bad afoot with the whole Brian Fox candidacy?

Even as the so-called campaign for the so-called candidate “Brian Fox” goes into its second or third month of formal existence, fundamental questions about the real identity and background of this Brian Fox persist.  Never has a Brooklyn GOP candidate for local office been put forward with such a lack provenance, and a concomitant and obvious failure of due diligence by those who should have vetted him before he was selected as the GOP and Conservative Party choice to run against Justin Brannan.

Whether Brian Fox and Mark Szuszkiewicz are inside the tent pissing out, or outside the tent pissing in, so far both of their campaigns for City Council have been nothing but pissing and moaning.....

Everybody knows what that means  ---  both Brian Fox and Mark Szuszkiewicz obviously have severe cases of Ghorra-rhea.....

In spite of their shared "social disease"  ---  I saw a photo of those two Kings County Republican candidates with Kings County Conservative Chairperson Fran Vella-Marone  ---  tough to tell if she was standing or sitting, or possibly even on her knees  ---  however, no matter her posture or bodily position, being with both Fox and Szuszkiewicz at one time made Fran's hair stand up like she was a part of a Nikola Tesla electro-magnetic show 

Looking at everything posted on the Brian Fox for City Council FB page, it's as plain as BF's big barrel chest popping out from his under-sized suits and blazers that  >>>  somebody's idea of campaigning is only going to Conservative Party-supported events.  Unfortunately, none of that is going to add a single new voter in support of the local GOP-Conservative candidates for City Council in November.

Will somebody clear this up --- it seems that Brian Fox says that Curtis Sliwa is out there campaigning for him

Brian Fox takes credit for prayer vigil at Saint Athanasius.....

The Fox campaign shows multiple pictures of GOP Mayoral aspirant Curtis Sliwa on the campaign trail in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst  with the Brian Fox, the GOP candidate for City Council 

Even though he might appear to be throwing his own candidate for mayor, Fernando Mateo, under the bus  ---  maybe, just maybe, Liam McCabe has deftly positioned his candidate in the 43rd Council District, Brian Fox, to draft off any energy that he can pull from the Sliwa campaign in Southwest Brooklyn

If nothing else, with these shenannigans Liam is taking a victory lap around a certain somebody, who claims to be a top operator for Curtis Sliwa. 

However, the real winner might be John Quaglione.  John Q seems to be happy to go along for the Brian Fox-Curtis Sliwa ride, since they are both the formally endorsed candidates of the Brooklyn GOP.  Without doing very much, his pictures keep popping up with Q's frequent appearances on the 2021 campaign scene.

The other guy from the 2017 field for City Council is left getting his AH-HAHAHAHAHAHAs the old fashioned way, all by himself.....

There is hope --- believe it or not, it came from the words of Liz Cheney --- and --- LIZ CHENEY CALLED IT "TRUMP'S NEXT COUP"

 

MAKE NO MISTAKE THESE ARE INDEED DESPERATE TIMES.....

..... AND AS THOMAS JEFFERSON ONCE SAID  ---  "THE TREE OF LIBERTY NEEDS TO BE REFRESHED BYTHE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS"

YET, THESE QUESTIONS REMAIN  ---  WHO ARE THE PARIOTS AND WHO ARE THE TYRANTS ?   ---  DO YOU REALLY THINK ANY SWAMP CREATURES ARE PATRIOTS, OR CAN BE WITH THE PATRIOTS ???  ---  AND WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON  ?????

January 6th was just a prologue, just a little taste of what needs to come, all across this country..... 

Picture all of this:  Donald Trump calling for a  >>> General Strike <<<  to shut down everything nationally;  ---  then, Trump's leading the biggest March on Washington in this country's history;.  ---  and then, a citizen army loyal to Trump entering the capital retaking the levers of government that were stolen under everybody's noses in such a craven and corrupt manner at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021.

OMG, I just felt one of those Chris Matthews-type shivers, or is that quivers, go down my leg.

 

Sliwa team finally gets something right --- decides that "Radio Silence" is best messaging for Bay Ridge fund raiser

 

Bob Capano seems to have spread his "tree falling in a forest very, very far away" disease to the whole Curtis Sliwa campaign for the GOP nomination for mayor

Last night's thing at Delia's  Lounge at Third Avenue and 93rd Street in Bay Ridge had a couple of observers scratching their heads about what was obviously  

>>> NOT GOING ON THERE AT THE TIME <<<

According to two folks that said they were there to eyeball things, it just wasn't very much to meet the eye  ---  other than some talk is cheap chit-chat in front on the sidewalk

The Brian Fox event a little while back suddenly looks a lot better by comparison  ---  so far, those horrible visuals from The Lonestar B & G don't look nearly as horrible, when they are compared to these Sliwa campaign scenes from Delia's Lounge

So far the only pix that we have seen so far are from "The Queen of the Click"  ---  real action shots  ---  just look at all the action at Sliwa's event last night:

All the feverish activity was obviously captured on a high speed time lapse camera.

Bobby C of the beer can on the subway saga usually tries to publish anything that he can about Curtis Sliwa's campaign  ---  so far, nothing about this event.  Maybe, Bobby Baby is smartening-up.....  Will wonders never cease ?????

Let's be fair, maybe, things picked up later on.....  Let's see what Bob and Curtis try to do to make this scene all look not so bad.....

Just sayin' --- what's in a name --- a "rundell" often refers to something that is "fat and round" --- other times it means something cryptic

Needless to say, we don't want to be accused of "bigotry and hatred";  you know racism and all that jazz.....

Neither do we want to be accused of propagating a paternalistic hierarchy in our  emergent Twenty-first Century culture.....

So, on this Mothers Day 2021, let's take a look at moms  ---  actually, one mom in particular....

In a slightly different cultural context,  we might be calling Brian Fox  >>>  "Brian Rundell-Fox" or "Brian Fox-Rundell"

So why no shout-out to mom on Mothers Day ?????

Shakespeare once wrote this about names:

"...  'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee..."

To which Shakespeare had Romeo reply thus:

"...  Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized

Henceforth I never will be Romeo..."

However, contemporary Brooklyn politics the way it's being played by Brian Fox and his team, I think, has carried that all too far.  ---   Shakespeare never intended for it to apply to moms..... Elinor Rundell Fox must be a wonderful mom.  Until very recently, she was content being known as Elinor Rundell;  but budda-bing-budda-boom, now everything is "Elinor Rundell Fox."  Just why do you think that is ?????  One can only guess..... ET CALL HOME..... Brian, make sure to call your mother on Mothers Day;  and tell her,  "Thank you, Mom, for everything."

Something to add to the Bad, Bad Visuals --- Brian Fox disses two key ethnic groups necessary for any Republican-Conservative Candidate in the 43rd Council District

When it comes to Brian Fox and his campaign for City Council it just goes from  >>> BAD TO WORSE <<<  (and we here on this Independent GOP Blog think that the worst is yet to come  ---  after all, it's only early May)

BRIAN FOX AND HIS CAMPAIGN GOT PRANKED  >>>  BIG TIME <<<   THE GOP-CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR CITY COUNCIL HAPPILY WENT ALONG WITH SOMEBODY'S BLATANT SWIPE AT IRISH-AMERICANS WHILE THEY WERE BASHING JUSTIN BRANNAN

On April 26th a phony Twitter account called Brian Fox' opponent,  Justin Brannan "...that Irish bum....";  and on April 27th, the Twitter account "Brian Fox for City Council@BrianFox4NYC" replied on Twitter,  "Sure send me a private message with the best number to reach you"

Last week it seems that Brian Fox and or his top people in the campaign got punked by a mocking-jay  Twitter site for/about/aimed at former City Councilman Sal Albanese  ---  and that punking is being reported on the Radio Free Bay Ridge Twitter feed.  And, sure, this is a smear story from an open and obviously left-leaning Democrat source  ---   BUT, IT IS JUST TOO GOOD FOR US TO PASS UP  ---  and pass it on to our readers, so they can see and evaluate it.

Here's what the Twitter feed from Radio Free Bay Ridge says:

"Radio Free Bay Ridge @RadioFreeBR [earlier this week] ....  Following on the heels of calling Italians by a racial epithet on his Facebook page, the GOP candidate for City Council in #BayRidge gets tricked by a clearly fake Sal Albanese account into agreeing that our current councilman is an 'Irish Bum'....  You can't make this stuff up" AND THIS ".... Radio Free Bay Ridge@RadioFreeBR [earlier this week] Also, this shit has been up for over a WEEK..."  AND THEN THIS  "Radio Free Bay Ridge@RadioFreeBR [earlier this week]  ... it implies that not only did 'Sal' not get back to Brian... but the lack of communication didn't trigger an alarm bell and instead Brian is still waiting by his phone...." 

The RFBR Tweet then showed a screen shot of the swag Sal Albanese Twitter feed "Sal FAlbanese@SalAlbany" that  >>> OBVIOUSLY PUNKED  <<<  Brian Fox and/or his campaign folks  >>> BIG TIME <<<  and it showed this:  "Sal FAlbanese@SalAlbany....  @BrianFox4NYC Ring me. I represented mostly Bay Ridge from 1983 - 1998 before you was born but I can help you beat that Irish bum....  9:57 PM  Apr 26, 2021...."

Then the RFBR Tweet showed the screen shot of the beginning of  a reply from "Brian Fox for City Council@BrianFox4NYC";  and that reply was shown as the following: "Brian Fox for City Council@BrianFox4NYC - Apr 27....  Replying to @SalAlbany....   Sure send me a private message with the best number to reach you." 

***  "... FOUNTAINHEAD" READERS PLEASE NOTE:  THIS SEEMS A LITTLE TOO CUT'N'DRY AND REALLY BAD FOR BF & THE BF CAMPAIGN.....  TO US HERE, THE WORD "SURE" IN THE REPLY FROM THE FOX CAMPAIGN TWITTER ACCOUNT IS JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH LOCKED-IN ON THE TARGET,  AND TOO PAT BY A SCOASH  ---  SO HERE, WE'RE AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT SUSPICIOUS ***

HOWEVER, IF THIS STORY PANS-OUT AS TRUE  >>>  THEN IT LOOKS LIKE BRIAN FOX AND HIS CAMPAIGN CAN'T TAKE TWO STEPS WITHOUT STEPPING ON THEIR COLLECTIVE DICK [OR IS THAT JOINT AND SEVERAL DICKS]

Everywhere you look it is BAD, BAD VISUALS --- for the Brooklyn GOP --- for its Chairman Ted Ghorra --- for its candidates in 2021

Let's start with the professionally prepared Brooklyn Republican Party home page [https://www.bkgop.com/]   >>>  just checkout ALL the pictures posted on the various pages, and tell me whether this rogues gallery is going to make anybody want to join up with the Brooklyn GOP  ---  And, please note,  even at this late date, there isn't a single photo showing a Republican Candidate running in the 2021 election cycle

Next, take a look at the Brooklyn Republican Party's social media pages [https://www.facebook.com/BklynGOP/]  &  [https://twitter.com/KingsCountyGOP] .....  The only really GOP oriented material there is mostly posted by the mostly Staten Island officeholders Malliotakis and Tannousis  ---  the only 2021 candidate shown was some clown in a red beret  ---  and there's not a single thing there to make anybody want to join the Brooklyn GOP, or to volunteer to do anything or make any donation to the Republican Party or any of its candidates

Lastly, look at the [other ???]  Brooklyn GOP Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/BklynGOP/?ref=page_internal] there is much more there,  but the visuals are so much worse  ---  does Ted Ghorra really think that pictures of himself at Mar-a-Lago is what will generate a ground swell of support for the Brooklyn Republican Party or his continuing as its chairman ?????  Even worse, were the dozen or so pictures of mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa in his red beret  ---  that only showed that this candidate for Mayor of NYC likes to wear silly hats, and that next to nobody can be seen at or near any of his events

This is how the Brooklyn GOP wants to present the local Republican Party to everybody looking for it on the internet  ---  that prompts only one question right now  >>> WHY ?????