Why the Brooklyn GOP still hasn't figured out how to handle the 47th Council District --- that means how to handle Brannan, Kagan and Kassar --- and a few other "players" with much less swing & sway --- or any real shake, rattle and roll

 

If we were Dickens, we would start off with this   
>>>   "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way ---  in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only...."  <<< 

That was the front end of a 19th Century story by Charles Dickens about imminent and eminent things happening in 18th Century England and France  ---  we live in less literary or literate times  ---  however, things are no less restive or revolutuionary in 21st Century Southwest Brooklyn

For a variety of reasons, the crown of "Boss of Bay Ridge" doesn't sit on Justin Brannan's head comfortably or unchallenged  ---  that's because Brannan's current base of power, as the principal incumbent Councilman in the 47th District spills over the boundaries of Bay Ridge in multiple directions

One of those directions is a little bit toward the old stomping grounds of another "Demorat Boss" and incumbent City Councilman  ---  Ari Kagan  ---  who has become a "Republican" City Council candidate in the 47th District as a result of more twists and crosses than a three-ring pretzel

Add to that a Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party that lost to Brannan twice in a row in NYC Council elections that they should have won  ---  with some "home grown talent" thinking it might be their turn to take on Brannan again

So, what's a girl like Ted Ghorra to do ???

If history is any guide, Ghorra will again make any Faustian deal that the agent of the devil, Jerry Kassar, puts in front of him.  As a result of that, Brannan will remain the "Boss of Bay Ridge" and stay in the City Council to finish out his term-limited tenure.

The facts are clear and the analysis is there for eveybody to make. The Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party see things though Jerry Kassar's disease--ridden eyes; and they function through Kassar's acolytes, whose extremities are as palsied as Kassar's.

That out-of-date world view with equally outdated campaign tactics and techniques, have left and continue to leave the Brooklyn GOP and the Conservative Party completely out of touch with most of Bay Ridge, and increasingly alientated from the folks in surrounding areas.

Just as important, neither Kassar, the Brooklyn GOP nor the Conservative Party have ever figured out how so many Democrats over the years have beaten GOP and Conservative candidates in their Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights stronghold, including folks like Marty Golden and Mike Long.

That leaves us a little time to look at that wolf of a Democrat Boss in sheep's clothing  ---  Ari Kagan.....

Nothing in local politics can be as cynical as Ari Kagan's deal to switch parties after realizing that he had no seat of his own in the redrawn NYC Council  ---  and seeing that he couldn't beat "Bay Ridge Boss" Brannan in a Democrat primary..... Nothing except for that deal with the devil move to accept Kagan by a desparate GOP Council Minorty, as well as the Brooklyn GOP and Conservative Party hungry for a win against their nemesis Brannan.....

Don't look at the Lester Chang fiasco for any reason or justification, the Chang thing worked because he was a proper ethnic fit  ---  among his other problems,  Ari Kagan is not a good ethnic fit for the 47th Council District.

Once again lookout for Kassar of the disease-ridden eyes, palsied manipulations and Faustian deals, to swoop in and snatch certain defeat from the jaws of a possible victory by real Republicans and Conservatives   >>>  by backing Kagan.