Anna Belfiore-Delfaus really couldn't do it any better than this political jiu jitsu at this time.....
The Sunday News slam looks like it might boomerang on Ari Kagan and his cadre of GOP paid consultants
Here's what Anna had to say:
Anna's statement might not be a perfect factual and logical rebuttal --- but it is a damned good and pitch-perfect political pushback against Ari Kagan and his mostly hired snarks.....
Nobody is reading that statement. She should have answered the phone when the reporter called her instead. Another hit job courtesy of Team Ari!
ReplyDeleteWe can see a Ragusa comment a mile away
DeleteWell there you go. Anna "practically lived in Brooklyn her entire life" and used to teach school. But in 2023 she lives in Staten Island and is a stay at home Mom. That home being Staten Island. All of a sudden Cape Cod Vito and Manalapan Mike are looking better.
ReplyDeleteShe also lived in Italy for a short period of time in the 90s for all the internet sleuths.
DeleteMarlene Click supports her.
Delete'Nuf said.
I'm farfar from high-holy, but no way would I misrep my creds as she did and then issue this bs.
DeleteSorry the hit piece didn’t go your way. Looks like she was well prepared and was waiting for this.
Delete"Anna's statement might not be a perfect factual and logical rebuttal"
ReplyDeleteGeorgina Santos.
If you need to explain that much you were wrong and you know it.
ReplyDeleteExcuses about residences are like assholes. Some have two.
ReplyDeleteI like Anna because she stands her ground. Ragu folded like an accordion.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gaggle of goofballs. It's almost as if Ted wants Boss Brannan to get re elected
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about birthin' babies, but it seems to me that Anna has just shown everybody that Ari Kagan and the NY Sunday & Daily News were unfairly attacking her for having three or four kids and raising them the way she chooses living in Brooklyn and Staten Island, instead of living only in Brooklyn, going to work in Brooklyn, and using daycare in Brooklyn.
ReplyDeleteBesides Liam and Brian Fox, who thinks that Ari wins using that argument?
No way to treat a lady Ari. No way . . Hit it Gale !!
ReplyDeleteSupporters of Ari Kagan have been receiving anonymous automated phone calls that claim Ari was a former KGB Putin operative. Ari has categorically denied any connection to the KGB before he immigrated to the United States in 1993 but this isn’t the first time that Ari has been accused of working for the former Soviet spy organization... The plot gets thicker
ReplyDeleteAnna isn't an active coviid-vax-discrim nyc teacher, and she's a SI resident.
ReplyDeletewhat the hoo is wrong with the bk gop? are there no baseline regular candidates out there?
UPDATE & BACKFILL WITH A HUMBLE COMPARISON: THE "ANNA'S 'LIES' EXPOSED BY THE SUNDAY NEWS --- ON THE FRONT PAGE & A TWO-PAGE SPREAD INSIDE WERE NOT AS DAMAGING IN THE LONG RUN TO HER --- AS --- ARI'S BIG LIES ABOUT HIS PAST WORK WITH AND FOR THE SECURITY SERVICES OF THE USSR EXPOSED BY US HERE ON THIS BLOG OVER ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME SPAN AS THE NEWS COVERAGE OF ANNA" EDITION
ReplyDeleteTHE BIG LIES THAT ARI KAGAN TOLD IN 2013 TO GET OUT FROM UNDER CHARGES BEING MADE AGAINST HIM AT THE TIME THAT HE WAS A FORMER KGB AGENT WORKING FOR THE SOVIETS WAS THAT >>> HE WORKED FOR ANTI-COMMUNIST PAPERS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION --- AND --- HE HAD EARLIER SAID THAT HE WAS CRITICAL OF THE SOVIET MILITARY DURING THE ERA OF GLASNOST UNDER THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP OF GORBACHEV
NONE OF THOSE CLAIMS HAVE EVER BEEN INVESTIGATED >>> AND TO A DEGREE OF METAPHYSICAL CERTAINTY, THE CLAIMS THEMSELVES REMAIN UNPROVEN
It is very important to note, that such claims by Ari Kagan related back to an earlier time during the dissolution of the USSR when the evolution of any press freedoms anywhere in the FSU during the post-Soviet era were in their infancy at best. And for Kagan to have exercised any such freedom would have been completely contrary to both his Soviet military training and his Soviet journalistic training, and to the repressive notions against press freedoms held in his native country Belarus, even then a close client state to the Russian Federation emergent in the FSU.....
Even in Latvia, where Kagan said he did his anti-communist journalism at the time he was talking about when later confronted about his possible KGB past --- there was a very divisive atmosphere, and there were significnt controls on reporting and features. Furthermore, there was a completely different tenor to the journalistic product fed to the Latvian-speakers from what the Russian-speakers in Latvia were receiving; and a very real difference between what was allowed from state run outlets compared to those that were privately owned and run; and also between the papers run by the different oligarchs with their varied leanings and loyalties.
Thus far, Ari Kagan has provided no details whatsoever as to any of this and where he fit into it, nor very much else about himself between the time he says he formally left the Soviet "military" --- but before coming to the USA. More important, Ari Kagan has never provided any copies or citations to any of his so-called anti-communist or anti-military journalistic pieces that he allegedly did during those early transitional days from the USSR to the FSU.
"ANNA'S 'LIES' EXPOSED BY THE SUNDAY NEWS ... WERE NOT AS DAMAGING IN THE LONG RUN TO HER --- AS --- ARI'S BIG LIES ABOUT ..."
ReplyDeletejesusmary&joseph, give it a freakin rest.
542, 'give it a rest'? '... a freakin rest'?
ReplyDeleteThe last time Ari Kagan was accused of being a KGB operative during a political campaign, and it was broadly discussed in the press, Kagan lost his primary and got below one-third of the Democrat vote avross Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, even though Gregory Davidzon pushed hard for Kagan to help beat back the story.
Was Anna the one who made a video sayin I hate fucking brooklyn I wish i never had to go back?
ReplyDeleteNo, that was Republican candidate Vito LaBella doing the biggest hit of his 2022 campaign against Asians living in Brooklyn during his 2023 campaign against Asians living in Brooklyn.
ReplyDeleteIf you do a Google search for Ari Kagan and pro-Russian or KGB spying, and then punch in the 'Tablet" magazine; a funny thing then happens. The name of former Republican State Senator David Storobin specifically pops up. That bit has a link that leads to a 2013 Tablet Magazine article by Batya Under-Sargon defending Kagan against charges that he was a KGB spy. The next Google result is a Brooklyn Paper article about robocalls saying Kagean was a KGB agent, and that article mentions Storobin too.
ReplyDelete1059, that 2013 author's name is "Batya Ungar-Sargon." She is now the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek. Before that, Batya was the opinion editor of the Forward, the largest Jewish paper and online news operation in America. She has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the New York Review of Books, and others, like the Tablet magazine.
ReplyDeleteNo Asians in section of Bay Ridge where Vito lives but a fruit stand opened last summer in Cap Cod.
ReplyDeleteI read annas statement and I agree that the quality of education and public safety has declined. Besides justin is just to fat.
ReplyDelete1136, you raise interesting points about Vito LaBella and where he lives when he is stuck in "f__ckin' Brooklyn." It's very funny, both strange and laughable, that now it will be twice in a row that he is running in a part of Brooklyn where he doesn't live, just in order to run against Asain candidates, and to appeal to the non-Asian voters hoping there will be enough for him to steal the election from the majority of Asian voters.
ReplyDeleteI heard the Judge took one look at Anna's manifesto and said "why bother?"
ReplyDelete543, that's fake news, no judge has said any such thing.
ReplyDeleteYour news is as fake as the latest Daily News followup attack on Anna kess than two days after yesterday's frontpage hit piece, because she's a mother and a strong conservative pro-police Republican trying to stop a filthy Commie KGB type like Ari Kagan from getting the Republican line.
Dummy Anthony Delfaus is bragging about the "front page" tabloid coverage of his wife Anna and drawing further attention to the multiple allegations of fraud here
ReplyDeleteIt is working in their favor.
Delete1110, what allegations of what fraud against Anna, where? What are you talking about?
ReplyDeleteUPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "A MAN WHO REPORTEDLY OUTED ARI KAGAN AS A SOVIET ERA KGB OPERATIVE IS HONORED BY THE BROOKLYN CONSERVATIVE PARTY" EDITION
ReplyDeleteONLY A DAY AFTER WE HERE AT THIS INDEPENDENT GOP BLOG MENTIONED THAT THE 2013 ROBOCALLS CHARGING ARI KAGAN WITH HAVING BEEN A SOVIET ERA KGB AGENT WERE VERY LIKELY THE WORK OF FORMER NY STATE SENATOR DAVID STOROBIN OR HIS CAMPAIGN >>> THE KINGS COUNTY CONSERVATIVE PARTY AWARDED THE VERY SAME DAVID STOROBIN WITH THEIR RONALD REAGAN PATRIOTISM PLAQUE AT ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST EVENTS --- COINCIDENCE ??? --- WE THINK NOT.....
According to postings on their social media pages >>> Yesterday the Brooklyn Conservative Party held their Annual Fundraising Brunch in the basement of Marty Golden's Bay Ridge Manor where they honored former NYS Senator David Storobin with the Ronald Reagan Americanism Award.....
730, what is working in whose favor? What are you talking about?
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