"Trojan" has so many meanings that apply-to and describe Jerry Kassar --- and those whom he backs as candidates for elected office in and for the Brooklyn Republican Party --- cases in point Assemblymen Lester Chang and Michael Novakhov.....

 
In 2023 Kassar was strongly behind the KGB-trained-and-run agent, and longtime admitted Commie operative Ari Kagan

Now  >>>  we are hearing about Assemblymembers Lester Chang's and Michael Novakhov's associations-with  ---  and travel to Communist China  ---  arranged by a Brooklyn front group formally affiliated with the CCP  --- and accompanied on their junket to Communist China by another front group formally affiliated with the CCP..... 

Lester Chang says: ".... the CCP is the ruling political party of modern China. It has maintained a political monopoly for decades and... the connection to the CCP is inescapable given how much of the government it controls...."

It is with great sadness and alarm that we here at this undependent Republican blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island read about another Trojan Horse story  ---  this time with Republican-Conservative Assemblyman Lester Chang accepting the very problematic and not yet fully disclosed gifts of material and services by the Chi-Coms  and their American affiliates and front groups. 

It's all detailed in a front-page article in Sunday's Albany Times-Union (See: "State GOP officials took trip backed by Chinese Communist Party -- The travel was arranged by a Brooklyn-based not-for-profit with ties to China's ruling Communist Party" by Raga Justin, 1/21/2024, Albany TImes-Union/ New York State       [https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/state-gop-officials-took-trip-backed-chinese-18615519.php]).  

According to the Times-Union report: 

"....  Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, R-Oswego, and New York City Assembly members Lester Chang, Sam Pirozzolo and Michael Novakhov all took part in the privately funded trip last month, meeting with government officials and business leaders from the People’s Republic of China....  The organization that funded the trip, a Brooklyn-based community group called the American Chinese Commerce Association, has been described as closely linked to an arm of the Chinese Communist Party known as the “united front work” department. According to U.S. security agencies, united front work seeks to influence American individuals and institutions — especially state-level lawmakers — through various overtures that include sponsored trips to meet with Chinese officials...."  

Even worse are Lester Chang's obviously dissembling comments trying to defend his being caught way off-base, which are particularly pathetic; and they bespeak a simple-minded and uninformed understanding of how CCP influence and manipulation of the Chinese-American communities throughout the USA really works.  As Chang said in his responses to Times-Union questions  >>>  ".... the CCP is the ruling political party of modern China. It has maintained a political monopoly for decades..." And he also said "... the connection to the CCP is inescapable given how much of the government it controls...." 

This Lester Chang and Michael Novakhov's doing their "Trojan" thing with the CCP is another example of how Kassar's quest for cheap-and-easy "wins" in a few local elections based on purely ethnic searches and selections has led him to a "Soft-on-Communism" and "Soft-on-Communists" approach that betrays members of his own Conservative Party, as well as  conservative Republicans in the Brooklyn GOP.