City Hall News Picks “Winners and Losers” After Turner Victory
City Hall News listed it’s ranks of “Winners and Losers” recenty, and we thought a couple of names were worth sharing.
One notable familiar face is Brooklyn Conservative Party Chieftain Jerry Kassar, who is mentioned for his involvement in the Bob Turner race. City Hall News notes that the win for Turner might provide a buffer of GOP support for Republican regular Marty Golden. Both men have not always been the subject of adoring pieces on this blog (and we have been treated in kind).
While reading about Kassar, our contributors noted that he has done an excellent job distancing himself from GOP Chairman Craig Eaton, as has his employer, Sen. Golden.
It has been said to us by more than one insider that, as Eaton’s paranoia over the discord in the party consumes his decision-making process, Kassar has been steadily gaining traction, such as with Rep. Michael Grimm’s staff appointments and, more recently, Mr. Turner’s victory.
We give credit where credit is due, and Mr. Kassar should continue to tread carefully as the GOP writhes in pain from Eaton’s poor leadership.
[City Hall News did not proclaim Mr. Eaton a winner--most likely due to his less than cuddly relationships with the local press (we're speculating)...]
Meanwhile, another local “Winner” christened was The Brooklyn Politics blog’s Colin Campbell, whom we frequently read. Well done, Colin!
Please read the full list by clicking here.
The Jig is saying this blog is trying to cause problems between Eaton and Kassar by writing negative things about Kassar and making it seem like coming from Eaton and friends. Are they that stupid and think Kassar or anyone else can’t read and see on their blog right now that in the Jig’s own post of Fri, 9/16 “Top 10 Election Day Roundup” their #3 is the “Conservative Party provided minimal support on the ground” and their own post from Sat 9/17 “Thank You Chairman Eaton VI” says the Conservative Party ” sat on their hand” for the Turner election”. So, you Eaton egomaniacs you can’t be that stupid- read your own blog, as Kassar surely did.!!! Eaton does have a problem with Kassar, or anyone else who gets more press than him or outsmarts him (which isn’t that hard)
“There you go again…” Craig Eaton’s “spokesperson” (wink, wink) at TJIUA got caught way off base — AGAIN
Don’t forget that Peter Cipriano had a hand in the saga of the 49th AD.
At the Cipriano trial, Gene Bernardelli used the term “Vendetta” so often, one wondered if he had to be kidnapped and deprogrammed to make him stop. (btw, PC won his case against Matt Graves at trial, removing Graves from the ballot for inadequate valid signatures, only to have it taken away at the appeals court… a very strange and terse holding!) It was the kind of “legal process” that reminds one of the trial of “Breaker Morant” and the other “Scapegoats of the Empire”.
PS
“And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.” [Matt 10:36 --
Epitaph chosen by Harry Harbord Morant a/k/a "Breaker" Morant]; “Well, Peter, this is what comes of empire building.” [Attributed to "Breaker" Morant speaking to his cohort Peter Handcock before their execution at Fort Pretoria.]
Peter won the trial, and Russell Gallo cursed the trial judge because i. the judge is a liberal and ii. because the judge is a Jew.
You mean like how Joseph Hayon won’t shake the hands of any non-Jew’s, and how Joseph Hayon stole literature from his opponents, who still beat him anyway?
I’ve heard that Kassar and Eaton had a falling out. It’s probably an ego thing for Craig, which will likely be exacerbated by the accolades going Jerry’s way.
According to Brooklyn Blog Talk Radio (that’s Gene Berardelli):
“The future is bright for the Brooklyn GOP after shocking the nation in helping to get Bob Turner elected to Anthony Weiner’s former Congressional seat! Thanks to the efforts of the Brooklyn GOP and Chairman Craig Eaton, and the Brooklyn YRs and their President Russell Gallo, the GOP in NYC has some swagger and momentum heading into 2012. Tune in and listen to Gene Berardelli and friends recap the NY-9 Special Election, with winners and losers, and take a look ahead into the future of Republican politics in NYC!”
Now, how was this accomplished according the September 22nd “blogcast” — by a Brooklyn GOP lit drop — miraculous !!! Oh, and of course —according to Gene Berardelli, “The Brooklyn GOP machine was on the ground from day one … with Craig Eaton on TV with Turner”
“The Jig is Up Atlas” has lifted Jonathan J. Judge another notch in its September 22nd post “Introducing The Faces Of The Biggest Political Losers: Weprin, DenDekker, Bauman, And Judge!!” He who had heretofore been an acknowledged “existential threat” has been lifted to iconic status.
At the 2011 convention of the Kings County Republican Party County Committee, following the appropriate national observances, the Brooklyn GOP will dedicate a musical tribute to the newest Brooklyn GOP icon, Jonathan J. Judge, and Chairman Craig Eaton will do a karaoke rendition of Willie Nelson’s unforgetable “You Are Always on My Mind”
Hate blogging operatives of Kings County Republican Chairman Craig Eaton have gone back to the Brooklyn GOP’s longstanding policy and practice of savaging independent activists inside the Kings County Republican Party. Since September 13th Eaton’s main hate blog, “The Jig is Up Atlas” has alternately praised Eaton and attacked those who have openly gone against his regime or his dictates.
Here are the most recent attack pieces:
Friday, September 23, 2011, “The Joseph Hayon Slide Show.” by “AAA” – Attacks Republican Joseph Hayon ***** Thursday, September 22, 2011, “Introducing The Faces Of The Biggest Political Losers: Weprin, DenDekker, Bauman, And Judge!!” by “AAA” – Attacks Republican Jonathan Judge ***** Friday, September 16, 2011, “Top 10 Election Day Round-Up” by “Judas Judge” – After praising Eaton and Russell Gallo, attacks Republicans Glenn Nocera, James Mc Call, Roy Antoun, Peter Cipriano, Joseph Hayon, and Arnaldo Ferrara – making an ominous parenthetical warning against dissident Republicans.
“ THE ‘…Jig is Up Atlas’ QUESTION BEGS ” >>>>>>> How long are the all too quiet members of the Kings County Republican Party Executive Committee going to stand by and actively or passively allow “The Jig is Up Atlas” to continue to openly attack Republicans before they are directly confronted for their failure to perform their duty to oversee and responsibly modify and moderate the policies and practices of the Brooklyn Republican Party? Let’s be clear whom that group would include – Executive Committee Members with special positions within in the KINGS COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY, in various capacities, such as: Gladys Pemberton, Vice Chairperson and Special Advisor to the Chair, and Member of the Republican State Committee; Robert Howe, Vice Chairperson and Member of the Republican State Committee; Diane Haslett Rudiano, Member of the Republican State Committee, Kings County Republican Party Secretary and appointee to the NYC Board of Elections, as Chief Clerk of the Kings County Board of Elections; Marc L. D’Ottavio, Kings County Republican Party Finance Chairman; Thomas A. McCarthy, Kings County Republican Party Treasurer; and others who are listed as Executive Committee Members or regularly attend the meetings of the Kings County Republican Party Executive Committee.
SILENCE = CONSENT
SILENCE = SUPPORT
SILENCE = FAILURE OF EXECUTIVE MEMBERS’ DUTIES
SILENCE = COMPLICITY
It’s not wise to prod the hornets nest right before you plan to picnic. Nonetheless, that’s exactly what Eaton’s “…Jig is Up Atlas” did with their Friday, September 23, 2011 post, “The Joseph Hayon Slide Show.” Eaton and company are up to their old tricks attacking one of the leading Orthodox Jewish Republicans in Brooklyn.
Don’t be fooled, by remarks like these: “The question begs, Ladies and Gentleman as this reform minded commentator calls these pictures above, ‘The Joseph Hayon Slide Show’. *** The question begs, Nothing like having a few “laughs” at the expense of the “political punching bag”, the “Disheveled One” Joseph Hayon.” They aren’t just bating Mr. Hayon, they are attempting to marginalize the entire Orthodox community in the 45th AD, who do not support either of the GOP District Leaders, Boris Pincus or Joan Braunstein.
The real purpose of this blog and the wallpaper comments that follow is a coverup of County Chairman Craig Eaton’s double dealing vis a vis Boris Pincus. That double dealing was confirmed by this comment attributed to “Orit” (very cute): “Orit said… *** Isn’t this the same ‘snake’ who told people, he wouldn’t run a ‘Female’ for district leader, and ran one anyway? *** Revenge best served cold.” Mr. Hayon never discussed such a thing with “people”, he discussed it only with County Chairman Craig Eaton. And the deal that had been discussed by Eaton and Hayon was that if Hayon ran with Eaton’s support, Hayon would run alone on his own petition or jointly on a GOP County-approved petition with Joan Brauntien. In the end, Eaton chose to support Pincus, thereby causing Braunstein to be primaried by Orit Tanner.
Russell Gallo is Judas Judge on the other blog. After reading his posts, it has been concluded that Gallo is a racist Jew haters.
The daily dose of Brooklyn GOP nonsense in “The Jig is Up Atlas” is more than !#(Y*U^&^&(%#@$#; it’s %#^*(I(^^$@#$%.
The talking points are “Reconditioned” and “Rejuvenated” or “Reconditioned & Rejuvenated” or “Reconditioned… blah blah blah….Rejuvenated”
Clueless!
Why is Joseph Hayon a man who is 33, still in college, unemployed, with a family, attacking a Republican district leader.
When it’s been concluded he posted on another blog calling Gene Berardelli and Russell Gallo racists.
I guess once you are a loser, your always a loser.
Always the one who is the racist, right…..
How did that district leader race again, go for you Joseph?
Congressman Bob Turner’s PR pewople announced today that Bob Capano, has been put into a key position in the Bob Turner operation, that of District Director Turner’s release said that Mr. Capano, was a veteran community servant, who had worked for both Democrats and Republicans.
By putting Bob Capano, who’s had a rocky relationship with Eaton in the recent past, into the post as his District Director, Turner has effectively put Kings County Republican Eaton deep into the wilderness or onto “Survivor Island”. Concerning the Brooklyn GOP Chairman, this move can only be the result of two possibilities: A) Eaton wasn’t notified about hiring Mr Capano; or B) Eaton was notified, but any consultative input by Eaton was ignored in the Turner patch. Either way, Eaton’s out in the cold vis a vis Congressman Bob Turner and his staff.
People who count have TOLD Kings County Republican Chairman Craig Eaton that he’ll have to learn to like Bob Capano in his new spot for Congressman Turner; and while he’s at it, Eaton needs do a better job at mending other broken fences.
Word on the inside is that Eaton is still quite petulant about all of it. As a result, the patience of at least one person who really counts is supposed to be running out fast.
“HAMLET” is famous for its soliloquies. However, as structured by Shakespeare, even Hamlet’s death scene might well be described as an interrupted soliloquy or a great tragic soliloquy done as dialogue. The drama is completely and exclusively in the words from Hamlet up to and including, “….The rest is silence.”
Somewhat earlier in the scene than the lines finishing with “….The rest is silence” is an equally famous and poignant bit of chatter on the stage with Hamlet’s right-hand guy, where the star of stage stars acknowledges his mortal wound. Taken together Hamlets final lines make for one of greatest exits in the history of theater.
Eaton, take heed. YOU ARE HAMLET ( Get it? “EATON CAPS” — it’s all been said in these parts before)! Though clearly you are not nearly as articulate as the bard’s favorite boy, since you were clearly never in the league with him of Stratford on Avon, we’ll feed you the exit lines. Just don’t blow ’em.
***
EATON:
Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.
I am dead, dear Russell. Wretched queen [fill in Eaton’s fem-fatale nemesis du jour], adieu!
You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Had I but time–as this fell sergeant, death,
Is strict in his arrest–O, I could tell you–
But let it be. Russell, I am dead;
Thou livest; report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied [ fill in virtually any political figure(s) who dealt with Eaton].
*** [ Mawkish banter by Russell Gallo; stage craft; enter Eugene Berardelli with rest of the Executive Committee of the Brooklyn GOP; mawkish oration by Berardelli]
EATON:
O, I die, Russell ’n Gene (Morons #1 ’n #2);
The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit:
I cannot live to hear the news from Queens and Staten Island;
But I do prophesy the election lights
On Grimm and Turner: they have my dying voice;
So tell them, with the occurrents, more and less,
Which have solicited. The rest is silence.”
[ More mawkish orations by Berardelli and blather by Gallo; all exeunt; curtain]
Howard Cosell is shouting into his microphone as the ref escorts the champ, Bob Capano, to a neutral corner before starting his count over the fallen Craig Eaton.
Eaton is glassy-eyed and struggles to get up on a knee as the ref returns and shouts, “ONE!”
Near the ring apron, the all-Brooklyn and cross-county GOP elected officials look on un-phased by any of it. The ref intones, “TWO!”
In the Eaton corner, Gene, the cut-man, and Russ, the trainer, just hope that Eaton can get back on his feet and make it back to their succor. The ref looks into Eaton’s eyes, then glances over at Russ, as if expecting the flight of a rolled-up towel from that direction. When nobody in Eaton’s corner reaches for the towel, the ref holds up three fingers and exclaims, “THREE!”
Eaton makes it to a knee as the ref holds up four fingers about a foot from Eaton’s nose, “FOUR!” Immediately, the ref’s thumb springs from behind the four-finger-fan in front of Eaton’s face, “FIVE!” Diagonally across the ring, in Capano’s corner, two of Capano’s successor’s as Brooklyn YR Club President come up a few steps to get ready to come into the ring victorious, once Eaton is officially counted out.
Eaton leans forward, visibly sways and pushes down on his bent right knee. “SIX!” He stands, but staggers two short steps backward, his eyes unfocused rotate away from the ref and toward…. “SEVEN!”
Let’s see what happens next…
“The Jig is Up Atlas” October 31, 2011 post “Just When You Thought This Guy Couldn’t Be Any Stranger…” featured Glenn Nocera’s “Obama Mash” from January 2010. The Eaton media team finally got it. Not only was Glenn Nocera one of the Brooklyn GOP “BIG Winners” in the Primary Elections of 2011, in spite of the hate mailer sent out against him; as the new President of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club, he’s showing himself to be a multi-skill star.
Nocera’s “Obama Mash” was the best Brooklyn GOP material posted on TJIUA all of this year and it came at the end of October 2011. Nocera had it out there himself on You Tube in January 2010; so he beat TJIUA by almost two years.
It’s now clear that Nocera alone is both a “new leadership” threat to Eaton himself and the “new multi-media” threat to the GOP’s own Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern, Gene Berardelli and the near-great Russ Gallo.
Craig Eaton’s Brooklyn GOP can’t expect the real press or neutral political news blogs to find either Eaton or the Brooklyn GOP to be a “WINNER” in the 2011 General Elections. So Eaton had his pet blog, “The Jig is Up Atlas” juggle some statistics to make another losing election cycle for the Brooklyn Republicans look like was a “WINNER”.
One has to carefully read some of the things that Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton’s tale spinners at “The Jig is Up Atlas” put out there recently — “AS IF” any right-thinking person might believe it expresses some kind of the truth or useful information… Case in point is the November 10, 2011 TJIUA offering, “Joe Elhilow Scores Highest Percentage For GOP Endorsed Judicial Candidate In Years!!” – there is little truth there, and even less useful information.
Here are the facts :
Mr. Elhilow, a Republican-Conservative candidate for Civil Court Judge got under 27% of the vote – that’s getting beat 3 to 1. In a similar “Judicial Year Election” in 2007, when Craig Eaton was the brand new County Leader, and very little involved in the races that year, one of the Republican-Conservative candidates for Civil Court Judge got over 35% of the vote – that’s getting beat by less than 2 to 1.
More important, in 2011 Civil Court Candidate Elhilow was the top Republican- Conservative vote getter for that position getting a little over 8,700 votes in a county-wide race; whereas in the similar “Judicial Year Election” in 2007, when Craig Eaton was the brand new County Leader, and very little involved in the races that year, one of the Republican-Conservative candidates for Civil Court Judge got over 11,150 votes in a county-wide race.
What “the Jig is Up Atlas” gives out are just phony facts:
After four years of Chairman Craig Eaton at the helm, the county-wide GOP candidates for Civil Court had a vote fall-off of about 2,450 votes or a DROP-OFF of 22% for the top county-wide candidates in successive “Judicial Year” elections.
Contrary to what Eaton’s dissembling and secretive flack, “AAA” had to say – “[O]n Tuesday, [Joe Ehlihow] clearly [DID NOT] show[] that the Republican party in our borough is the strongest it has ever been…” and more to the point, “[N]ow three-term, Kings County Republican Party chairman… [THE BROOKLYN GOP IS NOT] ‘Reconditioned’, and [NOT] ‘Rejuvenated’” nor has the Republican Party in Brooklyn come up “with record enrollment increases, record vote percentages for candidates across the board….”
Here ye Here ye boys and girls and politico pundits of all ages: Storobin is Strommed!
That great big coffee cup held by none other than the non tea-total-er Bay Ridge Manor Martin, not so Golden anymore, is full to the brim with @#$%. O things may appear o so Rosie Posie down on the Bay Ridge Gop manure farm, but digging deep down way beneath the maggots and fish heads, the not so Golden one is paying the Fiddler. With swift and furious strokes the not so Golden one is plying the Lewt to sing him a song of success. “Let them eat borscht. The red herring is my feast!” And laughter can be heard all along the avenue in harmony with the stromming of Storobin.
GOP claims ignorance of candidate’s rants
Brooklyn Republicans this week tapped David Storobin to run in the special state Senate election to succeed Carl Kruger with—they claim—no knowledge that Storobin had founded and written for a website whose articles have been picked up by white-supremacist chat rooms.
Storobin, a Brighton Beach attorney and vice chairman of the Brooklyn GOP, served as editor-in-chief of the site, Global Politician, and published scores of articles over several years, blogger Gatemouth recently revealed on the Room Eight politics site. Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton said that was news to him.
“I’ve never heard of Global Politician,” Eaton said.
Storobin’s postings on the site recently vanished. Storobin said he has no idea who took down the postings or why, but he stood by his work. “My views have evolved over the years, but there’s nothing I’ve been ashamed of,” he said. “I’m very proud of the stuff I’ve written.”
A May 2005 Storobin piece that resurfaced on another website is an interview he conducted with an official from Freedom Front, a white-separatist group in South Africa. The group supports a whites-only colony there called Orania and accuses the South African government of using affirmative action to keep whites out of the job market.
Brooklyn Councilman Lew Fidler, the Democrat expected to square off against Storobin in the March 20 election, said the public deserves to know what else Storobin has written. He questioned that the author doesn’t know who removed his postings. “I’m not a great believer in coincidences,” he said, adding that the vanished posts smacked of “Weinergate.”
“I have a record to run on that’s not going to be expunged,” Fidler said. “I think it’s relevant to ask David what he’s ashamed of.”
Read more: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120112/INS/120119960#ixzz1jMioeebR