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November 30, 2018

Pastor Calls Out Senator-Elect Gounardes

 

 

 

 

Senator-Elect Andrew Gounardes was called out on social media by Father Michael Gelfant, Pastor of  Saint Finbar’s Church. Father Gelfant often feels that his church and parishioners are overlooked for services and money (which may be true).

Senator-Elect Gounardes responded that he invited residents of Bath Beach and Bensonhurst, but he also welcomed Father Gelfant’s input for more names. 

Then Liam McCabe joined in to try to ride this topic. 

 

 

You can follow the topic here – Republicans talking about white priviledge….ughh c’mon.

 

 

 

 

As head of the Verrazano Republicans,  Liam McCabe retweeted Gelfant’s message.

Liam McCabe knows Andrew Gounardes. He KNOWS Gounardes is a good person and isn’t going to leave anyone out. The divisiveness in the community needs to stop. McCabe knows better than this. We need Republicans who can work with Gounardes – not attack him when he isn’t even in office yet. When Andrew lost his election to Golden in 2012, he lost by around 10,000 votes.

Now in 2018, even some Republicans wanted Gounardes over Golden. What happened to all of those people who voted for Marty Golden in 2012?

 

 

2012 Election

 

Some moved, some died, but a lot voted for Andrew because they were tired of the nonsense.  

 

2018 Elections

 

I KNOW Andrew would not leave out any ethnic group – from anything. Days before this outburst, on November 27th – Gounardes was clear that he was looking to hire a diverse staff -click here.

One of  Gounardes’ supporters responded that there is a member on Gounardes’ transition team who is Hispanic, but that his/her name may not show his/her ethnicity. Interesting, right? We can’t tell people’s ethnicity just by their last name. McCabe would know this because of his sons!

 

 

This year (and other years too), I have seen Father Gelfant chastise the local politicians for not donating any turkeys to his parish (except for Marty Golden). For next year, pols and staff to pols, can you please check in with Saint Finbar to make sure they have enough turkeys. The Knights of Columbus helped Father Gelfant, but this local good guy offered too.

Will Father Gelfant build the community and provide leader’s names to Gounardes or is this all about cheesy Twitter call-outs? Father Gelfant has publicly supported Republicans (even ones who accepted REBNY support) in past elections, but he didn’t throw support to any candidates this past November.

I think Father Gelfant should give Senator Gounardes a little time to get setup and then meet with him with a list of things his community needs and the dates that he would like to invite Senator Gounardes or one of his representatives to attend events.  Start fresh for the new year with a fresh Senator whose listening and ready to change this community….and give people a chance – even Democrats. <wink>

 

Hugs,
marlene

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