Liam McCabe and John Quaglione are Running for City Council – Bay Ridge
Liam McCabe and John Quaglione are running for City Council – Bay Ridge
See update: August 2017 Debate
The Republican Party in Bay Ridge must be dead. Two candidates – John Quaglione and Liam McCabe announced they are running for the City Council position for Bay Ridge. Why was Ted Ghorra so anxious to become the head of the Republican Party if he wasn’t going to put up local Republicans for office? It obviously isn’t the united party that Ghorra tried to present as support is divided amongst the different factions.
John Quaglione works at Marty Golden’s office and is a typical politician. Quaglione thinks crying on Twitter to NYC 311 or taking a picture of graffiti on a mailbox is “doing something.” All it does is show us that Marty Golden doesn’t have any connections and his staff can’t get the job done. Quaglione already ran for City Council and lost (by a lot). A few years ago we contacted Marty Golden and had to deal with Quaglione instead. Quaglione’s comunication skills were very poor and his attitude throughout was that he was doing us a favor. He didn’t get back to us and seemed so disorganized – Golden should have stepped in and handled it when he saw Quaglione did not. Ironically, when I wrote about my experience with Quaglione as Golden’s staffer, I received a lot of messags. I also received a weird response from someone using the character name, Emily Thorne. The IP address 38.108.201.10 (see pic below or it in the comments). IP locators have really improved a lot over the years – try this one here with that IP address. Then search go to LinkedIn and search for the organization and scroll through – we were surprised to see who was behind the message. You never know who is lurking and being a creep.
Liam McCabe also announced he is running. In September, McCabe yammered on about being a Conservative – see video below. Now McCabe is a Republican.
In the video, McCabe is known introduced as a community activist. McCabe found some support on Facebook after calling DeBlasio some names on Facebook, but most people in Bay Ridge just recognize that it’s noise. On February 6th, McCabe will be participating in the Hope Count even though he is aware the 2016 Hope Count tried to tell us that homelessness was down 12% last year, when everyone in NYC knows homelessness is up. The Hope Count doesn’t change a thing for the people in our neighborhood who are homeless. McCabe worked for a Congressman who had the resources to change the homeless situation in Bay Ridge and neither Donovan (or McCabe) did a thing about it. McCabe also worked for Congressman Grimm, who most people in Bay Ridge didn’t know. When Grimm walked in parades, people would whisper, “Who is that?” A man running before Grimm would yell out, “Shake Congressman Grimm’s hand.” The two absent Congressmen are all McCabe has known, so Bay Ridge can’t expect much here. I don’t personally know McCabe, but I had an unpleasant encounter with him online. In fact, we are actually surprised to see he is running for office. I will share more on this when I have time. For now, some are enjoying watching McCabe pandering.
Finally, there is the candidate running over the bridge from Staten Island trying to claim the 145k councilman salary. Staten Island Bob is being backed by the Craig Eaton faction and developer/supermarket owner John Catsimatidis. Like Quaglione, Capano has already run for City Council for our area and lost. Capano also tried to be our Assemblyman and lost. I’ve lived in Bay Ridge for seven years and I have never seen Capano at any event here (Chris Hoban Run, Festivals, etc) . Capano is a press release politician like Nicole Malliotakis. I wrote about why Capano is wrong for Bay Ridge here. I guess Capano thought the Bay Ridge seat was open and no one was going to run for it. Why didn’t he try for a position in Staten Island where he has lived all of these years?
Capano lost to Gentile
Capano lost to Brook-Krasny
If the Republican Party had an ounce of strength in Bay Ridge, Ghorra would endorse Quaglione because he is the only Republican candidate in the area. The fact that he isn’t endorsing him for the primary tells us Ghorra doesn’t think Quaglione can win. Ghorra should be denouncing Bob Capano as he is from Staten Island and hasn’t been part of Bay Ridge for many years. And McCabe has only been a Republican for three months so I am not sure how well he could represent the Republican party. Maybe Ghorra is holding back and there will be “a secret candidate” before closing time.
The online banter between the candidate is funny and very telling. Both Capano and McCabe must be afraid of Quaglione as they teamed up on Twitter. Quags has been a Republican all his life and lives in Bay Ridge.
Several sites say that Quags announcement on the same day as McCabes was a political punch, but Quaglione probably believes he was the only one who should be announcing candidacy since he was the last candidate to run for the position.
Quaglione has only called out Capano because of Staten Island……Staten Island Bob.
Hugs,
marlene
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