Bay Ridge GOP Debate – Be Glad You Missed It
Bob Capano, John Quaglione, Liam McCabe Bay Ridge Republicans running for city council
The Bay Ridge GOP Debate started out okay for the first 10 minutes or so, but it’s actually painful to watch. The video is here if you want to see it (Don’t leave comments on the page with the video as it was shared by a teen political club and they don’t need the negativity).
Liam McCabe
McCabe, in his opening remarks said, “A recent study showed that the average family of four in Bay Ridge is paying more in taxes, fees and cost of living than they are in income.”
Fact Check: Where did that statistic for Bay Ridge came from?
Liam said he was going to get illegal home conversion legislation passed. McCabe worked at Donovan’s office and never did anything about illegal home conversions when he worked there. McCabe isn’t in any of the stories, photos or fundraisers for the illegal home conversions.
Liam kept going on and on about the a town hall meeting that Bay Ridge Fight Back held. At the meeting, McCabe got up so he could be seen/heard at the Town Hall, but he shouldn’t have. He should have offered to help them on the day of the event. McCabe knows Donovan and could have helped fact check or answered people’s questions. Heck, he could have walked in with Donovan and been the hero, but he doesn’t know how to do that. Instead he just keeps talking about it – Let it go Liam!
McCabe told Capano that he is a small business owner – he owns a consulting company. On his profile he states he is a Juno, Uber and Lyft Driver.
McCabe spoke about Gentile being a photo op councilman. Fact Check: McCabe takes a picture of EVERYTHING.
Bob Capano
Capano wasted no time after going after Deblasio and Melissa Mark Vivierto. The crowd clapped hard.
Capano told the audience to look at the civil involvement from way back to 1990, rather than now (LOL). Capano moved to Staten Island and hasn’t been involved in Bay Ridge in many years so he reminisced about the good old days of being involved in the community.
Uncomfortable at the podium, Capano kept shifting as he was talking about radicals blah, blah, blah.
Capano said working as a supermarket manager enables him to understand the impact of taxes on businesses.
Capano pointed out that he was the only real Republican as the other two belonged to other parties before becoming Republicans. The real Republicans marched as Republicans in the Bay Ridge St. Patty’s Day Parade and you can see Teddy isn’t marching with Capano, McCabe or Quaglione. (Seen here too). McCabe was behind the Conservative banner being pulled down the avenue by his dog.
John Quaglione
Quaglione took credit for B37 bus returning……FACT CHECK: Golden, Malliotakis and Gentile got the B37 back. Just because Quaglione worked at Marty Golden’s Office when it happened, doesn’t mean John Quaglione made it happen. How do I know? Because we asked Marty Golden for help and we had to deal with John Quaglione. He was disorganized, forgetful and had no follow up – see here.
Quaglione said he wants to get more police officers for the 68th Precinct. It’s so strange that Marty Golden, a former police man hasn’t done this.
Eyes on the Street Program – Bring your photo/video files to the precinct and they should review it and upload it. Fact Check – We keep being told that the 68th Precinct is short staffed. Take a walk into the station and you will see there are plenty of officers and detectives too. But they aren’t going to want to do ONE MORE THING.
Quaglione complained about the city doing away with Night Court to fight tickets.
Quaglione said that stores on 13th Avenue are empty and City Council needs to get rid of the Commercial Rent Tax which in turn can lower property taxes. Quaglione believes City Council can do it now and hasn’t.
Quaglione went on and on about DeBlasio – blah, blah, blah Filibuster of the Night,
Quaglione wants money to go to charter schools (Vouchers are illegal) and to give tax credits.
On November 14th, Quaglione wants to stand outside the Bay Ridge Manor with the winner and other loser to unite the GOP. Ted Ghorra agreed to meet them
Quaglione ended the night saying there wasn’t a disabled swing for children at a park in Bay Ridge. Why hasn’t Senator Golden purchased one? A swing is not that expensive – how much money has Golden thrown to the golf course?
The best candidate for Bay Ridge City Council isn’t in this group.
Hugs,
marlene
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