Republicans in Bay Ridge
Journalist, Kadia Goba got the bottom of the Proud Boys event at the Manhattan Republican Club. Ian Reilly, the Chairman who invited Gavin McInnes to the Republican Club works for Senator Golden.
Ian Reilly said of McInnes “He is part of the right. We promote people and ideas of all kinds from the right.”
Find out about the Proud Boys from Gavin McInnes :
- Marty Golden was silent. He didn’t even speak out against the violence of the Proud Boys (no Antifa wasn’t innocent in this, but violence is not the answer – the police should have been called to handle Antifa). Golden has stopped being a leader in community. It appears that Golden has a lot of staff who aren’t from Brooklyn and they appear to represent different ideals.
- Nicole Malliotakis was silent. She isn’t strong enough to speak out against Senator Golden.
- Dan Donovan came out against the Proud Boys event.
- Marc Molinaro whose running for governor came out against the Proud Boys event. “I’m embarrassed these individuals were invited to speak,” Molinaro said.
Last May, some of the Republicans in Bay Ridge were hosting Sebastian Gorka. Gorka had spoken out against Islam. Further, he wore the badge of a group of World War II Nazi collaborators during an inaugural ball for President Trump. Gorka was let go from the Trump administration in 2017. The Republicans would not cancel the speakers. No Republican spoke out for the Republican Committee of Kings County. After the event was cancelled, a few Republicans complained about Freedom of Speech on Facebook. (Yeah take that hate elsewhere).
They certainly didn’t need Gorka, but the Muslim teens in our area needed to see that residents would speak up when people weren’t doing the right thing for this community…..because no matter what political party you are part of, you should have some loyalty to your Bay Ridge community and neighbors.
The event was cancelled because this community spoke up for residents here. We aren’t the type of community to host this type of speaker. The Dyker Beach Club cancelled after people called and complained.
We were disappointed to see Ted Ghorra’s name on the invitation. Ghorra never spoke out about the invitation, even though it was widely shared in the community.
UPDATE 10/17/18 – See info about a strange Robocall
The two extremes Alt Left and Right aren’t good for communities like ours. Why? They are just too extreme. There’s more important things in life than this nonsense of hurting other people.
What happened to Senator Golden?
Hugs,
marlene
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