NYS Democrats Want to Speak in Our Community
People who live in Bay Ridge have the right to speak into our community.
Yet, politicians think that their friends and political groups, who don’t live here, have the right to speak to us AND send us mail.
They don’t.
On Friday, we received several flyers in the mail from The New York State Democratic Committee. They sent out negative mailings against Gounardes’ opponent. Andrew Gounardes did such a terrible job as a representative, that they had nothing to hail him for, so they went negative and are fear-mongering.
Who is in charge of the NYS Democratic Committee? Jay Jacobs, a man in Nassau County who runs a camp is speaking into our community! Jay doesn’t even live in Brooklyn, but wants to tell us who we should vote for. See here
Former NYC Speaker, Christine Quinn is the executive committee chairperson of the NYS Democratic Committee. Andrew Gounardes thinks Christine Quinn has a right to speak into our neighborhood. (Christine Quinn ran for mayor against Bill de Blasio and came in third place). In 2008, Christine Quinn supported politicians serving three terms (so she remain in City Council and Bloomberg could run for mayor for a 3rd term). Source
The NYS Democratic told us on their Wikipedia Page that they are not your standard Democrats, like Vinnie Gentile or Max Rose. (See here) On their page, they list social liberalism and social democracy as their ideology. Believe people the first time they tell you who they are!
Social liberalism is quite different from classic liberalism. (If a socialist was reading these words, they would be cheering right now).
Andrew Gounardes used to speak out against fear-mongering. But now Gounardes can’t speak up for himself, so fear-mongering flyers being mailed to residents in his community are okay with him.
I waited until today to see if Andrew was going to be decent and speak out against the flyers containing the 1980’s information.
The NYS Democratic Committee wants to force a candidate on us. They want their yes man – Andrew Gounardes. They are happy that Gounardes doesn’t rock the boat and claps when other senators pass bills. They also don’t care that Gounardes was involved with loophole bills. (NYS Sexual Harrassment Law had to be corrected this year, Bail Reform Loophole and the Dyker Heights Ice Cream Man Loophole)
The NYS Democratic Committee doesn’t care that a man was released due to bail reform and sexually assaulted a Bay Ridge woman at the 95th Street train station in January (See here) Andrew Gournardes defended bail reform. See my tweet and his response. The article linked there explains when the man was released. The following month, politicians had to repeal bail reform – the same bill I complained to Andrew about. (See here) Marc Lamparello was a 38-year-old man, who was released from prison due to bail reform. Lamparello needed mental health help, but was released without it. He jumped from the Verrazzano Bridge in April 2020. (See here) His family left a comment on this blog – see here
I’m sure the NYS Democratic Committee loved that Andrew Gounardes got up and said NYS home owners should get a tax break. NYC home owners received property tax increases and Gounardes did nothing. See here:
The NYS Democratic Committee won’t tell you that Senator Gounardes took money from a developer. This information was revealed in this article at Kings County Politics and they provided the link to NYS Board of Election Disclosure Report – page 28.
The NYS Democrats thought they should tell us about what Vito Bruno did in the 1983 and 1989. In the 80’s, I was a student fighting with nuns to wear pants on school dress down days. A lot has changed over the decades!
The NYS Democratic Committee didn’t realize their flyer told Brooklyn that Vito Bruno hasn’t had any problems for three decades. In the 80’s, Vito was a young man running a business. From 1990-2020, the Democrats couldn’t find anything bad to use about Vito Bruno! That’s a good thing!
Remember two years ago, the Democratic Party here didn’t support Mathylde Frontus when she ran for office. Not one politician in this area stood up and said the Harvard graduate would make a great Assemblywoman. I researched her up and down and couldn’t figure out why. Councilman Justin Brannan did not speak up for Mathylde Frontus until AFTER Dr. Frontus won the primary. Kadia Goba reminded people about that (See here)
Another reporter told us about a back room deal that was exchanged between Brannand and Treyger for Andrew Gounardes and that left Frontus in the cold. (See Paragraph 5 in this paper) The community voted for Frontus because they knew she was the one.
I want the thank the NYS Democratic Committee for motivating me to reach out to Vito Bruno.
The NYS Democrats wanted us to know that there was drugs and violence at the nightclub Bruno managed in the 1980’s. Many bars and nightclubs have to deal with people who do drugs and are violent. In August 2018, we saw a bar owner in Bay Ridge try desperately to change the atmosphere of her bar (No Quarter Tavern) because it attracted a gang. The bar owner asked for help from the police, hired security and eventually had to close her place because of gang violence. (More information here) Why didn’t the elected politicians reach out to someone like Vito Bruno to get her help?
I don’t have enough information about Vito Bruno yet, but I’ll share it when I do. For this community, we need someone who will speak up for Bay Ridge because politics is pulling it the wrong way – at both ends. Long after the politicians are gone, we’ll still be here dealing with their mess.
Hugs,
marlene
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