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Harrison Fraud (Episode IV of "The Joe Bruno Democrats")--REVISED (now politically correct)
“Stephen Harrison of Brooklyn's Community Board 10 will formally announce his bid to take on the city's sole Republican Congressman…NY Press Political Blog, January 31, 2007For those of us who remember Steve Harrison before he set his sites on national office, by opposing the egregious Vito Fossella for Congress, the idea of him as the cause celebre of the “progressive” left is almost as astonishing as if Former Councilwoman Margarita Lopez announced she was pregnant with Mike Bloomberg’s love child. The old Steve Harrison, of the American Heritage Political Association, where he always let you know he was a “conservative Democrat”, before letting you know exactly where he stood on gay rights and abortion (against them), while his friend Ralph Perfetto shrugged his shoulders and said “it’s Bay Ridge, Jake”. The old Steve Harrison of Brooklyn Community Board #10, where he proudly served as Republican-Conservative-Right to Life Councilman Marty Golden’s errand boy. Well, actually, from the viewpoint of, say, early 2002, the birth of Rita Mae Bloomberg-Lopez actually does seem more plausible. But as we are led to believe, for some it was not September 11, 2001 which changed everything, but October 11, 2002, when the US Senate voted to authorize the use of US military force in Iraq. Hillary Clinton voted for the resolution, and is therefore political anathema. True progressives must oppose her by supporting John Edwards (who also voted for the resolution, but…well never mind). Shortly thereafter, the New York City Council voted on a non-binding resolution opposing the war, and those members who opposed that resolution, including Harrison’s likely primary opponent, Dominick Recchia, must be punished for being Democrats in Name Only (DINO). Me, I’d oppose every damned one of those non-binding Council resolutions. Let’s see if Darlene Mealy is so opposed to using the terms “bitch” and “ho” once she gets a primary from Tracy Boyland. For me, it’s tough enough figuring out who’s going to pick up my garbage, improve my kids’ school, and be able to distinguish sensible development from the turkeys, without worrying whether they have any idea who Benazir Bhutto is. But since Recchia is running for Congress, I guess it’s now fair game. But being a DINO is a funny thing. Apparently, the statute of limitations is longer for some violations than for others. By the end of 2003, if not sooner, Recchia had become so anti-war he was an early supporter of Howard Dean’s presidential race, and ran as one of Dean’s delegates. But the blot of actually believing that Iraq may have had weapons of mass destruction can never be erased, because, truth be told, weapons of mass destruction don’t matter much to real “progressives”, since the use of US military power, anywhere, for any purpose, even to stop genocide in the Balkans, is always an evil act of imperialism. Just ask Michael Moore. By contrast, we are led to believe that Steve Harrison was “right from the start”. I agree; at the start of the war, Steve Harrison was right: RIGHT WING! Harrison started life as a relatively conservative Democrat, veered wildly to the looney right, and is now the favorite of those to the far left of liberalism. What does it all mean? Believing, as I do, in “Deep Throat’s” injunction to watch not what they say, but what they do, I’ve taken a look at Harrison. I long ago concluded that one of the best ways to predict a politician’s future behavior is to get a handle on what their fundamental values are. In some cases, this is difficult, as the candidates have no values other than “what’s in it for me?” or “any weapon to hand”. Actually, in the case of Harrison, this would appear to be the preferable alternative to the other possibilities for explaining his wild political flailing. The other possibilities include that he may be "barking crazy" (the term in favor at "The Daily Gotham"). I am reminded of my graduate school days, when a friend called me depressed about the state of her life, and said she was contemplating suicide. A couple of days later, she called to let me know she’d met someone and was better now. “Karen”, I warned her, “wild and extreme mood swings are not necessarily a sign of good mental health.” But apparently, they are all the rage among the right sort of “progressive”. Do me a favor though guys, before you vote for Harrison, make sure he’s had his meds. It seems clear in Harrison’s case that sincere conversion to anything resembling a “progressive” philosophy is highly unlikely, as that usually requires one to stay put, rather than emulating a pin ball bouncing all over the place on its way to tilting. I think it is important here to make distinctions about party disloyalty. I find it troubling in nearly all cases, but some violations are clearly worse than others. For instance, I heartily condemned all those, including Dominick Recchia, who endorsed Mike Bloomberg’s re-election, mostly because it gave license to those, like Carl Kruger and Dov Hikind, who commit far more perfidious acts (like helping Joe Bruno to retain his Senate Majority), to use the excuse that others cross party lines as well. True, Bloomberg gave unspeakable amounts of cash to the campaign committees of Joe Bruno and Tom Delay, but his being Mayor did not increase the value of that dirty money. And, frankly, Bloomberg’s most controversial acts as Mayor, like his proposal for congestion pricing, are often embraced wholeheartedly by “progressives”. Likewise, support for City Council and Assembly Republicans, who will never come within reach of organizing their legislative bodies, is more an eccentricity than a crime. Personally, I oppose such support, since the GOP uses those bodies as breeding grounds for future Republican State Senate candidates, and I’d rather crush the bastards while they’re still larvae, but if Steve Harrison’s support for Republicans were restricted to the $150 check he gave to Marty Golden in the 2001 election cycle (when he also gave Recchia $75), I’d probably not make an issue of it. On the other hand, it seems clear that advancing the agendas of the Tom Delays and Joe Brunos of the world would qualify as acts worthy of the severest forms of sanction. This is especially the case when the grips of those evil men upon the throat of state was, or is, so tenuous. Tom Delay is not the concern of this series (though Harrison did his small part for Delay’s majority as well), but Harrison played no small part in helping Bruno to expand his tenuous majority, enabling it to hang on to power it may already have lost were it not for the victory Harrison helped to enable. And, every day, our City and our State pay the price. Joe Bruno holds his majority by two seats. If he held it by only one, it is nearly certain that the rats swimming from the Senate Republicans’ sinking ship would already have guaranteed a Carl Kruger-proof Democratic majority. But, in the year 2002, Joe Bruno reapportioned Vinnie Gentile’s seat into a psychedelic atrocity and put up Republican-Conservative-Right to Life City Councilman Marty Golden. Bruno then started buying local Democratic deserters by the car load; and Steve Harrison was riding shotgun. Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not calling Steve Harrison a whore for supporting Golden. I am calling Kruger a whore for supporting Golden. By all evidence, Harrison’s 2002 support for Golden and other Republicans seems quite sincere. Harrison’s pre-2002 contributions seem mostly a matter of support for friends and neighbors, regardless of party, with a little expedience thrown in. $75 for his law partner Sal Albanese’s 1993 Council race; $1550 when his law partner ran for mayor in 1997. That year, Harrison also donated $324 to a Democratic Council candidate Joanne Seminara, in her losing race against Marty Golden. $224 of that money was returned; perhaps she should have kept it. 1999 brought a small lawyer-like donation to a sitting judge, and $150 to his incumbent State Senator (Gentile). In 2000, Harrison switched sides from his 1997 stance, and gave $150 to Golden, in his victorious rematch against race against Democrat Joanne Seminara. None of that money was returned; more's the pity. To be fair, it is clear that Harrison was with Seminara before he was against her. In 2001, in addition to Recchia, Harrison made a large donation to Steve Dibrienza, and a small one to Mike McMahon. The pattern here was more legal/community than ideological. By contrast, Harrison’s 2002 campaign contributions are in uniform ideological lockstep (or should I say goosestep?): February 28 $350 Marty Golden April 2 $550 Marty Golden June 3 $75 Marty Golden September 12 $400 Marty Golden October 27 $400 Marty Golden Of course, Harrison didn’t merely give all the money he was asked for; as a prominent leader in the community, he lent his important support to Joe Bruno’s candidate in every manner possible. In addition to this help for Joe Bruno, Harrison also did his part for Tom Delay. On May 17, he gave $150 to a Republican Congressional candidate. The candidate’s name was Vito Fossella. This is notable for being the only evidence on the web that, prior to his run for Congress, Harrison ever showed enough interest in a national election to make a donation. In fact, there is no other evidence that Harrison ever gave any money to any candidate for Congress before or after he started running for it, himself included! While I appreciate that one must win over former Fossella supporters to win this seat, that doesn't mean we have to nominate one. Incidentally, during this same time period, Recchia was bravely voting to extend the protections of the City’s human rights law to the transgendered; but, then again, we all help out good causes in our own unique ways; let a thousand flowers bloom! Harrison supporters parrot out the party line that these contributions were the normal cost of doing business for a Community Board Chair; says Harrison groupie Rosalie: “As for Steve giving money to Fossella and Golden, he did this as Community Board 10 Chairman which was about 4 or 5 years ago”. Given the specificity of the argument, it’s clear that it came straight from the candidate, so let me retort: Steve, the only conclusion one can draw from your sorry excuse for your past support for Republicans is that your were doing it for your own personal self interest. Are you saying that selling out to reactionaries is morally superior to being one? That would be a great argument for the candidacy of Judas Iscariot, if he were running against Pontius Pilate. Harrison gave Mole333 a somewhat different excuse, which Mole articulates thusly: “What I do know is that Marty Golden and Steve Harrison had been working together while Marty Golden was a Democrat and it continued into the early days of Golden becoming a Republican but in the end Golden became too conservative for Harrison's tastes.” So conservatism was the big turn off for you, Steve? Then what were you doing giving THE STATE CONSERVATVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE $150 on May 10, 2002? The latest party line dogma on Harrison’s generosity to reactionaries seems to be a weary implication that Harrison used to be a conservative, but the cataracts fogging his vision magically dropped from his eyes as a result of the war. His checkered checkbook tells a different story. On October 11, 2007, a day for which Hillary Clinton is supposed to live in infamy, Steve Harrison, his eyes now clear from his fury over the evil war, fostered by Republicans, and facilitated by DINOs, expressed his outrage at the conservatives he could no longer abide, by writing a $250 check to John Faso, the Republican-Conservative candidate for State Comptroller. Perhaps Steve was merely a visionary, spotting the obvious corruption in Alan Hevesi that the rest of us had missed, and trying to put his money (and ours) where his heart was. Then, on October 27, right before the election, Harrison further expressed his outrage at war supporting Republican-Conservative-Right to Life candidate Marty Golden, by giving Golden a check for $400, instead of $550. That’ll teach him! Total Republican-Conservative Harrison contributions for the year 2002: $2275, far more he’d ever given to fellow Democrats in any year, before or since. Of this, $1875 was to Golden, who received far more money from Harrison than Harrison’s ever given any other candidate, before or since. Golden immediately went onto distinguish himself by becoming Bruce Ratner’s Albany bagman (while modestly allowing Vito Lopez to take the credit for his work). I am being somewhat unfair to Harrison, for before the end of the year 2002, Harrison did write a check to the campaign of one “Democrat”: Himself, now running for the seat opened up by Golden’s Senate victory (how convenient!). Otherwise, other than a lawyer-like contribution to a Judge, it took until October of 2003 for Harrison to write a check to a Democrat running for office, whose name wasn’t Steve Harrison; this was over two years from the last time he had done so, and even then, it was another self-serving contribution by a Community Board Chair to the Bay Ridge City Councilman. During this same period, Recchia was actively involving himself with the Howard Dean campaign. I guess we all have our own unique ways of opposing the war; let a thousand flowers bloom! I won’t dwell on Harrison’s 2003 Council race. Steve helped to split the Democratic vote four ways, nearly electing a Republican, although in fairness to Harrison, there were those who believed that by running to the Republican’s right, he actually cost her votes, which, if true, was more than he’d ever done to help a Democrat who wasn’t his law partner. The most interesting statistic from Harrison’s Council race was the amount of money he donated to himself: $1,305. This was $570 less than he gave to Marty Golden’s Senate race the year before. Of all the “Joe Bruno Democrats”, Harrison is clearly the most selfless. My actual conclusion is that Harrison is not crazy, and is not much more of an opportunist than the average politician. Rather, he is a man of basically conservative beliefs, who remains a Democrat, to the extent that he does, because he was born one. But one belief trumps all the others, and that’s Steve Harrison’s belief in Steve Harrison. Recipient of a 2006 Congressional nomination no one wanted, he found only one fruitful source of support: the progressive left, and swallowing hard, he went for it with gusto, wrting checks (albeit modest ones) only to Democrats, abandoning his long held opposition to supporting the rights of gay people (although, unlike Recchia, he took a dive on actually seeking the endorsement of Lambda Independent Democrats), and even muddying somewhat his sincerely held stance against legalized abortion: “I fall somewhat in the middle,” said Harrison to the Brooklyn Paper. “I think a woman has the right to choose, but not to rely solely on abortion for birth control.” Hopefully, her contraceptive of choice will be more reliable than Harrison’s party loyalty. As a pragmatist, I am also willing to swallow hard. I congratulate the progressive left for supporting Harrison against Fossella (because Judas really is preferable to Pilate); hell, I supported Harrison myself. Moreover, the progressive left really believes that Harrison is the strongest candidate for the seat, and should therefore be the nominee. I’ll admit this is a compelling argument, and it would be even more so, if only it were true. To find out why’s its not, make sure not to miss the next episode of “THE JOE BRUNO DEMOCRATS”. In the meantine Steve, if you'd like to cleanse yourself of the Golden Shower you helped to rain upon the Senate Democrats and the people of Brooklyn, I suggest you consider expiating your sins by running aginst Golden, instead of Fossella. Recchia supporting County Leader Vito Lopez, rumored in the past to have been reluctant to faciliate such a challenge, would gladly embrace your candidacy to help Dominck. It's win/win for everyone! The best way to prove you're not a Bruno Democrat is to beat a Bruno Republican! Gatemouth's homepage was updated on 11/13/07; come visit for more fun and laughter!  ...when you were dissing her. I wasn't with Vito then, and I doubt he's happy about my comments about Carl Kruger, either. I'll not defend Lendler, although he's merely a hired gun, so he's not obligated to support Democrats, unlike Harrison, who was supposedly a president of a Democratic Club, and now seeks to be a Democratic Candidate. Lendler is just a hired gun, like you. And like you, in the Maltese seat, he does the work of Joe Bruno. But at least Lendler has the courtesy not to pretend otherwise. Incidentally, though, Norman was acquitred of the chrges involving Lendler, who, unlike Bill Boone, gives value for the money. It sucks that Lendler gives that value to Marty Golden. On that we agree. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18998331&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=560113&rfi=6
Funny how Harrison and his supporters are always willing to vouch for one of Joe Bruno's clowns. Have you ever beieved anything Andrew lanza's said previously? Query Rosalie: why would Lanza be ratting out a friend? What does he gain from doing so? Seems to me the Republicans must want to hurt Recchia because they prefer running against Harrison. Do you have a better theory for this? Was he just being (lol) selfless? Perhaps he was acting out of outrage, but just forget about it for three years until something jogged his memory. Yeah, right. Can't help noticing how you failed to address any of the concerns I've raised, though. Tell me, where you were last year when Harrison was the choosen candidate? I find all this to be a work of Lopez and other Dems in concert to discredit Harrison. If he made contributions to Golden in 2002 that information was readily available in 2006 so why was it not brought out then? Easy, Lopez et al were VERBALLY supporting Harrison and how would it look if they went after their own candidate? Now, with Recchia job hunting out of his district because he's term limited, this so called information is being vented. Ironic isn't it? Funny, but the job Recchia really wants is B.P. but DeBlasio's been tapped for that. Now, say Hillary wins and with DeBlasio running her Brooklyn Campaign he's given a post in her administration which will take him out of the running for B.P. What does Recchia do then? If he wins the Primary (there's a laugh) and loses to Vito (which he will since he doesn't even live in the district and Staten Islanders being very protective of their district/CD-13) no problem, but if he wins he would have to make a decision to run a year later for B.P. I'm sure the Sitt's/Thor Equities would like that since there is nothing he can do for them in Congress but a heck of a lot he can do for them as B.P. (look at what Markowitz did for Ratner as B.P.)
I do take Lanza's comments with a grain of salt but Vito and Company are going after Harrison also, just re-read their comments after Steve announced in August. I find it funny that McMahon made a comment to the Advance that the only thing he ever heard Recchia saying to Lanza was that people in the Brooklyn end of the district felt that Vito was ignoring them. That alone tells you something. You give NOTHING to the opposition during an election or at any time. As for Lanza just coming out with this now, I can ask you the same thing - why after almost 2 years you're suddenly going after Harrison? 1) I left Harrison alone last time because he was the only Democrat who wanted to run. Except DiBlasio, who would have been a disaster (which I said quite explicity and nastily on "The Politicker" at the time --this was pre-"Room 8"). Once Harrison was our candidate, I endorsed him, and gave him a couple of other favorable mentions. He's preferable to Fossella (of course, so is tuberculosis). Can't speak for Vito, but my record on Harrison is clean and not inconsistent. Would you have preferred that I roast the candidate of our party? 2) Staten Islanders aren't wary of non-residents of the 13th, Rosie; they're wary of outsiders PERIOD; they couldn't give a damn about the CD lines, they want to know if you live on The Rock. Maybe if Recchia were from Park Slope, that would be worse, but given that he's from Bensonhurst-Gravesend, it makes little or no difference which Congressional District he lives in. BTW, I've said many times that a Brooklyn candidate is not preferable if we want to win. Therefore, Harrison is not the best candidate, and neither is Recchia. However, given that they are our only choices, we have to determine which Brooklynite will do the best for the Dems. I'll discuss that next time, so I ask you to save it for then, and we can fully debate it. 3) "DeBlasio's been tapped for that" Girl, you are just ignorant. Vito would sooner endorse Steve Harrison, Charlie Barron or Mole333 for Borough President than Bill DeBlasio, although he might prefer Bill to Chris Owens. 4) Lanza. Can we just stipulate that Lanza's a snake and move on? So what if Recchia told Lanza Fossella was invisble in Brooklyn? Since when is tauting Republicans an off-limits activity?
Steve Harrison supports Gay marriage and said it on the stump. it ironic that those supporting Dear supporter Recchia is trying to spread the lie that Steve is anti-gay. This article acknowledged Harrison's recent support for the stands of the gay community. Maybe, this time out, he'll actually seek the endorsement of Lambda instead of avaiding it. Recchia sought (and won) Lambda support in 2001, even though it was not necessarily an asset in his district. Recchia also voted in favor of equal right for the transgendered, a stand probably even less popular than gay marriage. I'm sure that went over big at the Spumoni Garden. At the time, as I recall, Harrison was busy writing check to homophobic crypto-facist Mike Long's campaign committee. Long makes Noach Dear look like a member of P-FLAGG. WTF is your outrage? Steve Harrison committed an unnatural act for a Democrat--he supported a right wing reactionary against an incumbent Democratis Senator, and we are all still paying the price. Ask Eliot how he feels the next time Joe Bruno hands him a subpeona! Dear was an atrocity, and Recchia's part in it, a virtually meaningless pro forma endorsement, deserves comdenation. I CONDEMN IT! I'd ride over to his office to demonstrate against it, but Joe Bruno has the keys to the ship of state! Watch me kick Mole333's butt on "The Daily Gotham": http://dailygotham.com/blog/gatemouth/harrison_fraud_episode_iii_of_the_joe_bruno_democrats#comment
Rosalie asks: Tell me, where you were last year when Harrison was the choosen candidate? I find all this to be a work of Lopez and other Dems in concert to discredit Harrison. If he made contributions to Golden in 2002 that information was readily available in 2006 so why was it not brought out then?...why after almost 2 years you're suddenly going after Harrison? Actually, I mentioned it, albeit gently, back when I endorsed Harrison in 2006: "In the City, few of us will have the opportunity to do more than what I’ve suggested above, but those in Staten Island and Southwest Brooklyn can actually make a difference by voting for Steve Harrison for Congress. Earlier this year, I was dismissive of Harrison, whose prior support for some Republicans, very conservative social views, and abysmal record as a candidate, did not bode well for his chances. Most importantly, his residence in the Brooklyn part of a district dominated by parochial Staten Island was bound to bite him. It almost certainly cost him the endorsement of "The Advance", and it lead to tone deaf gaffes like his support for two way tolls, a good public policy idea, but real bad politics. What Harrison should have said is "One way? Two way? I say ‘No Way! Let’s eliminate the damned tolls!" But let’s face facts, no one from Staten Island was willing to step up to the plate, and Harrison is a far better fit for the district than Park Slope’s Bill DeBlasio, who’d have raised far more money and have been blown out of the water as a "colonizer" and "interloper" (to quote one of our esteemed members of Congress), not to mention a "liberal" . As I’ve noted before, the egregious incumbent, Vito Fossella, combines everything wrong with the national Republican Party, with the very different vices of the local Staten Island Republicans, so let’s hope for a Harrison victory." To the a-hole who constinues to anonymously post that i was Ernie Lendler or Branford Communications' attorney, please identify yourself so I can sue you. You see, truth is a defense to libel, so if you have any proof of that idiotic comment, then you could provide it under oath.
I have not EVER represented Ernie or Branford. And though i consider Enrnie a friend, and clearly prefer him as my consultant of choice for very good reasons in my view, I have NEVER been his attorney or received a fee from him
further, trying to connect me to Clarence Norman is absurd to anyone who knows beter. Just a reminder to anyone who actually givews a shit about what you say:
I ran primaries against Clarence for over 10 years. Not against his candidates, against HIM.
I was joe Hynes' campaign manger twice. When Clarence supported Smapson against Hynes, I vocally, and actively supported Hynes. Whose voice among District Leaders made reform of the Judicial Screening Process in Brooklyn possible? How many times as a District Leader did I openly oppose Norman's candidates? The last time there was an attempt to wrest control of the County Judicial Convention from Norman, I was an integral part of it. Enough of your drivel. Posts like yours should be zapped as a matter of course.
If you stand behind the truth of your nonsense, put your name to it and we can have it out in a proper forum.
Lew from Brooklyn ..or was it Fertig? Anyway, Balderdash as usual. My favorite lie of his: "A republican has not won in that area of Brooklyn since President Lincoln." As I recall, Marty Golden represents a huge chunk of your district. As long as you're here, let me just state how much I appreciate the fact that you, Helen Weinstein, Bernie Catcher, Alan Maisel and Eillen O'Brien did your part for the little shrimp in 2002, despite the fact that Kruger, Berman and Bender were all trying to convince you they would make it worth your while to join the other rats (like Harrison) scurrying away from their party. Hey, I got an idea; why don't you find someone to run against Golden next year?
Lew : Since you are in the know of Brooklyn Politics. i heard that Mike Nelson is going to switch with his mentor Carl Kruger and run for his State Senate seat & Carl will run for his Council Seat. Any truth to that?
There needs to be an investigation of the money the CFB paid the Fidler campaign after Fidler wrote a letter demanding the full amount $82,000 Most of the 82,000 when to Brandford The CFB only wanted to pay 25% because they felt he would walk away with the general election in his mostly democratic district. Fidler won with over 83% of the vote. GIVE THE MONEY BACK LEW Question 2. HOW IS LAWCASH NOT A RIP OFF ORGANIZATION OF THE POOR AND WHAT PART OR ROLE DO YOU PLAY? Question 3 Have you ever recieved any fees from developers what develoers and how much?
Calling yourself the Fly doesnot make you anyless anonymous. Why not just call yourself Joe McCarthy? The tactic of asking questions like "whendid you stop beating your wife" is designed to suggest the truth of the underlying presumption. I do not recall EVER having represented a developer or accepted a fee fromone. Now I have been practicing law since 1979, so I may have forgotten one. But I can say with certainty that I have never represented any developer who has done business with the the City Council or to my knowledge with the City. LAWCASh which is endorsed for its worrk by ACORN is hated by two people: YOU and the Insurance Industry. As for the first item, I accepted all the lawful money that CFB gave me in my first re-election. I have accounted for it all and have been audited on it and given a full and complete no fine no complaint clearance for that campaign. You are oh for three. Get a life.
Lew from Brooklyn  Hey Lew: do you see now, why I ask for posts from registered commenters, and not from those who do these vile anonymous attacks.
Just as the furor starts to subside, they reignite the controversy: http://dailygotham.com/blog/bouldin/in_which_i_have_a_word_with_gatemouth#comment-11591 I would have left it alone. Well perhaps i wouldn't have left it alone. But anyone with sense would have.
We know you love a lil fight now and then. I think you were a boxer in a previous life, while shagging Shirley McLaine/lol.
Lew from Brooklyn:When Mike Geller's Highway Democratic Club supported Guiliani, weren't you on board, together with the TJ Club? You are just same old , same old politican.
I worked for Dinkins 1n 1993, and know the facts. Fidler did not support Giuliani; he did an operation for us in his black areas and Sheepshead-Nostrand projects, and left his white areas alone, which was what we wanted. TJ was even better. At our regques they lit dropped their white Christain areas for Conservative party spoiler George Marlin, who did better there than expected as a result. Anonymous if you worked for Dinkins and say that Fidler helped you then tell us who you are so we can judge if your telling the truth For all we know it could be Fidler himself posted this information Fidler is know for lies and playing both sides in campaigns. And he is so dumb he thinks nobody noties
It sure ain't Fidler, he might help Dinkins, but he'd never admit to it.
Does anybody know if Fidler was at the famous Nick's Lobster meeting ? Geller was there, Catcher was was there. Anyone else. They really helped the Democratic Mayoral hopeful that year.
Filder wasn't at the lobster meeting because he was with Ferrer from the start. Wrong choice, but it kept him out of trouble No, that was not me who posted the Dinkins answer earlier, but it was nonetheless the truth. How ridiculous of you to demand that the person who posted disclose their identity when you continue to post lie after lie without exposing who you are.
You aer simply put a chicken shit. And that is likely an insult to both chickens AND shit.
I was not at Nick's Lobster because Iwas a proud supporter of Freddy Ferrer. And I was the first white pol in the city to endorse him 4 years later. I have never in my life supported Rudy Giuliani, and I do not recall ever publicaly endorsing any Republican, tempted tho I may have been once or twice. Just keep making crap up. but if you weren't full of crap, you would put your name to it so we could take it to a Judge---no, not one of the indicted ones that you may well be related to---a sitting Judge. And we can see your proof for this drivel.
BTW, to the few who ask me why I bother to post a reply: Such is life in the day of the search engine. Some day, someone will google my name. And if this rot comes up, lest someone innocently believe it, the reply has to come up too. Otherwise, Mr. anonymous is simply not wrothy of a re\ply, as he likely sits unemployed, or pretending to be employed, trying to figure out how his broken life has come to this, sitting at a computer making up trash about people who have more integrity in their pinky toe than he could ever hope to have. Fini. Lew :I know being a Councilman is only a part time job, but you blog an awful lot, how about laying off the blogging & more on the peoples' business?
Hey Lew If we ask the Kramers and Giff Miller if you a double dealer what do you think would be their answer?
I have been around this Brooklyn game for as long as I can remember; Lew Fidler's rep has always been as a stand-up guy. He also has a reputation as a "go-to" guy. Lew is not afraid to take the hits when he chooses the wrong side (and he has done that a few times/lol). PERSONALLY: I believe that Lew is making a real big mistake by not running for Boro Prez. He has a good chance of winning. Problem is though: if he enters he then increases Barron's slim chances of winning (some dilemma no?)
Come on Rock Bill de Blasio the borough president candidate and Al Vann were the two people that led the sucessful campaign to dump Fidler from head of the Booklyn City Council Deligation And Fidler came in dead last in support when he tried to be city council speaker Fidler knows he is toast and cannot win a boroughwide race
...did this thread get to be about Fidler instead of the alter boy and the disco stud.
Who the hell reads your long winded Narcissistic dribble Gatemouth
Apparently, only schmucks like you and, it's spelled d-r-i-v-e-l I have been reading all this from somewhat of a distance since I mostly engage our buddy Gate at Daily Gotham. But this thread shows the good, bad and ugly of Brooklyn blogging. Needless to say I think much of Gatemouth's diatribe against Steve Harrison is nothing more than his usual legit facts twisted into whatever it takes to apologize for the latest machine BS (which is a shame, because Gatemouth DOES know better, as his occasional anti-machine pieces show). But I too wonder why this became about Lew, who I many not agree with on some specifics, but give him ample credit for being willing to openly get down and dirty with us bloggers. Come on! This is about Steve Harrison as the candidate that the Noach Dear endorsers Vito Lopez, Dominic Recchia and Marty Markowitz, represented herein by good old Gatemouth, can't let win even though the DCCC has publicly said Steve himself convinced them the race could be won. If Lopez, Recchia and Markowitz really wanted to win this for the Dems they'd get behind Steve...of course they did nothing for him in 2006 or for Barbaro in 2004, so it is no surprise that they are more out for themselves than for the Democrats.
As to Steve's conservative side, well it is a conservative district for NYC. So it is no surprise that those who have been focused on defeating Fossella since 2004 (when I got involved) are open to someone with some conservative credentials. To my mind, if someone can effectively connect with conservative voters while also advocating for marriage equality and withdrawal from Iraq, more power to him. I met Steve in 2006 expecting little. I was, almost against my will, impressed. And I remain impressed. By comparison, machine hack Recchia impresses me not at all.
But I also am least impressed with Vito himself...in this case I mean Fossella, though Lopez is only a bit behind in my disdain. With that in mind, the official Daily Gotham Act Blue Site has BOTH Steve Harrison and the general NY-13 Democratic fund (which will go to whoever the nominnee is), as well as many other NY State Dems. I invite all who are debating the race here to donate to either Steve Harrison or the general NY-13 fund (or any other NY State Dem race we list). If we want to defeat Fossella, it will take money, whoever we nominate. If you want to win, donate to the general fund. If you want STEVE HARRISON to win, specifically, donate to his campaign.
Not sure if links are accepted here. If so, click below.If not, it's on the Daily Goathm front page on right hand side part way down the page. If any of those who I know are Recchia supporters donate to the NY-13 fund, I just may consider matching if I can. How about it folks?
http://www.actblue.com/page/prony Yes, its true that DeBlasio and Vann had to team together to take Fidler out as delegation leader. Together they had one more vote than he did alone. And then Fidler's choice dumped them two years later. I think if deBlasio had to do it all over again, he would never have done it. Bad career choice. And it got Vann where exactly? As to the Speaker's race, in the end, it may well have come down to Fidler or Quinn. Count votes as you might, there were more "no" votes for deBlasio than there were "yes" votes for him. Since votes aren't cast that way, you can make up whatever story you like, but Fidler was as close to winning as anyone not named Quinn. And, I think he wound up as Asst Majority Leader. Fidler may blog, You may even say he blogs alot, tho I don't think he is quite as prolific as you suggest. But to suggest that he isn't one of the msst productive Council members is just pure ignorance. Even the NYPost in a recent colomn bitching about the Council referred to Fidler as one of the most productive members. Fidler probably could win for Boro President. And I doubt he is the least bit afraid of Barron. In fact, he might take a few Canarsie votes away from Barron. Frankly, I don't know why he won't run cause I think he would be great too. And as to "the Kramers" and Giff Miller, I am not exactly sure what Fidler owed to them. Let's see, he helped make Herb Kramer a Judge. And he helped make Gifford Miller the Speaker. At what point was he supposed to make Kramer's wife a Councilman and Miller the Mayor? That's untrustworthy? You are just a hter. Hasn't anyone told you that envy gets you nowhere? Even Mole333 concedes I am right on the facts. Meanwhile, back at Gotham, Bouldin is making excuses for Harrison's support of reactionaries that they would never accept from Carl Kruger or Vito Lopez. I won't accept them either, although there seems to me somewhat less to apolgize for when you are selling out over social service money to impovershished Bushwick, rather than zoning for Bay Ridge (if you even believe that lame excuse). Well, as the gentleman once said, we've established what you are, and now we're only negotiating over the figure. Everyday Joe Bruno gets on his knees and thanks the Lord for the likes of Carl Kruger, Dov Hikind, the Garson Family and Steve Harrison. Nonetheless, Mole is right about something: either Harrison or Recchia is preferable to Fossella, so I join him in asking that contributors to either match their gift with an equivalent donation to the NY-13 Democratic Fund.
Recchia was at Nick's Lobster House. Gate maybe you should send your contributions to send a racist to Congress. You are 110% correct. In both your observations of both Recchia & Harrison. Kudos to you Mole333. Thanks for the real deal info.
What cause Fidler to break off his relationship with his Garson wing of his family?
What cause Fidler to break off his relationship with his Garson wing of his family?
But Ralph Perfetto, whose club Harrison lead, was.
The proof & documentation that Recchia was at Nick's Lobster House with the other cronies.
I love it when Anonymous blogers ask for proof. Let Recchia say he was not there and we will show everyone what a liar and fraud he is This is getting interesting. What other lies & fraudulent aspects are in the Recchia closet ? Let's compare notes.
c'mon, if you got the proof post it. we got the right to know what a slime he is
There is lots of Recchia at the right time it will come out
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Besides always kissing up to Vito Gate is trying to get more work for his friends company Brandford Communications who for a time look like he was in the middle of every invistigtion in corruption being looked into by DA Hynes
Dominick Recchia Hired Brandford Communitations who has no other than Lew Fidler as its lawyer
And when things got hot during the Norman trials who hired Brandford why it was Marty Golden - You see the deals going on in Brooklyn are between incumbent republicans and democratic - Cymbrowitz and Kruger no republican opponent while Golden has no democratic opponent - How did lendler who works for dems get hired by the republican leader while he was involved in the normal trials. It is easy to see how Domonic worked against Barbaro when his consultant worked for Golden
What about the 82,000 that Fidler took from the city for his non re-election? Fidler wrote a letter to the CFB asking for the full amount after the CFB lable his election as non-competive. Fidler won the General election with 85% of the vote. A republican has not won in that area of Brooklyn since President Lincoln.
In Fidler letter he said, "In order to remain competitive, I will require full matching funds in in excess of the 25% awarded to a candidate who faces minimal opposition." August 11th 2005.
Even with the strong showing of Bloomberg in his District Fidler got over 75% vote the general election along with the 82,000 from the CFB in public funding. By the way his Republican opponent Mary Madden did not get any CFB public monety.
One more things 70,000 of the 82,000 Fidler got when to his pal Erenie Lender and his company Brandford Communication.
Word on the street is that Filder has some kind of connection to Brandford? What is more interesting is that everywhere their is an conviction of former county leader Norman Brandford has been involved in the criminal activity that has gotten Norman. In his latest trial the money that Norman wanted Judge Yellen to pay for a joint when to vender Brandford. In an eairly trial Lendler did campain lit for Norman payed for by a Lobbyist that did not go through Norman legal financial committees.
If you follow the paths of both Fidler and Lendler you will see that Norman did not act alone in destroy democracy in local Brooklyn politics.