SAVE THE DATE! 8/14 - Antonacci For Comptroller Fundraiser at MCU Park!

"Come on out the ballpark, and bring the kiddies, why don't 'cha."

Details will be forthcoming, but word on the street is that Bob Antonacci, the CPA / Attorney / Onondaga County Comptroller that is the Republican candidate for NYS Comptroller, will be hosting an affordable - and fun - fundraiser at MCU Park next Thursday, August 14.  

Check back soon for the flyer and more details!

New York: Capital Of Corruption

Yeah.  Right.
Photo by buffalonews.com

(Editor's Note:  Read the entirety of this article on WayneDupree.com - home of #TeamNinja!)

To say that New York politicians are ethically challenged is not exactly going out on any limb. I mean, we are the proud home of the likes of Anthony Weiner. Pols brazenly take money, and even try to rig mayoral nominations.  We even had a former politician who was arrested and convicted for soliciting dirty money from an undercover agent in order to pay for his attorneys fee from his last corruption charge.  No, I did not make that up, his name is William Boyland.  Look it up.   

Past politicians always talked big about cleaning up the Albany cesspool, but nor much resulted.  Even Eliot Spitzer promised to be a "F---in' Steamroller" on ethically challenged pols, before becoming known as Client No. 9. 

But still, hope springs eternal.  So when Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) created a Commission to Investigate Public Corruption under the state's Moreland Act to "probe systemic corruption and the appearance of such corruption in state government, political campaigns and elections in New York State", good government advocates and everyday citizens heralded the news. Maybe, just maybe, this was the turning of the wretched tide. 

Twisted Views

Can you step up like this?  Can you put your life on the line for strangers?

Editor's Note:  Mona writes this in response to the National Review “Its Time for Conservatives to Stop Defending Police”)

A.J. Delgado describes the police as a “large group of government employees with generous salaries and unions strongest in the country.” Source, please? Doesn’t she know that the starting salary for NYPD officer is $38,000? Yeah, that’s generous salary if you live in the Midwest. And, do "strong" unions not receive any raises in the past 20 years?

She continues her article by saying that “conservatives being the stalwart defenders of police forces.. and its time for conservatives’ unconditional love affair with the police to end.”

Why?

Anti-Obama, Anti-Dem Graffiti Popping Up in Sheepshead Bay

Outside the Sheepshead Bay station

Lately, I've noticed something around the Sheepshead Bay Road area of southern Brooklyn.  In different spots, a vandal, with an anti-Democratic streak, has been leaving his/her mark on poles, walls and doors. Never did I think that i would live to see the day that there would be anti-Democrat political graffiti in Brooklyn, NY!  

Shore Parkway East between East 13th and East 14th Sts. (Photo by Barbara Bazil)

I swear, it wasn't me.  Take a look!

End the Filibuster: Restore Democracy

(Editor's Note:  here is the first of what we hope will be many posts from Matthew Fairley, Esq., vice-chair of the Brooklyn GOP's Law Committee and contributor to Brooklyn GOP Radio!)

If one reads the Constitution, the process by which the President appoints ambassadors, cabinet members, judges and other federal officers seems quite simple.  Art. II, Sec. 2 of the constitution states:

[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law

On its face it implies a two-step procedure.  The president makes a nomination, and then the Senate votes to approve or deny that nomination.  Unfortunately, in recent years that has not been the case, with Senate minorities of both parties filibustering presidential appointments to score political points.  A Brookings Institute study shows that filibusters have increased from 17 in 1980 to 74 at the close of the most recent Congress, spiking as high as 105 in the Congressional session ending in 2008.[1]  Though Republican minorities in the three most recent Congresses have set records, Democratic minorities increased filibusters each year they were in the minority.  

Though some would say the filibuster is an important procedural safeguard against presidential appointment of poor candidates, in reality it is dangerous, undemocratic and cowardly.

To The Left, To The Left

H/T:  NY Daily News

For the past six months here in New York, the most liberal minded City Council (aligned with a progressive mastermind we have as a mayor) have shown us their agenda are coming to life and the real issues such as school, crime and relieving economic burdens are not important to emphasize as IDs for illegal immigrants . 

The failed legislation they have pushed last year are this year's accomplishments, and it shows that the next upcoming 3 years will be nothing but a leftist agenda gone crazy.

This week, good buddy (and award-stealer) Wayne Dupree, the Sensei of #TeamNinja and founder / creator of We Are America Radio (@WAARadio) was among those who joined FreedomWorks' Deneen Borelli at a conference held across from NAACP Convention in Las Vegas.  

Borelli took matters into her own hands after being snubbed by the NAACP for the second year in a row. Borelli, sought to address the organization for their annual meeting, but was “ignored.”  So, she along with Wayne and other prominent black conservatives like Katrina Pierson, Lesli Brower, Brenda Flank, and the Rev. C.L. Bryant, held their own event in the same hotel, at the same time, as the NAACP convention.

Wayne will join Brooklyn GOP Radio for a first-hand account of what transpired when the two conventions came face-to-face. Plus, the usual hijinks fromt he crew and... Buffoon of the Week!

BONUS! Lea Carawan Discusses "In God We Trust" Initiative

In addition to playing the GREAT interview we did with Sen. Fred Thompson about his new movie Persecuted (opening nationwide on July 18th!), Brooklyn GOP Radio is happy to welcome Lea Carawan, President and Executive Director of the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Inc - a non-partisan, non-profit organization established to unite and mobilize government leaders nationwide who are committed to protecting religious freedom and preserving America’s Judeo-Christian heritage - to talk about their new initiative:  In God We Trust.