A Hillary Bundler Who Wants to Save the NY GOP
That's John Catsimatidis, Hillary Clinton fund-raiser and possible Republican mayoral candidate, getting chummy with Queens County Republican chairman Phil Ragusa and state GOP chair Joe Mondello.
Catsimatidis, a registered Democrat, was there to receive the Abraham Lincoln Award, while Mondello received the Teddy Roosevelt Award.
During his acceptance speech, Catsimatidis said that he had spoke with local Republican leaders and "told them I will help them do whatever is possible to help build the party."
-- Azi Paybarah
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...Beware Greeks bearing gifts....
Catsimatidis is the ugliest human being alive: physically and philosophically.
Anyone that has ever had business dealings with Catsimatidis knows he is 99% talk and 1% action.
...and Quinn is
5% action
85% over-sell the action
10% rub Bloomberg's feet
so Catsimatidis is the rich person's Scott Stringer?
The only way to save the state GOP is to wipe out the rot that is there. To do that, the GOP must first lose the State Senate, forcing all its interest groups to go cap in hand to the Democrats.
Then it will be free reorganize it based on some sort of principles.
Cranky, the State Senate is all that is structurally left of the State GOP. Once it is gone, only the philosophical "pointy heads" will be left. Then enrollment-wise and demographiclly, you can basiclly shut off the light s for the GOP in this State for a generation.
Street vendors beware!
y is it that nyc will now only have super rich liberal dems turn rep mayors? Ok, Giuliani wasn't super rich...but he was super liberal
the GOP doesnt have any of its own candidates? We have to agiain pander to some dem?
The more I read about Catsimatidis, the more I find him to be ideologically vacant.
Not that this is an uncommon trait in the '09 field.
wouldnt a stringer vs catsimatidis race be freekin hilarious?
Catsimatidis owns and operates some of New York's shittiest supermarkets! They're dirty, dank, poorly managed and staffed with obnoxious, ill-trained workers.Imagine what he's do to the City! Yikes!
Stringer v Castimatidis...
Talk about forcing a lot of registered Dems to take sides!
Unlikely it would come to that. Too many people running for mayor grasping at the Democratic line.
BTW, how much substance really separates these two?
No surprise that one of Hillary's bagmen would be looking to run as a Republican. Clinton is only nominally a Democrat.
Tough bunch! Bloomberg used to be a huge supporter of the Clintons and as turned out to be a good city manager - which is all a Mayor is really supposed to be. While he hasn't appointed many Republicans in his government he did bring the RNC to New York and has been very generous with the State and National GOP. Catsimatidis started off as a small business man and should actually be able to better relate to small business owners issues. I think he may end up be a friend to the taxpayer.
New York City and soon New York State are one party towns. Nothing can be done to stop it.
Castimatidis is just a rich white man who enjoys seeing his name in the paper. In all the years he has used his money to suck up to elected officical he has done nothing but help himself and his friends
"Bloomberg used to be a huge supporter of the Clintons and as turned out to be a good city manager "
What city are you talking about? You can't be talking about NYC where homelessness has exploded under bloomberg?
I doubt Stringer even runs for Mayor in '09. But if his unfounded megalomania leads him down that road all the better - he'd get crushed and have to turn in his tiny soapbox.
I can understand Castimatidis, I can understand his friends from AHEPA, I can understand The State Republican Party, But I can't understand the Queens GOP Leader who gave $1,000 to the arch enemy of the Republicans, Charles Rangle. I can understand Castimatidis buying a line to run on, but Mr. County Leader has taken money from anyone willing to pay, just ask Ron Lauder, or Mike Bloomberg. What ever happened to doing it because it had to be done, not what's in it for me first. Where are the volunteers. We only have volunteers who want to get paid. Some one should look at the donation records of the leadership, and their cohorts. It makes interesting reading.