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| Brooklyn Republicans Endorse Bloomberg's Third-Term Run |
| 2009-03-12 |
| Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who resigned from the Republican Party to become an independent last year, made his case recently to the city's Republican borough committee leaders for support and got a strong endorsement from Brooklyn's Republican leadership. And look soon for an invitation to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the Grand Old Party's first African-American leader, to visit Brooklyn as the party struggles to regain congressional dominance and national leadership. Running for a third term after the City Council, at his request, changed the term-limits law, the mayor held a screening meeting recently with the five party leaders. A week later, Brooklyn GOP Chair Craig Eaton and the party's executive committee endorsed Bloomberg. He is now waiting for the other borough committees' decisions. He needs the endorsement of three of the five GOP borough committees to get on Row B in the Sept. 15 Republican primary, and is looking to Staten Island and Manhattan for the most likely support as Bronx and Queens leaders expressed reluctance. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Which proves that Brooklyn like all of the Northeast is RINO territory. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-03-12 13:31 |