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BRONX COUNTY GOP - THE HEAT IS ON!!

And yet another story on Bronx County GOP:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02032008/news/regionalnews/da_probes_downtow...

DA PROBES DOWNTOWN 'BRONX' POL
By BRUCE GOLDING
February 3, 2008 -- Prosecutors are investigating a Bronx politician after The Post revealed he's been living for years in lower Manhattan in apparent violation of state law.
The Post has also learned that election officials knew almost a decade ago that GOP district leader Fred Brown lived outside The Bronx, but ignored the information.

A November 1999 letter to the city Board of Elections said Brown "has not lived in this district or borough for many years" and was using a phony address to run for district leader.

A spokeswoman said the board could not act on the complaint because it was made anonymously, and state law requires a signed affidavit to challenge a voter's registration.

The Bronx DA's Office is investigating whether Brown, 72, filed false documents to register and vote in The Bronx, a spokesman said. That crime is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison.

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BRONX COUNTY GOP - ANOTHER NEWS ARTICLE!!

There is yet another news article in yesterday's 1/29/07 Village Voice newspaper on Jay Savino and Fred Brown.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0805,barrett,78995,6.html

Fred Brown, a Bronx delegate for Giuliani and former school-board member, was convicted of using the school district's printing press to produce a 100-page political journal in the '80s. Asked by the Voice about the 13 liens and judgments against him totaling more than $100,430—including three from the IRS for $32,986—Brown said he didn't know what they were about, adding that he was scheduled "to meet with the IRS in February." Brown conceded that he lives at 355 South End Avenue in Battery Park City, even though he is running as a delegate from the address he's registered at in the Bronx. "My [previous] apartment at 375 South End was destroyed on 9/11," he explained.

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NEW YORK CITY DEPUTY MAYOR AND JOSEPH J. SAVINO

New York City Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey had a meeting with Bronx County GOP Leader Joseph J. Savino on January 27, 2006. This meeting occurred while Kevin Sheekey was on city payroll time as listed on his schedule that was just FOILed by members of the press. The purpose of this meeting was for Mr. Savino to get the endorsement of Mayor Bloomberg for Mr. Savino to run later in 2006 for the state senate seat in the 34th district against incumbent State Senator Jeff Klein in which Savino lost in. A New York City employee cannot do any sort of political campaigning on city payroll time. Mr. Savino did get the endorsement from Mayor Bloomberg. Mr. Savino is also currently the target of a criminal probe being conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation. Some of Joseph J. Savino’s close friends and political associates are also being investigated for political campaigning on city payroll time. Inside sources have told me that Mr. Savino has confirmed that he did have a meeting with NYC Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey on January 27, 2006 at City Hall to discuss the political endorsement of Mayor Bloomberg for Mr.

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BRONX POLITICS - PLAN, PLOT AND DEFEAT YOURSELF

On a warm summer day in July 2007. Jose Rivera (Bronx Democratic Chairman) and Joseph J. Savino (Bronx GOPee Leader) met for lunch at the Seashore restaurant on City Island in the Bronx. J.C. Polanco was also there. Over the course of this lunch the planning and plotting was being conspired on, since that John Ravitz was resigning as the executive director of the New York City Board of Elections in October 2007. So at this lunch Jay Savino told Jose that he will not run for the senate seat anymore, like he was really any threat and also that J.C. Polanco would not run against Jose’s daughter Naomi Rivera for her assembly seat, oh please. So with that in mind Jose agreed to make J.C. Polanco the commissioner at the Board of Elections for the representation of the Bronx republicans. And also Jay and J.C. needed Jose Rivera’s influence over Christine Quinn, speaker the New York City Council, because the past four applicants (including Savino himself) for the commissioner’s job were all turned down by Christine Quinn and the rest of city council.


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BRONX COUNTY GOP - JUST ANOTHER DEFEAT

Congratulations are in order for Marcus Cederqvist from Manhattan GOP, who was just appointed the executive director of the New York City Board of Elections by a landslide vote today. In a second vote today for the position of general counsel for the Republican commissioners. Jay Savino lost the vote by 6-4. 3 out of the 5 NYC GOP political clubs that he is in charge of as vice chairman of the NYS Republican committee voted against him not getting this position. Plus Jay Savino is not a resident of the Bronx, he is a resident of Rockland County, and he has to be a resident of NYC to be an employee to work at the Board of Elections. What excuse did Jay Savino use this time??> He stated that he is separated from his wife. As many of you remember when he ran in the 2006 34th state senate campaign, he was saying that he was a lifelong resident of the 34th state senate district, but he was not, so the excuse he used then was that his wife had pregnancy problems so that is why he had to move his wife to her mothers house in Rockland County. Now Mr.


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POLITICAL CLUB OR CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE??

Please read the BLOG and hyperlinks below, it is becoming real disgusting of what has become of our political party system.

It seems that the Bronx Republicans are pretty much lost when it comes to having a credible county organization. Under the current leadership of Joseph J. Savino, we have found many current members of Bronx County GOP tainted with criminality. What is Mr. Savino running in the Bronx, a political club or a halfway house of criminality and corruption. Please read all hyperlinked websites below:

2007 - 2009 Current elected officials for Bronx County GOP:

http://www.gograssroots.org/downloads/newvoices/BronxRepDL.pdf

Fred Brown - 77th A.D. Current 2007-2009 Male State Committee member:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED81131F930A15754C0A...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE6DD1530F93AA15755C0A...

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0717FD3A5F0C708DDDA108...

http://www.nycsci.org/reports/12-93%20CSB%20ELECTS%20RPT.pdf

Curtis Johnson - 79th A.D. Current 2007-2009 Male State Committee member:


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NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS EMPLOYEE LIES AND FALSIFIES

YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS HARD AT WORK

Dawn Sandow, who is the deputy chief clerk at the Bronx Board of Elections needs to explain why she has to lie to the taxpayers of New York City who pay her $ 83,500.00 a year salary. Ms. Sandow says that she lives in the Bronx, but she actually lives in Rockland County and when you work for the city of New York you are bound by residency requirements that you must live in the confines of New York City. Last year a newspaper article was published by Dave Seifman from the New York Post about this Bronx County GOP political hacker. And at the time this news article was published on September 3, 2006, Ms. Sandow was quoted as saying that she lives in the Bronx with her mother. Well it turns out that her mother Mae Sandow died many months earlier on April 10, 2006 at a senior citizen nursing home in the Bronx. Now please keep in mind that Dawn Sandow did not live in the nursing home with her mother. And Dawn Sandow has her voter registration at 1625 Radcliff Avenue in the Bronx, while the mother had her voter registration at another address and you always vote from where you live:

SANDOW, MAE, V


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PBI, the demotard edition

Sometimes I wish I had gone the route of anonymous blogging so that I could really, really say what's on my mind about all the tards and turds of the Democratic Party --because, you know I already hate all republican politicians.

My dreams of anonymous blogging used to get a wettie everytime I read The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. fakeSTEVE was outed recently but I just as soon decided to not remember his name. I didn't want to destroy the 'childlike wonder' of his anonymity (this, btw, is one of his running jokes). I'd rather believe realSTEVE would call Microsoft's Steve Ballmer SquirrelBoy or that he'd cast aspersions on open-source software activists and devotees by calling them freetards; as opposed to knowing he's some awesomely snarky writer working for Forbes.com.

Which is why I coined the neologism, demotard. So that I could give a shout out to fakeSTEVE and the freetards when I give you the political blind item of the week :

Which demotard got his manties in bunch last week because I dared to criticize an incumbent, his incumbent, because the incumbent happens to be a Democrat!

The manties wearing human excrescence went as far to use my children to attack me for not sucking up to his free lunch and his office.

The. Douchebag. Went. There.

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