Who says politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows? As was recently reported in the New York Post, only days after winning the NYC Democratic primary, Brooklyn Borough President and former NYPD Captain Eric Adams was spotted dining with a bevy of influential NYC Republicans.
Who says politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows? As was recently reported in the New York Post, only days after winning the NYC Democratic primary, Brooklyn Borough President and former NYPD Captain Eric Adams was spotted dining with a bevy of influential NYC Republicans.
Chowing down at the renowned Italian restaurant Rao’s in East Harlem, Adams was joined by GOP billionaire and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, his daughter Andrea, who is the chair of the Manhattan Republicans, former cop and media personality Richard “Bo” Dietl and a public relations official for Catsimatidis. Dietl once launched his own mayoral bid some years ago that resulted in campaign finance violations, according to the Post report.
On Friday, Dietl spoke to the Post and told them that the Thursday night dinner in which Adams was present was a last minute invite and was not pre-planned. He said that Adams was invited because some his hedge fund cronies who were expected to attend had to withdraw.Dietl told the Post, “I invited Eric and he showed up. We are social friends. This was not a planned event.”
The four politicos were photographed at the restaurant as dined together. The Post reported that the photo was sent to a New York Magazine reporter late Thursday and the photo went viral.
Catsimatidis, who not only owns the Gristedes supermarket chain in Manhattan but also is a media mogul of sorts as he is the owner of the conservative talk radio station WABC-770AM. It is at the radio station that Catsimatidis broadcasts his own radio program and it is the same radio station that Catsimatidis’ colleague Curtis Sliwa had a radio program for many years.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa won the NYC Republican primary for mayor on June 22nd, when he handily defeated Fernando Mateo. Sliwa, who is running as a law and order candidate and one who wants to tackle the soaring crime problem in the Big Apple.
Another person at the table at Rao’s told the Post that, “We went to Rao’s for an enjoyable dinner and we were surprised to see Eric Adams.” A campaign spokesman said that Adams knew Catsimatidis would be there.
As for Catsimatidis’ opinion of Adams, he told the Post on Friday that the he has known the Democratic nominee for mayor for a long time.“Eric Adams is talking like he wants to do a good job,” Catsimatidis said.
29 comments:
Well, he was a registered Republican for twenty years, but there's nothing wrong with reaching across the aisle, since, unlike the Dope from Park Slope, he wants to be the Mayor of all New Yorkers.
I guess they couldn't get Cats' daughter into the photo without a wide-angle lens since she had her (ahem) enhancement surgery...
Republicans, Independents and non-affiliated voters (blanks) received mailers late last year and early January from some organization that I don't recall asking them to re-register as Democrats in order to vote in the Mayoral Democratic primary. The letter cited the problems NYC was facing(i.e, out of control crime and covid lockdowns) as a call to vote for the best candidate who would be most effective in handling these problems.
Nothing is coincidental, folks - This "chance" meeting between Adams, Bo Dietl and Catsimidatis was not a happenstance or spontaneous event as the article would lead you to believe. I speculated that the clandestine voting operation to infiltrate the Dem primary with republicans and independents was a spectacular success - enough repubs and blank voters re-registered in the Primary to give Eric Adams the necessary margin of victory. You have now witnessed who were the masterminds behind this operation.
What's the Jewish Post trying to make out of this friendly dinner. They don't like Republicans at the table? Shame!
He (Adams) was never a "Real" Cop, he was a "Textbook" Cop and always too busy running "100 Blacks in Law Enforcement" furthering his own agenda, ask a street cop how he/she feels about Eric Adams...
To quote the great actor, Joe Mantell (Walsh) from the final scene of the iconic, neo-noir classic 1974 movie 'Chinatown,' as Walsh turns to Jack Nicholson's character (J. J. Jake Gittes) in the front seat of that oversize 1940s sedan, as he ever so casually cautions:
❝Forget it, Jake——it's Chinatown.❞
That's why here in New York State and New York City, the OFFICIAL capitals of global corruption, graft and monstrous, never-ending greed (and, now lethally dangerous violence, lawlessness, vigilantism, openly practiced government tyranny and anarchy), nothing ever changes——because NOTHING EVER CHANGES. That's because no one has ever CHANGED the MAFIA——BY JOINING IT!
HENCE, the NEW & IMPROVED New York City catch phrase and sound bite:
❝Forget it, Eric——it's Harlem-town Meets Old World Little Italy, 'Cosa Nostra' style——à la RAO'S!❞ Or, in simpler, old world parlance: Tutti a tavola per mangiare!
Eric Adams says DA candidate Alvin Bragg’s views on public safety ‘no different’ than his.
And the Sheeple thought deBlazio was bad ?
"Bragg has indicated he would decline prosecuting: resisting arrest, trespassing, fare evasion, marijuana possession, driving with a suspended license and any traffic violation."
https://nypost.com/2021/07/10/eric-adams-says-hes-in-crimefighting-step-with-da-candidate-alvin-bragg/
To the fifth Anonymous from bottom who correctly said:
❝Nothing is coincidental, folks——this 'chance' meeting between Adams, Bo Dietl and Catsimidatis [sic] was not a happenstance or spontaneous event, as the article would lead you to believe.❞
❝In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.❞ ——Franklin Delano (Deficit) Roosevelt
Well at least we know what the Quotation Drone Guy thinks about all of this.
Pretty much the same as he thinks about everything else.
Eric Adams says DA candidate Alvin Bragg’s views on public safety ‘no different’ than his.
And this will happen more and more !!!
https://nypost.com/2021/07/09/driver-with-illegal-lights-and-sirens-hits-nypd-car-injuring-3/
My whole prayer is that God continue to reveal the evil that the left has perpetuated on our country. May God Bless America!
This is a great blog that will never be taken seriously while "Quotation Drone Guy" does his stick.
What a shame how one person's ego can take away something that can do so much good.
I'm waiting for Adams to have his Ray Nagin moment.
I'm jealous, a table at Rao's. Impressive
Re: "My whole prayer is that God continue to reveal the evil that the left has perpetuated on our country. May God Bless America!"
Well God must have been listening. He got rid of one piece of evil last November. Unfortunately he didn't finish the job and let the evil fester in his Maralago mansion.
@"May God Bless America"
Why just America, why not other countries as well? Which God are you talking about some American one or the one that hung around the Middle East back in the old days, and didn't even know that America existed?
Maybe it's some Hollywood version of God, that spoke with an American accent, and ate hamburgers?
Wow - just WOW! To the few oddball objectors who keep senselessly attacking the quotation gal/guy: You must have really dirty hands to be so pissed off because of a few historic offerings that harm no one. Find another fetish, guys; your political graft is showing!
Well God must have been listening. He got rid of one piece of evil last November. Unfortunately he didn't finish the job and let the evil fester in his Maralago mansnon.
Look as bad as he is, the current crop is so bad they make him look good.
A bunch of cheating fascists had to play games to get in power.
I support Quotation Drone Guy ! My two cents...
Thank God for Quotation Drone Guy !
To the arrogant, Anonymous coward who polluted this thread with:
❝This is a great blog that will never be taken seriously while 'Quotation Drone Guy' does his stick.
What a shame how one person's ego can take away something that can do so much good.❞
You must have taken an extra dose of DemonRat-prescribed crazy pills today, you transparent party apologist. Who appointed YOU as public censor? I hate to burst your hermetically sealed bubble, but you are in the deepest well of minority to believe that my disarming truths are the reason for why you look upon this blog without serious direction, while ironically taking jabs at someone whom you don't even know because of a harmless string of quotations that speak evidentiary truth about corruption that have so completely rattled your cage.
The bloviated ego here in the room is YOU, the one who discredits wisdom that is not negotiable, while levels of glaring corruption, graft and greed continue to implode and obliterate our once great city and state, with imppunity.
So, who EVER you THINK you are, KING RAT, don't ever EVEN remotely attempt to match your scattered wits against my solid and proven track record at challenging authority, talkling truth to power, and exposing the specific types and depths of corruption that have obviously hit your party-obedient purse strings with consequential results, 'cause sweetheart——YOU'LL LOSE!
Further, until you come out from behind the wizard's curtain, you putrid little bully and Anonymous harrasser, stop embarrassing yourself online with sad diatribes like the one you left above, and for once in your bottomfeeding life as an amoeba, be a man or woman and admit your allegiance to protecting graft, instead of the 'Attack And Retreat,' and 'Accuse And Evade' SCUD missile launch against ME, a concerned, do gooder like who will never stop digging deeper for the ugly truths that you are paid to suppress. Think of me then, as a targeted human jackhammer against corruption: I NEVER give up!
❝Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to SAY something.❞ ——Plato
To TheSheeple piece of dung (who referred to me as 'doofus,' and the half witted, mouthy 'Anonymous' coward above him who said:
❝Well at least we know what the Quotation Drone Guy thinks about all of this.
Pretty much the same as he thinks about everything else.❞
Do yourselves a favor, terminal misfits, and control your rabid impulses to attack what you amplified 'simple life forms in stereo' are genetically unable to understand. But, what was it in life, I shouldn't wonder, that you both failed at so miserably that leaves you so angry, confused and embittered over someone else's free speech that has apparently intimidated you to the point of making utter fools of yourselves on public forum? Maybe its time to stop bending your elbows at the corner pub, and to refrain from bartering your profoundly damaged souls to the party-machine-failed system that so emboldens you to keep sucking up for your supper.
ALAS, even Pavlov's dogs couldn't be conditioned to behave with such staggering loyalty——and, THEY actually get REWARDED for their blind obedience!
So, here in closing, are another two of those historic quotes of imparting wisdom that your feeble, plebeian, one celled brains (if that!) will never be able to understand, much less negotiate:
❝Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences——stupid people already have the answers.❞ ——Socrates
❝Even if the bee could explain to the fly why honey is better than shit——he wouldn't understand.❞ ——Anonymous (Exactly like you & TheSheeple cowards.)
Buzz off! "Quotation Drone Guy"!
I live in the UK where we used to have good comedy.
Now i just watch CNN
It's hilarious and unbelievable.
Are they actually believed ?
This story makes North Korean TV look sophisticated.
Not a drone gal/guy, fellow QUEENS Crappers, but a double scholar in history and four languages, a doctor, in fact——but, sadly not the medical kind that could assist with the kind of hands on, around-the-clock therapy of which too many, online bullies and harassers are already beyond the point of behavior modification therapy.
So, to the last Anonymous bully on this self-destructive thread (of rabid, minority Mob Rule) I will 'Buzz off' when aggressors like YOU stop attacking me, when I took no action to provoke you, or anyone else. So, BLAST OFF yourself, buster (preferably into another galaxy that is oxygen sparse——the ONLY way to break your OCD impulses and obvious 'Brain Lock' to keep badgering, harassing and bullying my free speech on public forum).
NOTE TO JQ: As the administrator of this blog, relentless, online harassment should be your cue to sternly caution anyone who attempts to engage in online bullying and harassment tactics, by strict enforcement of a ZERO TOLERANCE policy. This blog is not the equivalent of a junior high schoolyard, where thugs of aggression wait to prey on their victims.
This blogspace is a public forum to leave grievances about our politically failed government throughout New York State, and all other matters of civic discource and discussion. However, something went profoundly awry when a minority group, seemingly out of nowhere, imposed 'Mob Rule' against me to begin a ruthless and relentless attack against my posts, and ultimately an attack on my right to free speech, which must be accepted without the threat of online harassment, bullying and intimidation of any kind.
Obviously, a chaste amount of sophomoric, immature and politically motivated audience members appears to be oblivious to the rules of online etiquette. How tragic for our young audiences to see purportedly, fully grown adults hiding behind anonymity while deploying their unprovoked and aggressive attacks against another person's free speech. Perhaps the rules need to be changed, in that anyone who endeavors to attack someone based solely on their postings should not be allowed the veil of privileged identity protection——a policy like that would immediately halt the abuse——or better yet, to simply impose enforceable policies that banish personal attacks, altogether.
Unless you halt these personal attacks (and totally unjustified aggressions) forthwith, then you will be enabling their brazen attacks to continue to abuse this blog, with impunity, whilst simultaneously reinforcing complicity to enforce rules of common sense, etiquette and respect toward ALL others whose viewpoints differ from the minority attackers in question.
Kindly disabuse your audience of this hostile disregard for First Amendment rights, and the privilege to speak freely, without online harassment tactics, without further delay.
@Anon :re quotation drone, comments
They are just opinions, not harassment. Not everybody has to like you or agree with you. Blow them off or write your own blog, which you are obviously capable of doing.
I like Drone Guy ! Keep up the good work I enjoy you post here.
To JQ, regarding your last post:
I strenuously disagree with your short evaluation above. I never presumed to expect, much less insist or demand likes, or even agreement from anyone who replies to my posts that I've left, strictly as inclusionary, public service examples of educational instruction, carefully blended with historic, ON TOPIC quotations that speak of past grievances throughout the annals of American (and world) history, as they relate to our present social ills of failed political decay.
Mere opinions don't endeavor to display a chronic, obsessive loop of relentless, derogatory, personal attacks of venomous namecalling, and overall hostility toward another point of view that ironically did not provoke such unwarranted displays of hateful replies in the first place, all of which is worsened by the absence of online, administrative disclaimers against bullying that carry swift and banishing consequences.
To suggest that I 'blow them off,' or write my own blog is a willful dereliction of maintaining a modicum of common sense, underscored by blog etiquette rules and regulations that would surely persuade your audience-at-large to reexamine their OWN behavior, and to refocus their time, energy and targeted aggressions where they would resonate the most: Against the feckless, politically entitled elitists to whom they are enslaved, all of whom DESERVE to be publicly excoriated, denounced and vilifed——NOT I! So, why should the onus be upon ME? I am the aggrieved party who reached out to you to respectfully request a more responsive, administrative control over this blogsite over which you've accepted the responsibility of maintaining and overseeing.
If anything, it would immediately thin the herd of uncontrolled, online bullies to bring some order to their openly aggressive and abusive tactics. I see it as a 'WIN-WIN,' amigo——don't you agree? Best and warmest regards to you, JQ!
To the Anonymous who said: ❝I'm jealous. A table at Rao's. Impressive.❞
There is nothing impressive, much less to exhibit feelings of jealousy about table service at the official 'Harlem Goodfella's Club,' I mean, Rao's. It's a cloyingly romanticized, mob laden dive for seasoned, entrenched, multi-generational mobsters (and their 'wannabe's') as well as the dirty-handed politicians of entitlement who jockey for position to mutually court each other——because if you're NOT invited to a seat at their coveted table——then, you're on the menu!
And, right now New York City is 'on the menu'——exactly how the old political CRIME WAVE-henchmen LIKE it——ironically oblivious to their seriously numbered days 'til extinction (or rigor mortis) takes effect——whichever comes first.
OH!—and, the food there is spotty, and more often than not, marginally preferable to HUNGER (my family's Third Generation made gravy, or 'gorgeous sauce' as my mother still proudly exhorts——replete with organically grown, garden fresh tomatoes——freshly harvested on the day of preparation!) could wipe the floor with their acidic, stale, malingering product). Hell yeah, Crappies: The Quotation Gal/Guy gets around——since the dog days of Senator 'Pothole,' I mean Alphonse D'Amato & Co. held court at his 'usual' table——reserved strictly for henchmen & moguls!
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