Republican Mazi Pilip ‘s name was repeated over and OVER!
She’s the Registed Democrat running as a Republican against Tom Suozzi , the Democrat in the Special Election for the New York 3rd US House District ….
This was a Political event FOR Pilip….
She wasn’t there…
The Nassau Republican Party people WERE …
Pilip does NOT even have campaign staff….
It was the biggest event of Mazi Pilip’s campaign in a must-win special House election in New York. The No. 3 House Republican had flown in. A half-dozen congressmen led a crowd in chants of “Mazi! Mazi!”
There was just one thing missing from the Republican show of force at an American Legion hall the other day: the candidate, who was home observing Shabbat.
In any other race, her absence would have been a deal breaker. But on Long Island, the event vividly illustrated an open secret animating Tuesday’s contest to replace former Representative George Santos. Ms. Pilip’s name may be on the ballot, but the campaign belongs to the Nassau County Republican machine.
After decades of electoral losses and corruption scandals, the organization has roared back to life in the New York City suburbs, reviving a political tradition that has largely become an anachronism elsewhere in the country.
In just the last three years, Republicans have swept every major office in the county, filling high-profile posts and hundreds of patronage jobs with party regulars often obliged to return the favor come campaign season.
Joseph G. Cairo Jr., the group’s silver-haired chairman and de facto boss, handpicked Ms. Pilip, 44, a part-time county legislator, and is now serving as her chief strategist, fund-raiser and surrogate. He has dispatched loyal lieutenants to be her spokesmen and campaign handlers. And in previously unreported conversations, he browbeat party leaders in Washington to spend more on advertising…
She was observing Shabbat, That’s why she wasn’t there.
Yes she was……
Her party scheduled the event…..
No repect from them?
She ducked almost a half a dozen debates….
She has NO campaign staff….
She IS a Registered DEMOCRAT…Which is why Santos won’t vote for her, eh?
She trails against Suozzi in the early vote…
Oh, and Joe Cairo runs the GOP party here in Nassau Cty..
Some of your complaints against her are the oddest ones I have ever heard made against a candidate.