Bay
Ridge Community Council in Brooklyn organized their annual Great
Debate, where candidates for Congress, State Senate and Assembly debate
and answer questions to let voters know their stands on current affairs.
The headliner debate was the congressional race, the first head-to-head
debate, however the challenger refused to show up to debate the
Congressman.
Dominic
Recchia, a former councilman in Brooklyn, is the Democratic opponent
trying to replace two-time elected Congressman Michael Grimm. Recchia
announced the night before that he would not be attending the debate
stating a scheduling conflict. Not stating what the scheduling conflict
was about, the no-show challenger gave Congressman Grimm the stage to
himself.
One
question brought up about his current indictment where the Congressman
stated it was a fair question to a response of “It’s really one
question; have I served you well or not?.. I’ve moved mountains and will
continue to do so..”
At
the end of the debate, the Congressman talked to reporters stating his
opponent missing in action tonight was "due to him being in debate prep
since he really doesn't know the key issues to Brooklyn and Staten
Island voters.” The rose garden strategy from Recchia is to "deceive
voters of his abysmal 12 year record as Brooklyn Councilman where he
voted to raise property taxes by 18.5% and to raise tolls on bridges.
He’s refusing to debate me because he’s afraid that the middle-class
Staten Islanders and Brooklynites discover his record is in lock-step
with the ultra-liberal dream team of Bill de Blasio, Nancy Pelosi, and
Barack Obama, the sooner they will send him packing.”
Earlier
before the debate, a NY1 reporter asked Recchia on the campaign trail
on why he wouldn't be attending the debate that night. Recchia confused
with the question even though he was asked three times and the only
answer was that he "ready to debate Grimm". Funny how he states he is
ready to debate the Congressman but failed to attend the first head to
head debate.
Well, let's see what happens in the next debate to be scheduled October 22
and if he can answer the question straightforwardly, without mumbling
an incoherent answer, especially on foreign policy, such as explaining
what the Trans-Pacific Proposal (TPP) in which Recchia’s non-clear
statement, "...made in America to manufacture more in America is better
for this country". With the issue of Syria, Recchia continued to stumble
on answering this issue stating, “sending troops to Syria should be a
last resort and we have many different, you know, that’s what we want,
you know, options available to us."
Guess
the DNCC needs to put money into prepping Recchia with talking points
on foreign issues. But then again the Democrats really don’t have any
talking points or any realistic points on foreign issues.
Carry on.