With young republicans from all over the state of New York traveling to Corning this weekend for our biennial convention, I wanted to take a few moments to salute our outgoing state chair Lynn Krogh.
My relationship with Lynn started of on an odd foot. It wasn’t on the campaign trail or phone banking. It was before we even met and I almost set off a turf war between rival gangs. One day in 2008, I got an e-mail from the “New York City YRs” from their President who has been reading my blog and asked if I’d like to present an award to Rep. Pete King. Of course I said yes. He’s my guy, we Irish have to stick together, plus it’s kinda cool that someone I never met was such a fan of mine he was inviting me to his awards dinner because he enjoyed my blog.
So, I send out a notification on my mailing list. The first response was from…let’s just call him Guy Incognito (incase anyone from the Town of Hempstead is reading). Guy told me that this NYYRC wasn’t the officially licensed YRs and was a rogue organization…which I thought was ridiculous. How many YRs can there possibly be in NYC to have rival gangs? This was obviously just hazing the new guy.
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