JONATHAN

 J.  JUDGE    
President  
ROY  M.  ANTOUN  
 
OSHER  S.  GORDON  
SAMUEL  M.  RIVERA  
LOUIS  A.  PERROTTA  III  
Vice  President  
HAROLD  A.  SOLIS  
 
Board  of  Directors  
CHRISTINA  M.  BENNETT  
 
Secretary  
MOSHE  B.  MURATOV  
 
Executive  Director  
GLENN  P.  NOCERA  
Treasurer  
 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jonathan Judge
February 28, 2011 (347) 278-7525
 
BROOKLYN YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB, ESTABLISHED 1880, NOW MORE
PROUDLY INDEPENDENT THAN EVER BEFORE

Jonathan J. Judge, President of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club, has released the following
statement:

“The Brooklyn Young Republican Club, established in 1880, has even more reason to be proud of its
independence. This weekend, in an unprecedented sneak move, a handful of insider Republican
operatives in charge of the Association of New York State Young Republican Clubs, Inc., deceitfully
revoked the Brooklyn Young Republican Club's membership in order to admit Brooklyn Republican
Chairman Craig Eaton's Young Republicans into the state organization within 10 days from its first
meeting.

“Since 1880, the Brooklyn Young Republican Club has always proudly maintained its grassroots,
reform-minded Republican character. These latest corrupt moves for direct control of independent
Republican organizations by Mr. Eaton and the State Young Republican Association's leadership,
long beholden to establishment cronies, only serve to demonstrate how out of touch the Republican
Party leadership is with the public and the grassroots of our party. It also means there is much more
work to be done in Brooklyn and New York State in cleaning the party up.

“In fact, over the past year, voters across the country, and especially within the Republican Party,
have expressed their anger and frustration with the 'get-along, go-along' status quo that has brought
the rise of the Tea Party movement. For too long, Republican Party leaders and insider operatives
have expected grassroots Republicans to blindly follow their will. Instead, our party needs to be
open to those who do not always agree with the party leadership, including their choice of
candidates.

“After all, where would we have been in 2010 without principled, reform Republicans and Tea Party
activists willing to challenge the failed Republican Party establishment? For instance, nearly 7 out of
10 Republicans thought independent Republican Michael Grimm was the better nominee for the 13th
Congressional District. Yet if Mr. Eaton and his shrinking band of establishment supporters had
gotten their way, Mr. Grimm would not be Congressman Grimm today.

“Throughout our organization's history, we have never shied away from calling out the corruption and
misdeeds in both parties, while organizing voters around principled candidates and common-sense
solutions. The Brooklyn Young Republican Club believes that we need to put people before politics,
good policy before patronage, and reform before the ‘go-along, get-along’ status quo. We pledge to
continue our commitment towards those ends and welcome all young Republicans, Tea Party
activists, and young Brooklynites fed up with a failed, do-nothing establishment to join us in this
tremendous opportunity to make sure the job gets done right.”

For more information on the Brooklyn Young Republican Club, visit http://www.BrooklynYR.com.

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