State GOP De-Commissions 131-Year-Old Club

Brooklyn GOP Chair Craig ("The Crusher") Eaton, who doesn't like Jonathan Judge, the President of the Brooklyn Young Republicans, has taken Judge's club -- or at least its name --away from him.

Here is an excerpt from the statement Judge released today announcing that his organization was de-commissioned this past weekend by the New York State Association of Young Republican Clubs:

“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. revoked the Brooklyn Young Republican Club's membership in order to admit Brooklyn Republican Chairman Craig Eaton's Young Republicans into the state organization."

The move leaves the venerable Young Republican Club headed by Judge in the anomalous position of being the "unsanctioned" version.

In the aftermath of the switch, Judge had this to say:

"The Brooklyn Young Republican Club still exists, despite Eaton's club receiving membership in the NYSYR.  Our organization predates the founding of the NYSYR, so the NYSYR does not have the power to decommission anything.  The end result is that our organization is no longer affiliated with the NYSYR, and we are free to make endorsements in Republican primaries, if the membership chooses to."

For more information, visit the BYRC website.