Marty Golden endorses John Quaglione for City Council
State Sen. Marty Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-Southwest Brooklyn) has officially endorsed his Deputy Chief of Staff, John Quaglione, in his run for the District 43 (Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights-Bensonhurst) City Council seat. Quaglione entered a crowded field running for the seat currently held by Vincent Gentile, who cannot run again due to term limits.
Quaglione has worked with Golden for 19 years and has been closely involved with a number of initiatives he’s helped put through, including cleaning up Shore Road Park and successfully petitioning the MTA to reinstate weekend service on the x27 and x28 bus lines.
Golden offered strong words of praise for Quaglione, and said that the decision to endorse him was an easy one. Golden detailed all the initiatives he’s tackled with Quaglione and admitted that if Quaglione were to win the City Council seat it would be an added advantage because together they could get so much more done.
“I was a Republican in the City Council for five years and I delivered over $20 million just for parks alone,” Golden said. “Vincent Gentile hasn’t been able to deliver that type of funding across the board in 17 years. So you need somebody there who’s going to be able to deliver. Vincent Gentile is a nice guy but he hasn’t been able to deliver. I think John would be able to deliver. We need money for education, for more police officers, for our transportation systems, and he’s the guy who’s going to be able to deliver.”