Given these choices, the Queens County organization has chosen to stand on principle, since it hasn’t much else in the way of political outcomes to hope for. But the Rockaway Republicans are in a slightly different boat. With substantial numbers of supporters in their ranks of the mayor and his chief GOP challenger, they could still go either way. The question for them is whether belated acceptance by an organization that previously pretended they weren’t there is worth severing all ties to a mayor who, at his best, seems barely aware that there are any Republicans in the city at all.
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