The joke that is the Republican Party in Staten Island

Tom writes about the state of the Republican party by not having a candidate. The article is mostly a detour through what seemingly is another ego induced mistake on their part in rejecting former Assembly member Matthew Mirones. By far the best part of the article;

"How does anyone in the GOP make a statement like, 'Where has Matt been?'" said one longtime borough Republican. "He has to reach out to the elected officials? For what? To earn the right to spend $2 million and save their butts from getting trounced? What has my party come to? What are they afraid of? It looks like they have been bending over backward to hand this race to Mike."