Jonathan Judge on Republican Politics in Brooklyn

Jonathan Judge, a neighbor and member of Community Board 14, landed in the New York Post today speaking about his role in the Brooklyn Young Republican Club:

Of course, stumping for a GOP presidential candidate in these parts can be a fraught pursuit. Jonathan Judge, who ran the club for three years before stepping down last year, recalls the horrified reactions he got while stumping for George W. Bush in 2008.

“It was more from older people,” says Judge, 26. “They’d look at me like I was single-handedly destroying the United States of America.”

The article describes the group’s struggle to promote Republican politics (or single-handedly destroy America, depending on how you look at it) in a heavily Democratic borough.