At Fernando Cabrera’s primary victory party at Maestro’s catering hall last Tuesday, a young man wearing a blue Cabrera T-shirt introduced himself to a reporter.

“I’m James Bond,” he said.

His real name, actually, is John Zaccaro. He’s a 20-year-old La Guardia Community College student who lives in Kingsbridge, but for the last several months during Cabrera’s contentious campaign for the 14th District City Council seat, he posted comments on political blogs (like the Norwood News’ Bronx News Network blog) as “James…James Bond.”

He’s also one of more than 100 members of Cabrera’s New Life Outreach International Church who got off their pews and stepped into politics this primary season. New Life was the lifeblood of his successful campaign to unseat Maria Baez.

It was evident at Maestro’s where the majority of those celebrating identified themselves as New Life members.

Zaccaro and others, like 22-year-old City College political science student Timothy Tapia, spent countless unpaid hours petitioning, knocking on doors and responding to attacks (and they were numerous and spiteful) on blogs and other Web stories.

Many of them had never been involved in a political campaign. And other than Tapia, most of them had no real political aspirations. But they all shared a strong belief in Cabrera, their pastor, mentor and, sometimes, father figure.

“We believe in him as a pastor and as a man,” said Zaccaro, who, as an adolescent being raised by a single mom, began hanging out on the streets and running with the wrong crowd until he joined New Life. “Now, my whole family serves God,” he said.

Tapia lost a cousin last Thanksgiving and Cabrera showed up to comfort his family at their holiday meal. “That’s the kind of man he is,” Tapia said.

Everyone contributed to the campaign in his or her own way.

Carlos Feliciano, 28, is a youth minister at New Life who often sings the Christian pop songs that dominate services at the Morris Avenue church.

Feliciano, a counselor at a Brooklyn charter school, worked on the campaign during his summer vacation. On his computer’s Garage Band music program, Feliciano composed three campaign theme songs, all with the same lyrics but in different styles: R&B, meringue and reggaeton.

The lyrics were simple; they consisted of the candidate’s name, “Fernando Cabrera,” over and over again. “It was catchy,” Feliciano said.

Feliciano and others all said the most eye-opening aspect of the campaign was how people in the community were starved for real leadership, political or otherwise.

“The question is not only what can Cabrera do politically, but what can he do as a spiritual leader?” Feliciano said.