Every election cycle has it's good points and bad. The good is that issues of substance can be brought to the forefront and postulated upon and sometimes get so much traction, that something actually may get done. The bad is the shenanigans we all must endure during an election and the environmentally disruptive campaign literature mailings. An earlier post on ABetterGreenburgh (ABG) discusses the only tangible campaign issue that surfaced during the Journal News' interview of the two candidates vying for Thomas Abinanti's 12th District County Legislative seat for Greenburgh.
In todays Journal News, DeCicco, claims ownership of a letter to the editor that captures his entire campaign in 250 words. He had trouble getting these same points across during his debate with Shimsky and seemed to fumble more than he scored. He made another blunder in his letter to the editor. It's the same mistake the County made back on May 22, 1930. It's also the same mistake the county failed to remedy during the $16-million rehabilitation completed in 1988. What error did DeCicco make, as well as the County? They both spelled Greenburgh incorrectly. They spelled it Greenburg, without the 'H'. Go ahead, take a ride to the county center and read the lists of towns and villages on the facade. Perhaps DeCicco should write his own press releases and not rely on someone from New Rochelle to do them. The simpler spelling might be, in part, why they now use New Roc.
The letter following DeCiccos to the editor is from a John Staino, identified as the president of the CSEA. He tries to say that DeCicco would be doing what Shimsky is (using CSEA headquarters) had he won their endorsement. Doubtful. The Republican machine is too heavily in the tank right now scrambling for Astorino to get just one more republican in the legislature, so they wouldn't have let go of DeCicco's leash to allow that - even if they would like to have the unions on their side. After what Astorino's budget did to the union membership, they can wave that boat goodbye, never to see it's return to their harbor.
Tomorrow's election is important for the republicans, but DeCicco is already tarnished goods. It's alleged he's accepted campaign financing from a local Deli, a contractor and his attorney to "suggest" he vote a certain way. He did. He voted in favor of the deli. The Town's ethics-challenged supervisor has made a full court press to help the deli, another ethical violation that will go nowhere. Will the residents of Greenburgh ever see relief? Probably not.
term limits are needed to end the misrule of hosni feiner and diana the sphinx juettner. out of 90000 residents, probably less than 1000 will vote on tuesday or some other shockingly low number. sonja brown saw what a fraud feiner is. what is wrong with the rest of the town's taxpayers?
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ReplyDeleteDeCicco's reply to the "citizen" complaint has been posted. The Zoning Board Chairman confirms that DeCicco did in fact withdraw from the Deli case several weeks ago. According to the papers filed DeCicco says the he had no contact with anyone from the Deli application prior to the straw vote on January 20. He was first contacted by the Deli's attorney on January 24. DeCicco recused himself on January 25 - over 3 weeks prior to the formal vote due on February 17. Furthermore, DeCicco states that he has not spoken with any member of the ZBA about the Deli application since 1/24. DeCicco's facts have been verified by the ZBA Chairman.
Again - Look at the Town Supervisor for throwing another member on the Zoning Board just prior to teh vote on 2/17 and the "mastermind" who killed Bill Greenawalt to secure the MJ nomination.
The spelling error is much ado about "nothing". How many people are aware that some official signs prepared by the Town of Greenburgh spell the Townn's name as "Greenburg"? They appear is some very public places and have for quite some time. Any one want to guess where they are? I'll check back in periodically to see how "we're" doing. Good hunting
ReplyDeletetHe trutH is tHat loHud only gave Nick 2 hours to submit his letter last Friday and when he submitted corrections - also on friday - they refused to print them even though the story wasn't being published until three days later on Monday.
ReplyDeleteIf DeCicco did not write the letter, which is what this blog alludes, shame on him. The blog also alludes that Colety wrote it. I doubt that. But it is sad that he made an error so simple. Stacy Anderson, soon to be exiting the Journal News, wrote the same thing about DeCicco not having contact with the fund raisers. It's plausible, as in plausible deniability, as DeCicco's campaign manager and/or Colety, who seem to be in full court press mode, would have run interception on the fund raiser. Pateman helps numerous republicans with the offer of using his house as a host. But the complaint from a democratic district leader makes a valid argument. Finally, the invitations needed lead time to be designed approved, printed and mailed out. C'mon...
ReplyDeleteRead the complaint - invites were distributed by EMAIL, NOT by snail-mail.
ReplyDeleteUnless you are a really really slow typer, it takes very little time to write up an invitation and press "send"