Feiner: “Fire Me!”

ABG staffers read the monthly editorial that The Paul releases for publicity over things he has no control, purview or responsibility for. Once again, almost exactly to schedule, he bemoans the “wait” residents in Greenburgh must go through after each storm to get power restored. While we concede he has a point that residents must wait for restoration of power, his rationale, as is typical, is askew. He states that Town residents seem to wait longer than NY City residents to get power restored. That may be. However, the density of population is typically the rationale for repair priority that he refuses to acknowledge. In general, Greenburgh doesn’t lose power all that often as the ConEd infrastructure in Westchester is somewhat newer and more weather resistant. But it really doesn’t matter. The media has given him a pass and continually publishes his blather, rather than challenge him.  


In the Sunday edition of the Journal News flyer out of New Jersey (read: jobs leaving NY), an article by Rebecca Baker, lead stenographer for the Feiner Media Group, entitled “Courts Troubles Heat Primary”, details each candidate’s position on the mismanagement, difficulties, and loss of revenue to the Town through it’s courts, all without once mentioning that the responsibility ultimately lies with the failed leadership of Supervisor Paul Feiner and his cowardly ‘Stepford’ Town Board! Other than the incumbents pointing out that they all tried to publicize the problems, no one actually discussed improvements they've contributed to the courts other than collecting a paycheck.


At each Town Board meeting we attend or watch on cable, numerous residents, whom we applaud for their tenacity, intelligence and caring for a Town bereft with maladies, appear before at the Board meeting detailing time and again what is wrong and what needs repair. Unfortunately, it falls on deaf and/or uninterested ears. He repeatedly states that when he was a County Legislator that he wanted to abolish county government, saying, “Fire me!” We should have listened to him. Lousy politicians don’t go away, they just move to higher office. It’s sad.


The recent tropical storm that hit the area, after losing momentum as a hurricane, hit us with a path of destruction and devastation previously unseen by many. Only this time, the storm’s path swept a much larger area; some that had previously been the topics brought up at many Town Board meetings for years! So while this event was no surprise to the the Supervisor and Town Board, their blatant ignoring of the flooding issue that has been growing throughout the Town for the last twenty or so years. Wait a minute...The Paul has been Supervisor for the last twenty years This is something he and they voluntarily chose to ignore. After all, why fix something when they can talk about? More importantly, why fix something when they know they’ll just get re-elected anyway?


We’ve called for the Supervisor to step down before. We know his ego and his arrogance won’t let that happen. The best we can hope for is that everyone who got flooded from a trickle of water to life-threatening amounts, start to attend Town Board meetings and hold those elected officials feet to the fire. Or better yet, hold their heads under water until they do something. The Town doesn’t need another study, another member-item $5k grant or The Paul pointing a finger at the state or federal government to deflect blame. The blame this time is squarely on his and his board’s shoulders. If they don’t act, during future elections we should throw these ‘babies out with the flood water’!