The Selling of Greenburgh

Our politicos all tout public and private consolidations from the local to the national stage. “Do-nothing” County Legislator Alfreda Williams is well-known for using this public-private “line” when any opportunity to speak finds her stumped about an issue at hand. When all else fails for her, she’ll successfully use The Paul’s deflection methods to escape further scrutiny. The Paul, on the other hand, has continually used his media machines, such as the Journal News, as well as their off-shoot, the Daily Greenburgh, and others to foist his ill-advised schemes onto an unsuspecting, or clueless public. The latest debacle to defraud the public is the supposed copious amounts of money the Town stands to make by adding bubbles throughout the Town. And, his cohort, Tom “Proclamation” Abinanti, just assisted The Paul with their latest scheme to defraud the Greenburgh public in an effort to recoup funds lost, intentionally by The Paul, when he refused to renegotiate the WestHelp contract for the $1.2 million a year the Town so desperately needs to help pay off the guilty verdicts levied against himself and the Town through his ill-advised actions.

Many residents and civic association representatives have appeared at numerous Town Hall meetings questioning the flawed logic and explaining why amending the Finneran law was a bad thing to do for the Town and it’s Unincorporated residents. Regardless, The Paul, the Stepford Board, Proclamation Tom and Pandering Andrea proceeded full steam ahead. As a matter of fact, it was so egregious that all of the six Village mayors within the Town were against the change! No matter. The Paul touted the hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be made each year and his media machine ate it up, hook, line and tennis balls. Representation periodically means that on occasion something may get done that you personally disagree with. But with so vociferous an outcry from so many, why would the “goresome-foursome” proceed without moving this to a public referendum? It begs numerous questions as to why and to whom this will really benefit?

“Proclamation Tom” was asked by The Paul to introduce legislation to change the Finneran Law, which was enacted years ago to help the Unincorporated residents of the Town – probably in anticipation of bad decisions that The Paul and his Stepford Board would make in the future. But Abinanti wouldn’t be enough, so he enlisted the help of Andrea “Patronage” Stewart-Cousins from the other side of the Albany building. Now having enlisted both the NYS Assembly and the NYS Senate with his scheme to swindle and dupe the Greenburgh public, The Paul could taste victory. Finneran be damned! Many in Greenburgh believe it’s okay to have everyone be of the same party holding office, allowing all their projects to proceed without scrutiny or interruption. How can we get the best of anything without differing views or ideas? ABG doesn’t believe we will. Many poor and outright bad ideas and ultimately bills wind up getting passed into law, doing nothing but pandering to special interest groups, sometimes with reckless and unchecked costly abandon. This is just one example of what is wrong with these types of collusive collaborations.

ABG realizes The Paul’s mind works in convoluted ways and was successful this time by getting his bosom buddy, Proclamation Tom, to get a low attendance vote to change the Finneran law. We know this is strictly self-serving and they are not concerned with the people they purport to work for, rather, only working for themselves. We understand why the Stepford’s follow suit – re-election or dismissal by The Paul. Proclamation Tom wants to do more in Albany because he ran out of regulations and taxes he could create in Westchester. Pandering Andrea is having a tougher and tougher time garnering viable support so she continues to look for new groups she can use member item funds with which to purchase votes. Fortunately for her, she didn’t need to spend any of her precious member items funds for this, just “bank” a vote from Proclamation Tom for one of her future projects. The system stinks and this latest action proves the people running the operation are bereft of a moral and economical compass. Things need to change in Greenburgh and now we see in Albany as well. The Paul is selling off Greenburgh. We need real change. We can only hope.