It’s Time To Think Outside The Box

Much has been said from both camps regarding who voters will select in today’s Democratic Primary for Greenburgh Town Supervisor. Supporters of Mr Feiner, the 22-year incumbent, claim that he is responsive to individual residents requests for action on some particular issue affecting them, i.e., a pothole in front of their house, a bush or branch blocking a sidewalk. He responds well to one-on-one issues. Detractors will question the cost-effectiveness of pulling our Highway Department personnel from a scheduled, legitimate project to accommodate one resident. Doesn’t the good of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one? But what we’ve witnessed in Mr Feiners waning years is more and more irrational behavior and decisions. For him, it’s campaigning. For us it costs us more money. Their claim Mr Feiner thinks outside the box is disguised desperation for not knowing what to do.

Supporters of Mr Bernstein point out that he has successfully sued Mr Feiner and the Town at Mr Feiner’s prompt and actually helped the Town’s revenue stream. Mr Feiner always says, “If you don’t like what I’m doing, sue me!” Is this the attitude we want of our Town leaders? Doubtful. Mr Feiner complained that Mr Bernstein has sued the Town and cost us millions of dollars. In fact, Mr Feiner has claimed the tax increases we’ve experienced in the Town are a result of these lawsuits! That’s simply absurd. Mr Bernstein fought for the WestHelp affordable housing to remain just that, affordable housing. Mr Feiner duped the Ferncliff School into thinking he could move them into the property. But, as the master of deflection, Mr Feiner got traction with this hoax by colluding with numerous other politicians representing the area. This Feiner-induced mess has cost us $2.4 million dollars so far and is continuing to climb.

Mr Bernstein fought the Frank’s Nursery property debacle Mr Feiner conspired to gift away to GameOn 365 with an illegal lease instead of simply selling the property as required by law. Mr Feiner refused a cash offer from Ardsley’s House of Sports for $3.5 million dollars plus remediation to give GameOn 365 enough time to make a counter offer. They couldn’t. They have no money and are relying on a pyramid scheme utilizing investor dollars to leverage a lease, which was stopped by a neighborhood lawsuit. “If you don’t like what I’m doing, sue me!”

The list of Mr Feiner’s bad decisions, wrong deals, squandered opportunities, developer winks ’n nods, closed door meetings, lost revenue and so on is a long one. ABG writes about it all the time. After 22-years of mismanagement, we have an opportunity to return the Town to it’s residents. We have the ability to stop listening to Mr Feiner’s supporters rationale that he responds to people’s requests on an individual basis. We need a supervisor who will respond to the entire electorate. It’s time for a change. ABG has endorsed and believes Mr Bernstein is a good person to start this needed change and offers real leadership, management know-how, honesty, integrity, fairness and hope. It’s also time for all registered Democrats to come out and vote for overdue change in Greenburgh. It’s time. What you do today can help us finally get A Better Greenburgh.