Our readership is a smart one. They prove this time and time again with their comments, suggestions and emails to us that they are informed and appreciate our dedication to telling the other side, sometimes the real side, of the story. While we always appreciate their input, apparently our posts about the pending Fire District elections on Tuesday have touched a nerve with some new readers and frankly campaigners. We will remove articles from other publications and accusations allegedly from other media sources whether in quotes or not. Another policy we maintain is to not allow profanity or attacks against others.
In our last article, we mapped out the plan we believe Mr Feiner has launched some time ago to take over the Town's Fire Departments. While this is not Area 51 type information, some comments have been made that Claire Pizzuti does not know or is not involved with the Fairview Fire Monitors. This is not true. At several Fire District and other meetings Mr Hoffman attended, he stated the Fire Monitors would be putting up their own candidate. In the beginning of her campaign,this point was touted. In fact, on her campaign flyer it says, "Member of the Fairview Fire Monitors Committee and chosen without opposition by the Committee to be a candidate for Fire Commissioner". Third, we have reprinted below an email Mr Hoffman has sent out to his team seeking help for the elections, which clearly indicates their involvement.
Hoffman's letter to his team (in blue; other media outlets redacted by ABG):
Dear Fellow Monitors:
We are nearing the end of our mission to place a taxpayer with no special interest on the Fairview Board of Fire Commissioners. On behalf of Claire Pizzuti, our energetic and great candidate and myself as a co-ordinator, thanks go to all of you who have put in time to deliver our fliers and spread the message in other means such as email, telephones and personal contact. We have had a large mailing to areas that could not be covered by door to door distribution. Some foot distribution ends today. I think, for beginners, collectively we have done a terrific job in letting people know there is an election and Claire's community activity bio and her message is known.
As we look forward to voting on Tuesday, we must get the voters out. Our task will be more difficult because of the rain that is forecast for that day. I believe that telephone reminder calls, or even email messages, should be made tomorrow (Monday) and even Tuesday. I happen to have some phone listings in the district. If you want any names and numbers for your area, please email me with the names of the streets. I'll try to accommodate as many people as possible.
For those who are able, I suggest you offer to drive to the polling place those who have no transportation. In a message I attached to the fliers I distributed, I offered rides and gave my telephone number. I have received several requests and expect more.
Our media release was picked up so far by the internet news agency called Patch, by two weekly newspapers, the White Plains Examiner and the Rising.
We do have a special need. We need a volunteers to sit at the twi polling place as watchers. If you volunteer to be a poll watch for the entire six hours or even for several hours, please message me at once because we have to notify the district clerk. Thank you.
Ours is not the only contested election in Greenburgh. A group somewhat similar to our committee is running Michael Goldstein, for Hartsdale commissioner. He is a former auditor of federal agencies and a person who served four years ago on a town study commission of the three fire districts--a commission that predicted The Perfect Storm in taxes that now faces us.
The Greenville district does not have a contested election, but some residents might have wished they had. Today's Journal News has a story on page 3 detailing an investigation of the Greenville commissioners by police and the district attorney into allegation of a million dollar insurance fraud. If you do not read the Journal News, you may go to Lohud.com for the story. The newspaper also has another story on page 7 that mentions a controversial bond issue that voters have to decide in Greenville..
Again, thanks from me, Milt Hoffman, on behalf of the entire Claire Pizzuti team tghat means all of you.
The article Mr Hoffman refers to of a probe of the Greenville Fire Department and District’s handling of an accident was when the aerial ladder was involved in an accident in August 2012 while going to Pelham to standby in their firehouse. Why was a Greenville ladder going to Pelham when other area fire departments and their ladder trucks are closer and could have gone? That’s a subject for future discussion.
Mr Hoffman refers to this article because the article links the aerial ladder in this accident as the one that will be replaced if the bond proposal is passed. That’s it. And, the damage was $4,000 to repair the truck. Anyone who has been to a body shop lately knows a simple fender-bender averages $5,000. ABG is not saying there shouldn’t be an investigation and if wrong-doing is found, punishment meted out. What we are saying is the two issues are unrelated – unless you need to sell newspapers or help in your campaign for fire commissioner.
By the way, to the campaign people for Ms Pizzuti who keep copying and pasting in the comments section what we posted about her, you can stop now. Have you noticed we keep deleting it? We have left your campaign comments for Ms Pizzuti posted even though we don't have to. As for the person who claimed this was a biased article, feel free to write an article, send it to us and we will post it. Otherwise, too bad. And, based on a suggested post, we have turned off the ability to post anonymously mostly because of the actions of some who were abusing the feature.
Regardless of your feelings about what we have written, we hope our residents will go to their respective fire houses on Tuesday evening and vote. As an aside, we learned that absentee ballots are not available for these elections. Again, state mandates without local control keep fueling the difficulty of these elections and must change. Only then will we have A Better Greenburgh.
The article Mr Hoffman refers to of a probe of the Greenville Fire Department and District’s handling of an accident was when the aerial ladder was involved in an accident in August 2012 while going to Pelham to standby in their firehouse. Why was a Greenville ladder going to Pelham when other area fire departments and their ladder trucks are closer and could have gone? That’s a subject for future discussion.
Mr Hoffman refers to this article because the article links the aerial ladder in this accident as the one that will be replaced if the bond proposal is passed. That’s it. And, the damage was $4,000 to repair the truck. Anyone who has been to a body shop lately knows a simple fender-bender averages $5,000. ABG is not saying there shouldn’t be an investigation and if wrong-doing is found, punishment meted out. What we are saying is the two issues are unrelated – unless you need to sell newspapers or help in your campaign for fire commissioner.
By the way, to the campaign people for Ms Pizzuti who keep copying and pasting in the comments section what we posted about her, you can stop now. Have you noticed we keep deleting it? We have left your campaign comments for Ms Pizzuti posted even though we don't have to. As for the person who claimed this was a biased article, feel free to write an article, send it to us and we will post it. Otherwise, too bad. And, based on a suggested post, we have turned off the ability to post anonymously mostly because of the actions of some who were abusing the feature.
Regardless of your feelings about what we have written, we hope our residents will go to their respective fire houses on Tuesday evening and vote. As an aside, we learned that absentee ballots are not available for these elections. Again, state mandates without local control keep fueling the difficulty of these elections and must change. Only then will we have A Better Greenburgh.
Case Proven!!! The evidence is clear!!!! A DIRECT LINK can be drawn between the candidates Claire Pizzuti and Mike Goldstein to Milt Hoffman, Alan Hochberg and winding up at Paul Feiner's desk. Great job of Detective Work ABG!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteinnuendo, slander, and just wrong. My 6th grade grandson could do a better job. It is indeed very sad that ABG has seen fit to "spin" this beyond credulity. Just ask yourself, would you want to be judged by who you know or, for that matter, who you do not know? Think about that. Claire Pizzuti is the best candidate for Fire Commissioner and has allegiance only to the taxpayers. I wish everyone a joyous holiday season..
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