This past week, both campaigns revved up their presentation packages.
1. Both candidates were out this weekend engaging in the archaic requirement of obtaining petition signatures. Apparently New York (of course) is one of the few states that requires filing petitions. According to the www.gothamgazette.com website, ballot petitions, with their strict requirements, open up hopeful candidates to a myriad of potential procedural errors and give opponents many opportunities to kick their challengers off the ballot. While initiated in the 19th century as a pro-democratic reform, New York’s ballot petition process has devolved into an electioneering “blood sport” that enriches campaign consultants and lawyers while reducing the democratic choices for the electorate. The Feiner campaign has taken advantage of this electioneering loophole in 2009 to end an opponents campaign before it ever began. Some might argue that this is a subversion of democracy. It would be admirable if both campaigns and their affiliated workers and friends agree to refrain from the notorious practice of ballot petition challenges.
2. Paul Feiner now has a “Paul Feiner for Greenburgh Town Supervisor” facebook page where he has been very active. So far he has posted on infrastructure improvements at the TYCC, a detailed campaign biography (which appears to be out of date since it refers to construction of the library), and a statement on the Frank’s Nursery embroglio asking for residents’ input.
3. Bob Bernstein launched his website www.bobforsupervisor.com . It’s easy to navigate and full of well-written position pieces. For example, check out the “issues” section, where Bernstein goes beyond his “four pillars of Feiner incompetence” attack to examine fundamental issues of town management. The “price of Paul” is terrific (although horrifying too).
4. The Rosenberg Letter: the Bernstein campaign landed a solid left hook with Judge Herb Rosenberg’s statement distancing himself from prior affiliation with Feiner and now enthusiastically endorsing Bernstein. The letter is all the more effective for Rosenberg’s admission of previous conflicts with Bernstein. He writes that he now sees Feiner as unreliable and Bernstein as restoring managerial competency.
5. The vegetative residue remaining at the abandoned Frank’s Nursery site continues to rot and the stench scares away cicadas. Feiner came out with a statement on his FB page explaining his call for a new RFP (I can’t figure out how to link to FB postings here). Judge Rosenberg responded. http://www.abettergreenburgh.blogspot.com/2013/06/open-letter-from-former-justice.html
6. Hartsdale’s very special holiday, known to others as the town Property Tax Grievance deadline, was observed this past June 18th. I understand that a Charlie Brown special is in development. Don’t expect either candidate to acknowledge the property value crisis in Hartsdale: their respective property values are secure.
2. Paul Feiner now has a “Paul Feiner for Greenburgh Town Supervisor” facebook page where he has been very active. So far he has posted on infrastructure improvements at the TYCC, a detailed campaign biography (which appears to be out of date since it refers to construction of the library), and a statement on the Frank’s Nursery embroglio asking for residents’ input.
3. Bob Bernstein launched his website www.bobforsupervisor.com . It’s easy to navigate and full of well-written position pieces. For example, check out the “issues” section, where Bernstein goes beyond his “four pillars of Feiner incompetence” attack to examine fundamental issues of town management. The “price of Paul” is terrific (although horrifying too).
4. The Rosenberg Letter: the Bernstein campaign landed a solid left hook with Judge Herb Rosenberg’s statement distancing himself from prior affiliation with Feiner and now enthusiastically endorsing Bernstein. The letter is all the more effective for Rosenberg’s admission of previous conflicts with Bernstein. He writes that he now sees Feiner as unreliable and Bernstein as restoring managerial competency.
5. The vegetative residue remaining at the abandoned Frank’s Nursery site continues to rot and the stench scares away cicadas. Feiner came out with a statement on his FB page explaining his call for a new RFP (I can’t figure out how to link to FB postings here). Judge Rosenberg responded. http://www.abettergreenburgh.blogspot.com/2013/06/open-letter-from-former-justice.html
6. Hartsdale’s very special holiday, known to others as the town Property Tax Grievance deadline, was observed this past June 18th. I understand that a Charlie Brown special is in development. Don’t expect either candidate to acknowledge the property value crisis in Hartsdale: their respective property values are secure.
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