DEAR READERS:
LET'S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT FIRST, I KNOW HOW BUSY THIS TIME OF YEAR IS FOR YOU. THE SHOPPING, THE PLANNING FOR WHO IS GOING OR COMMING FOR THE CHRISTMAS (YES I SAID CHRISTMAS) AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAY. THE MEALS AND WHERE THEY WILL BE, THE DECORATING, AND YES, FOR THOSE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN, THE VISITING OF SANTA LAND. THEN THERE ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN CERTIAN JOBS THAT HAVE THE END OF THE YEAR RECONCILIATIONS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE ON TIME. SO WHO CARES ABOUT POLITICS, AND ELECTION THAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT NOVEMBER AND THE NOVEMBER AFTER THAT? WHO HAS THE TIME TO PAY ATTENTION? THERE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO BE DONE, RIGHT?
WELL, THOSE PEOPLE IN ELECTIVE OFFFICE ARE COUNTING ON YOU TO BE DISTRACTED. THEY PRAY THAT YOU WILL FEEL AS I HAVE JUST DISCRIBED, AND THEY ARE RIGHT, FOR THE MOST PART YOU ARE. I HAVE PEOPLE TELLING ME TO QUIT, GIVE UP THE FIGHT. NO ONES GOING TO CARE. NO ONES GOING TO WRITE.
PROBLEM IS YOU SEE, BY DOING MY MONTHLY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AND WRITING THIS BLOG, I HAVE ALREADY CROSSED THAT BRIDGE AND BURNED IT BEHIND ME. SO HOPEFULLY YOU WILL TAKE A FEW MINUTES AND SEE HOW YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE COUNTING ON YOU NOT TO CARE UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.
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IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR COUNTY EXECUTIVE SPANO TO ANNOUNCE HE WAS GOING TO RAISE TAXES. SEVEN DAYS TO BE EXACT. A POINT IN HISTORY, HE DID THAT THREE YEARS AGO ALSO. LUCKILY WE HAVE OUR COUNTY LEGISLATOR WHO IS THE MINORITY LEADER GEORGE OROS, WHO IS FIGHTING TO KEEP A ZERO TAX INCREASE. IT WOULD BE WISE FOR LEGISLATOR OROS TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR EXPLAINING HIS STANCE ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET, SO WE THE VOTING PUBLIC CAN VOICE OUR SUPPORT FOR HIS POSTION TO OUR COUNTY EXECUTIVE. I KNOW IF HE DID WRITE SUCH A LETTER, I WOULD MAKE SURE THE READERS OF THIS BLOG GOT A COPY IN CASE YOU MISS THE ISSUE IT APPEARS IN. I KNOW FROM MY CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY OF YOU READERS THAT YOU WOULD BE GLAD TO FIGHT TO KEEP YOUR MONEY WERE THE ISSUES EXPLAINED TO YOU BY YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO THE COUNTY LEGISLATOR. I AGREE WITH MANY OF YOU THAT THE SNIPPETS THAT THE LOCAL PAPERS HAVE ATTRIBUTED TO OUR LEGISATOR IS NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION. WE WOULD LIKE AN UNEDITED VERSION OF HIS POSTION.
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LIKE MANY OF YOU I AM TIRED OF BEING REPRESENTED BY MEDIOCRITY, YET THOSE ARE SOMETIMES THE ONLY CHOICES WE HAVE TO VOTE ON. I FIND THE EXPLINATION IN THE FACT THAT THE POWERS THAT BE, WHO NOMINATE THOSE FOR WHOM WE VOTE, MIGHT THEMSELVES BE MEDIOCRE. I SAY THIS WHEN I READ IN THE NORTH COUNTY NEWS THAT THE HEAD OF THE YORKTOWN REPUBLICAN COMMITEE SAYS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT LINDA COOPER HAD SUCH A CLOSE CALL WERE FACTORS OUT OF THE SUPERVISORS CONTROL. WEAK CANDIDATES ON OTHER LINES AND NEGATIVE BACKLASH AGAINST BUSH (NORTH COUNTY NEW 11/23/05). HEAVEN FORBID THE FACT THAT PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY VOTE ON THE LOCAL ISSUES CONCERNING THEM. HEAVEN FORBID THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR THE TOWN COUNCIL WON BY AN ALMOST TWO TO ONE MARGIN, WHICH MIGHT BE A CRITISISM OF THE CANDIDATES THE COMMITEE NOMINATED, NO, IT WAS BUSH'S FAULT. JUST MABY THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY BELIEVED IN THE MESSAGE THAT CANDIDATE PETERS WAS VOICING, AND THAT TOWN GOVERNMENT WAS GETTING TOO INTRUSIVE. MABY THE REPUBLICAN COMMITEE IS GETTING OUT OF TOUCH WITH THEIR CONSTITUANCY. MABY THE COMMITTEE SHOULD LOOK TO THEMSELVES, THEIR PLATFORM, AND THE PEOPLE THEY PUT ON THE BALLOT, RATHER THAN BUSH BASHING, THEN MABY INTHE NEXT YEARS ELECTION THEY MIGHT NOMINATE CADIDATES WHO CAN GET ELECTED. THEY MIGHT ACTUALLY LISTEN TO WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. BOTH THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTE AND THE DEMOCRAT COMMITEE (WHICH ALMOST GOT IT RIGHT) MIGHT COME TO THE SAME REALIZATION THAT I CAME TO LONG AGO, THAT THE PRESENT OFFICIALS REPRESENTING US IN ALBANY AND WASHINGTON NO LONGER REPRESENT US, BUT ONLY REPRESENT THEMSELVES AND WHAT WILL KEEP THEM ON OFFICE AND IN THE GOOD GRACES OF THE PARTY LEADERSHIP. THAT WE THE PEOPLE WANT CANDIDATES THAT WILL NOT REMAIN SILENT ON ISSUES THAT CONCERN US IF IT WILL UPSET THEIR LEADERS (IE: THE SCHOOL TAXES BEING LEFT UP TO AN UNELECTED JUDGE, THE ON GOING COURT CASE REGARDING 100 MILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS, THE INSULT TO THE PUBLIC THAT WAS PROPOSITION ONE IN THE LAST ELECTION) WE WANT CANDIDATES THAT WILL PUT US, THE PEOPLE ABOVE PERKS. THOSE CANDIDATES ARE OUT THERE, THE BILL SCHMIDTS, THE DIANA BURRUSS', THE DOMINIC VOLPES, THE DON PETERS, THE DAVID FRITZ'S, THE RUTH WELLS, THE JAMES MARTORANOS, THE BEN SHULDINERS. THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENTS OF THEIR POLICY STANCES, AND/OR PUBLIC STATEMENTS, BUT RATHER AN ENDORSEMENT OF THEIR CHARACTER, IN THE BELIEF THAT THEY HAVE SHOWN THAT IN THEIR ACTIONS EITHER IN OFFICE OR IN THEIR PUBLIC INTERACTIONS, THEY WOULD PUT US, THE PEOPLE, ABOVE PARTY AND PERKS. I HAVE PURPOSELY LEFT OUT THOSE ALREADY IN OFFICE IN THE BELIEF THEIR PLATE IS ALREADY FULL. WE THE VOTING PUBLIC WILL NO LONGER SETTLE FOR MEDICOCRITY. WE THE PEOPLE WANT BETTER, AND DESERVE BETTER THAN WHAT YOU IN THE LEADERSHIP HAVE HOISTED UPON US IN THE PAST. I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT FIRST RATE PEOPLE HIRE FIRST RATE PEOPLE, SECOND RATE PEOPLE HIRE THIRD RATE PEOPLE.
WE THE VOTING PUBLIC ARE FIRST RATE PEOPLE AND DEMAND FIRST RATE CANDIDATES. THOSE ALREADY IN ALBANY AND WASHINGTON HAVE OVER STAYED THEIR WELCOME, WE THE PUBLIC ARE READY TO VOTE THEM INTO RETIREMENT. I KNOW THAT THE UNSEATING OF A SITTING INCUMBENT IS DIFFICULT, BUT WITH THEIR PRESENT VOTING RECORD AND THEIR DEAFENING SILENCE ON THE ISSUES THAT CONCERN US, IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, IN FACT IT IS QUITE DOABLE. TO DO GREAT THINGS REQUIRES GREAT EFFORT. WE EXPECT THOSE IN PARTY LEADERSHIP TO EXPEND THAT EFFORT ON OUR BEHALF. IT IS NOW TIME TO SHOW THAT YOU IN THE LEADERSHIP ARE FIRST RATE PEOPLE.
BAZZO 12/03/05
Friday, November 25, 2005
Thursday, November 10, 2005
REFLECTIONS ON THE ELECTIONS
DEAR READERS:
THE ELECTION RESULTS AT THE TIME OF THIS WRITING SHOWS THAT THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR YORKTOWN TOWN COUNCIL RECIEVED ALMOST TWICE THE VOTE AS THEIR REPUBLICAN COUNTER PARTS. THIS IS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ME, FOR I PREDICTED THIS IN MY ENTRY " I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING"(MAY 2005 ARCHIVE). SO MUCH FOR TEAM PLAYERS. SO MUCH FOR "CHALLENGER LIGHT". SO MUCH FOR TOWING THE PARTY LINE. I SAID BACK THEN THAT THE PARTY NEEDED TO SPEAK TO THAT PART OF THE PARTY WHICH I ADVOCATE. THE MORE CONSERVATIVE LESS INTRUSIVE INTO PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE BUSINESS RIGHTS. I SAID THAT THESE VOICES CROSS PARTY LINES AND YOU NEEDED THEM TO BEAT SITTING INCUMBENTS. REPUBLICAN TURNED DEMOCRAT DON PETERS SPOKE TO THOSE PEOPLE AND LOOK AT THE VOTES HE GOT. THOSE VOTES SHOULD HAVE GONE REPUBLICAN. I HOPE IN TWO YEARS WHEN IT'S TIME TO VOTE LOCAL AGAIN, AND I GO BEFORE THE POWERS THAT BE, SEEKING THEIR NOMINATION, THEY WILL REMEMBER THIS LESSON AND THAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND BEEN ON RECORD FOR THESE VALUES. THAT THESE VALUES, LESS GOVERNMENT INTRUSION AND MORE ACCESS TO ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE A WINNING FORMULA ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
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I BELIEVE ONE OF THE REASONS THAT DOMINIC VOLPE WON SO HANDILY IN PEEKSKILL AND HAD SUCH A STRONG SHOWING (EVEN THOUGH HE LOST) IS THAT AS A LOCAL BUSINESS MAN
HE HAD THE ABILITY TO MEET MORE PEOPLE IN A WEEK THAN GEORGE OROS COULD MEET IN A MONTH. THIS TOO, I WROTE ABOUT IN MY ENTRY " IWENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING"(MAY 2005 ARCHIVE), THAT THE PARTY NEEDED TO RECRUIT BUSINESS PEOPLE WHO HAVE DAILY CONTACT WITH PEOPLE EVERY DAY. ONE OF THE MANY FEED BACKS I GOT WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH THE CANDIDATES WENT DOOR TO DOOR SEEKING VOTES, THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CARED MORE ABOUT THE MESSAGE HAD THEY (THE CANDIDATES) COME TO THEM WHEN THEY DIDN'T NEED SOMETHING. IN OTHER WORDS NEXT YEAR WHEN THE CANDIDATES AREN'T SEEKING ELECTION, THEY SHOULD ONCE AND A WHILE GO TO THOSE SAME COMMUNITIES AND ASK WHAT IS ON THEIR MIND.
IF THE OFFICE THEY HOLD AND WISH TO CONTINUE TO HOLD IS SO IMPORTANT, AND THEY REALLLY HAVE THE NEED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE RETENTION OF THIER OWN OFFICE, THEY SHOULD MAKE THE TIME TO GO OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE AND SHOW THEY ARE LISTENING. THEY SHOULD MAKE A POINT OF WRITNG TO THE LOCAL PAPERS (ONCE A MONTH) ABOUT ISSUES CONCERNING THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT, NOT JUST RELY ON THE PUBLIC TOWN, CITY, OR COUNTY MEETINGS. TO THOSE POWERS THAT BE, LOOK CLOSELY AT THE RESULTS, SEE HOW CLOSE THE CHALLENGERS (DON PETERS AND DOM VOLPE, BUSINESSMEN BOTH) GOT.
DO NOT TAKE LIGHTLY THE FACT THAT AS BUSINESS MEN THEY HAD THE CONTACT YOU DON'T, AND NEED TO HAVE. SHOULD YOUR OPPOSTION TAKE MY ADVICE, AND RECRIUT BUSINESS PEOPLE, YOU MAY NOT HAVE VICTORY NEXT TIME. REMEMBER THOSE BUSINESS PEOPLE HAVE TWO YEARS TO MAKE (AND SECURE) THOSE CONTACTS, WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE NEXT ELECTION.
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IN PEEKSKILL THE SPLIT OF THE VOTE SHOWS THAT THE VOTERS ARE NOT INSTICTIVLY PARTY LINE VOTERS. THAT THERE ARE ISSUES THAT CROSS PARTY LINES AND THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN OR DEMORATIC WAY TO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CITY. OBVIOUSLY THE PEOLPLE LIKE THE DIRECTION AND THE VISION THE MAYOR HAS TAKEN THE CITY, AND THEY WISH TO CONTINUE THAT DIRECTION. BUT A MORE AGRESSIVE AND ACTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CODES ARE NECESSARY. I LOOK AT THE POSITIVE MESSAGES THE PARTIES RAN ON (CONTINUED GROWTH ON THE REPULICAN SIDE, AND MORE ENFORCEMENT ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE) AS OPPOSED TO THE NEGATIVE ATTACKS BY SURRAGATES, THAT INFLUENCED THE VOTE. LIKE I SAID IN THE RUN UP TO THE ELECTION, BOTH SIDES HAD A VISION, THE PEOPLE BY SPLITTING THE VOTE CHOSE THE BEST (IN THEIR OPINION) OF THOSE VISIONS. I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE PREFER TO VOTE POSITIVE THAN NEGATIVE. THE PARTY THAT ENCOMPASSES BOTH THOSE MESSAGES IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS HAS IN MY OPINION THE BEST CHANCE OF GAINING ON THE OTHER. IT WOULD BEHOOVE THOSE WHO WISH TO RUN IN TWO YEARS NOT TO BE SEEN AS PARTY FIRST, BUT TO BE SEEN AS CITY FIRST. THE PEEKSKILL VOTER WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CITY, AND THEY SHOWED IT. IT IS NOT FOR ANYBODY TO AGRUE WHAT THEY SAID, BUT TO ACT ON WHAT THEY SAID. STAY POSITIVE, MOVE FOWARD AND STAND FOR THE CITY.
BAZZO 11/12/05
THE ELECTION RESULTS AT THE TIME OF THIS WRITING SHOWS THAT THE DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR YORKTOWN TOWN COUNCIL RECIEVED ALMOST TWICE THE VOTE AS THEIR REPUBLICAN COUNTER PARTS. THIS IS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ME, FOR I PREDICTED THIS IN MY ENTRY " I WENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING"(MAY 2005 ARCHIVE). SO MUCH FOR TEAM PLAYERS. SO MUCH FOR "CHALLENGER LIGHT". SO MUCH FOR TOWING THE PARTY LINE. I SAID BACK THEN THAT THE PARTY NEEDED TO SPEAK TO THAT PART OF THE PARTY WHICH I ADVOCATE. THE MORE CONSERVATIVE LESS INTRUSIVE INTO PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PRIVATE BUSINESS RIGHTS. I SAID THAT THESE VOICES CROSS PARTY LINES AND YOU NEEDED THEM TO BEAT SITTING INCUMBENTS. REPUBLICAN TURNED DEMOCRAT DON PETERS SPOKE TO THOSE PEOPLE AND LOOK AT THE VOTES HE GOT. THOSE VOTES SHOULD HAVE GONE REPUBLICAN. I HOPE IN TWO YEARS WHEN IT'S TIME TO VOTE LOCAL AGAIN, AND I GO BEFORE THE POWERS THAT BE, SEEKING THEIR NOMINATION, THEY WILL REMEMBER THIS LESSON AND THAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND BEEN ON RECORD FOR THESE VALUES. THAT THESE VALUES, LESS GOVERNMENT INTRUSION AND MORE ACCESS TO ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE A WINNING FORMULA ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
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I BELIEVE ONE OF THE REASONS THAT DOMINIC VOLPE WON SO HANDILY IN PEEKSKILL AND HAD SUCH A STRONG SHOWING (EVEN THOUGH HE LOST) IS THAT AS A LOCAL BUSINESS MAN
HE HAD THE ABILITY TO MEET MORE PEOPLE IN A WEEK THAN GEORGE OROS COULD MEET IN A MONTH. THIS TOO, I WROTE ABOUT IN MY ENTRY " IWENT TO THROW MY HAT INTO THE RING"(MAY 2005 ARCHIVE), THAT THE PARTY NEEDED TO RECRUIT BUSINESS PEOPLE WHO HAVE DAILY CONTACT WITH PEOPLE EVERY DAY. ONE OF THE MANY FEED BACKS I GOT WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH THE CANDIDATES WENT DOOR TO DOOR SEEKING VOTES, THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE CARED MORE ABOUT THE MESSAGE HAD THEY (THE CANDIDATES) COME TO THEM WHEN THEY DIDN'T NEED SOMETHING. IN OTHER WORDS NEXT YEAR WHEN THE CANDIDATES AREN'T SEEKING ELECTION, THEY SHOULD ONCE AND A WHILE GO TO THOSE SAME COMMUNITIES AND ASK WHAT IS ON THEIR MIND.
IF THE OFFICE THEY HOLD AND WISH TO CONTINUE TO HOLD IS SO IMPORTANT, AND THEY REALLLY HAVE THE NEED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE RETENTION OF THIER OWN OFFICE, THEY SHOULD MAKE THE TIME TO GO OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE AND SHOW THEY ARE LISTENING. THEY SHOULD MAKE A POINT OF WRITNG TO THE LOCAL PAPERS (ONCE A MONTH) ABOUT ISSUES CONCERNING THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT, NOT JUST RELY ON THE PUBLIC TOWN, CITY, OR COUNTY MEETINGS. TO THOSE POWERS THAT BE, LOOK CLOSELY AT THE RESULTS, SEE HOW CLOSE THE CHALLENGERS (DON PETERS AND DOM VOLPE, BUSINESSMEN BOTH) GOT.
DO NOT TAKE LIGHTLY THE FACT THAT AS BUSINESS MEN THEY HAD THE CONTACT YOU DON'T, AND NEED TO HAVE. SHOULD YOUR OPPOSTION TAKE MY ADVICE, AND RECRIUT BUSINESS PEOPLE, YOU MAY NOT HAVE VICTORY NEXT TIME. REMEMBER THOSE BUSINESS PEOPLE HAVE TWO YEARS TO MAKE (AND SECURE) THOSE CONTACTS, WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE NEXT ELECTION.
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IN PEEKSKILL THE SPLIT OF THE VOTE SHOWS THAT THE VOTERS ARE NOT INSTICTIVLY PARTY LINE VOTERS. THAT THERE ARE ISSUES THAT CROSS PARTY LINES AND THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE IS NO REPUBLICAN OR DEMORATIC WAY TO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CITY. OBVIOUSLY THE PEOLPLE LIKE THE DIRECTION AND THE VISION THE MAYOR HAS TAKEN THE CITY, AND THEY WISH TO CONTINUE THAT DIRECTION. BUT A MORE AGRESSIVE AND ACTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CODES ARE NECESSARY. I LOOK AT THE POSITIVE MESSAGES THE PARTIES RAN ON (CONTINUED GROWTH ON THE REPULICAN SIDE, AND MORE ENFORCEMENT ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE) AS OPPOSED TO THE NEGATIVE ATTACKS BY SURRAGATES, THAT INFLUENCED THE VOTE. LIKE I SAID IN THE RUN UP TO THE ELECTION, BOTH SIDES HAD A VISION, THE PEOPLE BY SPLITTING THE VOTE CHOSE THE BEST (IN THEIR OPINION) OF THOSE VISIONS. I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE PREFER TO VOTE POSITIVE THAN NEGATIVE. THE PARTY THAT ENCOMPASSES BOTH THOSE MESSAGES IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS HAS IN MY OPINION THE BEST CHANCE OF GAINING ON THE OTHER. IT WOULD BEHOOVE THOSE WHO WISH TO RUN IN TWO YEARS NOT TO BE SEEN AS PARTY FIRST, BUT TO BE SEEN AS CITY FIRST. THE PEEKSKILL VOTER WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR THE CITY, AND THEY SHOWED IT. IT IS NOT FOR ANYBODY TO AGRUE WHAT THEY SAID, BUT TO ACT ON WHAT THEY SAID. STAY POSITIVE, MOVE FOWARD AND STAND FOR THE CITY.
BAZZO 11/12/05
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