An Ernie Davis Valedictory
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- April
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Former Mount Vernon mayor Ernie Davis was interviewed by Don Debar on WBAI radio yesterday, giving what amounts to a farewell “valedictory”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3981443333975808350&hl.
Davis talks about his campaign to win a fourth term was torpedoed by an FBI investigation into City Hall corruption and a pernicious whispering campaign that he was about to be arrested. He said he still wonders “who were the instigators for this whole thing.”
His mild manner during the interview belies a bitterness he feels for disloyal people who no longer give him the time of day. He reserves a special distaste for the current mayor Clinton Young, who defeated him in a hotly contested Democratic with a “nasty, untruthful” strategy.
Davis also talks about his legacy as mayor. He said he never had time for anything else but his mayoral duties.
“That’s what I’m suffering from now,” he said. “I’ve got more free time.”
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on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 6:24 pm by Phil Reisman.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
It is to laugh. Was it Tim Idoni who said Ernie should be in the Westchester Hall of Fame? What a gala chucklefest-in-perpetuity all these fine political fellows enjoy for themselves on the public dime.