The Astorino Transition
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- November
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The other day, I got a call from a Westchester County office worker who is facing the prospect of being on the outside looking in, now that Rob Astorino has been elected as county executive. She wanted to know how to apply for a job with the new administration.
I felt bad because I couldn’t help her. These are scary times to be out of a job.
But today, Astorino announced a new Web site that gives news updates about the transition. Most important to the woman who contacted me, it also tells prospective employees how to apply for a job. I wish her all the luck in the world.
Click on site.
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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.
Andy Spano never had a clue.
There was not a single day when one thought crossed his mind like:
“Gee…are we hitting these people too hard?”
or
“If I didn’t have the $161,000 per year from my election, .... what would I be doing?”
Westchester always had some real well-off residents. I wish them no ill will. They brought style, sense and sobriety. I was sort of honored, to be the blue collar inheritor of their previous elite county. But imagination only goes so far.
I’m 66 this year. My house is paid off, and I look to a decent retirement. But in Arkansas, that same retirement would give me so much more than it could give me here. Should my wife & I tear out all the roots, all the tendrils, all the long roads of memory, and try Arkansas, just because Spano tripled our house taxes in 12 years?
Yeah, it looks like that’s what is inevitable.
But I know SO MUCH about Tuckahoe, Eastchester, Yonkers, Peekskill, Cortlandt, Buchanan and its people. I remember so much, from way back when, and I’m sure what I know is not some worthless crock of nonsense.
Or we can say “Fageddaboudit”, and bring in the newbies from Namibia., and good luck to you all !!
Good luck and Godspeed, Rob Astorino !!
Fie, ...Fie, Mr. Spano….
Do you know what “Hubris” means?
What happens with all his “campaign” funds? He keeps?
Clarification –
What he can do with any left over campaign funds is dictated by state law. He can:
1. He can donate them to other political committees, either specific candidate committees or general party committees.
2. He can donate them to a charity or charities of his choice.
3. He can keep them in his own campaign committee for a future race.
What he CANNOT do is use them for any personal purpose.
What if he “needs” a new luxury car to supposedly keep himself alive for a hypothetical “future race?” He’ll need gas, maintenance, and insurance for that car. He’ll need to burn money on travel, air-fare, hotels, meals to keep himself viable in the political ballroom. He might need…and on and on and on. Pols have written these laws for themselves so that holding them to any semblance of honesty and justice becomes next to imposssible. It’s tax-free money, often millions, and it’s a nefarious going-away gift that each of them, in collusion, makes available to themselves.
ed1 –
It is my understanding that the law would allow the use of the money ONLY for a future run. Not to keep one’s “name” before the public while “anticipating” a future run. Therefore the abuse you state would, IMO, be illegal.
All well and good, but seems to me, J-Man, that what’s ethical or illegal, federal and State, is what “ethics” committees, stacked with politicians, decides is illegal. There are more loopholes than loops.