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YPG Supports “Books Without Borders”
The Young to Publishing Group (YPG),
an imitative of the Association of American
Publishers (AAP) has shown its support of
“Books Without Borders” which is an event to
be held on the Yonkers Waterfront on June 9th.
YPG is an organization that enables young
people, new to publishing, an opportunity to
network and build a community outside of the
publishing houses they are currently employed.
“Books Without Borders” will be a great opportunity for these young people to network with
their peers from other publishing companies and
begin to build relationships with new authors.
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is to allow authors and booksellers to promote
books and themselves, as well as, meeting and
developing relationships with agents, publishers
and distributors. The hope is to develop a
dialogue for the entire publishing industry to
enter into the new world of Literature. What
better way to go forward than with the new and
future executives of the publishing industry?
The YPG is a wonderful addition to the
literary professionals already committed to
“Books Without Borders”. Free exchange of
ideas is the fuel for advancement in any industry.
With the advent of eBooks and electronic book
sales the traditional publishing industry is hard
pressed to keep up with the pace of new and
innovative strides now being taken by some.
These young and vibrant members of the YPG
are the future. Venues like “Books Without
Borders” will promote that free exchange of
ideas needed to bring the publishing industry
into the future.
The members of YPG may be the junior
employees of today, with less than five years
experience in publishing, but they are the executives of the future. These young people will
decide where this industry goes and will determine how people will read in the future.
The founders of “Books Without Borders”
are excited that YPG is participating, due to the
fact, that “Books Without Borders” was founded
with the concept of helping develop the future
of publishing. How authors get their stories out,
how books are presented, how publishers get
those stories to market and ultimately how we
will read in the future.
Organize opportunities for industry peers
(entry/junior level) to mingle, network and get
to know one another.
Contact: Becca Worthington email :
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initiative of the Association of American
Publishers (AAP) that strives to give entrylevel and junior industry employees (typically
with 0-5 years of publishing experience) a
chance to build a community outside of their
own publishing house and to educate themselves about the publishing industry as a whole.
MEMBERSHIP IS FREE, and is open to
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lacking experience) persons currently employed
by an AAP member book-publishing house.
For a complete list of AAP member houses,
click here (http://www.publishers.org/main/
Membership/member_02.htm).
Why is there a need for this group?
Based on a survey of assistant level
publishing employees done in the fall of 2000,
the Recruit and Retain Task Force (now the
Diversity Recruit and Retain Task Force)
witnessed a void in opportunity for newcomers
to publishing (typically at the assistant/associate level) to network with their peers at the
other publishing houses and to learn about the
industry at large.
What are the goals this organization is
trying to accomplish?
Provide an environment in which individuals new to the industry (0-5 years) feel
welcomed and part of a bigger picture.
Create opportunities for individuals to learn
about the publishing industry as a whole—all
the departments and steps that influence the
making of a book.
Yonkers Public Library, Saturday June 9, 2012
See pages 13-16 for more information
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News & Notes from Northern Westchester
By MARK JEFFERS
Good news to report, my
oldest daughter is home
and ready to help research
the summer editions of this
wonderful column. Thanks
to Kate and we both hope
you will all enjoy this week’s,
“News and Notes…”
I can’t think of a better way to spend the
weekend...the second annual Laxin4Tony
Jamboree to benefit Tony Ciccone, a former Fox
Lane lacrosse player who was paralyzed playing
for Fox Lane in the spring of 2001 is being held
at the Fox Lane High School on Saturday June
9th and Sunday, June 10th. From 8 am to 5 pm
more than 35 boys and girls teams in grades five
through eight will arrive at the Fox Lane campus
for rousing competition, raffles, skills contests,
food and more. There will be appearances from
three-time Team USA member and MLL star
Ryan Boyle (Princeton ’04) and NLL & MLL
star Mitch Belisle (Cornell ’07) and for the youth
lacrosse players participating in the jamboree, it
is an opportunity to be more than just a great
lacrosse player; it is a chance to support one of
their own. The backs of the event t-shirts say it
all, “We R 1 Tribe”. Come out and support this
great event.
Congratulations to our friends at Kelloggs
& Lawrence in Katonah as they celebrate their
125th anniversary, and no I was not their grand
opening…
Since 1992, the Community Center of
Northern Westchester has been dedicated
to helping neighbors in need by sharing the
essentials of living. With the support of 29
Community Partners, and the generosity and
volunteer power of residents from all over
Northern Westchester, they offer food and
clothing, as well as other programs designed to
meet the needs of those living in the Northern
Westchester community. Did you know, during
the month of May, the very generous folks in this
area donated 6,931 pounds of food to neighbors
in need.
June is busting out all over, as is my stomach,
so I am ready to run once again at the Pound
Ridge 5K Race on June 30th starting at the
Pound Ridge Elementary School, see you there.
Then on the Sunday after I run, maybe I
will hop on my bike and head over to the Bronx
River Parkway and take advantage of Bicycle
Sundays.
If walking is more your style, then you won’t
want to miss the Homestead historic walking
tour on June 9th at the John Jay Homestead in
Katonah.
Three cheers to our good buddy Rob
Labritz the director of Golf at Glen Arbor in
Bedford as he won the Polo Golf Metropolitan
PGA Head Professional Championship for his
first victory of the season…way to go Rob!
Bedford Hills Free Library has started
offering commuter parking spaces for lease
in their lot on Griffin Avenue. These spaces,
open to both residents and non-residents, are
extremely convenient to the Bedford Hills train
station and are available for $100 per month.The
income from this parking lot will help the library
make up for recent budget cuts in their annual
operating funds.
Summer reading is for the whole family
so stop by the Chappaqua Library at 198 S.
Greeley Avenue and take advantage of the
Friends of the Library Annual Used Book
Sale. Sale days run June 7th through June
10th. If you are a real bargain hunter, books go
to half price on the 9th and what ever is left
is FREE from 1 pm to 3 pm on June 10th,
so stop by to stock up on your beach books.
If you have a damaged, faded or worn
American flag the Briarcliff Manor American
Legion has set up a collection box for the proper
disposal. The collection box is located outside the
main entrance of the Briarcliff Fire Department.
The Croton Falls Fire Department Ladies
Auxiliary is holding their 4th Annual Croton
Falls Street Fair on June 10th, there will be bake
sales, games, clowns, music and much more.
June is the month for a bunch of area Fire
Department to parade and show off their great
engines in parades and festivals, hats off the
brave folks who are there when we need them,
we salute and thank you…see you next week.
Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York,
with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate,
Amanda, and Claire.
CREATIVE DISRUPTION
TV – From Baird to the Web
By JOHN F. McMULLEN
On January 26, 1926,
Scottish inventor John Logie
Baird demonstrated in his
London office to a newspaper reporter and members
of the Royal Institutions
what is recognized as the
world’s first demonstration of a working television system. In Fall 2012, ex-NBA star Shaquille
O’Neal will debut the “Comedy Shaq” channel
on YouTube. We’ve come a long way, baby, in less
than ninety years … and the path along the way
has included
invention,
government
regulation,
business decisions, program selection, and, now,
the impact of the Internet.
American inventor Philo Farnsworth
designed and built the world’s first working allelectronictelevision systemandfirstdemonstrated
his system to the press on September 3, 1928.
After rejecting David Sarnoff ’s offer to sell
his patents to RCA and join the company,
Farnsworth moved to Philadelphia, joined the
Philco Company, and demonstrated the system
to the public at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute.
He also become embroiled in litigation with
RCA, which now claimed that Farnsworth’s
patents were invalid because of earlier work of
Vladmir Zworykin, who had been recruited in
1930 by RCA from Westinghouse. Farnsworth
eventually won the various legal suits and was
paid royalties by RCA.
The Federal Radio Commission (created in
1926 to regulate US radio use and later replaced
by the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) in 1934) issued the first television
station license (W3XK) to Charles F. Jenkins
on July 2, 1928 to broadcast from an experimental station in Wheaton, Maryland. Hugo
Gernsback (later the most important person
in Science Fiction publishing – for whom the
“Hugo” science fiction award is named), owner
of New York City Radio Station WRNY, began
a series of live television broadcasts on August
14, 1928. Over the next thirteen years, experimentation with television continued until the
FCC determined that television was ready for
commercial licensing, issuing licenses to NBC
and CBS-owned stations in New York on July
1, 1941 (the same day, the first commercial television advertising appeared on NBC’s WNBT
(now WNBC) when the station broadcast a test
pattern modified to look like a clock, with the
words “Bulova Watch Time” in the lower right
quadrant, just prior to that afternoon’s telecast
of a Brooklyn Dodgers game live from Ebbets
Field).
World War II brought a moratorium to
development as production of new TVs, radios
and other civilian broadcasting equipment was
suspended from April 1942 to August 1945.
The end of the war and the general boom in the
country jump-started the proliferation of television sets and, by 1947, there were about 44,000
television sets (with probably 30,000 in the New
York area).
The post-war years also brought the beginnings of Television Networks; NBC had begun
in 1944 and the Dumont Television Network
followed in 1946 and CBS and ABC in 1948.
Television, however, would not have proliferated as it did were it not for the “killer apps,”
Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, and Hopalong
Cassidy. Just as VisiCalc would later sell Apple
IIs and “1-2-3” IBM-PCs, “Uncle Miltie” and
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CREATIVE DISRUPTION
TV – From Baird to the Web
Continued from page 4
“Hoppy” sold TVs. In 1948, NBC brought “The
Texaco Star Theatre” to television with Berle
as one of four hosts, naming him sole host in
Fall 1948. The show became so popular, gathering 80% of the TV audience that some movie
theaters in New York closed on Tuesday nights.
The morning after the show, workplaces would
be filled with discussion of the Berle show the
previous night – a great incentive for TV holdouts to go get a set.
Howdy Doody, a pioneer in children’s television, ran on NBC from 1947 to 1960. Originally
created as a voice by NBC radio announcer Bob
Smith, the character became so popular that
there was demand for a visual character and a
red-headed puppet was created (with 48 freckles
on his face, one for each of the then 48 states)
and it was “Howdy Doody Time” for 14 years
(the final words of the last show were said by
the up-to-then mute character Clarabell the
Clown, who had only communicated through
the use of his horn and by squirting seltzer. He
said “Goodbye Kids.”)
Of equal importance to the slightly older
young set was Hopalong Cassidy, the first
Western network television series, debuting
on NBC on June 24, 1949. Cassidy was the
fictional hero of a series, begun in 1904, of
novels and short stories by author Charles
Mulford. Beginning in 1935, sixty-six Hopalong
Cassidy movies were made starring the actor
William Boyd. When the movies began to be
less successful than other films, Boyd gambled
his future by putting all his assets on the block
to purchase the character rights from Mulford ,
the film backlog from producer Harry Sherman,
and the rights to the old films from the studios.
He then sold NBC on the idea of a television
series – all NBC had to do was to edit the movies
down to broadcast time length. The series was
tremendously successful, making Boyd a bigger
star than he had ever been in the movies and
paving the way for other movie cowboys, such
as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, to move to television -- “Daddy, why can’t we have our own
television? I don’t like to keep going to Peter’s to
watch Hoppy (or Howdy).”
The success of these shows led the networks
to begin a policy that continues to this day -- “If
it works, copy it ... ad nausium” and so, variety
shows, kid shows, and westerns were duplicated
for years. “Lucky Pup” (the vehicle for “Pinhead”
and “Foodini”), “Time For Beany,” “Kukla, Fran,
& Ollie,”“Snarky Parker,” and “Rootie Kazootie”
arrived for kids; Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie
Gleason, Perry Como, and Arthur Godfrey all
had variety shows; and Wikipedia lists 183 westerns that sprung from the success of Hopalong
Cassidy
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_
of_TV_Westerns) -- including “Gunsmoke,”
“Maverick,” and “Have Gun, Will Travel.”
A second part of the above policy might be
“... if these shows begin to lose viewership, never
try that genre again” and today we have no westerns nor variety shows on network TV.
As we moved through the years, color television arrived. NBC introduced two shows that
became staples up until today -- “Today,” which
began broadcasting on January 14, 1952 (hosted
by Dave Garroway, assisted by chimpanzee J.
Fred Muggs), and “The Tonight Show” which
debuted in 1954 (and has been hosted by Steve
Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson (30 years), Jay
Leno, Conan O’Brien – and back to Jay Leno).
Three major corporations (ABC, CBS, & NBC)
controlled all network content and television
sets had only 13 channels. During that time,
Quiz Shows and Documentaries came and
went; Situation Comedies (“SitComs”) became
popular and we moved from simplistic and
light (“Ozzie and Harriet”) to socially relevant
(“Maude”) to “adult sleezy“ (“Three and a Half
Men”); mysteries became mainly cop procedural
shows; and soap operas dominated day time
television until they were replace by talk shows.
Creative Disruption is a continuing series examining the impact of constantly accelerating technology
on the world around us. These changers normally
happen under our personal radar until we find that
the world as we knew it is no more.
Next – The Landscape Explodes: Cable Television,
High Definition Television, & The Internet – A
Whole New Ball Game.
John F.McMullen has been involved in technology
for over 40 years and has written about it for major
publications. He may be found on Facebook and his
current non-technical writing, a novel, “The Inwood
Book” and “New & Collected Poems by johnmac the
bard” are available on Amazon. He is a professor
at Purchase College and has previously taught at
Monroe College, Marist College, and the New
School for Social Research.
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CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Art Attack
Later on, after wrapping up the episode,
Franco contacted Olds who started to
work on this “found footage,” to repurpose
Franco’s material into an experimental
psychological thriller focusing on the
actor’s escalating paranoia. Olds added his
own voiceover as the conscience of Franco
and edited the material to make it look like
Franco is losing his mind on the set as the
line between reality and fiction was blurring with the performance artist Franco
plays in the television soap opera and
the movie star James Franco are in
internal conflict. Olds and fellow
screenwriter Paul Felten worked
By SHERIF AWAD
Can an artist kill for inspiration? Can art inspire
vicious crimes? These are
the questions raised by
many films I have seen
during Tribeca Festival last
month.
Eddie the Sleepwalking Cannibal, a DanishCanadian co-production was the first film.
It stars Danish actor Thure Lindhardt who
plays Lars, an artist who suffers from creativity
problems. However, his inspiration is only
resurrected in the form of carnage – blood,
guts and scenes of violence. Concerned about
his young protégé, Ronny, Lars’s long-time art
dealer, arranges for him a teaching job in a small
town, at a school for the mentally challenged.
Arriving there, he gets introduced to the deaf
and dumb Eddie, one of the school’s students.
One night, Lars wakes up only to discover that
Eddie is a cannibal suffering from a rare form
of sleepwalking that drives him to crave for the
fresh meat of human beings. Initially horrified by Eddie’s deep dark secret, Lars becomes
enthralled by the not-so-gentle giant who
becomes his muse for a new series of bloody
and violent paintings.
PART MUSE ...
Dylan Smith.
end into a more graphic and detailed climax.
However, Rodriguez did not show us any of
the paintings inspired by Eddie’s crime realized
by Lars because he wanted to leave the recognition to our imagination. Eddie reminded me of
a very old film I have seen in 1980s though it
was released in 1974. Craze starred Jack Palance
as Neal Mottram, a nutty antiques dealer who
starts to sacrifice women to an African idol he
kept in his gallery.
PART SLEEPWALKING
CANNIBAL
many tools: action, reverse-action abstraction,
animation, and multiple-screen imagery, all
set within the context of a dramatic suspense
narrative. Also Franco and Olds succeeded in
using Franco’s celebrity status to create an original work that defies the trajectory of stars who
usually move from soap to silver screen.
After Tribeca, I went to see The Raven
starring one my favorite actors, John Cusack,
in a thriller taking the real-life character of
novelist Edgar Allan Poe into a fictitious
narrative where he faces a lunatic committing horrific murders inspired by his writings.
James McTeigue (V for Vendetta), directed The
Raven with high efficiency and fast-pacing and
succeeding to pull out another one of Cusack’s
intense performances.
Rodriguez film
starring Thure Lindhardt
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I met Boris Rodriguez, the writer-director
of Eddie, who, after studying filmmaking in
Montreal, went to direct the award-winning
documentary Havana Kids in 1996. Rodriguez,
who is making his feature debut in Eddie, told
me that the original draft of the script was
about a werewolf and a novelist in Carolina
and, after few rewritings, became the final film
whose poster’s design, colors and composition,
was given a retro feel with a tribute to the poster
of the classic horror The Exorcist and some
Italian horror film known as Giallo. During the
shooting, Rodriguez discovered how difficult it
was to mix violence and dark humor, which is a
common formula nowadays. But near the end,
he was successful in causing the violence to
escalate from the beginning of the film to the
Director Boris Rodriguez.
Francophenia.
THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL
a Boris
on this subjective interior
monologue that underscores
the conflicted relationship
between these various facets
of the same being. The film
is a crazy ride with the
director playing
with
Thure Lindhardt.
The second film about art, mayhem and
madness is Francophrenia, a brilliant, cuttingedge collaboration between famed actor and
avant-garde artist James Franco and awardwinning filmmaker and editor Ian Olds. A
couple of years ago, Franco signed up for a
guest appearance in one of the episodes of
General Hospital, then brought along a crew
to film behind-the-scenes action on a set at
Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art
(MOCA), creating a glimpse into the strange
world of celebrity in both its public and private
moments. In that episode, Franco was playing
a deranged artist who was about to commit a
crime while opening his show at the MOCA.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad I a film / video
critic and curator. He is the film editor of Egypt
Today Magazine, and the artistic director for both
the Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the
Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. He
also contributes to Variety, in the United States,
and Variety Arabia, in the United Arab Emirates
(UAE).
Jack Palance in “Craze”.
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DEVELOPMENT
Bedford Property Owners Win Right to Demolish Historic Tudor Structure
Signature “Bell Tower” Preserved
By RICH MONETTI
On Tuesday, May 15th, The
Bedford Town Board heard the
appeal of Dr. Darel Benaim and
her husband Carlos in regards
to their application to demolish
an architecturally distinctive structure on their
property known as the Belfry.
The Benaim’s had purchased the property on
44 Holly Branch Road in 2011 with the intent
of tearing down the hundred year old building
and incorporating the home of stone, wood and
glass into the rolling hill. “Our real estate broker
assured us we would be able to complete the
designs in full compliance,” said Dr. Benaim in
addressing the board and public hearing.
Four months later, the couple was
confronted with the Historical Building
Preservation Ordinance and found their property among 500 other Bedford properties
affected. Stopping their plans cold, she said, “We
were shocked.”
The ordinance calls for the preservation of
properties and structures that contain distinctive architectural and historical significance. The
point of contention has hinged on the transparency of the document.
The Benaim’s claimed neither they nor the
various real estate and legal agents enlisted in
the acquisition knew nothing of the Ordinance,
and in fact, it was not available to the public.
Otherwise, she said, “We never would have
purchased the property.”
In response, John Stockbridge, the Town
of Bedford’s Historian denied the so-called
“secrecy” of the list, as he argued in favor of the
preservation of the Tudor Style structure for
the Bedford Village Historic District Review
Commission. “There is no intent to have secrets.
This is a survey that is available for people to look
at,” he said. “Is it sent to everybody? – No! But is
the wetland map sent to everybody?”, he asked
rhetorically.
In turn, he believed “due diligence” was not
done in regards to the property owners and the
real estate brokers and lawyers that acted on their
behalf. Mr Stockbridge chose not to speculate
on the intent of the various parties.
The main details in the dispute aside, the
board fashioned a compromise. The Benaim’s
will be able to demolish the main structure
known as the Belfry but must preserve its signature Bell Tower. They can either relocate it or
incorporate it into a new structure. The Benaim’s
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Small Business Returns; One Plate
and a Glass at a Time
By NANCY KING
This week, the government
released their monthly jobs
report and the news was
dismal. Unemployment is up
to 8.2% from last month’s
8.1%, and the nation added a
mere 69,000 jobs during the
month of May. This is hardly the news that cash
strapped, already uneasy Westchester workers
wanted to hear. Though these numbers are
modest, throughout the county there seems to
be a tentative step towards economic recovery.
White Plains, which for many years was
the home of multiple $1.00 stores, has seen the
emergence of new businesses along both the
Mamaroneck Avenue and Main Street corridor.
In the past year, White Plains has welcomed
nearly a dozen small businesses to their community. However these new businesses center
around the hospitality industry and are mainly
restaurants and bars; most of them are privately
owned. While these stores may not be the type
of small business that we grew up seeing on
Main Street, these are the types of businesses
that are attracting entrepreneurs and consumers
alike. To cash strapped municipalities, they are
contributing to the sales tax revenue stream that
keeps a municipality fiscally healthy.
According to Stuart Levine of Vino 100
situated on East Post Road, small merchants
are grateful for the bustling dining and nightlife
crowd that now frequent the downtown. Those
patrons provide foot traffic to areas that normally
halts to nothing once the county office workers
leave at 5:00 P.M. Increased foot traffic encourages other businesses to stay open later and thus
make some sales. On the topic of sales, Levine
stated that he is seeing an increase in all the
businesses. While Liquor stores are generally a
recession proof industry, wary consumers spent
somewhat less purchasing low end wine and
spirits; they still drank, just did it on the cheap!
Other small business owners echo Levine, but
are also concerned about those storefronts that
have been empty for over a year now.
East Post Road in White Plains, once a
street with upscale shops, is rife with empty
storefronts. The farther away from Mamaroneck
Avenue you travel, the more empty stores you
encounter. Landlords of those storefronts claim
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Legal Counsel, Al DelBello, confirmed that the
Benaim’s were satisfied with the ruling.
Mr Stockbridge was however disappointed
that the ordinance’s intent did not fully stand
up to the challenge but was relieved the Bell
Tower was spared. He also recognized the bigger
picture approach the Town Board was faced
with. Pointing to possible ambiguities in any
document and the willingness of the residents
to continue the fight, he said, “Basically, they
didn’t want to get involved in an expensive, time
consuming litigation.”
Going forward, Mr Stockbridge sees the
outcome as a wake up call for the commission.
“We need to be on the same page as the Town
Board so if an ordinance is accepted, it can be
relied upon by the public to get a proper review,”
he concluded.
Rich Monetti lives in Somers. He’s been a freelance
writer covering Westchester County since 2003.
Peruse his work at www.monetti.blogspot.com.
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there has been no interest in their space but this
reporter suspects that they might not be so interested in subdividing space or are simply charging
too much rent. Perhaps former gubernatorial
candidate Jimmy McMillian was onto something when he ran in 2009 on the mantra that
the “rent is too damn high”.
Grapes, The Wine Company didn’t let
those sky high, White Plains rents deter them
from expanding their business in a sluggish
economy. Daniel Posner, proprietor of Grapes,
The Wine Company, moved into a 1600 square
foot retail space in a small strip mall carved into
the bedrock on Rt. 22, in North White Plains, in
the Town of North Castle. Grapes, founded in
1997, has been twice named Best in Westchester
by Westchester Magazine and was recently a
sponsor of Westchester Wine Week at the RitzCarlton in White Plains. Grapes also boasts
a climate controlled wine room with rare and
expensive wines for those who are collectors of
fine wine. According to staff at the store, business is brisk both on the retail and commercial
side of business.
So it seems that economic recovery in the
County is based on the need for food and drink.
Communities with busy bars and restaurants
generate the foot traffic that help support local
specialty shops. Tarrytown, Bronxville, North
Castle, and White Plains are all perfect examples
of such. These village and city governments have
extended the invitation to small business owners
that they are indeed open for business and they
have the sales tax revenues to prove it. Main
Street and small business isn’t dead, it has just
reprioritized itself. We’ll shop for our clothing
and goods in the mall, but when we want a home
cooked meal and a drink, we’d just as soon stay
home in our own hometowns.
Nancy King is a freelance investigative reporter; a
resident of White Plains, New York.
HISTORY
Obama Stuns Polish Americans with His Holocaust Mistake
BROOKLYN, NY -- The Holocaust
Documentation Committee of the Polish
American Congress was one of the voices
echoing in the White House after President
Obama forgot it was Nazi Germany which was
responsible for the crimes of the Holocaust.
It happened at the ceremony when
the President posthumously awarded The
Presidential Medal of Honor to, among others,
Jan Karski who is known today as “the man who
tried to stop the Holocaust.”
A member of the Polish Underground
during the German occupation of Poland in
World War II, Karski was an eyewitness to the
way the Nazis maltreated and murdered Jews in
one of their camps.
Karski tried to inform the world about
the killings he saw by going to London and
Washington to warn the Allies about the state of
terror facing the Jews back home. They refused
to believe him.
Unfortunately, the President’s speech writers
led him astray when they provided him with a
text which had him say that Karski witnessed
the atrocities against the Jews inside a “Polish”
death camp. It was really a German camp.
the President of the United States,”
said Frank Milewski who currently
heads the Holocaust Documentation
Committee.
After
an
Administration
spokesman issued a statement
claiming the President only
“misspoke,” the committee called the
White House and followed up with a
request for further action: (see below).
To: The White House
[email protected]
From: Frank Milewski, Chair
Holocaust
Documentation
Committee
Polish American Congress
Jan Karski, before a wall-map of the Warsaw Ghetto
[email protected]
at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
On behalf of the President’s
recalls his secret 1942 missions into the Nazi “prisonNational Security Council, Tommy
city-within-a-city”. Photo by E. Thomas Wood, 1994
Vietor stated that the President
This is not the first time this type of
“misspoke” at the Presidential Medal
misidentification has drawn the ire of the Polish
of Freedom ceremony when he referred to a
American Congress. The organization has
Nazi death camp as “Polish” instead of German.
been in the forefront of the fight against this
One of the objectives of the Holocaust
misnomer for several decades.
Documentation Committee of the Polish
“It stunned us to hear it from someone like
American Congress is to safeguard the integrity
of Holocaust history by correcting errors which
come to our attention.
Errors like the one the President made
are generally brought to our attention by our
members and constituents, as was the case here.
In all candor, the President’s error hit a
raw nerve in the Polish American community as evidenced by the comments sent us.
Our membership includes many registered
Democrats whose families have been loyal to the
party even for generations.
In view of the fact the President’s statement
was so egregious, we would suggest that he be
advised that, at the very least, an apology is the
appropriate way to deal with this problem rather
than merely saying he “misspoke.”
Misstatements damaging Poland’s history
continue to be a grave concern of the Polish
American community. We are also relying
on the President’s promise to finally include
Poland in the Visa Waiver Program and his
assurance Poland’s security is a priority for his
administration.
We are convinced his appropriate and
prompt response will do much to reassure all of
us.
housing
Local Humanitarian Group Steps Aside for Government Funding
By SHANNON AYALA
Annie Smith, a senior citizen
whose house has been gradually destroyed by rainwater in
Mt Vernon, was not aware
(when asked on May 24th) of
Habitat for Humanity, not to
mention its Westchester County Chapter and
its particularly recent presence in her city.
The Mount Vernon Mayor’s Office was
nonetheless inclined in May to approve an
initiative to receive national HUD (Department
of Housing and Urban Development) funds to
have Smith’s roof fixed (for $33,026), despite
its involvement with Habitat, the worldwide,
homebuilding, humanitarian organization.
(Habitat is a substantial nonprofit: according to
its website, they’ve repaired over 500,000 houses
since 1976; they’re also known for one volunteer,
President Carter. In Westchester specifically
there are over thirty high school-Habitat clubs
according to the HFH Westchester High School
Website).
Jim Killoran, the exuberant Executive
Director of Habitat for Humanity of
Westchester, was inversely well aware of Annie
Smith before The Westchester Guardian exposed
her decaying walls to the public last week.
He said it would be better if Mount Vernon
contracted a company to fix the roof because
it’s a job that would be too dangerous for volunteers. He said that Habitat could then step in to
handle interior work such as plastering.
A representative from Habitat International
only added that such funding decisions (when
asked if a chapter would ever fund a private
company) are determined at the local group. The
chapter can’t do it all, says Killoran, adding that
more seniors are contacting Habitat WC; he
suggests that taxes should be lowered for seniors
in Westchester.
Killoran then doesn’t stress the incapacity
(if not boundaries) of the county chapter, but
instead insists that “the little things add up,”
referring to such materializations as the flower
pots of about two-by-four feet in top-surface
area or the “pothole gardens” that now line streets
in southwest Mt Vernon since Mt Vernon Month
began in May and continues into June.
(Mt Vernon Month is not over: seniors
as well as anyone could attend an open house
forum with Habitat Westchester on June 16th
at 9:30 AM in their Renew Store at 2 Cortland
Street in the southwest corner of Mt Vernon).
Now Killoran’s description of the organization’s place in the City as well as the County at
large goes well beyond flowerpots. He provides a
tour around the blocks surrounding the Renew
Store, at what he regards as one of the entryways of the town. Beyond this area are two
new community garden projects of Habitat and
one just around the corner is a possible third, a
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notes that they don’t see prostitutes outside the
Kindness” campaign.
store anymore.
Though they’ve been in the town for a
The last stop is the Renew Store, one of
couple of years, these are projects that Killoran
700 in the country, says Killoran. He calls it a
says have only been going on in a few weeks.
second-hand Home Depot, though it has Ikea
Some of the stops on his tour, immediate in
aspects, carrying new-looking furniture, a flat
proximity, are small businesses in which the
screen TV, a vintage pinball machine and a South
owners enthusiastically praise Humanity’s recent
Pacific piano. The items are either slightly used
progress. “So many folks have noticed the differand donated, he says, or unused, such as photoence,” says Sharon Coulborne of Sharon’s Realty,
model lights. He says the store is considered
where she’s been established for eighteen years.
out of sight, like a “diamond in the rough” but
“After we saw him show up, the whole
is an asset to the community: it’s employed at
thing changed,” says Winston Shillingford of
least two or three people and offers low-priced
the West Indies Market Place/fish and chip
items such as a $3,500 cabinet set that he and
shop. “People are coming out in the evenings.
his partner say would otherwise go for over 20
We’re seeing people we don’t normally see.... He’s
thousand, or $20 wicker-seated bar stools. It’s
changing the face [of the neighborhood]”. There
not completely local however, since customers
are customers in the store at tables and chairs
visit from beyond New York State.
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of ten employees to volunteer this month, having
been inspired by Killoran’s spiel on volunteerism
over ten years ago. Killoran says,“New York State
is last in the country in volunteerism.” According
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MOVIE REVIEW
Ed Koch Movie Reviews
By Edward I. Koch
Movie Review
“Moonrise Kingdom” (+)
I saw this film after reading Manohla Dargis’s
glowing review of it in The New York Times. If
I had not read her analysis, I would not have
known that Wes Anderson, director and
co-writer of the picture, has a cult following.
This fantasy involves two 12-year-olds: Suzy
(Kara Hayward) and Sam (Jared Gilman). The
well-known supporting actors include Edward
Norton as a scout leader, Bruce Willis as a
Movie Review:
“Hysteria” (-)
This ridiculous movie, set in Victorian London,
received undeserved good reviews. The premise
of the film is that many of the diseases suffered
by women in the late 1800s were imagined.
Two physicians believe that they can relieve
the hysteria and make the women feel better by
manipulating their genitalia.
Dr. Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) is a
progressive physician working with an older
doctor who does not believe in germs. Mortimer
does and disobeys the senior doctor’s instructions by changing bandages on a patient and
is subsequently fired. He secures another position with Dr. Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan
MUSIC
police captain, Tilda Swinton as a social worker,
and Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, as
Suzy’s parents, both of whom are lawyers. Sam
is a foster child whose foster parents no longer
want him.
At the beginning of the movie I thought
to myself, “What am I doing in this zoo?”
Fortunately, I stuck to my rule of never leaving
a film before it ends, and I began to enjoy it and
became interested in what was happening.
The story takes place on an island soon to be
devastated by the storm of the century. Suzy and
Sam, who make very mature comments about
life, run away to
be together. They are pursued by the local police
and a group of boys, known as Khaki Scouts, to
return them safely home.
The best actor in terms of getting the attention of the audience is Tilda Swinton, known
only as “Social Services.” Representing the
government, she comes to collect Sam and place
him in an orphanage now that his foster parents
have renounced him.
While I’m not yet a full-fledged member of
Wes Anderson’s cult, I will probably see his next
film.
Pryce) who specializes in treating the hysteria of
women patients.
From that point on the movie becomes a
one-trick pony. Granville and Dalrymple manipulate the genitals of their female patients. Word
spreads and their practice grows, especially when
they begin to use an electric vibrator invented by
Granville’s millionaire friend, Edmund (Rupert
Everett), causing one woman to burst into song.
Other cast members include Dalrymple’s
two daughters: the timid and obedient Emily
(Felicity Jones) who practices phrenology, and
the outgoing and rebellious Charlotte (Maggie
Gyllenhaal) who created a home for underprivileged and homeless individuals.
The directors went to great lengths to
furnish the homes and dress the actors in
authentic Victorian styles of the day, and they
also assembled a marvelous cast. Regrettably,
they provided the performers with a vehicle that
can only be described as unworthy tripe, and an
infantile leaden script that adds up to nothing
more than dressed-up smut. What a waste of
talent and money. (The Victorian ties that the
men sported in the picture look to me as the
new attire for men today. I hope Brooks Brothers
buyers agree.)
Visit the Mayor at the Moview to ;earn more:
http://www.mayorkoch.com/. The Honorable
Edward Irving Koch served as a member of
Congress from New York State from 1969
through 1977, and New York City as its 105th
Mayor from 1978 to 1989.
THE SOUNDS 2012 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival
OFBLUE
By Bob Putignano
Another stellar lineup for the Chesapeake Bay
Blues, Saturday’s performances included the
Chesapeake Bay Blues Band with local hero
Tom Principato, the Honey Island Swamp
Band, Janiva Magness, a Michael Burks tribute
with Bernard Allison’s band and Lurie Bell,
Ruthie Foster, Big Head Todd, and the Tedeschi
Trucks Band.
I arrived late for Saturday’s festivities, and
only got to see Tedeschi Trucks who put on a
solid set.This was the first time I saw the husband
and wife team and I really enjoyed hearing
Trucks’ soloing over a very tight horn section,
and background singers. Tedeschi proved to be
no slouch on guitar and rolled out dynamite
guitar licks, but was no match (intensity wise)
for Trucks. I walked away thinking that as good
as this unit was, I must say that I prefer seeing
the Derek Trucks band over the Tedeschi Trucks
ensemble as the DTB band is more creative and
daring, and is more apt to take more chances. I
had similar feelings about the Tedeschi Trucks
studio and the just released double disc set.
I arrived much earlier on Sunday and
caught the end of Albert Cummings so-so
performance, how many more blues-rock trios
can one endure? Up next was the tiny dynamo
Continued on page 11
Philipp Fankhauser
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MUSIC
2012 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival
Hooker isn’t trying to make any personal monetary gain from the festival. Each year he donates
all of the net profits to various charities. Over the
years, Hooker raised nearly one-million dollars,
an amazing accomplishment. In summary;
if you looking to attend a great festival with
a stellar lineup that is held at one of the most
scenic venues around, and if you dig the
TICKET PRICES INCLUDE
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Jonny Lang
band. Fankhauser was the consummate pro
throughout, tantalizing the crowd with his
Lydia Pense, with her latest incarnation of Cold
command of the stage. I have to hand it to this
Blood who were brought back to Chesapeake
Euro star who came out wearing a all white suit
(they appeared last in 2009,) and made a lasting
who summoned and sang songs by Bobby “Blue”
impression on me, and Pense and her fine unit
Bland, Solomon Burke, and a man he considers
did not disappoint again. Cold Blood’s perforone of his mentors; Johnny Copeland, pretty
mance was all about Funk and Soul, but their
ballsy, but right-on. I was hopeful that during
opening number had the Blues-based crowd
Fankhauer’s Copeland segment that Shemekia
mesmerized as they ripped through a killer
might join in, but that did not happen. Kudos
version of “I Just Want To Make Love To You.”
to the Chesapeake booking team for bringing
This was Cold Blood’s second east coast visit
Fankhauser to the USA, not only was it a rare
in about twenty-five years, which is a shame
opportunity to see this fine band stateside, but
as Lydia and Cold Blood would be a welcome
they were that good leaving a very memorable
addition to festivals and clubs throughout the.
impression on yours truly. Unfortunately I don’t
They are that good. The crowd never danced
have similar kind sentiments about JJ Grey and
harder all weekend long. There was a long line
Mofro who performed sloppily, and authors
of fans that had purchased the latest Cold Blood
some of the lamest lyrics on the planet. Closing
CD, “Live Blood,” on www.digmusic.com.
the show was Jonny Lang (who was also at
Many told Pense that she was the main reason
Susan Tedeschi
Derek Trucks
Lydia Pense
they had attended the festival. It was also cool to
Chesapeake in ’09) who blistered on his opening
see how much vinyl Pense’s adoring fans brought
number and throughout the eve. When I saw
along for her to autograph. Catch this band live,
him in ’09 here he would not allow any picture
you won’t be disappointed. Also, check out their
taking, but this time he allowed the press to take
current recording that just burns! Kudos to the
photographs for- one song… Jonny’s not my
Cold Blood two-piece horn section that often
full cup of tea, but I found it interesting to see
sounded like a full-blown ensemble!
his youthful fans (especially the young ladies)
Philipp Fankhauser’s flight from
thoroughly enjoying his set, a rarity for a blues
Switzerland was late, so Shemekia Copeland
performance.
came on earlier and took his time-slot, by the
Festival CEO and President Don Hooker is
way Shemekia was also booked several times by
a true lover of Blues music, he first organized the
this festival and is obviously a fan and bookers
fest in 1998. It was an immediate hit bringing
favorite. Fortunately Fankhauser made it to the
in more than 13,000 people to the park in two
Bay Bridge in time to take Shemekia’s spot and
days. Since their maiden voyage this picturesque
really lit it up with his excellent guitar playing,
festival has become one of the biggest music
strong (and soulful) vocals, and dynamite
festivals in the mid-Atlantic region. By the way:
outstanding local shellfish (Mike’s Crab House
Restaurant (www.MikesCrabHouse.com) was
outstanding, I even brought home seafood from
them); keep checking out bayblues.org for 2013
updates.
Bob Putignano www.SoundsofBlue.com
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EYE ON THEATRE
For Special Tastes
By JOHN SIMON
It is nice for a musical to
address territory more highbrow than usual. That is what
“February House” appears to
attempt, with music and lyrics
by Gabriel Kahane and book
by Seth Bockley. But good intentions, even if
they can avoid the proverbial road to hell, are not
enough. Whatever the exact intent was here, it
proves that pretentiousness, usually limited to
words, can extend to notes as well.
The show is meant to be the freely imagined
story of a famous real-life situation, the occupancy of a since torn-down building in Brooklyn
inhabited by a constellation of celebrities under
the landlord George Davis, a homosexual writer
and editor. This included W. H. Auden and his
young lover and fellow poet Chester Kallman;
Benjamin Britten and his lover , the singer
Peter Pears;, escaping from wartime Britain; the
Southern decadent novelist Carson McCullers,
escaping her husband Reeves McCullers;
Erika Mann, Thomas’s lesbian writer daughter,
escaping the Nazis, whom Auden platonically
married to give her protective U.S. citizenship;
and Gypsy Rose Lee, writing a novel under the
aegis of George Davis.
Also present, though not included in the
script, were Paul and Jane Bowles, Richard
Wright, Marc Blitzstein, and Oliver Smith. The
and behavior. Somewhat better are Auden and
Kallman, though here I am at a disadvantage,
having known Kallman slightly and Auden
better and not recognizing them in the actors.
Although A. J. Shively is a conceivable Kallman,
Erik Lichtefeld, for all his British accent, has
none of Auden’s patent charm. Kristen Sieh
behaves tomboyishly enough as McCullers, and,
thanks considerably to a convincing wig, comes
A.J. Shively and Erik Lochtefeld.
across to one who never met her as believable.
Erika Mann’s politics and editing an unsuccessful magazine are there all right, as is her
probable crush on Carson, but Stephanie Hayes
can do little with a basically uninteresting part.
As Reeves, trying brashly to retrieve his wife,
Ken Clark is a credible outsider and straight
The cast of February House.
man, but Kacie Sheik, a somewhat diminutive
Gypsy Rose, has only one number, and that an
intellectual striptease better in the Rodgers &
Hart “Pal Joey.”
In the longest part of George Davis
(who was to become one of Lotte Lenya’s gay
husbands), Julian Fleisher is conspicuously
uncharismatic, and looks much less good than
on the program cover. But finally, what matters
is the score by the singer-musician Kahane. He
has received many commissions and awards, and
place was dubbed February House by Anais Nin,
because so many tenants had February birthdays.
But even as February is the shortest of months,
so this togetherness during the early 40s did not
last long.
It must, however, have proved more stimulating than this musical. Seth Bockley, whose
oeuvre thus far is more eccentric than impressive,
is unable to convey what the talk must have been
like. Especially gross is turning Britten and Pears
into a kind of comic vaudeville team in language
Kacie Sheik as Gypsy Rose Lee and Julian Fleisher as George Davis.
is to have a solo evening at Carnegie Hall, but
is promptly repeated. From Eno, even what
I really liked only one early number, “A Room
didn’t happen, happens in duplicate.
Comes Together,” however haphazardly staged.
There is lots of interplay with the audience.
David McCallum’s direction did what it
“You look like you just got born. Most people
could on Riccardo Hernandez’s rudimentary
get over that.” Or, “Please stay seated. Thank
set, much of it taken up by the onstage orchestra.
you. Well done. Very neatly done. Again, well
Danny Medford’s choreography was barely
done. Thank you.” Or, “Don’t get too lost. For
embryonic, but then you don’t really want a
too long.” Also, “I like repeating myself. Because,
dancing Auden and Britten.
you know, who else is going to do it?”This seems
“February House” marks “the first commisto get the audience where it lives: they lap it up
sion of The Public Theater’s Music Theater
amid long laughs.
Initiative,” but is scarcely more auspicious than
The story, in so far as there is one, has the
the political campaigns concurrently staged
Man saying, “I’m describing it from the point of
around us.
view of the living, which is how we see everyWill Eno is the darling of certain reviewers,
thing.” He also explains, “I’m not from here.
though he functions mostly through indirection.
I guess I never will be. That’s how being from
It is, of course, possible to thrive on suggestions
somewhere works.”
between the lines. But as often as not, what we
I forgo quoting more of this copious lessget between the lines is a void.
ness. Conor Lovett certainly looks like and is
Now we have a one-man show (a favored
dressed as a man of exemplary ordinariness. He
genre of his) titled “Title and Deed,” with only
seldom moves from center stage, once notably
the most tortured relevance. It is performed by
to pick up a satchel he dropped behind him.
the Irish actor Conor Lovett, and staged by his
From it he removes a metallic lunchbox, which
wife, Judy Hogarty Lovett. The Lovetts have
he holds before him for close to a silent minute.
been at it the world over under the similarly
Then he comments, ‘Now this object has an
whimsical signboard Gare St. Lazare Players
interesting story. Not in words, I guess.”
Ireland, chiefly with solo plays, often by Beckett.
In words, though, we get not much more.
“Title snd Deed” is very heavily indebted to
Above the stage, Christine Jones has hung a
the Beckett monologues, whether intended for
number of those giant shards we get in some
the theater or culled by others from his fictions.
concert halls to improve the acoustics. Here
The difference is that Beckett’s monodramas
there is nothing audible or visible improved.
are only passingly cute, whereas Eno’s are barely
Photos by and courtesy of Joan Marcus.
anything but.
John Simon has written for over 50 years on theatre,
What we get here from a character named
film, literature, music and fine arts for the Hudson
Man is essentially a comic existential cry on our
Review, New Leader, New Criterion, National
shoulders, delivered in frequently faltering, repetReview, New York Magazine, Opera News,
itive, audience-cajoling, and steadily cutesy detail,
Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and Bloomberg
starting with the 70-minute show’s subtitle, “A
News. Mr. Simon holds a PhD from Harvard
Monologue for a Slightly Foreign Man.” The
University in Comparative Literature and has
whimsy greets us from above the entrance with
taught at MIT, Harvard University, Bard College
a screen reading, “I try to live every day like it was
and Marymount Manhattan College.
my third-to-last.” And early on in the show we
hear, “I believe my life happened,” and a bit later,
To learn more, visit the JohnSimon-Uncensored.
“I once was . . . nah, I probably never was,” which
com
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Attend the Seminars, Workshops and
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3:00 PM
Charles Salzberg is a notable writer and publisher. His company
Greenpoint Press is well known to writers. Mr. Salzberg will be joined by
several of the authors published by Greenpoint Press in an animated discussion on creative writing, They will be in the Community Room at the
Library from 11:00 AM until noon. Mr. Salzberg and his group will be
available to sign books the rest of the day.
Julie Just, a top Literary Agent from Janklow & Nezbit. Ms. Just special-
izes in representing YA authors and will be sharing her in depth knowledge with us. Her
talk is entitled :
“How to Write a Successful Query, it’s not what you think!”
She will be in the Yonkers Room at 12:00 PM
Laura Kelly is an accomplished book marketer and social network spe-
cialist. She is a very sought after consultant and marketing executive. Her
presentation at the event will be on Digital Marketing, a must for any of today’s authors. Laura will be enlightening us in the Community Room at
1:30 PM
Warren Berger is a successful author and head of the Marmaduke
Writer’s Group. Warren is a featured author at Books Without Borders. He
is willing to share his experience as an author and explain the importance
of a Writer’s Group. He will be appearing in the Yonkers Room at 2:00
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Jenna Kernan
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Sammie Chandler
Charles Salzberg
Valerie Albarda
Margo Stever
Norb Vonnegut
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THE SPOOF
Barbie is 53 Years Old, Takes up Zumba
By GAIL FARRELLY
To show the world that she’s
still in great shape, the famous
Mattel doll has taken up
Zumba, the Latin dance fitness
craze that’s sweeping the U.S.
Dressed in sexy, curvefitting exercise togs, her blonde locks in a perky
ponytail, she was spotted at a Westchester
exercise studio, taking a Zumba class. Observers
reported that she was jiving to the music as well
as kicking faster, higher, and with more enthusiasm than classmates half her age. At the end
of class she signed autographs for a crowd of
admirers and scoffed at rumors that she was too
old to cut the mustard anymore. She said she
agrees with Mark Twain who once commented:
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t
mind, it doesn’t matter.”
But those in the know say that behind
the scenes, it’s another story. Barbie has
had cosmetic surgery on her eyelids, four
tummy tucks, and numerous botox treatments.
In addition, she will probably need knee replacement surgery within the next year or two. Her
medicine chest looks like an ad for the cosmetics
industry. It’s packed with items such as: antiwrinkle creams, hair dye, skin softeners, etc. You
get the picture.
Barbie’s favorite book at the moment? How
Not To Look Old by Charla Krupp.
“Okay, okay, I admit it -- I need all the
beauty help I can get these days,” Barbie has
told friends. And she’s reminded them of what
Eleanor Roosevelt once said: “Beautiful young
people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old
people are works of art.”
Barbie, we have three words for you. You go,
girl!
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The Retired (Try To) Strike Back
Chapter 52 - This Last Chapter Isn’t
By ALLAN LUKS
Joel, who reported about the
four couples for a daily newspaper, is now finishing a book
about what happened to them
over the last five years. As he
drafts the final chapter, he
writes, “These men and women
started off to prove that retirees were still individually vital, and their efforts grew into the present
national campaign encouraging seniors to take
a greater role as public leaders to end the nation’s
bitter polarization. In this last chapter, I’ve interviewed these leaders how they see their own future.”
Nancy and Steven
“When I worked for the city’s transportation
department,” Nancy tells Joel, “I used to wear very
large earrings to try to get people arriving with petitions, who were usually angry about something, to
start off asking about the earrings and not argue
so much about my department’s slow response to
problems. I cared—but everything just seemed to
chug along at a slow pace.
“But now, retired, with the Senior Women’s
March and Talk Centers started by our group, I
want people to ask what I do.This is a good feeling,
which I never thought I’d have, especially at my
age.”
Her husband, Steven, explains to Joel: “When
we march now, I call to people on the sidewalks to
join us. But as a social worker, I’d go to community meetings, describe a problem the needy had,
and rarely had time to return to speak again to that
group.
“But with marches usually a couple of days a
week in most places, and feeling the support of all
the seniors marching around me, I’m a continuing
voice. Like Nancy said, that feels good at our age.”
Joan and Bob
“The two commercials Bob and I co-directed
not long ago, using seniors as spokespersons, rather
than the young and handsome and beautiful,
continue being shown, and most important the
products advertised are selling more,” Joan tells
Joel. “I recognize advertising’s credibility is not the
highest, but it is still is a powerful force. I believe
these commercials are getting the public to further
accept seniors as honest deliverers of information.
Bob and I could be asked to do more commercials.
“Look, I’ve had breast cancer, I’m constantly
being checked, now my daughter-in-law is too, and
my son still doesn’t have a regular job. But at the
same time, I’m contributing an important message.
I’m not saying it makes me completely happy, but
I’m not down.”
Bob tells Joel, “I directed too many commercials not to know that an agency’s ad clients
suddenly can kill a great commercial, because
they’re never confident about what the public
is thinking. You can always be moving ahead—
and then suddenly you’re shoved aside. But I’m
marching—and waiting.”
Mimi and Myron
“When I was a buyer for high-end furniture,”
Mimi tells Joel, “my goal was to show why buying
the latest style would make people feel good about
themselves. But I’ve changed and point out that
in our film we explain that seniors usually aren’t
working and so have less money and need to cut
back on their expenses. That means seniors can
discuss how to feel satisfied with less.
“If that sentiment could catch on, then politicians might gain the popular support to cut
earmarked programs that help just a few and use
these freed-up resources for programs that can help
the large public good and that they can be united
on, and so start to break their own and the country’s
polarization.
“I realize that people can say: ‘Sure, today’s
seniors want us to pay for programs that they
should’ve helped when they were our age.’ That
thinking could send us back to being just older
people whom the public would like to see disappear. I feel that possibility.”
Myron tells Joel: “I emphasized in my
campaign for City Council that because of our
limited clocks, seniors want to take on important
issues. That was a reason for my bringing up ideas
that aren’t within the jurisdiction of local Council
members, like increasing organ donor donations
and encouraging Social Security recipients to
put aside a portion of their monthly check and
leave it for their children when they retire, which
also would help the nation’s current budget woes.
Except I lost the election.
“When I run again will I use the same
campaign? Yes. My senior clock hasn’t changed.”
Roz
“I’m living with my son and his family in
California, and my two grandchildren are a daily,
feel-good boost. I push myself to wake up early to
see them when they go to school, but then they and
my son and daughter-in-law leave and the house is
empty. I need the Senior Woman’s March.
“I’m marching in the area where I now live. I
also attend a Talk Center at least once a week, and
when they see this older woman giving her views,
challenging back, the others appreciate that. It’s
like, hey, there are all these seniors out there, and if
they’re going to get involved in not just senior issues
but all issues, like this woman, that could be big. Of
course, I had five years experience, from doing our
senior dating advice film and then organizing the
original marches, to become a confident speaker.
“It’s not great being alone, and I know many
seniors who feel this.Yet every day I imagine Kenny,
my late husband, who was an actor and saw seniors
at society’s center stage because of our great helping
potential. If the marches continue and I stay able
to march, knowing seniors are spreading the word
for a better future for our children, grandchildren,
and yes, ourselves. To feel a new future. Yes, at my
age—“
This is my last column, completing a year of ongoing
weekly chapters about four retired couples trying to
show they’re vital individuals and who discover that
seniors have attributes that might make them the public
leaders who can break the country’s angry polarization. I appreciate the so many seniors who contributed
their views. A great thanks toPublisher Sam Zherka
and Editor-in-Chief Hezi Aris and “The Westchester
Guardian”. Let’s see if these stories are right about a new
national role for seniors.
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No Guarantees: On Man’s Road Through the Darkness of Depression
Chapter Thirty Eight – Smoke Before Fire
By BOB MARRONE
The period between my breaking
away from Marianne, on through
my marriage, and up to the
birth of my daughter was filled
with obligations, distractions
and revolving priorities. I was
in charge of client service for two regions of the
country in the world’s largest brokerage firm; still
in the heart of my serious hockey playing days and
dealing with the issues associated with that; had
accepted the position of coach for my company’s
industrial league basketball team; and, obviously, I
was in the midst of planning my wedding.
Looking back now, knowing what followed
several months later, the downward spiral I was
on is clear to me. And what is still astounding to
me, as well, is how I could obsess on a problem at
the same time that I avoided it. My commitments,
as well as extra-curricular activities, served as great
displacements for the turmoil that was percolating
inside me. As for the “activities,” it was and is not
uncommon for a young man in his early twenties
to spend a good deal of time partying, and I was
no different. I would often have a “fun” commitment on five or more nights a week. With the
basketball team we always went out drinking after
games and practices. On Wall Street in those days,
It became a regular Friday night ritual to go out
and have a few drinks.
I never became a problem drinker, fortunately, as I did not like it that much, my stomach
did not like it and I was allergic to most beers and
wines. Nonetheless, I got my buzz from it and
have my stories to tell. But, I preferred marijuana,
at least for the short time that I tried it. It gave
me a dreamy feeling, did not upset my stomach
and never left me incapacitated. It did, however,
serve to unmask some emotional issues that were
precursors to my emotional collapse in April of
1975.
Before I explain what occurred I want to
extend a sincere and heartfelt warning. If you are
suffering from depression that is not yet under
control, and are prone to hypochondria, do not
read what follows. I am not trying to be dramatic,
but this is one of those things that can become
frighteningly self-fulfilling if you are so inclined.
Talk to your doctor about it first.
As I noted, I had begun to prefer marijuana
over alcohol as my social intoxicant. Funny, I did
it with a different group of people than the ones
I drank with which led to more nights partying
than I should have; just something to be kept in
mind in the overall scheme of things.
The first signs that my “smoking” was
revealing a problem were subtle and scary. On
several nights, while walking home from a friend’s
house after smoking, out of nowhere, I would
react as if someone came out from a dark corner
and yelled BOO! However, there was no one
there and I did not hear anything. It was an effect
without a cause, a reaction without a provocation.
Physically it was akin to the reaction you have
when you jump in a cold body of water; think the
uncontrolled gasp and a start. These little episodes
were often accompanied by the visual sense that
the lights went off and on, as if someone leaned
against a light switch.
Another odd reaction would occur when I
went to bed. As I was falling asleep, again out of
nowhere, I would feel a sudden burst of intense
terror, as if I was thrown off a building or some
other such frantic event. I would snap awake,
again with a great gasp, before falling back to
sleep. I tended to overlook these things as stress
related…which of course they were…and only
focused on them in the way a hypochondriac does
with any unknown symptom. What I did not
know is that these reactions were the harbingers
of more serious horrors to come.
Hypochondria: Certainly not all hypochondriacs develop depression, but it is a sign on
insecurity as well as a cry for assurance, certainty
and order in a world that can offers none of these.
It is, perhaps most dangerously, one more heavy
duty way to avoid one’s real problems. I slowly
began to obsess about these episodes as a possibility of an as yet undiagnosed illness. In my case,
my hypochondria became a huge factor in how
I dealt with the more severe presentations of my
illness later on. It had the dual quality of being
both a fire unto itself, and an accelerant.
On a spring night in 1974, while at a party at
a friend’s home, I took the last drag of marijuana
I would ever try. My buddy had some new good
“grass” that we smoked in a water pipe. The good
of a water pipe is that the smoke does not burn
your throat. The bad is that you will inhale more
deeply than you otherwise would and cannot
monitor your level of intoxication as well. You get
much higher faster.
All of a sudden I was more stoned than I
had ever been. It made me nervous. The more
nervous I got, the more paranoid I became that I
was having some kind of a freak-out the likes of
which were written about in the press about more
powerful psychedelic drugs, like LSD. Then, out
of the blue, I thought that my left arm was numb,
and that I was having a stroke or some other
kind of brain damage. I panicked, which led to a
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the window. I needed to go to the hospital, but
in 1974, the drug was less acceped than it is today.
I paced and babbled, trembled and moaned.
I was sure it would never end. All of the muscles
in my body cramped and went into spasm, and I
urinated about a dozen times. Several hours later,
through the patience and care of good friends,
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was petrified in a deep existential way. It left me
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ever been. “Was I brain damaged?” Did I alter
my DNA with the pot?” “What was wrong with
me.?”
The worst thing the episode left me with was
the tendency to both experience anxiety attacks
and, worse, learn how to make them exponentially worse, by obsessing on them when they
began. Thus, a fire was lit that would take many
years to put out. And now for the kicker: Pot had
nothing to do with what was happening to me. It
simply opened the door a crack into the turmoil of
my soul, and gave me an unconscious convenient
displacement for what was really ailing me.
Before long, my job performance started to
slip from outstanding to just good; my diminishing hockey skills were eroding my sense of
manhood and worth; and I was pretending to
myself and others that I could not wait to be
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GovernmentSection
ALBANY
Mandate Relief Bill Sponsored By Senator Stewart-Cousins Approved by Senate
Saves Taxpayer Money and Increases Flexibility for Local Governments
ALBANY, NY -- A mandate relief bill sponsored by Senator Stewart-Cousins was approved
by the State Senate Wednesday. Senate bill
6634A would extend the repayment terms of
short term loans issued to local governments in
2007 and 2008 -- the beginning of the economic
downturn. The repayment terms would be
extended from five to seven years, which will
save local governments hundreds of thousands
of dollars over the two year period.
Known as bond anticipation notes (or
BANs), these short-term loans carry a lower
interest rate than long-term bonds. They are
issued to local governments for capital projects
such as building restorations, sewer improvements or parks and recreational repairs. If not
paid off within five years, the BANs must be
converted into long-term debt at a higher
interest rate.
Senator Stewart-Cousins introduced the
legislation at the request of Westchester County
village officials.
“This bill gives local governments around
New York more flexibility to deal with their
expenses,”said Senator Stewart-Cousins.“BANs
issued at the beginning of the recession are due
this year, but many cash-strapped municipalities
are struggling with budget deficits. Mandate
relief measures such as this help local governments manage their difficult financial situations
and save taxpayer money.”
In a statement of support, the New York
Conference of Mayors commented, “Local
governments are currently facing some of their
greatest challenges… Even the limited extension
proposed by this bill will assist local governments
at a time when they need it most.”
The Village of Tarrytown strongly supported
this bill and urged Senator Stewart-Cousins to
carry it through the Senate. The Village estimates that it could save approximately $300,000
annually as a result of this legislation.
Tarrytown Mayor Drew Fixell said, “I want
to thank Senator Cousins for taking the lead
in pressing forward with this fiscally prudent
legislation that will deliver real savings to the
taxpayers throughout the state.”
“There are several of my colleagues who
suggested to me that I might take the leadership,” said Hassell-Thompson. “It was suggested
to me though, not the other way around.”
When asked if she would be interested in
being Minority Leader, Hassell-Thompson
didn’t dismiss interest.
“I’d be lying if I said that everybody doesn’t
think about it at one time or another,” she said.
“Certainly I have given thought to it, but I
haven’t taken any action toward it.”
Hassell-Thompson added that she was
“not prepared to say” whether Sampson should
remain leader this year, or next year, when a new
Legislature is seated following this fall’s elections.
Leadership discussions are not new around
the Capitol. We can confirm that the leadership chatter commenced last spring when
members quietly floated the name of HassellThompson, but they’ve also suggested others.
Senator Hassel-Thompson dismissed our
inquiry last June stating that she had no interest
on challenging Sampson and was focused on her
legislative platform.
A year later, clearly things have changed.
A few Democratic senators dismissed the
notion that Hassell-Thompson is a credible
candidate. Most of those critical of HassellThompson’s potential leadership are deeply
embedded in Sampson’s status quo team, or
most likely have an agenda themselves.
Some suggested Hassell-Thompson is too
old, opinionated and too aggressive. Others state
that she is not strong with fundraising, something Democrats need in order to compete. One
other member cited previous health issues as a
concern.
When asked about not being considered
credible, the fiesty Democrat shot back admitting that she “may be opinionated and considered
aggressive, but things have to get done,” and that
if she were a male in politics, these words would
not be used to describe her.
She has a point.
Insiders have also floated the name of
Senator Stewart-Cousins, a Yonkers Democrat.
Stewart-Cousins expressed support for
Sampson and said she is focused on her legislative work, thus taking the heat off of her.
Another member being rumored for potential is
Senator Liz Kruger (D-NYC) who was unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile, we caught up with Senator
Sampson who attended Senator HassellThompson’s forum on Domestic Violence in the
Legislative Office Building.
Sampson indicated that the Democrats are
interested in discussing the issues affecting the
residents of New York State.
“We’re not going to be sidetracked by
any antics pertaining to the leadership,” said
Sampson.
That may be true, so long as he has the
majority.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpi_
wMXIyQs&feature=youtube - Sampson Press
Gaggle on Leadership.
THE ALBANY CORRESPONDENT
Senate Democrats’ Coup-Coup’s Nest
Sampson (D-Brooklyn), vows to remain on as
leader and compares the uprising to replace him
as “family squabbles.”
Sampson’s nest unrest were made public last
week when he got pigeon pooped by the New
York Daily News who exposed the Democratic
conference’s rising no-confidence sentiment in
their leader.
After the loss of key Democratic races,
months of negative press, and after
the most recent report on Sampson
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authorizing a $50,000 raise for a
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close confidant on senior staff, coup
discussions gained traction.
The $50,000 raise never
happened, but that’s only after
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Democrats got wind of the story
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through the New York Daily News.
city in a bygone era
One member called the
Sampson
paycheck maneuver as
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“legalized taxpayer extortion”.
Another member indicated
it was “time for change”, citing
Sampson’s rise was meant merely to
be temporary.
We spoke with Westchester’s
own Senator Ruth HassellThompson who currently serves as
Hear men reminisce about
Visit long forgotten places in
the Democratic Conference Chair, a
living in a community 60
“The City of Homes” where
years ago where playing
kids did nothing more than
position appointed by Sampson.
baseball was not just a
go to school, play and stay
Hassell-Thompson admitted
sport but a way of life
out trouble
that she’s had discussions pertaining
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initiating them.
By CARLOS GONZALEZ
It’s a coup-coup’s nest at the
Capitol.
With six months before
the general election, several
names have surfaced regarding
the potential replacement of the Senate’s top
Democrat.
The current Senate Minority Leader, John
Share your thoughts with Carlos Gonzalez, The
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Holiday Inn Express Coming to Peekskill, Finally
By ABBY LUBY
PEEKSKILL, NY -- After
a four year hiatus, the City of
Peekskill will have its first waterfront hotel, the Holiday Inn
Express.
“This has been a long time coming,” said
Anthony Ruggiero, Planning Director for the
city. “The project started back in 2008 and was
able to get all the building permits. But then
the financing fell through when the economy
collapsed.”
The developer is Garrison resident George
Liaskos, owner of the Cortlandt Colonial restaurant in Cortlandt Manor. For the last three years
Liaskos has been seeking financing to the tune
of about $8.5 million to build the hotel. He
finally secured a bank loan a few weeks ago.
The hotel will be built according to
the LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) certification, an environmental standard that guides construction
companies to build on sustainable sites and
incorporate water efficiency, efficient design and
appliances and the use of renewable and clean
sources of energy.
The hotel will be built on a 1.25-acre parcel at
the corner of John Walsh Boulevard and Louisa
Street, where a footprint of the hotel foundation
from years ago cn be discerned. The property is
at the cusp of the Charles Point Industrial Park,
A rendering of the new Holiday Inn Express in Peekskill. Photo courtesy of the City of Peekskill.
home to some of Peekskill’s major employers,
including Wheelabrator, BASF Corporation,
Waste Management, White Plains Linen, and
Perini Civil Construction. But Ruggiero said
the waterfront has been the focus of studies that
support development geared toward attracting
tourists and boating enthusiasts.
The hotel is expected to attract business
customers from the nearby industrial park,
according to James Slaughter, Director of
Peekskill Economic Development. “There are a
lot of companies in the city who have employees
who come for extended stays, including the
hospital and Entergy.” Slaughter said the current
plan is to restore Charles Point and develop it for
pedestrian access, as well as access to [Riverfront]
festivals.”
In 2008 Liaskos got the nod to build a
72-room Holiday Inn Express which included a
few suites. According to Ruggiero, Liaskos’ new
financial backing is asking for four more rooms
instead of the suites, bringing the total to 76
guest rooms. The overall building size remains
the same and will include a pool.
Ridge Hill Lawsuit Award in Jeopardy
Funding May Expire to Mitigate Safety Improvements at Dangerous Intersection
ARDSLEY, NY -- Following an on-site tour
of the intersection of Jackson Avenue and
North Sprain Road with concerned local officials, Westchester County Board Legislator
MaryJane Shimsky on Friday, June 1, 2012,
called for County and Town of Greenburgh
officials to make necessary safety improvements
as soon as possible “because lives are at stake.”
To break the impasse, the Westchester
County Board of Legislators (BOL)
Government Operations Committee, chaired
by Legislator Catherine Borgia (D-Ossining),
has requested all of the pertinent stakeholders,
including officials from the Town of Greenburgh
and relevant County agencies, to attend its next
meeting on June 5 at 10 AM.
Currently, the two heavily trafficked roadways create a “Y”intersection with three different
“The site doesn’t need any reconfiguration
and there is expected to be no reduction in the
amenities,” said Ruggiero.
The city is now reviewing Liaskos’ new
proposal for more rooms after which they are
expected to issue another permit. Another public
hearing will follow.
“There should be no problem,” said
Ruggiero. “Everybody thinks this will be a good
thing. I don’t remember any real controversy.”
The city, anxious to see the project move
forward, has extended Liaskos’ payment in lieu
of taxes (PILOT) agreement from 10 to 15 years
and they intend to honor their original offer of a
$500,000 GAP loan to Liaskos. Peekskill plans
to impose a three percent hotel tax once the
Holiday Inn Express is up and running The tax
will apply to future hotels and inns in the city.
The only other hotel in Peekskill is the Inn
on the Hudson on Main Street, overlooking
the Hudson. The Inn, which has a restaurant, is
undergoing room upgrades. “Besides that place,
most people looking for rooms in the area go
north to Fishkill,” said Slaughter.
Construction is expected to start by the end
of the summer, Slaughter said. “We’re hoping
the hotel will open by next spring, 2013.”
The new hotel will be right across from
Peekskill Bay that opens out to the Hudson
River, a locale that boasts scenic views of both bay
and river as well as of the Bear Mountain Bridge.
The hotel will be located less than one mile from
Route 9 and half a mile from Peekskill’s Metro
North Train Station.
stop signs and less-than-perfect visibility to
see oncoming vehicles. A traffic consultant
suggests improvements based on the intersection becoming a “T” instead, with a traffic light.
“This intersection is one of the most
dangerous in Westchester County,”said Shimsky.
“There have been eleven major accidents here in
the past two years, with one fatality. It is time for
County and Town officials to work together so
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Shimsky Calls for Improvements at Dangerous Intersection
safety improvements can move forward—
before too many more accidents occur, and
while funding is available.”
The funding for the road safety improvement project is already in place, Shimsky
noted. As part of a settlement with Forest
City Ratner, the developer of Ridge Hill
Village in Yonkers, $5 million was awarded
to the Town of Greenburgh and Villages of
Ardsley and Hastings-on-Hudson, following
a lawsuit that was initiated because the City of
Yonkers and developer’s environmental review
of the proposed development failed to properly consider traffic the Yonkers development
would dump onto the roads of the three plaintiff municipalities. Both the Greenburgh town
board and the two village boards identified
this particular intersection as a top priority for
funding from the $5 million settlement.
But this funding is at risk because the
settlement states the money needs to be spent,
at the latest, in 2014—which is a tight deadline for a project that will require a complete
environmental review and design before
construction can finally begin.
Westchester County Board of Legislators
(BOL) Chairman Ken Jenkins (D-Yonkers)
and Legislator Shimsky spearheaded discussions with the developer about a two-year
extension for use of the settlement funds.
To date, the Town of Greenburgh has not
communicated to the BOL whether the
developer has agreed to the request. Now,
Greenburgh officials are talking about abandoning the road safety improvement here
altogether.
Also, for this project to move ahead,
Westchester County has to convey to
Legislator MaryJane Shimsky (D-Hastings
on Hudson) at the intersection of Jackson
Avenue and North Sprain Road.
Photo by and courtesy of Aviva.
Greenburgh a narrow strip of land at the front
entrance to Sprain Ridge Park. The County
and Greenburgh also have to agree on how
wide the shoulders at the new intersection will
be.
“I have lived here forty-six years, and I
travel this route every single day,” Beverly
Levine, a Village of Ardsley Trustee, said
yesterday standing along North Sprain Road.
“It’s time for the Town, County and State to
get together and improve this intersection
because it’s very dangerous.’
“I’m calling on County Executive
Astorino and Greenburgh Town Supervisor
Paul Feiner to work together and reach
an agreement as soon as possible on safety
improvements here at this Jackson Avenue
intersection,” stated Shimsky. “Otherwise,
the Town of Greenburgh could risk losing
millions in settlement money for the project.”
LEGISLATION
Latimer Announces Support for Veterans Pension and Health Legislation
ALBANY, NY -- Assemblyman George
Latimer (D-Rye) announced his support for
legislation deemed priorities by the American
Legion Department of New York. The two
bills, A.2055 and A.682 are vital measures that
are being pushed by the Veterans communities
throughout New York. retirement system who wish to buy back military
service credit cannot do so until they have 5 years
in the system. A.2055 gives these members the
option to buy back their military time with just
two years of credited service. “The American Legions have thousands of
members in Westchester and hundreds of thou-
In support of the legislation, Latimer stated,
“Various traditions give everyone a great opportunity to remember the brave men and women
that have served our country. However, as
elected officials, we owe it to our troops, currently
and previously enlisted, to do more to honor
their sacrifices and support them in addressing
the many critical issues that face the Veteran’s
community.”
Currently, members of the public retirement
system may buy back prior service credit with 2
years of credited service. Members in the public
sands throughout New York. They are the men
and women who put their lives on the line to
protect our freedoms; passing smart legislation
that will ensure the quality of life they deserve
is very important and frankly, long overdue,”
Latimer stated. In addition to A.2055, Latimer is also a
cosponsor for A.682, which would improve
outreach assessment and care for veterans and
their families who are experiencing mental
health or substance abuse problems. Combat
related mental illness has been and still is a
critical issue for American war Veterans. More
than 85,000 New Yorkers have participated in
Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi
Freedom, or both. The lack of integrated services
is a longstanding problem in the mental health
service-delivery system and will be improved
with the passage of A.682.
Latimer concluded, “These two pieces of
legislation go hand in hand; too often soldiers
come back from duty and are not able to seamlessly re-enter society. If we pass these bills, they
will more effectively have the resources available
to them to reintegrate with their families and
communities and pass on the valuable lessons
they have learned to our next generation.”
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MAYOR Marvin’s COLUMN
GOVERNMENT
2012 Memorial Day Speech
By MARY C. MARVIN
A good morning to our clergy,
distinguished colleagues and
honored guests, firemen,
police, community organizations, residents and our
children AND welcome to the
92nd Annual Bronxville Memorial Day Parade
and commemoration. Memorial Day holds a
unique place in the history of our Village and
its traditions are many. In the last few years we
have renewed our efforts to insure that honoring
our servicemen and women takes its rightful
place on center stage so we do not ever take for
granted those most deserving of our gratitude
- and our Grand Marshall, this year, George
Palmer is precisely one of those so deserving
of our thanks. George, thank you for letting us
honor you here today.
Mr. George B. Palmer, Jr. is a Midwestern
boy who was born in Minneapolis. He enlisted
in the Army/Air Corp after Pearl Harbor
after only one semester at the University of
Minnesota.
Following expedited training, George was
commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and received
his wings and navigation certification.
Flying only his 10th B-24 sortie over
Hungary on a mission to disable oil refineries,
his plane was shot down and he went from
college freshman to George B. Palmer Prisoner
of War No. 7910. George ended up at Stalag
Luft III - the camp that was the subject of the
movie “The Great Escape”. He was then transferred to a POW camp in Munich arriving 45lbs
thinner than on the day of his fateful flight.
Finally in April of 1945, General George
Patton’s Seventh Army arrived and liberated the
camp. Within hours, George stood at attention
as the General walked through the barracks.
But George’s service did not end there. He
served again in the Korean War for almost two
years.
Blessed to come home, George finished
college and moved to Bronxville to begin a career
with Lehman Brothers. Three of his four sons
graduated from the building right behind us.
George, you are so very modest, but you are
a hero and your hometown is so proud to honor
you today. Serving our country is the noblest
of callings and love of country and devotion to
freedom must never go out of fashion.
And true to the character of our very special
Village, we have many more heroes like George
and many sadly not as lucky as George to come
home to Bronxville. Many went to heaven far
too young.
Young men like Charlie Flammer,Princeton
Class of 1941 and B25 Bomber pilot, he lost an
engine and then maneuvered his plane so that
his entire crew could get out while he went down
with his plane. Still considered MIA, he has a
nephew named after him and if you go by Christ
Church a full size stained glass window is dedicated to Charlie.
Or…. Douglas von Buskirk who knew of
the exploits of WWI ace and Village resident
Eddie Rickenbacker,who lived at 26 Prescott and
belonged to the Leonard Morange American
Legion Post named after another of our local
heroes, Rickenbacker won the Congressional
Medal of Honor as well as virtually every other
military decoration having shot down 25 enemy
planes and logged 300 combat flying hours, the
most in WWI. Doug’s father was an Olympic
fencer participating in the 1924, 1928 and 1932
games and saw Hitler’s evil up close and shared
his stories with his son.
Galvanized by both his dad and
Rickenbacker, Douglas joined the RAF in
1939, his only opportunity to take a side against
Hitler at the time. While he was fighting in the
European theater, his mom was managing our
Womrath’s Book store and his dad volunteered
on the Village’s Housing Commission. Doug
was shot down during a night bombing raid
in 1941. There is a plaque in his honor in the
Reformed Church.
Mike Ransom – Bronxville High and
Colby College graduate lost his life in 1968 just
two months after arriving in Vietnam. He was
a respected platoon leader and the eldest of six
Bronxville sons.
Or……Ed Keeble, Bronxville School,
Deerfield and Princeton who joined the
Marines and became a gunship pilot. He kept
enemy fire trained on him so an air ambulance
could Medivac the injured out of the jungle. He
was shot down by the North Vietnamese and he
is buried at Arlington.
And there are so many, many more.
These young men were our neighbors,
someone’s son, your child’s best friend in school,
the boy you coached in soccer. They truly were
the hero next door. Disraeli said, “The legacy of
a hero is the memory of a great man and the
inheritance of a great example.” Their bravery,
service and sense of duty must continue to be an
ethos that defines our Village.
I believe their message to us, young and
old, is to answer the call. Ours may not be as
dangerous or a galant pursuit but answer; be
brave at whatever you try; follow your conscience,
step up when needed; volunteer even when not
called.
By behaving this way we honor our heroes
every day.
So as you leave today, do not be sad rather
follow General Patton’s advice who said, “We
should not mourn those men who died while
serving, rather we should thank God that such
men lived.”
Thank you to all of our veterans and God
Bless America.
Mary C. Marvin is the mayor of the Village of
Bronxville, New York. If you have a suggestion or
comment, consider directing your perspective by
directing email to [email protected]
OP EDSection
Blacks in Law Enforcement of America Call for Resignation of
Westchester County District Attorney
By DAMON K. JONES
The recent reports of welfare
fraud by the Westchester
County District Attorney
Janet
DiFiore
have
confirmed the day-by-day
unethical standards of her
leadership as District Attorney of Westchester
County.
We are demanding the Democratic
Party leaders, Westchester Chairman Reggie
Lafayette and State Chairman Jay Jacobs
request DiFiore’s resignation as Westchester
County District Attorney. This ongoing
investigation and her questionable actions in
the past on fair dealings of the law against the
poor and people of color have shown that the
ethical transparency of our District Attorney’s
office has long been compromised.
As a national organization of law enforcement professionals, we question Governor
Cuomo’s appointment of Ms. DiFiore as the
Chair of his “Super” Ethics Committee. With
recent allegations of covering civil and human
rights violations of victims of police crimes,
investigation of welfare fraud, Janet DiFiore’s
leadership will be a continuation of corruption and foul dealing that will be business as
usual in this so-called State “Super” Ethics
Committee.
“As a national organization of Law
Enforcement Professionals, We are
demanding the Democratic Party leaders,
Westchester Chairman, Reggie Lafayette and
State Chairman Jay Jacobs request DeFiore’s
resignation as Westchester County District
Attorney. This ongoing investigation and her
questionable actions in the past on fair dealings of the law enforcement crimes against the
poor and people of color have shown that the
ethical transparency of our District Attorney’s
office has long been compromised. As long
as Janet DiFiore stays in office, any decision
that will come out of the office of the District
Attorney will forever be questioned. We must
bring back credibility to the justice system of
Westchester County.”
Karen Edmonson, former Yonkers
NAACP President said, “As a proud and
law-abiding Jamaican immigrant, I find the
allegations as reported in the media against
Mrs. DiFiore and Ms. Buchanan to
be disturbing. Jamaicans are hard working
and law-abiding people and I don’t want
anyone to think otherwise. One would hope
that this sort of situation would not have the
District Attorney at the center of such allegations, especially because she is the chief law
enforcement officer of Westchester County.
I empathize with Ms. Buchanan especially
since the media has reported that she is not in
good health and has not been able to defend
herself.
Damon K. Jones is the New York Representative
of Blacks In Law Enforcement of America.
ED KOCH COMMENTARY
An Unjust Verdict in the Rutgers
Cyber-spying Case
By EDWARD I. KOCH
A terrible tragedy took place
at Rutgers University when
two eighteen-year-old men
were randomly selected by the
University to share a bedroom
at a student dormitory. One of the young
men, Dharum Ravi, was an immigrant
from India; the other, Tyler Clementi, an
Italian-American.
Ravi, suspecting that Clementi was gay,
entered into a plan with a female student
– later given immunity for her testimony
– to videotape his roommate’s activities at
night when Clementi had a male visitor to
the bedroom he shared with Ravi, having
arranged with Ravi to have the room for
himself the evening of September 19, 2010
and again on September 21 for a number of
hours. Ravi alerted fellow students to watch
the Webcam video he took on September
21, and sure enough, the video showed
Clementi in a sexual embrace with a male
partner. Clementi learned of the taping and
on September 22, 2010 committed suicide
by jumping off the George Washington
Bridge, posting on Facebook from his cellphone, “Jumping off the gw bridge, sorry.”
His suicide note on his computer was not
released to the public.
Ravi was not tried for the death of
Clementi, but was tried and convicted,
the New York Times editorial of May 22,
2012 reported, for “invasion of privacy,
witness tampering and multiple counts of
a hate crime called bias intimidation. The
jury found that Mr. Ravi knew his conduct
could make Tyler Clementi, his roommate,
feel targeted because he was gay.” Ravi
was found guilty on March 16, 2012 and
sentenced on May 21, 2012.
In sentencing Ravi, Judge Glenn
Berman of the Superior court in Middlesex
County, New Jersey, began his remarks
by saying “I heard this jury say guilty 288
times – 24 questions, 12 jurors, that’s the
multiplication” and “I haven’t heard you
apologize once.” Listening to those remarks
undoubtedly caused some in the courtroom
to think the court was going to sentence
Ravi to the max of 10 years. But no, the
judge went on to say, “I do not believe
he hated Tyler Clementi. I do believe he
acted out of colossal insensitivity.” The
jury thought it was a hate crime. The judge
has the right to reject a jury’s verdict if he
believes there wasn’t sufficient evidence
to support it. He did not do that. Putting
aside the hate crime aspect, what about
the crime of witness tampering which
Ravi was convicted of? Apparently, that
is not a serious crime in New Jersey. If it
were, wouldn’t Ravi have been sentenced to
serious time just for that one crime?
What did the judge mete out as
punishment? Thirty days in jail, three years
of probation, 300 hours of community
service, counseling about cyber-bullying
and alternate lifestyles and about $11,000
in fees.
I say not enough. Tyler Clementi is
dead. It is true that Ravi was not charged
with his death, but he was charged with
witness tampering and tampering with
physical evidence and hindering his apprehension and prosecution. Those are serious
matters. Surely at least a year in prison of
the ten available under the law would have
provided greater justice and closure for
Clementi’s parents. Hopefully, on appeal,
although Appellate Courts do not like to
substitute their judgment on sentencing
for that of the trial judge, the Appellate
Judges will set aside the lower court’s
sentencing decision and send the case back
for re-sentencing in accordance with their
direction.
The trial court’s unjustifiably lenient
sentence has shocked the public’s
conscience. Adding to the outrageousness
of the sentence and anger of the public is
the decision of the defendant to appeal the
sentence on the ground it is too onerous.
The defenders of the judge’s sentence
refer to the fact that there was no physical
violence committed by Ravi. However,
in my view, they ignore the reality of the
shame, depression and psychic violence
visited upon Clementi by Ravi which can
have a more devastating impact than physical violence.
Finally, isn’t it clear that Ravi, who has
never apologized for his actions and did not
do so when given the opportunity before
the court imposed its sentence, has clearly
conveyed his lack of remorse? Allowing
the sentence to stand would be a flagrant
injustice.
The Honorable Edward Irving Koch served
as a member of Congress from New York State
from 1969 through 1977, and New York City
as its 105th Mayor from 1978 to 1989.
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NEW YORK CIVIC
Campaign Finance In The Post-Citizens United Era
Campaign Finance Reform In Albany (Part 3 of 8)
By EVAN PALENSCHAT
Albany’s campaign finance
system may be in need of a
makeover. Soaring contribution limits, major loopholes,
lax enforcement, and the
use of corporate and special
interest money are only a few of the problems
confronted by the state. In March, a nationwide
State Integrity Investigation study conducted by
the Center for Public Integrity gave New York a
“D-” for “political financing.”
In response to a seemingly apparent need
for reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo promised to introduce a bill on campaign finance
reform during his State-of-the-State address
this year. Cuomo said he embraced “public
financing, matched contributions, lower limits,
and increased enforcement . . . .”
A coalition of pro-reform groups has taken
Cuomo up on his promise. The groups, which
include several good government organizations and celebrity philanthropists, led an email
campaign on April 18 asking 1 million New
Yorkers to contact Governor Cuomo and pressure him to reform the way New York funds
elections.
Many agree that New York needs to change
its system. However, proponents of reform often
fail to specify what reforms need to be made,
instead relying on broad statements such as
“ending corruption.”The question for lawmakers
in Albany now is how to enact new rules while
complying with recent decisions by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
In 2010, the Court released its Citizens
United decision ruling that corporations and
unions have an absolute right to spend without
limit to influence elections. Justice Anthony
Kennedy, writing for the majority, reasoned that
independent expenditures by corporations are
protected speech under the First Amendment.
Further, Kennedy found that such “expenditures . . . do not give rise to corruption or the
appearance of corruption” since they are not
“coordinated” with candidates. Finally, the Court
believed that laws requiring disclosure of who
is spending would adequately inform the citizenry of where the money was coming from.
Therefore, Kennedy ruled that the government
did not have a compelling interest in restricting
or limiting the spending.
Over two years later, it is not clear whether
the Court’s reasoning is sound. Super PACs
backing Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and
President Barack Obama were and are all run
by former employees or staff members. Staff
members for the candidates often attend fundraisers held by the super PACs.
Steven Colbert emphasized the absurdity
of the coordination rules on his political satire
“The Colbert Report,” when he handed over
the reins of his super PAC to business associate Jon Stewart so that Colbert could run
for “President of South Carolina” during the
GOP primaries. Trevor Potter, former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission and
now Colbert’s lawyer, came on the show to tell
Colbert and Stewart the rules. Stewart could
take over Colbert’s super PAC while he ran
for office as long as they did not “coordinate.”
Colbert and Stewart rejoiced like schoolchildren
that had just fooled their teacher with a forged
note.
Loopholes in disclosure laws have also
been exploited. Groups that qualify as a section
501(c)(4) “social welfare organization” under the
Internal Revenue Code need not disclose the
identities of their donors.
While it is true that Citizens United did
not impinge on the ability of law makers to close
the loopholes on coordination and disclosure,
recent history evidences the difficulty of such a
task. It is unlikely that a candidate for office will
be unaware of large expenditures made on their
behalf. This knowledge can lead to the creation
of political debts once in office. Also, many
lawmakers believe that strict disclosure rules
overly burden free speech and refuse to vote for
such bills. This was demonstrated on the federal
level when the Disclose Act, requiring 501(c)
(4) organizations to disclose donors publicly,
passed the House but was defeated by a Senate
Republican filibuster.
New York may need to reform their coordination and disclosure laws in order to limit
corruption and the effect of Citizens United.
Another Supreme Court case will limit
Albany’s ability to pass an effective and efficient public financing system. In Arizona
Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v.
Bennett, the Court invalidated Arizona’s public
financing system. Arizona supplied money to
opt-in candidates when expenditures by other
privately funded candidates and their outside
supporters exceeded a specified amount. The
Court found these “trigger-funds” unconstitutional since they penalized the speech of private
candidates and their supporters.
Bennett’s ruling has led many states to
abolish trigger-funding or any language in their
laws that would seem to “level the playing field,”
as the Supreme Court described it. For example,
New York City’s Campaign Finance Board no
longer allows trigger-funding, but instead allows
publicly funded candidates to use personal funds
once private candidates spend over a certain
amount.
So what can New York do in the wake of
Citizens United and Bennett?
The following represent a few reform ideas
currently being proposed by reformists and
debated by commentators.
Lower Individual Contribution Limits and
Eliminate Contributions from Special Interests
The contribution limits in New York are very
high. Individuals can donate over $60,000 annually to a state-wide general election. Compare
this to federal elections, where individuals can
only give $2,500 per candidate and $5,000 to a
political action committee. The Census reported
that the median household income for New
York was $55,603 for 2006-2010.The New York
contribution limits cater to the wealthy, since
candidates need only rely on a few donors giving
the full amount. This reliance may lead to the
creation of political debts that are repaid once
the candidate is elected.
New York also allows corporations
and unions to contribute. While corporate
LEGAL NOTICE
At the Compliance Part_____ of the Supreme
Court, State of New York held in and for the
County _______
of Westchester, at the
Courthouse located at 111 Grove Street, White
Plains, New York 10601 on the 15th day of May,
2012.
P R E S E N T: Joan B. Lefkowitz
J.S.C.
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MELANIE KEENE,
Plaintiff,
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CORPORATION and WESTHAB, INC.,
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S I R S:
Upon the reading and filing of the annexed Affirmation of ARGIRO DRAKOS, ESQ. dated the 16th
day of April 2012, and all exhibits annexed hereto and upon all pleadings and proceedings heretofore had
herein, and sufficient cause having been shown;
The Order to Show Cause issued by this court on April 23, 2012 directed service upon non-party,
Marc Jones, by personal service, but movants have informed the court they were unable to personally serve
the nonparty.
LET the plaintiff, MELANIE KEENE, and/or her attorneys, show cause before this Court, at the
Compliance Conference Part of the Supreme Court, State of New York, County of Westchester, located
at 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, White Plains, New York on the 9th day of July 2012, at 2:00 in the
afternoon of that day or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard,
WHY, an Order should not be entered, pursuant to CPLR §3103, granting the defendant a protective Order precluding the plaintiff from calling on Marc Jones as a witness at the time of trial, or in the
alternative, an Order of the Court pursuant to CPLR §2308(a) holding Marc Jones in contempt of Court and
compelling his deposition as a non-party witness in this matter, along with such other and further relief as
this Court deems just, proper and equitable.
The defendant has not previously sought the relief requested herein.
ORDERED, that sufficient cause appearing therefore,
LET service of a copy of this Order to Show Cause, together with the papers in support thereof
be served upon plaintiff’s counsel, by regular mail on or before May 16, 2012, and on nonparty Marc Jones
by publication, pursuant to CPLR 316, in the Journal News and the Western Guardian which are circulated
in Yonkers, New York, the nonparty’s last known city of residence, at least once in each newspaper for four
successive weeks commencing on May 23, 2012, be deemed good and sufficient service.
ORDERED that answering papers shall be served, and filed with the court, so as to be received
on or before June 27, 2012 at 12 P.M. No reply papers shall be accepted. Proof of service shall be filed wwith
the court on or before June 27, 2012. All papers shall be filed with the civil calendar clerk located in the 9th
floor of the Westchester County Courtho9use.
ORAL ARGUMENT WILL BE HEARD. APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL AND NONPARTY, MARC
JONES, IS REQUIRED.
Dated: White Plains, NY
May 15, 2012
ENTER: HON. JOAN B, LEFKOWITZ, J.S.C.
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THURSDAY, June 7, 2012
NEW YORK CIVIC
Campaign Finance In The Post-Citizens United Era
contributions are limited to $5,000, unincorporated unions are allowed to contribute up to the
individual limit. In addition, the $5,000 limit on
corporations applies separately to each subsidiary. Since some corporations own dozens of
subsidiaries, they easily circumvent the lower
limit. Corporations also get around the limitation by donating to “housekeeping accounts,”
maintained by the various political parties.
New York could completely ban corporate
and union contributions, or at the very least
allow only $5,000 in aggregate contributions
from a corporate family. Some argue that these
special interests are not part of “We the People.”
They have no right to vote in our elections, so
why should they be able to do so indirectly prior
to the election? Elected representatives should be
dependent on the People alone for their re-election, thereby forcing them to focus on what is
good for the citizenry, as opposed to a special
interest’s bottom line.
Albany may want to take a page from
New York City’s playbook in this area. The
City has adopted rules that ban contributions
from corporations, partnerships, and LLCs. The
City also greatly reduces the allowed contribution amount from individuals “doing business”
with the City and from lobbyists or their family
members. These so called ‘pay-to-play” rules are
meant to reduce corruption, or its appearance,
and were recently upheld by the Second Circuit
inOgnibene v. Parkes. The case is awaiting
acceptance of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Create Strict Rules Against “Coordination”
and Require Increased Disclosure
New York could limit the effect of super
PACs and other outside expenditure groups by
creating stricter rules on what counts as “coordination” with a candidate and requiring more
disclosure of who is spending.
For starters, people that have personal
connections with the candidates could be
restricted from running super PACs, supporting
such candidates or rallying against their
competitors. Even if the family member, former
employee, or business associate is able to stay
truly separate from the candidate, there could
still be the appearance of corruption. In Citizens
United,the Supreme Court acknowledged
that limiting the appearance of corruption is a
compelling governmental interest since such
appearance dissuades the citizenry from participating in elections.
Secondly, New York could attempt to pass
disclosure rules that require all organizations
(even 501(c)(4) “social welfare organizations”)
spending on behalf of candidates to promptly
disclose the identities of their contributors and
the amounts of each contribution. These disclosures could be publicly available on the web for
all to see. This will stop the practice of donor
identities being released, if at all, long after votes
have been cast.
Finally, the state needs to ensure enforcement of its rules. The Center for Public Integrity
reports that the New York State Board of
Elections is weak and usually able to levy only
$500 fines for missed filing deadlines. The
Center reports that Bill Mahoney, a research
coordinator for New York Public Interest
group, has said that the State Elections Board is
“underfinanced, understaffed,” and susceptible to
political influence. Clearly, if new rules adopted
in Albany are going to have any influence they
need to be effectively enforced. This may entail
scrapping the current Board and replacing it
with a bipartisan entity such as New York City’s
Campaign Finance Board.
Create a competitive and Efficient Public
Financing System
If New York creates an opt-in public
financing system it should be both competitive
and efficient.
It needs to be competitive enough to
persuade candidates to opt-in instead of using
private funds. The state cannot force candidates
to accept public funds, so if there is no opting-in,
the system will be worthless. To be competitive,
at a minimum, advocates of a public financing
system claim that it must provide candidates
with enough money to mount an effective
campaign against privately funded candidates.
One way to achieve this goal was to use triggerfunds. However, Bennett invalidated this type
of funding. New York will need to adopt a new
method.
One method would be to supply candidates with lump-sum amounts at the start of
a campaign. The state could determine what
this amount should be relative to the median
amounts spent in the last five elections adjusted
for inflation. The problem with this approach
is that privately funded candidates, and their
outside spenders, will have advance notice of
how much they need to raise and spend to buy
a campaign.
New York could reduce this certainty by
distributing funds throughout the campaign
cycle based on a mechanism that does not
burden a private candidate’s speech (as triggerfunds do under Bennett). Backers of a matching
funds system for the State say that lawmakers
could adopt New York City’s matching system.
The City matches qualifying contributions up
to $175 by a ratio of 6-to-1. For example, if an
individual contributes $10, the City matches
it with $60. This does a few things. First, it
allows candidates to gather funding as needed
to compete with privately funded candidates.
Second, it provides average citizens with an
incentive to donate, since their donation’s value
will be magnified by the City’s matching. Finally,
more small donations mean more participation
in elections as more voters will feel like they have
skin in the game. Also, since the City can decide
what to match, they can refuse to match contributions from entities that may pose a corruption
problem, such as corporations, unions, lobbyists,
and those “doing business” with the City.
While a matching system such as New York
City’s seems more competitive, New York State
should also take into account efficiency concerns.
Namely, the State must aim not to overburden
the public treasury. For example, if all candidates in a race opted-in to the public system,
this could result in a funding race as candidates
gather as many contributions as possible in
order to procure the 6-to-1 matching. If there
is no ceiling on the amount of public funding,
the state could find itself spending too much
taxpayer money.
So why not just cap the amount of state
aid? Once again, this will put privately funded
candidates and their super PACs on notice of
how much they need to raise and spend to buy
an election. To address this problem, New York
City has allowed publicly funded candidates to
begin using private funds after privately funded
candidates have surpassed a specified spending
ceiling. In addition to the City’s rule, the state
may also want to consider providing additional
public funds once the spending cap has been
breached. To do this and avoid invalidation
under Bennett, the state could advance funds not
in correlation to private spending by an opt-out
candidate, but in relation to some other mechanism, such as gathering a certain number of voter
signatures.
Two Problems Reform May Not Solve
In the end, even if Governor Cuomo
convinces the lawmakers in Albany to adopt all
or some of these changes, Citizens United and
Bennett still leave the state with two problems.
The first is that even strict rules on coordination and disclosure may be inadequate
to end the influence of super PACs and other
outside spenders, if that is a goal of the state. It
is highly unlikely that a candidate will not know
about large expenditures on their behalf, even
if there truly is no coordination. Also, even if
there is heightened disclosure, some commentators believe that this disclosure is actually just
publicizing the corruption and making it seem
legitimate. Thus, after Citizens United, it seems
candidates may still depend on outside spenders,
possibly resulting in the creation of political
debts, or the appearance of corruption.
The second problem originates with the
Bennett decision. Since trigger-funds or any
other attempt to “level the playing field” is
outlawed, lawmakers’ attempts to create a truly
competitive and efficient public financing
system may be limited. To be competitive there
cannot cap on public funding, and to be efficient
it seems there needs to be a cap. Trigger funds
relieved this problem since the state only spent
in relation to private spending.
As lawmakers in Albany debate these
issues and the possible solutions they will
have to grapple with whether the decisions by
the Supreme Court will prevent them from
reaching their goals in the area campaign
finance. Regardless, it seems clear there may be
a lot of room for improvement.
Evan Palenschat is a graduate of Columbia Law
School, having received his J.D. in May, 2012.
Prior to attending law school, Evan worked at
TCF National Bank in Bloomington, MN in their
lending department. During his time in law school
Evan’s studies have centered on business and finance
law. He also worked for Civil Rights scholar Dale
Carpenter researching and writing about gay rights
under the First Amendment. Evan will be joining
Jones Day in their mid-town Manhattan office as a
first year associate in October, 2012. Peruse the entire
New York Civic archive at www.NYCivic.org.
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OP-ED
The New Missile Threat
By FRANK V. VERNUCCIO, JR.
Why is Moscow so vehemently
against a European-based antiballistic missile (ABM) program
designed to protect America and
its allies from an Iranian nuclear
assault?
The Russians have assisted the Iranian nuclear
program, and are attempting to reinstitute their
sphere of influence in Eastern Europe’s former
“captive nations.” They seek to prevent the U.S.
from deploying any ABM technology as long as
possible, while developing their own system. They
are playing on President Obama’s reluctance to
fund ABM programs.
In 2001, then-State Senator Obama emphasized that he was opposed to missile defense; as
a candidate for president,
he pledged to eliminate
funding for it.The President
continues to advocate the
slashing of funding for ABM systems.
The NEW START Treaty with Moscow
mandates that Washington reduce its strategic
capabilities but permits the Kremlin to expand
theirs. While the U.S. delays implementing an
effective ABM shield, the Russians are moving
ahead. Rep. Denny Rehberg (D-Mont.) told The
Hill newspaper that “The NEW START treaty
with Russia will go down as one of the worst, most
one-sided deals in our country’s history.”
The President’s position has resulted in significant embarrassment for the White House. Plans to
move ahead with limited ABM protection against
an Iranian threat were a product of extensive negotiations between the Bush Administration and
Eastern European nations. The former Soviet
satellites, where key ABM elements would be
based, braved a war of words from Moscow.
However, President Obama proclaimed on Sept.
17, 2009, that he was unilaterally stopping the
plan. The date he announced this was the 70th
anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. The
President’s decision infuriated Warsaw’s leaders.
The resulting loss of trust in the White House
directly led to the Czech Republic’s withdrawal
from related agreements.
The second major White House embarrassment came in March. At a meeting in South Korea
at a global security summit, the president, believing
that microphones were turned off, pleaded with
Russian President Medvedev to delay ABM
discussions until after his re-election.
Despite its opposition to American ABM
efforts, Moscow has long been a leader in antimissile efforts. In 1962, the USSR initiated
construction of the globe’s first operational ABM
system, and engaged in a major upgrade in the
late1970’s.
Russia has resorted to threats reminiscent of
the Cold War. Despite Washington’s concessions
to Moscow’s demands that have already alienated the Obama Administration from America’s
allies in Eastern Europe, the Associated Press
reports that Russia’s top military officer, Chief of
General Staff Nikolai Makarov threatened a preemptive strike on NATO missile defense facilities
in Eastern Europe if they are built. The Russian
threats, which are not particularly creditable, are
hypocritical since Moscow continues to develop its
own ABM capability.
Over thirty nations, among them terrorist
and irrational states like Iran and North Korea, are
developing missiles that can target the USA and
its allies. Defensive measures are urgently required.
Contact Frank Vernuccio by directing email to: [email protected].
WEIR ONLY HUMAN
Paying the Price of Freedom
By BOB WEIR
As we celebrate this Memorial
Day at community gatherings and
barbecues with our families, let’s
not forget the meaning behind
the holiday. Countless numbers
of men and women have lost
their lives in battlefields around the world. Those
of us who have never worn the uniform of this
great country in hostile territory will never fully
understand the horrors of war. That’s because we’re
fortunate enough to have volunteers who do the
fighting for us. Not only do they sacrifice their time
with families, they face the daily threat of losing life
and limb. While struggling to survive, they must
also maintain a code of military conduct that their
enemies are not bound by. In addition to being
killed in combat, our men and women in uniform
have been tortured, hacked to pieces, soaked with
gasoline and set afire before being hung upside
down in public. That’s the way the enemy treats its
prisoners! After seeing their fellow soldiers suffer
the most ghastly deaths imaginable, it is nevertheless expected that every US serviceman and
woman use kid gloves to treat those whom they
capture. And, when one of our troops steps out of
line, even for the slightest infraction, there’s a rapid
apology from our State Dept. and a Court-martial
for the offending soldier.
I know, we are a civilized country and we’re
supposed to be above any and all inhumane treatment. As an orderly society, with readily enforced
rules of behavior, including stop lights, speed limits,
and cross at the green, not in between regulations,
it’s easy to follow a pattern of civility. However,
our soldiers are not fighting the battles on Maple
Avenue in East Cupcake, Nebraska. They’re in
war-ravaged tribal societies, dodging bullets and
bombs every day, and seeing their friends get their
heads blown off on a regular basis. They’re sleeping
intermittently amid the cacophony of explosions and mortar fire; their beds are made of dirt
and sand, and they wouldn’t place a bet on living
past tomorrow. Under such conditions, one tends
to view the world through a dysfunctional prism.
The rest of us lucky folks are well fed, clothed, and
sheltered in our antiseptic bubble, free from the
psychotic influence of battle.We connect to the war
with a remote control button that brings us sound
bite journalism and flashy images that we have
come to associate with the pyrotechnic displays
we see in the movies. For some it’s entertaining,
for others, informative, but for all it’s a simple and
safe method of staying in touch with the war, and
discussing its merits and demerits while passing the
mashed potatoes and gravy at the dinner table.
When an investigation of abuse begins, US
Senators take their turn questioning and criticizing
the generals and the civilian authorities who have
responsibility for the warriors in the field. They
make it clear that Americans don’t tolerate abuse
of any kind, notwithstanding the conditions under
which the soldiers must struggle daily against an
unmerciful enemy. Civility, being profoundly more
important than self-preservation, means the soldier
must conform to the rules, even as his adversary
plots to disembowel him. Some years ago, accusations of conduct that “humiliated” prisoners
became a global news story. Perhaps if our troops
had shot the prisoners, instead of humiliating
them, there would be no outrage. Human rights
groups protest bitterly against any abuse by US
soldiers, but are oddly reticent when terrorists make
bonfires with the bodies of our soldiers. Because
our troops are sold as the good guys, I suppose they
should not allow themselves the luxury of anger,
hatred, and revenge against those who wantonly
kill their buddies.
We expect them to resemble little toy soldiers,
marching into the smoke and fire with uniforms
neatly pressed and Colgate smiles on their faces.
These young men and women, raised in small
towns and large cities in the good old USA, are
never quite sure what to expect if called to fight
on the other side of the world. Weary from battle
fatigue, and the constant struggle for survival, even
some of the most milk-fed, religious minded, values
based products of this great democracy can become
corrupted from exposure to a culture of death and
degeneracy. Some will say this is merely an excuse
for bad behavior in a war zone. To those I would
ask, how many times have you had to wipe off your
friends’ blood and brains when they showered your
uniform after a sniper attack? If you’ve never had
the experience, you simply don’t know what you’re
talking about! Therefore, enjoy your mashed potatoes with gravy and be thankful that the closest
you’ll ever come to war is that large flat-screen TV
in your safe and comfortable living room.
Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with the New York
Police Department, ten of which were performed in
plainclothes undercover assignments. Bob began a
writing career about 12 years ago, publishing a total of
seven novels. He has also become a syndicated columnist
under the title, “Weir Only Human”.
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