I asked County Comptroller Elliott Auerbach if his rating fellow Democrat Mike Hein on fiscal acumen wasn’t akin to a father judging his daughter in a beauty contest.
“I get hit when I criticize [Republican] D.A. Holley Carnright,” he replied. “They’ll call it politics either way. As long as I can look myself in the mirror, I don’t worry about it.”
But of course he does.
I suggested that as the county’s “independent watchdog” he cease seconding the nominations of people — like Hein last June — over which he has fiscal oversight.
Local Democrats will stage a party unity rally on the Rondout at Gallo Park on Saturday, Sept. 24, from noon to three. Music will be by the Marc Black band. Announced speakers include Maurice Hinchey, Mike Hein, DA candidate Jonathan Sennett and “mayoral candidates.” Party leaders are expecting fire and brimstone from second-time candidate Sennett, whose campaign to date has been, to be kind, invisible.
And finally, condolences to the Garraghan family on the passing of Dave Gavitt, Julie Garraghan’s husband. A basketball legend, to those who knew him, Gavitt was a pistol.
Like the time they did a roast of retired mayor Ray Garraghan. Up until the time Gavitt took the podium it was a pretty dull affair. I know this because I was one of the speakers preceding the then-Providence College basketball coach.
(This is from memory.) “You all know Ray Garraghan as an accomplished man, banker, oilman, mayor, a kind and generous man,” Gavitt began. “I’m his son-in-law and I can tell you he is without a doubt the cheapest sonofabitch in the world.”
Garraghan, a renowned penny-pincher, almost fell off the dais laughing. From there, it only got worse, and funnier.
Oops
I had Democrats and Republicans holding their annual dinners at the same time in the same place last week. “There isn’t a room big enough to hold all those egos,” quipped Ulster Supervisor Jim Quigley after phoning in the correction. Republicans will hold their annual dinner at Hillside Manor in Kingston next Tuesday, Sept. 27, Democrats at the same place on Oct. 2, the next Sunday.
One of the more striking front-page political photos in recent years — editor Dan Barton’s primary night shot of anxious faces at Shayne Gallo headquarters in Kingston — was marred only slightly by a mistake in the caption. The man on the left was misidentified as Rick Perry. In fact it was former alderman Mike Perry, 85, a.k.a. “Honey Brown.”
“In fact, Clement ran a positive, issue-oriented campaign while Gallo’s frequently devolved into class warfare and baseless innuendo.”
Is that what did it? …impressed by the broad support Gallo was able to generate among “working people”.
Played the ol’ baseless innuendo card.
Just what was it the “Working Families Party” liked about Gallo and didn’t like about Hayes? Ms. Fuentes doesn’t say. It would be nice if she would share that.
Here you are wrong Gerald(and Hughie Baby):this was nothing more than the ol’ Hetero v. Homo warfare, and the Heteros came out with 7 more votes than the Homos. Inasmuch as Catholicism still rules,this could be considered a victory of sorts for the Homos–after all, that was razor close, and this may mean victorious in the next similarly analogous such contest. Moreover, let’s be clear:Catholic higher education is considered BETTER than Duke University(or anything else such as Northwestern for example). Simple as that. As Traditionally Elitist Catholic as THAT. No Working Jerking Families stupidity cards needed for any other analysis.
As for the Working-Jerking-Crybaby-Families Party, they are only and always concerned with supporting whoever they think the winner is GOING to be in any given race for the Democratic line, and they merely in my estimate guessed right in this instance. “Working Families” doesn’t play any card at all, unless you consider having a plant nursery in Woodstock that sells to NYC, a lawyering job with the city and a law office where my father used to have his, and a Psych. Nurse in the family “working”–which is of course a matter of Anal Catholic Elitist “relativity”(which I say at the risk of upsetting the spirit of Albert Einstein). And some thirty-one years after my father died, I am still lamenting the fact that memories are so short they only remember my Nazi mother and her anal politics over and above my father, who started it all and they all fail to pay homage to in memorializations(a tragic omission of their disgusting and tragic extantly overanal selves).