The problems of Midtown vexed mayors long before T.R. Gallo but seemed to accelerate during Sottile’s terms, despite official crime statistics that showed a decline in violence. He says the city needs to keep pressure on the criminal elements, and deal with housing issues, both main planks in Shayne Gallo’s platform.
Legacy: He tried his best
Sottile’s plans for the future are fluid, he says. He’ll be around to advise Gallo, if he asks. He holds licenses in insurance and real estate. A former state worker, his pension after 32 years in the system, will approach $50,000 a year, he said. His wife, Marybeth, is a teacher in the Rondout Valley school system.
His legacy?
“I hope I’m remembered as somebody who tried to do my very best to help people, someone committed to the less fortunate, someone who understood the needs of people when they don’t have a house, someone who tried to pay attention to detail tat everyone is entitled to the same service, someone who loves this community.”
Hugh Reynolds use of vulgarity in his recent column is totally inappropriate and unnecessary.
“Someone committed to the less fortunate” is a very funny line(hilarious, actually) when measured against his bloggate comments on the subject in general in www.yuku.com ulsterpublishingmessageboards . You really have to give him credit though for consistently lying through his teeth down the final bell, and directly controverting his role model Sister Dorothy(who taught him never to cheat otherwise the only person who would be cheated would be himself). He seems to lie in direct proportion to the number of times he is interviewed by the press. What will be next for this pathological liar? Phony deductibles and selling broken down barns as mansions? Hah.
The huge holes in the road that sunk down so low you couldn’t find them that took two years to fix on Albany Avenue. That “Giant Schupping Sound” continues to “Schupp right along.” Yes, in addition to this appointment being against the City Charter(and this indiscretion, ahem, rubber stamped by the city council, making its own law as it went along and not bothering to repeal the one in place in case it found it worthy of such), it was Sottile’s way to say “My BIGOTRY was BETTER than that of many others(hahahahaha)”. Reminds me of the old time song I fist heard on my paternal grandfather’s 78 RPM recording of “The Robert E. Lee” as a mere boy, just with new lyrics:”SEE them Schup-ping alonnnnnng…HEAR them Schup-ping alonnnnng….you see they’re soooo neat…rrrrrreal sweet…go down by the Lev—ee, right down by the Lev–ee… waiting for the Robert E. Leeeeeeeeee!!(weeeee!!)(I will play it and sing it on the piano and make Mark Russell appear like a creative piker in comparison to his musical political commentary) The “flip side” happened to be “The Yellow Rose of Texas”, which was also done by Mitch Miller and his male singers on television too. Shayne kind of reminds me of Mitch Miller, conducting these singers(or trying to), except without the Goatee(and plenty more hair). I can picture him conducting the singers marching along Broadway some Memorial Day Parade, waving his hands as if trying to conduct with Hoffay the Clown trying to juggle balls with faces of Kevin Cahill on them with his face looking as if it is ready to ask the question “What is my Raison D’Etre?” “Jo-Jo the Clown”, if we could resurrect the kind old soul, would have laughed so hard UPAC would crumble to the ground!!!