Far too many people voted with their feet, or as Joe Marchetti, losing Republican candidate for alderman-at-large put it, “I didn’t begrudge Jimmy [Noble, the Democratic winner] his 3,200 votes [Marchetti got 1,000 fewer]. What I resented were the 5,000 people who didn’t vote at all.”
Marchetti says he’s contemplating a new party, perhaps to be called The Deising Donut, where he and countermates solve every other problem. Suggested slogan: “We’re all in the middle together.”
The 12-11 incoming Republican county legislature — overall, Democratic candidates actually got about 500 more votes than GOP candidates — speaks to a sharply divided electorate. There, too, turnout was miserable.
It will be better in this coming presidential year. Or will it?
In any event, may we all get what we deserve next year.
Artsy-Fartsy Dept.:I am really hoping you will go into show business, Hugh. I wanted them to start making the movie “Honey, We Shrunk Jeannette Provenzano!”, subtitled “To Try to Make Room For Someone Else Who Needs To Sit Down” based on the seating arrangements the other day at city hall, starring you, with your costar in this film Ms. Bernardo, but of course, had they tried this before, Sottile would have taxed the production company so much it would never be made. [YNN tells me they have a shot that could be used as a promo poster for this film–if it is made]. Joe Marchetti whispered to me “I can PAINT a promo poster for it!!” I said, “that’s not high tech enough”, to which he replied, “Look–what COMPUTER can paint a donut hole–or any hot air at all for that matter?” I was left…..devoid of words with which to reply just like the first time I met him years ago on Hasbrouck Ave. (As for the maintenance man given credit by Mr. Noble who left the seating a stupid situation leaving most people having to stand…Enh–they did it right for the opening ceremonies of the place but certainly not this time around) Quigley was up and down more times than a man with BP in the middle of the night,and his wife wouldn’t move over one time to let him in on the opposite side–could it be she preferred him NEXT to her? And Hinchey had a WHOLE bench to himself–is this the “democracy” ideal touted by Mr. Noble?!)This reminds me of the time I was told a pack of lies by a bunch of neighborhood kids who told me in a baseball game:”It’s a PRIVILEGE to play the BENCH.” But it is noted that even though this may NOT work AT ALL in childhood, this DOES seem to work at times in adulthood and HERE is a prime example of this!! Maybe the Yiddish kid in the Rabbi’s story SHOULD have asked for a BENCH of his own— IN LIEU of “all three things”!!