Possible, but probably not. As the late Kingston mayor Pete Mancuso used to advise a rookie reporter, “These guys aren’t as smart as you think they are.”
At least the Tyner treasurer’s overnight flap added some zing to what had been a boring campaign.
Former Assembly candidate Peter Rooney tells me he has no intention of running for office this year. Rooney, who lost to Kevin Cahill two years ago, has not ruled out a future campaign.
Note: I described Rooney’s autographed Ford-150 pickup truck from the 2010 campaign as an F-105. Call it a typo, but there never was an F-105 pickup. (Helluva fighter plane, though.) The F series of trucks was introduced by Ford in 1948, the F-100 in 1953 and the F-150 in 1974. Rooney’s festooned F-150 is in storage, all tuned up for the next campaign.
Alderman Bob Senor got back to tell me he’s 110 percent for the proposed homeless veterans’ facility on Wurts Street on the fringe of his Eighth Ward. “We can’t do enough for our veterans,” Senor asserted. He said he hasn’t polled residents in the area, but doesn’t expect opposition. “The [relocated] Darmstadt Shelter [for the homeless] was there for years [just down the street in the basement of a church] and nobody complained,” he said.
Here and there
Question: How many people does it take to put on an event like Kingston’s annual Immaculate Conception Church Bazaar, scheduled this year for July 13 and 14 on the school grounds on Delaware Avenue? Answer: At least two dozen, which is the number of committee chairs listed on a bulletin handed out at the church. I don’t usually plug church bazaars here, but for hard-to-find authentic Polish food at yum-yum prices, the Immaculate Conception bazaar is the midsummer place to be. Where else can you see former Kingston schools superintendent Gerry Gretzinger, a long-time bazaar volunteer cook, sweating over kielbasa?
And finally condolences to the family of legislative clerk Karen Binder, 56, who died Tuesday at Vassar Hospital after a long battle with cancer.
For most media and officials, Karen was a joy to work with. Patient, courteous, competent, she would respond to the most outlandish requests with a smile.
Calling hours will be from 2 to 6 on Friday at the Joseph V. Leahy Funeral Home onSmith Avenue. The legislature will attend as a body and host a reception in chambers following calling hours.
