The columnist Reynolds.
Mayor Gallo: “I hate Cahill! Pass the potatoes.”
Young Gallo: “Dad!”
While the mayor buried his audience in statistics, some of his omissions were revealing. Giving the proposed Abeel Street Irish Cultural Center a plug, Hizzoner neglected to mention his nemesis, Cahill, had secured a $250,000 state grant to purchase the property last year.
The mayor joyfully announced a major improvement in the city’s bond rating, “the “highest in history.” “We can borrow at 0.49 percent,” he exulted to applause. “That’s free money, people.”
Like most residents and visitors, he carefully avoided the infamous sinkhole on Washington Avenue, which will mark its third anniversary next summer. Bet on it getting fixed before Gallo declares for re-election a year from now.
Gallo continues to drag around former mayor Jim Sottile like Marley’s ghost. Memo to the mayor: It’s history. Give it a rest. Same for the Cahill spectre.
Can’t say I’m comfortable with Common Council President Jim Noble’s “so-what?” take on mayors delivering their messages in January, as per city charter. “We really haven’t done that since 2002,” Noble told the daily.
Really? City officials are charged with upholding the law. Noble presides as council president in council chambers where mayors have delivered annual messages in January since around 1872 (except in recent years). Next year, maybe he should send the mayor an invitation.
Let’s see, two examples(God knows there must be more) of how city officials failed to uphold the law, even though in theory they are charged to uphold it:1)the trashing of the City Charter residency requirement for city employees which then opened the door for Sottile’s pick of Schupp to head DPW(otherwise, a la Ross Perot style, best referred to as “That Giant Schupping Sound”;2)the council’s act of insisting, in 2006, which it has now been taken to task on and has finally and thankfully demurred after actually reading the state DOT regs so badly and roundly misinterpreted by his Noble-ness in 2006, on a speed limit rise from 15 to 25 on the Colonial Drive School Zone. Ig-Noble of him there. (Still no “Entering School Zone” signs after a full 8 years since the HeadStart school was built) It’s the McGrane family business there under another Irish name…so what’s new there and why should anyone have a COW over it? Only because Hugh Reynolds hasn’t done his homework, or is to shy to write the truth, perhaps a bit o’ both moight we see me laddies and lassies? New Stop signs,but no School Zone signs. Clever?? Adept?? Done with aplomb and passion?? Avoided as an issue as if Ralph Nader himself brought it up and decided to use it in a Presidential debate to which he would not be invited? Done with the level of passion we saw when men were tossing around silicone boob models to poke fun at their female counterparts?? Done with the level on-target intellect on the level seen when some guys put human feces in the work gloves of Jeanne Edwards, and by so doing, clearly made themselves the REAL BOOBS there?? Or just plain RETARDED?? Maybe someone–anyone and everyone, all 10 of them perhaps(aside from all two of the attorneys or something), who can do something about this– needs to stay up til 4 AM here working on getting THIS remedied!! I realize that nine out of those ten are not paid enough to pay much attention to stuff like this….but it’s time to do so anyway, folks…Just…plain……RETARDED. Sottile and Cahill are not on any same level, Hughie baby…any comparison here between them is a failing grade for political writing right off the bat….although I do agree, the Cahill bashing over the sales tax thing OUGHT be a political nonstarter, although it will be used because it can be you see…however the bigger baby here is the county exec by far, who has mostly gotten his way with everything, is handsomely paid for it, pays his yes men in the office well to also ignore serious daily issues in the county, while paying no attention to the needs of people a la the daily operations of the county, and ought to be successfully challenged on that basis. “Zimet” is a “zip it”… that is also agreed(besides which, even as it is a nice thought on some level to elect a woman, no matter how loud she yells on any issue that is relatively small and unimportant while ignoring the ones that are important(anyone can write this movie script), the boy’s network in Albany is going to think less of her anyway–not that it should necessarily…but the movie can be written there, too, so she cannot obtain any change at all…and who is her loud mouth kidding on this?). By God, the Democratic Party OUGHT to be able to come up with some other challenger, I would think..someone who can tell it like it is in Albany about the rotten corruption in this state and what we need to to about it..and someone actually willing TO DO something about it..hmmmm……can…and will…can…be two different things….