News from the Campaign
MLK Day reflections: The time is always ripe to do right
Having re-read and analyzed and pondered Dr. King's “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” over the past few years, I have admired it for one thing as a leading example of literary polemic, but of course it is more than just good writing with some memorable quotes...
Disbar Giuliani
Tutti Frutti, oh Rudy! The man has completely lost it and is no longer fit to serve as a counsel to any client, much less appear as an attorney in court. His reference to the medieval practice of "Trial by Combat," more properly called...
A New Year: United, We Stand
A bit late, but I want to start by wishing all of you and your families a happy and healthy 2021. The year is off to a mixed start, to be sure, with hard-won victories in Georgia and terrible violence at the Capitol. But we are looking forward to a new President and...
Old Blues, Eastchester Blues
Did you know… Yale alumnae/i are called “Old Blues’? I am kvelling over my Yale college classmate and friend Daniella Levine Cava, who won her race for Mayor of Miami-Dade County in south Florida. She will be the first woman to hold that position, and the first...
Eastchester, Westchester And The Leader Of The Western World
Newsflash: Another Black Lives Matter lawn sign was stolen from our lawn overnight. I replaced it with two new ones, next time with four, even if I have to start drawing them up by hand again myself.YESTERDAY’S GOSPEL READING“Blessed are they who hunger andThirst...
So now you know, if you didn’t before, every vote is important this year. Presidents may or may not be able to balance the budget, bring prosperity to us all, resolve armed conflicts everywhere --- there are innumerable things...
Dribble March And Tuckahoe Endorsement
September 6, 2020 Saturday morning, please join me and the staff and young people of the Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle in a justice march, dribbling basketballs down North Avenue, from the playground just south of the...
Voting Machines
This is my political platform and I’ll whine if I want to, whine if I want to… We did a lot of good things at our last full Board meeting last week, which I’ll report on in the next eblast from my official County account. But here I’m sorry to tell you that my...
Two Emergency Action Items for Prudent Progressives: Make Us Count
First a local issue with national implications: Tomorrow morning we at the Westchester County Board of Legislators will be voting on our local party-picked election commissioners’ request for over $6 Million to purchase new voting machines that we don’t need, that...
Non-Uniformed Aid and Unmasked Resentment
A couple of young New Rochelle residents got me excited about a concept that meshes well with the Governor’s mandate to reimagine policing and the post-COVID necessity to police more cost-effectively. It is a successful program that has been around for over 30...