News from the Campaign
The $60,000 Question Parts 1, 2, & 3
Part 1. June 5, 2023. FYI. https://robertcox.substack.com/p/unprecedented-60000-dark-money-infusion I am trying to find out more.Part 2. June 7, 2023. Here's more press coverage on the unprecedented and unexplained campaign contribution from the County Democratic...
Cutting Corners, Or The Gang That Couldn’t Spackle Straight, And Other Questionable Activities
First, let’s talk about the unusual botanical species that sprouts up in the Spring when there are June Primary Elections. Here's one nicely framed by shrubbery at a friend’s home, not far from Pedro’s Bike Shop on Drake Avenue. Sadly, some of the 200 or so of these...
HUGE News!
Westchester Legislators Pass Landmark Access to Counsel Bill Assignment of free attorneys for eligible tenants facing eviction from their homes has been a goal—a dream really—of BOL Majority Leader Chris Johnson and mine since we were first-year County Legislators in...
Local Re-Development and True Crime on Your Dime
CUI BONO?Pardon my Latin.Yesterday morning's lengthy lohud.com article on the massive ongoing housing construction going on in downtown New Rochelle refers to my suggestion that we slow down the process a bit and evaluate who has benefited thus far and who has...
A Sorry Story, a Disappointing Delivery
Sorry Story Here is a full and accurate account in the NY Post, by a former local Journal News reporter, about the gross mishandling of a personnel matter by the Chairwoman Catherine Borgia of our County Board of Legislators. All other members of the Board, with...
Political Haiku or Unbossed, Unbought, On the Ballot for Mayor
Dear friends,As many of you know, I had the daunting task of obtaining 1,000 proper signatures of registered New Rochelle Democrats in 5 weeks to get on the primary ballot for Mayor of New Rochelle after withdrawing from the New Rochelle Democratic Committee...
Elevator Speech And Shoe Leather
…or whatever it is that Timberland makes its boots out ofI started “pounding the pavement” to get ballot signatures for this primary election season over Presidents’ Day weekend. Some time last week, around door # 1,100, I noticed pieces of the sole of one of my...
Still in it to Win it, and Some Peace & Quiet
HERE IS A PRESS RELEASE THAT I SENT OUT EARLIER TODAY ABOUT A DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE POLLCounty Legislator Damon Maher explains his decision to continue his campaign for Mayor of New Rochelle without the support of the New Rochelle Democratic Committee.The New Rochelle...
Over the MLK Weekend: Contemplation, Decision, Action
My wife Deborah and I were pleased that her strong efforts to revive the annual Inter-Religious Coalition of New Rochelle’s Martin Luther King interfaith Shabbat Dinner and Service at Temple Israel of New Rochelle, after a too-long COVID break, resulted in...
Don’t Think Of An Elephant
And certainly don’t talk like a member of the Elephant Party.NOTE: This partisan message comes from my personal/political email account, not my official County platform.I borrow my subject box here from the influential George Lakoff book about properly...