News from the Campaign
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...
Unity Wednesday night, now Action
Thank you to all of the 300 or so who joined me Wednesday evening in our two-mile march south on North Avenue to City Hall where we met up with approximately 3,000 other people from all ends and centers of New Rochelle. It was an immensely successful, strong and...
Breathless in Seattle
“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights...Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well...
SNAP…before our back-ups SNAP
With friends from Shiloh Baptist Church of New Rochelle helpingserve breakfast at HOPE for folks from the Oasis shelter. I want to express my appreciation - awe actually - of those in the nonprofit, political, and faith-based communities, whether paid or volunteer,...
Sillier and Seriouser and Much Longer
Only 48 hours after the satirical Surgeon General-like warning in my personal/political email last week, our “amazing” #45 said some things that warranted a real public health alert to counteract. Sarah Cooper is brilliant. Maybe he...
Silly and Serious
We start with the silly -- and we all need a bit of levity each of these frightening days -- by again getting the Kinks out, as we did in last Thursday’s official County email, but today it’s a timely Kinks parody, featuring our very own former Westchester DA...
Better Things
On Tuesday night we made Westchester a better place by passing my bill to ban wild and exotic animals from performing anywhere in the County. The vote of the Board of Legislators was unanimous...
Our Changed World
Science First I’m not a scientist but I have a handful of friends who are really good ones, plus I did pass “the Regents” in Bio, Chem, and Physics in the early 1970s. With honors! Seriously, I do remember something about the scientific method and the gathering...