tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post1807801471612770424..comments2023-10-30T06:13:34.382-04:00Comments on Supervisor Feiner: GREENBURGH DEMOCRACY- week of March 26th--POST YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT TOWN ISSUESPaul Feinerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17087805120754057844noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-75503787788050853802007-04-01T14:48:00.000-04:002007-04-01T14:48:00.000-04:00Berger's firm may not have received special favors...Berger's firm may not have received special favors from Sheehan and the town council in 2006. The firm received special favors from SHeehan and the council in 2007. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal work from the town. <BR/>Now SHeehan wants the ethics laws to let him receive additional campaign contributions from berger and the law firm in 2008, 2009 and beyond.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-88631895434065864402007-04-01T14:45:00.000-04:002007-04-01T14:45:00.000-04:00Regarding the post about the decision of the Town ...Regarding the post about the decision of the Town Council to hire the Greenburgh Dem's law firm (Suzanne Berger) to review a land use application, one should listen to councilman Bass's comments about the firm. Councilman Bass was not happy with the work the firm did on the Avalon review. Bass, who joined Feiner and voted against the firm, made the case why the Town Bd should have interviewed the politically connected law firm before giving them a contract without an interview process. Francis Sheehan is wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-61009275485386983492007-04-01T12:43:00.000-04:002007-04-01T12:43:00.000-04:00Great Post 11:56. This is what happens with one p...Great Post 11:56. This is what happens with one party rule for 34 years. Without any competition, we get bottom of the barrel candidates from the Democrats. No matter who they throw up there will win, so no efforts are initiated to get great candidates. The Democrats don't even care when they throw up a Republican like Sheehan to run for office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-81288106255891784182007-04-01T11:56:00.000-04:002007-04-01T11:56:00.000-04:00Samis says...Feiner says...Jacobs says (or doesn't...Samis says...Feiner says...Jacobs says (or doesn't say)...Triton and Lushington and Juettner and Bass and on and on and on. <BR/>Samis makes some excellent arguments - and then fails to follow through to the logical conclusion. After reading the sad story of mismanagement and incompetence and maneuvering for political advantage one is left with only one possible conclusion.<BR/>To wit, Greenburgh's affairs, from Library construction to Town Garage construction to Town Hall purchase to Ethics have been ignored by a majority of the residents and have, by default, become the source of livelihood for a varied cast of incompetents and thieves. <BR/>Samis has identified the issues and within reasonable parameters has assigned responsibility for the mess. (Though you missed one salient point Hal - once property is declared surplus the prescribed method for disposition is a sealed bid auction. I do not believe the auction would ever have been held, as it would have made the outcome subject to marketplace economic forces, not political influence.) Now, Hal present the solution - a professional Town manager and the relegation of ALL Town Board members to ceremonial and policy setting roles. Removing the operational responsibility for our governance from the lacksidasical, venal, egocentric and corrupt is the starting point. How about it - let's insist that the candidates for Town Supervisor explain how they will move Greenburgh forward towards an efficient, well-managed model of a 21st century town and out of a cute but increasingly disaster prone, Mayberry-esque model of 19th century partisan political bastion.<BR/>If you don't think we're still in the 19th century, look at Don Siegal's complaint about Francis Sheehan - $250 to buy a council person's vote? Absurdly cheap - one can barely buy dinner for two with a decent bottle of wine for that amount. At least Feiner holds out for more signficant sums. For example, the $1,000 from the tree murderer in Edgemont only bought Feiner's efforts until other members of the community made it clear that the sum of their $25, $50, and $100 donations exceeded the proffered $1,000. The comment from the deforester was that he didn't mind dealing with a corrupt politician, he was just upset that once paid, the politican has an obligation to stay bought... Tammany Hall would be proud of today's Greenburgh Democrats - though ashamed that truly magnificent levels of graft are beyond the dreams of our small-timers....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-71726969484186728332007-03-31T21:30:00.000-04:002007-03-31T21:30:00.000-04:00Does anyone know what Verizon's schedule for expan...Does anyone know what Verizon's schedule for expanding FIOS service is? The town made such a big todo about signing the contract but when it is actually going to be avialable? Some people may have service available, but I dont.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-31377742740392247202007-03-31T18:48:00.000-04:002007-03-31T18:48:00.000-04:00Sheehan - ask the ethics bd for an opinion. You sh...Sheehan - ask the ethics bd for an opinion. You should have recused yourself. Feiner and Bass did the right thing. They voted against giving Berger's law firm a contract with the town. Sheehan voted for the contract after receiving a donation from Berger. This is the kind of politics that we don't like in Greenburgh. Berger's firm is going to make hundreds of thousands of dollars thanks to you. Bet you that her firm will reward you with big donations in the future. Seems sleezy to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-17391723710150422392007-03-31T17:07:00.000-04:002007-03-31T17:07:00.000-04:00Nice Sheehan, a computer for the fellow who whispe...Nice Sheehan, a computer for the fellow who whispers sweet nothings in your ears from time to time .What a nice position he's got.I would like to have a job like that.Whispering is not hard to do. I see that your laptop is gone, tired of hearing the comments,about the messages sent to you by the Whisperer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-52830607650602958222007-03-31T16:38:00.000-04:002007-03-31T16:38:00.000-04:00OH YES THEY ARE!!!THEY ELECTED EMPEROR SHEEHAN,WHO...OH YES THEY ARE!!!<BR/>THEY ELECTED EMPEROR SHEEHAN,<BR/>WHO HAS DONE NOTHING OTHER THAN<BR/>CREATE A MESS & SPEND A LOT OF OUR TAX MONEY ON AN EMPLOYEE, EXPENSIVE OFFICE FURNISHING FOR SAME & A BUNCH OF COMPUTERS FOR HIM & HIS PUPPY TO TAKE HOME!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-32865032269712087772007-03-31T16:27:00.000-04:002007-03-31T16:27:00.000-04:00How come Feiner didn't interview any of the other ...How come Feiner didn't interview any of the other law firms that were vying for the job that ultimately went to the law firm where Suzanne Berger works?<BR/><BR/>How come he didn't ask other Town Board members to conduct interviews with him?<BR/><BR/>According to the tape, he'd known about these other law firms for months and did nothing! <BR/><BR/>Two weeks ago he asked the Democratic Town Committee's executive committee for its endorsement. <BR/><BR/>Coincidence? Or was Feiner, in seeking that endorsement, just as conflicted as he claims Sheehan is? <BR/><BR/>The answer is that neither of them were. The recommendation to hire that particular firm was made unanimously by the town attorney and the town's planning department and no one on the entire Town Board -- including Feiner -- thought he or she had any reason in the world to second guess their judgment.<BR/><BR/>Feiner's tactics are beginning to sound desperate. Greenburgh voters are not as dumb as he thinks we are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-13451991084512731002007-03-31T11:58:00.000-04:002007-03-31T11:58:00.000-04:00Sheehan needs to ask the ethics bd if he acted ill...Sheehan needs to ask the ethics bd if he acted illegally or improperly by giving his friends law firm a big contract without interviews by the Town Council. Berger's firm did not get a small contract. Her firm will make hundreds of thousands of dollars, thanks to Francis Sheehan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-87476765049449242532007-03-31T08:13:00.000-04:002007-03-31T08:13:00.000-04:00To Mr. Sheehan AKA anon 11:31,The Sheehan/Berger f...To Mr. Sheehan AKA anon 11:31,<BR/><BR/>The Sheehan/Berger financial contribution must be explored by the newly formed Ethics Committee. I can guarantee you it will as you have included the ability for us citizens to raise ethics issues ourselves in your new legislation. Thank You Frances! You must have thought you were above the law. I can assure you that you are not. You should have recused yourself from voting on the Bereger Contract but did not. How can you possibly state that your staunch supporter Susanne is now not the apple of the eye of all the partners in her law firm for the massive contract that you awarded them? Is this why you are fighting so fiercely to get this type of a donation NOT TO BE included in your new legislation? Frances, you enjoyed making applicants cry when you were on the Zoning Board, you enjoyed bullying people when you got on the Town Board, you had a women threatened by Gil Kaminer (Don't forget Frances, there ARE WITNESSES to Gil's confession), you had Gil leak a Confidential State Comptrollers report to the Jounal News. In short, you are a walking, talking ethics code violation and your convinction will give many in Greenburgh great joy and relief.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-25445011104118291692007-03-30T23:31:00.000-04:002007-03-30T23:31:00.000-04:00Feiner clearly can't defend himself against the ch...Feiner clearly can't defend himself against the charges that he's raised his $130,000 campaign warchest by taking money over the years rom developers with applications pending before the town. <BR/><BR/>So what does he do intead? He attacks Sheehan, who brought the matter up, and accuses him of doing special favors for supervisor candidate Suzanne Berger in 2007 because in 2005, as the town's Democratic chair, she gave him $250. <BR/><BR/>But as other bloggers have pointed out, there were no special favors given to Ms. Berger in 2007, or at any time. The town's decision last month to hire the law firm she works for was based on a unanimous recommendation from town staff -- and Feiner, who could have interviewed other firms if he had wanted to buck the staff's recommendation, never bothered.<BR/><BR/>Under these circumstances, there was never an appearance of any impropriety in Berger making that modest $250 conribution to Sheehan in 2004 -- and Feiner knows it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-11717981019279228542007-03-30T21:58:00.000-04:002007-03-30T21:58:00.000-04:00The ethics charges against Sheehan are valid and s...The ethics charges against Sheehan are valid and serious. Suzanne Berger gave Sheehan a contribution. Her law firm was rewarded with a big contract.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-15481630179402459362007-03-30T20:22:00.000-04:002007-03-30T20:22:00.000-04:00Under the new ethics rules that Sheehan is proposi...Under the new ethics rules that Sheehan is proposing, any resident can file a complaint with the Ethics Board and get a ruling. <BR/><BR/>The Ethics Board then gets to conduct a preliminary investigation in order to separate valid claims, like the ones being made against Feiner, and the politically motivated claims that Feiner's supporters are raising in an effort to shift attention away from the truly terrible things that Feiner has done and apparently continues to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-60461727402923453732007-03-30T19:46:00.000-04:002007-03-30T19:46:00.000-04:00Sheehan is sowing the seeds of his own ethical des...Sheehan is sowing the seeds of his own ethical destruction with the new ethics laws. Without question, he will become the target of an ethics probe. If the new Ethics Board has any integrity at all, they will find Sheehan GUILTY!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-35331783250850218782007-03-30T18:24:00.000-04:002007-03-30T18:24:00.000-04:00I assume Sheehan will be afraid to ask the ethics ...I assume Sheehan will be afraid to ask the ethics board for an opinion. He knows his actions were ethically improper. Berger's firm should not have received a contract from Town Board members after she donated to Sheehan's campaign. <BR/>Why doesn't someone else ask for an ethics opinion, if Sheehan won't write the request.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-82852816462996921712007-03-30T17:21:00.000-04:002007-03-30T17:21:00.000-04:00If Sheehan is so convinced that what he did was et...If Sheehan is so convinced that what he did was ethical why doesn't he ask the Greenburgh Ethics Committee (he appointed the committee!) to rule on what he did?<BR/>Sheehan should ask if he should have recused himself from voting for a contract with Suzanne Berger's law firm since he received a contribution from Suzanne.<BR/>Sheehan should ask if he should give back his campaign contribution. Seems to me like Sheehan paid Suzanne Berger's firm back for prior support.<BR/>Councilwoman Eddie Mae Barnes, who also voted for the contract with Berger's firm, should ask the Ethics Board if she should have recused herself from the vote to give Berger's firm this contract. Barnes wants party support for her re-election campaign. Berger is the head of the party. If Barnes or Sheehan voted no, and if Berger's firm lost the contract don't you think there would have been ramifications?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-74219099508466181752007-03-30T16:48:00.000-04:002007-03-30T16:48:00.000-04:00Tom DeLay was reprimanded by the U.S. House of Rep...Tom DeLay was reprimanded by the U.S. House of Representatives for accepting thousands of dollars at a fundraiser from a special interest group with legislation pending before his committee.<BR/><BR/>DeLay's defense was that the people should trust him.<BR/><BR/>He was subsequently indicted and thrown out of Congress. <BR/><BR/>Feiner accepted thousands of dollars at a fundraiser from developers with active applications pending before the town.<BR/><BR/>What's the difference between what DeLay did and what Feiner did?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-67645862962596025502007-03-30T16:24:00.000-04:002007-03-30T16:24:00.000-04:00There goes the civic association smearing one of t...There goes the civic association smearing one of their own because he tells the truth about who is taking campaign contributions.Edgemont your constant protest about what Feiner does or does not do ,is becoming an epedemic.Funny when two contributions were mentioned at the town meeting,the two receivers admitted it.One received a contribution from an Edgemont person the other from a person who will be trying to govern Greenburgh.Contributions were always made toward a person running for office,so why do a chosen few always say that Feiner is out of order.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-21529642671363727702007-03-30T12:29:00.000-04:002007-03-30T12:29:00.000-04:00Feiner supporters love the big lie. Sheehan's cont...Feiner supporters love the big lie. <BR/><BR/>Sheehan's contributions when he ran for council in 2005 are a matter of public record. <BR/><BR/>Berger gave him the $250 after he won endorsement by the 130 district leaders of the town's Democratic Party who voted at the party's convention.<BR/><BR/>Just because Sheehan didn't deny something during an angry shouting match when Don Siegel, a Feiner supporter, simply lied about the $1,000, doesn't make it true.<BR/><BR/>Siegel's gutter tactics are well known. <BR/><BR/>In 2005, he led the unsuccessful campaign in 2005 to defeat Edgemont's school budget. Among other things he did, Siegel sent a letter to Edgemont residents misrepresenting a number of facts, including facts about teacher salaries. <BR/><BR/>When Edgemont residents confronted him with the true facts, he refused to issue a retraction. <BR/><BR/>So determined was he to win that losing battle -- he was thumped by Edgemont residents who came out in historic numbers and voted 9-1 to approve the budget -- the truth meant nothing to him. <BR/><BR/>Siegel hasn't changed a bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-30400502259498311922007-03-30T11:53:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:53:00.000-04:00To anonymous at 10:29,"Sheehan is not up for re-el...To anonymous at 10:29,<BR/><BR/>"Sheehan is not up for re-election this year" is correct.<BR/><BR/>"So why is Feiner trying to smear him?" he asks AND answers.<BR/><BR/>Whereas the Sheehan re-election statement can be proven, the proposal that Feiner is an anonymous blogger smearing Sheehan cannot.<BR/><BR/>The author, "anonymous" could very well be Sheehan. Or not. The only way readers would know (not for absolute certainty because there is always the so far undocumented possibility of forgery) would be if bloggers signed their postings.<BR/><BR/>Again, anonymous is an online license to lie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-36300046341947149462007-03-30T11:42:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:42:00.000-04:00Not everyone has forgotten the shambles that Sheeh...Not everyone has forgotten the shambles that Sheehan made out of the Fire District study. For those of us that do remember, we find it hard to believe that he has now taken over the task of the Comprhensive Study! Sheehan is a failed manager who now wants to manage every aspect of Greenburgh. It took him three years of failure before he finially concluded the Fire District Study with issuing no report. He now says he can do a Comprhensive Study of all of Greenburgh in two years. I'm sure Mr. Sheehan must spend his spare time selling bridges in Brooklyn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-47912194996943552572007-03-30T11:36:00.000-04:002007-03-30T11:36:00.000-04:00A previous blogger asked about the bullet proof gl...A previous blogger asked about the bullet proof glass at the police HQ. I received an e mail from Police Chief Kapica on Thursday. The chief indicated that "the PBA has indicated that the money that would be expended for this purpose (About $60,000) should be saved and put towards a new facility."Paul Feinerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17087805120754057844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-49288150908164333412007-03-30T10:52:00.000-04:002007-03-30T10:52:00.000-04:00As Warner Wolf says, let's go to the video tape. ...As Warner Wolf says, let's go to the video tape. I have no recollections of Sheehan objecting to Don Siegel's assertion that he received $1,000 from Berger. In fact, Sheehan repeated the $1,000 figure during his discusions with Siegel. More propaganda from the Sheehan/Kaminer Axis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33594888.post-52028516227299288462007-03-30T10:29:00.000-04:002007-03-30T10:29:00.000-04:00Sheehan is not up for re-election this year -- Fei...Sheehan is not up for re-election this year -- Feiner is -- so why is Feiner working so hard right now to smear him? <BR/><BR/>Perhaps it's because he knows Sheehan has not only put together a compelling case showing Feiner to be corrupt, divisive and dysfunctional, but lays out the evidence of his lawlessness in such a clear, calm and utterly convincing manner.<BR/><BR/>Contrast that with Feiner's hysterical stammers these days about a $250 Berger contribution in 2005 and about Sheehan's involvement as a community volunteer in some long-forgotten study more than ten years ago on consolidating fire districts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com