Instead of boycotting President Trump's latest disinformation superspreader event, Congressman Pat Ryan brought along his MAGA-loving pal, Crooked Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus.
Yup. I name checked Sussman in our previous post. :-) I just didn't do it here. We will be watching what he does, not says, especially as it relates to South Blooming Grove.
Wondering whether you've heard that Civil and Human Rights attorney Michael Sussman will be running for County Executive. Here's his announcement, on his FB site:
February 24 at 5:18 PM ·
It was a great honor to accept the Democratic Party endorsement for County Executive last evening and to receive the strong support of a united party. I appreciated the strong endorsement from Senator Skoufis and his encouragement for our entire slate. Today, the incumbent county executive told News 12 that "if you a rapist or murdered, Michael Sussman is your candidate; if you're for safety and lower taxes, I am." This summarizes what we can expect - pure unadulterated nonsense from a pretender. I will address all the critical issues which county government should focus us and have attached a copy of my acceptance speech for those who could not join Lee and me last evening. I want to give a special shout-out to Lee who spoke eloquently and whose collaboration is and will be a very critical part of this campaign. This what i said last night in accepting the endorsement.
"Many thanks for your endorsement, commitment and confidence and I look forward to the next grueling eight and a half months as we campaign together and seek the opportunity to implement ideas that serve all our people and represent our best ideals and values.
I am proud of the slate of legislative candidates who have joined together to offer our county's voters a deserved choice and a new direction.
As our nation is under attack by those who do not believe the law applies to them or their legions and as our county deals with a compromised District Attorney, I am thrilled that Alan Joseph, a distinguished lawyer with great personal integrity, has stepped forward to serve as an example of what a District Attorney should be. We sorely need that!
I want to recognize and thank our party's leading elected officials who fight for our values, whether in Goshen, Albany or Washington, and to each of you serving as district leaders and to pledge my desire to collaborate closely with each of you. I cannot succeed without you. Thank you Senators Schumer and Gillebrand, Congressman Ryan, Senator Skoufis, Assemblymen Jacobson, Kaye and Eachus, and those county legislators who represent us.
So why 24 years later, am I back here? Because I have in my heart a strong desire to do more to leave our children a county which embodies the best we can together create and I know that has not been done and that we can be so much more. Our people deserve better and we can deliver.
Our county needs a viable two-party system. We need to end to pay and play. We need a full-time county executive not someone content to delegate the duties of his office to a deputy credibly accused of using bigoted language against a long-time aide.
Our county government must develop and implement a plan - with our trade unions and our city leaders - to use our substantial capacity to re-build our cities brick by brick while we train the workforce of the future and provide workforce housing for our people.
Our county government must stop warehouse madness which already has re-defined too many of our communities, accelerating substantial air pollution and wear and tear to our roads while providing jobs which do not sustain entry into the middle class.
Our county leaders need to be far better stewards of our shared environment, actively opposing undeserved air and water quality permits for CPV in the Town of Wawayanda and promoting sustainability through every form of alternative energy and conservation.
Our county executive has not appointed a representative to the MTA for or two and one half years. Instead of such irresponsible abdication, we must force the MTA and the State to invest in transportation networks that allow our residents to access major work hubs, whether in our county or beyond, and to stop viewing our residents as a captive audience to tax as they see fit with so little benefit.
Our county must assure equal employment opportunity in our work force and, as its leader, I will create a climate which rejects all forms of bigotry and promises everyone a seat at the table.
Our county must end the revolving door of health commissioners and meaningfully address the increasing loneliness and alienation many feel by creating community-based empowerment centers to better serve our youth and others whose lives will be enriched by
having a place dedicated to building friendship and community.
We have much to do together and I intend to assemble a team of talented, committed leaders to realize these and other objectives.
As I have in leading the legal fights to save Valley View, to renovate, not destroy, our government center, to block the CPV power plant which silently impairs our health and our lands and to represent those Democratic county legislators who, with Senator Skoufis,
revealed corrupt and non-compliant county contracting and purchasing practices, I will fight every day, here and beyond, for Democratic values, that is for a system of progressive taxation to decrease reliance on regressive property taxes; for school aide
formulas which help reduce, not exacerbate, income inequality; for fair union contracts which recognize that those who work here deserve wages which allow them to live here; for accountable policing which promotes the integration of police officers in communities and ends the polarization between police and communities they serve.
Friends and neighbors: I truly believe that our party can marshal the best in each of us, what is common and what is good, and that we can champion a government borne not of self-interest but of the still resonant ideals of service, sacrifice and community.
Opportunity, love, and justice should be the currency of our party and our government.
Our coalition is and will remain diverse, inclusive and equitable and I am proud of that. We shall always stand for inclusion, never for exclusion.
I am prepared for the challenges of this campaign and know that as a united party, we can offer a better vision of government than those who govern for self-interest and for the privileged few.
It is to the task of victory that I summon each of your contributions.
I look forward to listening and learning from each of you as we proceed."
I welcome the support of all regardless of party and regardless of the level of your skepticism. Give me the chance to formulate with much input a way forward.
Yup. I name checked Sussman in our previous post. :-) I just didn't do it here. We will be watching what he does, not says, especially as it relates to South Blooming Grove.
Wondering whether you've heard that Civil and Human Rights attorney Michael Sussman will be running for County Executive. Here's his announcement, on his FB site:
February 24 at 5:18 PM ·
It was a great honor to accept the Democratic Party endorsement for County Executive last evening and to receive the strong support of a united party. I appreciated the strong endorsement from Senator Skoufis and his encouragement for our entire slate. Today, the incumbent county executive told News 12 that "if you a rapist or murdered, Michael Sussman is your candidate; if you're for safety and lower taxes, I am." This summarizes what we can expect - pure unadulterated nonsense from a pretender. I will address all the critical issues which county government should focus us and have attached a copy of my acceptance speech for those who could not join Lee and me last evening. I want to give a special shout-out to Lee who spoke eloquently and whose collaboration is and will be a very critical part of this campaign. This what i said last night in accepting the endorsement.
"Many thanks for your endorsement, commitment and confidence and I look forward to the next grueling eight and a half months as we campaign together and seek the opportunity to implement ideas that serve all our people and represent our best ideals and values.
I am proud of the slate of legislative candidates who have joined together to offer our county's voters a deserved choice and a new direction.
As our nation is under attack by those who do not believe the law applies to them or their legions and as our county deals with a compromised District Attorney, I am thrilled that Alan Joseph, a distinguished lawyer with great personal integrity, has stepped forward to serve as an example of what a District Attorney should be. We sorely need that!
I want to recognize and thank our party's leading elected officials who fight for our values, whether in Goshen, Albany or Washington, and to each of you serving as district leaders and to pledge my desire to collaborate closely with each of you. I cannot succeed without you. Thank you Senators Schumer and Gillebrand, Congressman Ryan, Senator Skoufis, Assemblymen Jacobson, Kaye and Eachus, and those county legislators who represent us.
So why 24 years later, am I back here? Because I have in my heart a strong desire to do more to leave our children a county which embodies the best we can together create and I know that has not been done and that we can be so much more. Our people deserve better and we can deliver.
Our county needs a viable two-party system. We need to end to pay and play. We need a full-time county executive not someone content to delegate the duties of his office to a deputy credibly accused of using bigoted language against a long-time aide.
Our county government must develop and implement a plan - with our trade unions and our city leaders - to use our substantial capacity to re-build our cities brick by brick while we train the workforce of the future and provide workforce housing for our people.
Our county government must stop warehouse madness which already has re-defined too many of our communities, accelerating substantial air pollution and wear and tear to our roads while providing jobs which do not sustain entry into the middle class.
Our county leaders need to be far better stewards of our shared environment, actively opposing undeserved air and water quality permits for CPV in the Town of Wawayanda and promoting sustainability through every form of alternative energy and conservation.
Our county executive has not appointed a representative to the MTA for or two and one half years. Instead of such irresponsible abdication, we must force the MTA and the State to invest in transportation networks that allow our residents to access major work hubs, whether in our county or beyond, and to stop viewing our residents as a captive audience to tax as they see fit with so little benefit.
Our county must assure equal employment opportunity in our work force and, as its leader, I will create a climate which rejects all forms of bigotry and promises everyone a seat at the table.
Our county must end the revolving door of health commissioners and meaningfully address the increasing loneliness and alienation many feel by creating community-based empowerment centers to better serve our youth and others whose lives will be enriched by
having a place dedicated to building friendship and community.
We have much to do together and I intend to assemble a team of talented, committed leaders to realize these and other objectives.
As I have in leading the legal fights to save Valley View, to renovate, not destroy, our government center, to block the CPV power plant which silently impairs our health and our lands and to represent those Democratic county legislators who, with Senator Skoufis,
revealed corrupt and non-compliant county contracting and purchasing practices, I will fight every day, here and beyond, for Democratic values, that is for a system of progressive taxation to decrease reliance on regressive property taxes; for school aide
formulas which help reduce, not exacerbate, income inequality; for fair union contracts which recognize that those who work here deserve wages which allow them to live here; for accountable policing which promotes the integration of police officers in communities and ends the polarization between police and communities they serve.
Friends and neighbors: I truly believe that our party can marshal the best in each of us, what is common and what is good, and that we can champion a government borne not of self-interest but of the still resonant ideals of service, sacrifice and community.
Opportunity, love, and justice should be the currency of our party and our government.
Our coalition is and will remain diverse, inclusive and equitable and I am proud of that. We shall always stand for inclusion, never for exclusion.
I am prepared for the challenges of this campaign and know that as a united party, we can offer a better vision of government than those who govern for self-interest and for the privileged few.
It is to the task of victory that I summon each of your contributions.
I look forward to listening and learning from each of you as we proceed."
I welcome the support of all regardless of party and regardless of the level of your skepticism. Give me the chance to formulate with much input a way forward.