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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

04/27/11 Police: Drunk Driver Fell Flat on Face During DWI Stop and more from Port Chester Patch

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Police: Drunk Driver Fell Flat on Face During DWI Stop

Nik Bonopartis | Apr 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

imagePort Chester police arrested two men in separate DWI stops; in both cases, the suspects had difficulty standing up when they were pulled over.

DOCUMENT: Federal Judge Says Port Chester Appeal is Unlikely

Nik Bonopartis | Apr 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

imagePort Chester can't appeal the consent decree that brought cumulative voting to the village, a federal judge wrote Friday.

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Toddler Story Time at The Voracious Reader

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

04/24/11 PORT CHESTER TAXPAYERS GET STUCK WITH A $225,000 BILL AS THE REPUBLICAN PATRONAGE MILL ROLLS ON AND ON AND ON .....

Why Are We Paying This Guy $775 Per Hour?

Rye Town Supervisor Joesph Carvin's Brother Looks Like A High Paid Legal Moron; As He Gets Slammed In Federal Court


Earning His $775 An Hour: Republican Michael Carvin is pressing forward with a Port Chester voting rights appeal, even though a federal judge says he can't

A federal judge has told Republican Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin's brother that he has no right to appeal the Justice Department's successful voting rights lawsuit against Port Chester — but apparently, that won't stop Micheal Carvin from trying.

A clueless Michael Carvin seems to be unaware that the Village of Port Chester signed a consent decree barring the old system and ushering in a new, cumulative-voting method.

Judge Gardephe wrote that Port Chester has no basis to appeal because of its own action.

"The law is clear that matters within the scope of a consent decree or consent judgment can generally not be appealed," Judge Gardephe told Michael Carvin

The Port Chester Booard Of Trustees The Board of Trustees has been sharply divided over the appeal and the $225,000 set aside for Republican Micheal Carvin.

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla said he would try again to halt what he calls a losing battle.

"If the judge's ruling doesn't make it clear how small our chances of success are, then I don't know what does. It's a waste of time, it's a waste of money.", said Mayor Pilla

Despite public opposition to the expense, the board Republican dominated board of trustees voted 4-2 in February to hire attorney Michael Carvin of the Jones Day law firm at fees of up to $775 an hour.

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

03/13/11 Port Chester Republican Party Financial Disclosure Forms Show A Divided GOP Leadership Has Not Spent A Damn Dime On Bart "The Bigot" Didden

Bart Didden Receives A Congratulatory Handshake From Port Chester Republican Party Chairman William Villanova,


Later Bart Discovered That Financial Disclosure Forms Showed That He Had Been Stabbed In The Back By His Buddy Billy


Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

The truth is in the eyes
Cause the eyes don't lie, amen
Remember a smile is just
A frown turned upside down
My friend let me tell you
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth, uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
I'm telling you beware
Beware of the pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Jealousy
Misery
Envy

I tell you, you can't see behind smiling faces
Smiling faces sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof


Here Is The Proof:

The Port Chester Republican Party Has Filed Two Financial Disclosure Forms That Both Say There Has Been "No Activity" In The Port Chester Mayoral Campaign.

Political Insiders Have Been Saying That The Local GOP Leadership Has Been Deeply Divided About Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden's Nomination.

Apparently, The Republican Leaders Are So Divided They Have Not Been Able To Authorize To Allocate Any Monies To Support Mayor Wanna Be Bart Didden.

Rumor Has It That Long Time Republican Dominick Cicaitelli Was So Disgusted At Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin's Support Of Bart "The Bigot" Didden, That He Is Planning On Taking On The Harvard Educated Fool Next November

Joe Carvin Is Very Vulnerable, Because He Has Made One Bad Decision After Another After Another.

The Only Question Left Is Will Dominick Cicatelli Challenge Joe "Bart's Flyer Was Not Racist He Was Only Race Baiting" Carvin In A Republican Party Primary For Rye Town Supervisor.

Soon Joe Carvin May Join His Best Buddy Bart Didden In Singing This Tune About Billy Villanova And The Port Chester Republican Party.

One Thing For Sure Is That Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden Has Deeply Divided The Port Chester Republican Party.

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Monday, March 7, 2011

03/07/11 Stupid Is As Stupid Does: Bart "The Bigot" Didden And Sleazy Sam Terenzi Should Reconsider Vote To Appeal Voting Rights Ruling

Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden And Sam "Welcome To PORK Chester" Terenzi's decision to appeal the federal voting rights ruling is short-sided and a big mistake, both for the people of Port Chester and for this dumb and dumber duo. 


The majority of Port Chester residents, are not in favor of Didden and Terenzi's desire to appeal.


Do these two Port Chester wing nuts really think that they can appeal this and win and have voting return to the way it was before Bart Didden's racist flyer.


What will these two Port Chester wing nuts do when the Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin's brother reaches the funding cap without a decision?


Drop the Case?


Spend More Money?


The $225,000 spending cap at Michael "Ka Ching Ka Ching Ka Ching" Carvin's outrageous hourly rate of $775.00/ Hour equates to approximatively 290 hours.


What The Dumb And Dumber Dou Of Didden and Terenzi wont tell you that 290 hours is not even close enough hours for Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin's brother to prepare an appeal, let alone present it and defend it.


This is just a down payment on another million dollars being flushed down the Port Chester Republican Party Patronage toilet.


Who can blame Rye Town Supervisor Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin's brother for not passing up a $225,000 Port Chester taxpayer funded and the likely off additional massive payments for his friends and family members.


How can Michael Carvin pass this by?


Port Chester voters are going to Punish Bart "The Bigot" Didden, Sam "Welcome To PORK Chester" Terenzi And Joe "The Harvard Educated Fool" Carvin in this and up coming elections.


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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

03/02/11 The Raw Port Chester News feed

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Monday, February 28, 2011

02/28/11 Port Chester School District Prepares For Layoffs As Village Gives The Rye Town Supervisor's Brother A $750 / Hour Job

The Port Chester School District is bracing for some tough choices as taxpayers are told that long time Republican Michael Carvin will get a $200,000 patronage job from the village.


Board of Education meeting, parents, teachers and board members listened as Maura McAward, assistant superintendent, warned of drastic personnel cuts. The district has already shaved costs by limiting hall monitors and computer aids.


Port Chester parents won't have to wait long for the details. They'll get their first look at the board's proposed budget on March 10; after public input, the board will present a revised budget on March 30. On May 17, voters will head to the polls to approve or deny the budget.


However, Port Chester parents need to understand that taxpayers can't afford Bart Didden and Sam Terenz's desire to fight another futile battle with the United States Justice Department and teachers.


The $200,000 that Didden and Terenzi voted to give the Rye Town Supervisor's brother is just a down payment on another million dollar plus failed lawsuit.


This senseless lawsuit is easily going to eventually raise Port Chester Village taxes by 5%.


Maybe after Bart Didden, Sam Terenzi and Michael Carvin lose in Federal Court the taxpayers might be able to afford some money for school teachers.


Parents We Are So Sorry , But ....


Right Now Port Chester Taxpayers Must Suffer The Consquences Of Bart "The Bigot" Diddens Vote To Give The Rye Town Supervisors Brother A $750 / Hour Patronage Job.

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla Is Still Trying to Stop Sam Terenzi And Bart Didden From Giving Micheal Carvin That $750 / Hour Republican Patronage Job, But He Needs The Help Of The Many Concerned Port Chester Parents.


It's Time For These Port Chester Parents To Protect Their Children's Futures And Stand Up To Extremist TEA Party Lunatic Bart "The Bigot" Didden


Port Chester's Children Should Not Have To Suffer, Because Of Bart "The Bigot" Didden

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02/28/11 Republican Party Patronage Returns To Port Chester - Republicans Once Again Looking To Get Rich Off Of Port Chester Taxpayers

Hiring Rye Supervisor Brother Get's $750.00 / Hour To Let Port Chester Once Again Lose To The United States Department Of Justice


Long-time Republican and the brother of Rye Town Supervisor Joe "Didden Is A Race Baiter" Carvin has been hired by Port Chester's Republican trustees at a cost of $225,000 to start another futile lawsuit against the Department of Justice last week

More than a few Port Chester Taxpayers and local leaders are crying foul.

Despite the public outcry over the cost and prospects of an appeal, the village board voted 4-2 last week to hire Michael Carvin for a fee of up to $225,000.

Port Chester's initial legal battle with the justice department cost the village $1.2 million. Opponents of the decision to appeal say the new $225,000 legal bill could balloon and eventually rival what Port Chester has already spent.

"That's the brother of the Rye Town supervisor," resident Gene Ceccarelli said during Tuesday night's board meeting. "I don't know how they can justify that as they're going through their ethics review."

Greg Adams, a former Port Chester trustee and member of the local NAACP chapter, agreed. "How was this law firm picked? I don't know," he said. "But the relationship, to me, is a little bit uneasy."

"This is a black eye on Port Chester," resident Gary Sullivan said of the Justice Department's successful challenge, under the Voting Rights Act, to the village's system for electing trustees. "It is healed. So now you're going to pay to walk into another punch in the eye?"

"I wouldn't vote for 10 more cents" to be spent on the case, former Republican Trustee Domenick Cicatelli

Silvio Buccieri, a retiree who was born and raised in Port Chester said, "I wished he had more information about the legal aspects. I've watched so many up-and-downs. I'm very sorry to see what's happening. I was hoping people would get together, and let's work together and not against each other.

Randolph McLaughlin, a Pace Law professor said. "Well, by opening up this can of worms, the Second Circuit's going to have to ask the question: What's going on in the Village of Port Chester? Why don't they want to give Hispanics a fair opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice?"

Jon Greenbaum, a former DOJ litigator and chief counsel at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, called the republican decision to hire the Rye Town Supervisors brother to lead an expensive and futile appeal the "most bizarre thing that's happened in the case so far."

“Those who do notlearn from history are doomed to repeat it”

"This case is about our system looking closed," Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla said. "It doesn't look closed when we bring in the Republican chairman and the Republican supervisor's brother to be the lawyers?"

Port Chester Mayor Dennis Pilla noted that another Republican patronage inside representing Port Chester in the case, Anthony Piscionere, he is the former chairman of the Rye Republican Party.

The Fiscally Responsible Port Chester Mayor correctly points out that the $225,000 was only for the “first leg” of an appeal. If Port Chester succeeds and an appellate panel orders a retrial, he said, that could cost another $700,000. And every $200,000 translates to about a 1 percent tax increase.

“This is like a spigot,” Mayor Pilla said of the vote. “This is like a big, 5 percent tax increase.”


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Board Of Trustee Meeting Notes 03/22/07

The Things You Don't See On Cable TV Meeting Telecasts #1

Loud Meltdown In Executive Session Is Overheard In The Hallways As
Real Estate Lawyer And Republican Chairman Anthony
Pissonere Goes Nuts Over Port Chester Board Of Trustee's Desire
To Get Advise From An Independent Expert

Date Line (Port Chester) --- A public board meeting was opened at 5:30 pm and then an
closed executive session was immediately called to discuss litigation.

Members of the public and press were then required to wait in the hallway at 350 Main Street.
Goldie Soloman even took a chair to the hallway to sit comfortably in the hallway.

As usual the public slowly started to talk and gather out in the hallways, when all of a
sudden a loud voice started to boom out in the hallway. Soon persons were saying that
the loud voice belonged to Rye City Republican Chairman Anthony Pisionere.

No One In The Executive Session Could Be Heard Except For Pisinere.

It sounded like Rye City Republican Chairman Pisonere was calling the Board, "Stupid".

Yes our Half A Million Dollar Patronage Lawyer, Anthony Pisionere was yelling at the
Port Chester Board Of Trustees and saying they were, "Stupid".

No wonder Port Chester lost on Pisonere's Half A Million Dollar Hearing,

We had a lawyer with no professional decorum or self-control.

Rye City Republican Chairman Anthony Pisionere's melt down continued with
complaints that his legal performance was discussed during the election.

This real estate lawyer from Rye goes to court and gets outclassed and costs the village
half a million dollars for losing one hearing and then he thinks that the taxpayers of Port
Chester should not discuss his courtroom failures.

Port Chester taxpayers in the hallway were laughing and joking about Pisionere' s
meltdown. People were calling Pisonere a "Legal Loser' and a "Patronage Pig."

The most insightful comment was that, "It's not pretty when a political insider starts
to have his patronage pork cut off."

Then Rye City Republican Chairman Anthony Pisionere went nuts when the board
appeared to suggest that they needed the help of an independent expert to advise them
about his performance, the Department Of Justice and other issues about the lawsuit.

No one could hear any board members, just the angry and nasty hollering of the out of
control Pisionere.

Pisionere just doesn't seem to perform well while under pressure. Why did The Republican's choose this Rye Real Estate lawyer for this high stakes Federal voting rights lawsuit.

Mayor Logan must have been too afraid of the Rye City Republican Chairman, because
he made no effort to control his unprofessional and embarrassing outbursts.

Finally after 7 pm Goldie Solomon interrupted the meeting and said that it was time to
wrap up the meeting with Pisconere, because the people of Port Chester were getting
tired of waiting and some citizens were leaving in disgust.

They made Goldie leave the meeting room and then locked the door as Rye City
Republican Chairman Anthony Pisionere went on and on for another 30 or 40 minutes.

It looks like the Rye City Republican Chairman Anthony Piscionere scared the hell out of
Mayor Logan and the other Republicans, because they quickly came out of executive session and voted 5 to 2 to table any talk of hiring an independent expert to advise the Port Chester Board Of Trustees.

Only Trustees Dennis Pilla And Daniel Brakewood voted to hire an indepent expert.

Why Are The Republican's Afraid Of Advice From An Independent Expert?

Could It Be That Independent Experts Get In The Way Of Patronage?

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