10/30/07 - - All Of Westchester County Is Interested In The New And Inovative Open Call For Trustees That Was Proposed By Mayor Dennis Pillla.

HEADLINE:

Port Chester trustee candidates to make their pitch tonight

QUOTE:

"We have 12 very diverse candidates in terms of their experiences," Pilla said. "I'm proud that several of these people have no prior political affiliation since I am looking forward to bringing diversity of opinion and more objectivity to the board."

STORY:

Self-nominated trustee candidates, from former elected officials to political newcomers, are expected to speak at a public meeting tonight about why they deserve to be selected for two open seats on the village board.

A dozen residents responded to an open call by Mayor Dennis Pillla for trustee candidates. The board is seeking to fill posts that became vacant after a federal judge halted the March 20 trustee election......

......Each candidate will have the opportunity to speak for up to five minutes tonight about major issues and opportunities in the village and how to address them. Candidates also may discuss their motivation to serve.

The board's goal is to appoint two new trustees at its meeting on Monday. The new trustees, who will be paid an annual salary of $5,200 each, are expected to serve until the March village election, when all seats except Pilla's and Democrat Daniel Brakewood's are set to expire.

The village is awaiting a judge's decision on whether its current at-large election method - in which trustees are elected in a village-wide vote - violates the federal Voting Rights Act. That decision will help determine whether the village can continue using its at-large system or must abandon it for one in which trustees are elected from different districts.....

COMMENT:

Of Coarse The Obnoxious Bart "The Bigot" Didden is going to be asking Mayor Dennis Pila, Deputy Mayor Dominick Cicatelli, Trustee Brakewood, Trustee Crain And Trustee Sorensen to vote for his ignorant ass even though he is a lawbreaker who operates a business out of a building with no certificate of occupancy.

Let's see if Bart "The Bigot" Didden listens to Port Chester Republican Chairman Billy Vilanova and apologizes to the Hispanic Community and Blanca Lopez, who will also be at the meeting.

The entire Port Chester Republican Committee published a letter asking for Bart "The Bigot" Didden to apologize for his two page racist flier, but the pig headed lunatic Didden refuses.

Now the insane Bart "The Bigot" Didden wants Republican trustees and a Republican Deputy Mayor to cast a vote for him.

Bart "The Bigot" Didden is like a crazy Pink EverReady Bunny that just keeps getting rejected and rejected and rejected and rejected.....

Good Luck To:

Anthony Saline, Two -Term Democratic trustee

Blanca Lopez - Housing Assistance Councilor at a Port Chester social service agency.

Ralph Rescigno, a sales manager and construction estimator

Ariel Acosta, pastor of Centro Cristiano Nueva Vida

Gregory Adams, Carver Center Board of Directors.

Brenda Crandell, a tax attorney

Dominic Carlucci, former village police officer

Vincent Coakley, licensed engineer.

Marie Pugliese, an executive assistant

Joseph Kenner, treasury manager at PepsiCo

Walter Quiroz, tax consultant and retired plant supervisor

Source: The Patent Trader

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08/21/07 - Port Chester Trustee Bob Sorensen Spent Way Too Much Time In The Sun While On Vacation

THE TRUE BLUE

CONSERVATIVE REVIEW


HEADLINE


Trustee Bob Sorensen Is Out Of His Mind?


STORY:


Port Chester Trustee Bob Sorensen went out of his way to once again commend the supposedly great job that Port Chester Building Inspector Lenny Cusamano is doing.


Hey Bob, just how many illegal apartments has Lenny Cusamano shut down while under Village Manager Bill Williams leadership.


I believe the number might be somewhere around

zero.

Someone needs to tell Trustee Bob Sorensen that only someone stoned out of his mind would look at all these illegal apartments in Port Chester and say that Port Chester Building Inspector Lenny Cusamano is doing a great job.

Instead of wasting more money on a three time legal loser like Rye City Republican Chairman Anthony Pisconere, lets hire a law firm to rid Port Chester of it's horrific building inspector.

Once we have a building inspector that will shut down illegal apartments, then Port Chester will finally be able to move forward.

If Port Chester Building Inspector Lenny Cusamano had spent the last five years shutting down illegal apartments then Port Chester probably not of had to suffer this embarassing Department Of Justice Voting Rights Case.

In my opinion, Lenny's failure to shut down illegal apartments has caused Port Chester tax payers to sheel out about $750,000 on this Justice Department mess.

The only way to get rid of all of these illegal apartments is to get rid of Lenny.

Archive 2007 January 11 Port Chester News Wire

Eye On Port Chester

Let's solve the year old Port Chester Library Funding Problem once and for all.

Let's hope that Mayor Gerald Logan and the entire Port Chester Board Of Trustees are in attendance for the Library Meeting on January 17th. Port Chester Board attendance has been disgraceful lately.

Port Chester will need a full board there in order to solve the library funding problem.

Port Chester and Rye Book both have to decide what they are going to do.

Rye Brook has a very, very good deal. If the want to walk away and spend more money then let them waste their citizen's tax dollars.

Either we’re going to have a library with Rye Brook or we’re not.

If not, then we have to roll up our sleaves and fix the Port Chester Library.

First lets get rid of Bruno and Kathleen Giofree and then lets start spending the 3 million dollars the library has to start fixing up the place.

No one in Port Chester can truely say that they think that Mayor Gerald Logan will go against his realitives the Giofrees.

Rye Brook has insisted that part of the negotiation was the library name change.

As part of any funding agreement, Rye Brook had asked that the name of the library be changed to the Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library, which is major problem with many long time library patrons.

Many is Port Chester feel that a name change shouldn’t be part of these negotiations.

However, these people need to undderstand that the library has repeatedly changed its name over the years.

Ask Goldie Soloman about the Peck Library.

Rye Brook says that it is willing to increase its percentage of funding from the 30% to 35 % it currently gives in exchangge for the name change.

This is not enough

If Rye Brook wants 50% of the name, then they need to pay 50% of the bill..

Port Chester Trustee Robert Sorensen has worked very hard on the library funding and name change issues.

Port Chester Trustee Dan Brakewood has had innovative ideas about the possibility of a library district.

Maybe Mayor Gerald Logan and his Giofree relations should step a side and let Soreensen and Brakewood hammer out a deal with Rye Brook.

The meeting on January 17th will be moderated By NYU Professor Allen Zerkin. Lets hope Professor Zerkin knows the issues and can get this year old library funding problem solved.

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Even More On Didden, CVS, G And S, Logan & The Board Of Trustees

This is really starting to get old

Top Court to Hear New Eminent Domain Case

In another legal test of eminent domain, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether a private company can demand payment in exchange for not seizing property.

via Realtormag.com

Archive Port Chester News Wire 2006 September 22 -30

District says a bad story failed a good high school

By Jeff Benzak

The Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District defended its record following a newspaper article that board members and administrators deemed misleading.

The article, which appeared in the Sept. 13 Journal News, mentioned that Port Chester High School was listed by the state Education Department as “requiring academic progress.” The article ran under the front-page headline “9 Westchester schools cited as substandard.”
Dominic Bencivenga, president of the school board, did not dispute the facts... [more]

Former city cop has a new beat: PCHS

[Video]

By Jeff Benzak
Richard Pepe stood in a dark grey suit in the main hallway of Port Chester High School Wednesday afternoon. The final bell (they’re electronic these days) chimed at 2:48 p.m., and the hallway buzzed with teenage angst and energy. It was busy, frantic, colorful and loud. It was, as Pepe noted, like Times Square.
Pepe is the new security... [more]

Village wants to hear from residents on electoral redistricting plans

By Jananne Abel

In a letter received in April, the U.S. Department of Justice has threatened the Village of Port Chester with a lawsuit claiming that the voting rights of Hispanics have been violated by the at-large voting system currently in place. Despite the large percentage of Hispanics in the village, none have ever been elected to public office. In order to avoid a lawsuit, the Department of Justice has proposed three electoral redistricting plans... [more]

Women cook tomato sauce the old-fashioned way

By Jeff Benzak

Rosa Dilfico and Antonetta Pennella stood side by side in a garage on Clinton Street in Port Chester recently. They wore floral-patterned aprons and clutched in their hands giant wooden spoons three feet long. With those spoons they churned industrial- sized pots filled with steaming red tomatoes.

The metal pots were heated by fuel from small propane tanks... [more]