November Elections - Who’s Line Is It Anyway?

In less than two weeks, the November elections will soon be upon us. Deflection from real issues is ramping up, although in the Town of Greenburgh, Supervisor Paul Feiner is leading the race. Everywhere you turn, some challenger is wielding accusations toward the incumbent. And, likewise, somewhere an incumbent is trying to defend their record, claiming their experience is what will guide us through these difficult times.

In Saturday’s Journal News, the wrestling of who’s campaign literature is right between incumbent John Nonna and challenger Michael Smith, shows the despondency as well as ludicrous barbs from two people who want to represent us. They aren’t in our district so none of the ABG staff will be voting for them anyway. I like Michael Smith but I think John Nonna has done some good, as well as not-so-good things, as the incumbent. Whom should we believe? Once the defecation starts to hit the ventilation, it’s hard to know.

In Yonkers, the city where nothing is on the level - they continue to make Tammany Hall look like a Friars Roast with the accusations. John Murtagh is hammering Mike “Republican-turn(coat)ed-Democrat” Spano, who took a two year sabbatical from politics to work for the real capo, Nick Spano, as a lobbyist in Albany. “Lay low for a bit, Mikey.” He’s being pushed by Murtagh to explain his role in the bribery scandal involving Attorney Anthony Mangone, then Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi and former Yonkers Republican Chairman Zehy Jereis. Mangone has since been convicted. BTW, if Annabi sticks out her chest, flips her long dark hair and flashes her infectious smile, she might walk. Unfortunately, Jereis can do the same things but it won’t have the same results. To add insult to injury, Jereis’ wife is a member of the Assemblyman’s staff. Ouch!

In the Sunday Journal News, the never-ending left of left Editorial Board has made their County Legislative endorsements. With no surprises whatsoever, they have endorsed, wait for it, the current crop of democratic legislators, throwing Republican John Testa the token republican endorsement - wow! What renegades they are! This Board wouldn’t recognize a good challenger if the opponent quit, the challenger saved Barak’s life, found employment for the 18% unemployed in America and balanced the budget while providing free health care to every American. This means the challengers have a very good shot at winning.

The League of Liberal Voters, aka League of Women Voters has put out their election diatribe detailing all the candidates for the elections throughout our region. The problem with it is the slant. Upon close scrutiny, you’ll notice some slights against the challengers, who happen to usually be Republicans. Plus, by the time the challengers find out they must have their blurb in for publication, it’s almost too late and theirs is not as polished as the incumbents submission.

News 12, a formerly decent broadcaster of news has “slicked-up” their candidate debates down to about five minutes per candidate, offering you no real insight to the candidates. It also offers no real insight to the hope and change we were promised, long for and are disappointingly still not getting from any of our elected leaders. You can watch these debates over and over again and still wonder if any real questions and answers will be forthcoming or if it would have been more informative to watch an old episode of Who’s Line Is It Anyway?