Last night, the Republican Party of New Rochelle nominated Cynthia Lobo as their candidate for New Rochelle City Court Judge.
Lobo has been for years a registered Democrat and had sought the Democratic domination earlier this year.
Mayor Noam Bramson wanted Susan Kettner as the candidate. Bramson sought to require Democrats to take a pledge not to mount a primary fight or run on another party line as a condition of being considered as the Democratic candidate. Lobo declined to take that pledge and instead sought the Republican nomination.
Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination for City judge.
Cynthia Lobo thanked the Republican City Committee for the vote last night and added that she was the first “first bilingual Hispanic woman” to be nominated for a position as Judge for New Rochelle Court and to serve in the position.
She is registered as a Republican.. She is a member of many professional associations such as the New Rochelle Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Hispanic Bar Association. She is Director of the New Rochelle Police Foundation (2010) and a Board member of the Senior Personnel Placement6 Bureau since 2008.
Talk of the Sound will publish a press release and web site link as soon as it becomes available. Calls to Lobo were not answered and her office voicemail box is currently full.
Peggy Godfrey contributed to this report.
Lobo was the only candidate to seek the Republican nomination
To clarify, Cynthia Lobo was the only candidate to seek the Republican nomination for City Judge. News reports of the Democratic City Committee meeting listed a number of candidates who eventually removed their names.
Susan Kettner is well qualified to serve as NR City Judge
So what was meant by the claim that “Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination for City judge”?
If Cynthia Lobo was the only Republican seeking nomination, weren’t you falsely inferring that the Democratic candidate is not a resident of New Rochelle?
I am sure that Democratic candidate Susan Kettner is well qualified to serve as New Rochelle’s elected City Judge, and that she is a third generation resident of New Rochelle.
New Rochelle 2010 City Judge Election
In the Blog, ‘Republicans Nominate Cynthia Lobo for New Rochelle City Court Judge’, written by Robert Cox and Peggy Godfrey and posted 2010-06-08, there is serious misinformation that needs to be corrected immediately, unless the intent of Robert Cox, Peggy Godfrey and ‘Talk of the Sound’ was deliberately malicious.
The blog incorrectly states “Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination for City judge”.
Actually, the Democratic Candidate for City Judge, Susan Kettner, is a third generation resident of New Rochelle. So the blog of Robert Cox and Peggy Godfrey is inaccurate.
That same blog, by implication raises the questions, in 2010 was anyone seeking the nomination for City Judge, either Republican or Democrat, who is not a New Rochelle resident; and who is that person or those persons?
Additionally, I’d like to know the names of all candidates who, in 2010, sought the Republican Nomination for New Rochelle City Judge.
The article is correct
The article is about Lobo gaining the Republication nomination for City Judge so when I say that she got the nomination and she was the only person seeking the nomination and the article is talking about REPUBLICAN nomination then there is no inaccuracy. Try reading the article again…slowly…and see if you see what I mean.
There is no intent to deceive here and no intention to slight Susan Kettner.
We have already reported on Kettner. We posted her press release and her campaign photo. As indicated we will do that for Lobo when she is ready.
As reported, no other New Rochelle residents sought the Republican nomination. so there is nothing else to know about that. The article does NOT remotely attempt to convey that non-residents were seeking any nomination for local office.
I would suggest you take a deep breath, re-read the article slowly and then consider whether your comment comports with the words on the page.
The Article Had a False Inference Needing Clarification
Your article stated, “Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination for City judge”.
Your sentence clearly inferred that there was someone, other than Lobo, who was seeking a nomination for New Rochelle City Judge but was not a resident of New Rochelle.
Had I not asked for a clarification, some of your readers would have mistakenly thought that any other candidate was not a resident of New Rochelle.
In 2007, there was a similar issue regarding Republican Councilman Richard St Paul, and as to whether he was a resident of New Rochelle at the time he was elected by a tiny margin.
Rumors often start because of unclear language being misunderstood. Based on what you have since explained, I must presume you constructed your sentence poorly, and that you really meant to say that Lobo was the only person to seek the Republican nomination for New Rochelle City Judge.
I just wanted to have you make it clear that both candidates for New Rochelle City Judge are residents of New Rochelle.
Not really
Brian,
Come on. Really? You are going to keep swinging away at this?
Have you noticed that no one but you seems to have discovered this supposed “false inference”? There is good reason for that. There is no INFERENCE at all. There is a simple declarative statement of fact — that Cynthia Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination.
The nomination in question is the Republican nomination as is CLEARLY indicated in the article. In case you missed it that is what the article is about.
Now I may not be Woodward or Bernstein over here but it seems to me the way a reader can tell that the article is about the Republican nomination for City Court Judge is the headline which reads “Republicans Nominate Cynthia Lobo for New Rochelle City Court Judge”.
Another indicator is the lede paragraph of the article which reads “Last night, the Republican Party of New Rochelle nominated Cynthia Lobo as their candidate for New Rochelle City Court Judge.”
I am convinced that most people interpret this to mean that the topic of the story is Cynthia Lobo and the Republican Nomination for New Rochelle City Court Judge because that is what the article says right from the top.
So, when you write that my article “stated, ‘Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination for City judge’ that would only be confusing of misleading or false if that was the ONLY sentence I wrote. By citing this sentence and only this sentence and ignore the headline, the lede paragraph and the rest of the article you appear to be going out of your way to place this statement out of context. Why you are doing this I have no idea but you are making yourself sound silly.
You have previously said that by using the term “New Rochelle resident” that this is part of some effort on my part to imply that some non resident sought to run or is running for New Rochelle City Judge. There is absolutely zero evidence to support such a claim. A good reason for this is that it is untrue.
You continue to propound this rather bizarre notion that there is some bad intent behind these alleged transgressions.
If your only issue is that you feel the point was not sufficiently clear that Lobo obtained the GOP nomination or that she and her opponent, Susan Kettner, live in New Rochelle, then you will note the benefit of having a comment section where readers such as yourself can amplify their concerns, no matter how misguided.
You needed your misstatement corrected so I did it for you
Robert, you wrote:
“Have you noticed that no one but you seems to have discovered this supposed “false inference”?”
No one else commented, because I had already pointed it out, and proven my point by simply quoting you saying:
‘Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination for City judge’
My interpretation of that is you meant Lobo was the only New Rochelle resident to seek the nomination for City Judge.
There can be no other interpretation of what you said. What is amazing is your stubborn refusal to admit you made a misstatement. Please be good sport. Failure to admit your error implies it was not an error, but rather malicious disinformation. An admittal would protect the integrity of your Blog. I therefore was obligated to correct your misstatment for you.
Why did you even use the phrase ‘New Rochelle Resident’? Can an Alaskan run for New Rochelle City Judge? Isn’t it implicit that anyone running for New Rochelle City Judge would be a New Rochelle Resident? Then again there were questions in 2007, as to whether Republican Richard St Paul was a New Rochelle Resident. Whether or not this was true in 2007 I have no idea. Once a rumor is started, due to a misstatement, it creates a stink that can last for years
I was clearly correct at demanding an explanation. Why would you, at all, use the phrase ‘New Rochelle Resident’? Why you are doing this I have no idea but you are making yourself sound silly, by not admitting that your statement was misleading.
Help me out here
You are obviously far more experienced in politics than I am so I must be confused.
I had always thought that a party nominates a candidate and they then put that candidate on a ballot for a particular election.
I did not realize that Kettner and Lobo were running the for nomination for City Judge. I thought they were running for the actual position of City Judge as the respective nominees of their parties.
Since I am obviously confused on this point perhaps you will be so kind as to explain this to me.
Thanks!