7 thoughts on “Watch The Candidates Live on Journal News! 3 PM Today.”

  1. RE: All is fair in love, war, and politics.
    Yes, if the current mayor chooses to attack his opponent by citing his family and personal challenges/problems and use them as tools in the political campaign, then, by all means, his opponent can strike back at the current mayor on the same grounds. The current mayor, for those who know him well, is a malignant narcissist, the type that would easily throw his mother or anyone else under a bus in order to feed his megalomania and win another vote or two. So, does it surprise anyone that he would resort to using other’s personal woes to forward his own cause? How naive and blind are the citizens of NR ? As for the Journal News? It is basically a rag that sells ad pages, lists obituaries, and announces foreclosure sales; it is NOT a valid source of information. Yes, kids, all is fair in love, war, and politics..

    1. Excuse my skeptisism
      If the tables were flipped and Noam was found not to have paid child support, I doubt so many people on this site would be willing to call it a personal issue. In fact, I’m willing to bet there would be a long article with a catchy title. There is no evidence that Noam planted the story but again I’m willing to bet that if the tables were flipped, even if the story came directly from the St. Paul campaign, that fact would be deemed irrelevant.

      1. hypotheticals v. reality
        We do not know what would happen we only know what did happen.

        This sort of “dirty tricks’ is standard operating procedure for Noam, Inc. but perhaps we can agree on one thing. There is no way on God’s green earth that the Journal News went out to New Jersey and began digging through court filings to find out information on Richard St. Paul.

  2. Alternative Revenue Sources = New Taxes
    Here’s a new phrase I’ve learned, Alternative Revenue Sources. Sounds like a tax or fee of some sort. Can’t be good.

    Here are some other tid bits:

    St. Paul commented on his proposal for contributors NOT to do business with the city. Bramson strongly defended the practice.

    On child support, private & family matter per St. Paul. Most of these cases end up and are decided in Family Court as this case will be.

    Bramson, St. Paul missed 1/2 of council meetings. Missed votes. Questioning St. Paul’s commitment to government & kids. Bramson said St. Paul failed to meet minimal statdard of city councilperson.

    1. Great rundown
      What I saw was Noam speaking in platitudes like the policy wonk that he is and Richard landing blows on “Pay for Play” in the Bramson-Idone era. Anyone who has watched City Council has seen this before.

      What was amazing was Noam’s inability to articulate a single tangible accomplishment during this time as Mayor. Anything positive he cited in terms of completed projects was all started and, in many cases, finished before Noam became Mayor. I could not believe Noam actually brought up the old New Rochelle mall as if he played some significant role in replacing that with New Roc City.

      All he could was talk about was PROPOSED deals like Echo Bay or Albanese. Not a word about how Noam intends to pay for moving the City Yard or where he intends to move it, any specific ACTUAL benefits or outcomes from HIS efforts.

      I though Richard scored a major blow when he pointed out that with 16 years on the Council (think about how pathetic that is for a moment…16 years, now he wants to go for 20 years?) Noam could not seriously be blaming the 2008 recession for his dismal track record.

      I loved where Noam talked about $7mm in increased tax revenue from development in downtown New Rochelle and up towards the new Stop & Shop on Palmer Avenue. Noam’s phony “net benefit” calculation! Haha. Eveyrtime he talk that number goes up. It was like $2.5 million, then $5 million, now its $7mm, By November 8th it will be over $10 million in “net benefit”. Since it is a made up number he can say it is anything — it is all equally untrue.

      I loved the part where Noam says you cannot renegotiate 15 year old deals. Really? Then why did Avalon and Hartz Mountain keep showing up at City Hall to renegotiate their Avalon deal? Why was Capelli allowed to renegotiate a letter of credit on Trump Tower so that we swapped a bank guarantee for a personal guarantee from Capelli when he was on the verge of going under and being publicly accused of embezzling money by his partner on New Roc and City Center in White Plains?

      What Noam means is that he does not how to renegotiate deals to our benefit but he will happily allow the developers to renegotiate for their benefit — developers who support Bramson, Inc.

      The part that intrigued me was the way the Journal News reporters went after St. Paul but never went after Bramson. The tough questions to St. Paul were all “in bounds” — Espada, Child Support, etc. Yet they were directly out of the Bramson playbook.

      I missed the first few minutes. Did Noam get ANY tough questions from the two JN people?

      I thought Richard whiffed on Espada. The premise for the question is that Richard, as his civil defense attorney, is somehow responsible for Espada’s conduct. That is just stupid. If criminal or civil defense attorneys were to be held responsible for the bad actions of their clients there would not be any defense attorneys.

      I thought Noam scored on the absent/late issue and that was compounded by another whiff from St. Paul. Instead of talking about Town Halls, he should have turned the question around on Bramson. I would have said something like …

      “I work for a living Noam. I run a small business. As a lawyer, my time is not always by own. Clients and Judges can be unpredictable and sometimes that means that I am tied up in court outside of New Rochelle. I realize you would not know anything about that Noam because you have never even held a full-time job let alone run a business. You may have the luxury of a wife as the bread-winner in your family so you can play at full-time mayor but I don’t. I have to earn my own way in life not have money handed to me by my wife, rich developers, or my Wall Street banker brother and his wealthy friends.”

      or something like that.

      Since Noam is making Richard’s children an issue in the campaign and playing off racial stereotypes its would seem that Noam’s family is fair game too, right? Or does anyone disagree?

      1. The truth won’t get Bramson re-elected
        Thinking back on what I heard yesterday, Noam really biffed on the question of next years budget. He danced around layoffs & union concessions and never answered the question.

        But with 10 or 11 weeks until the new budget has to be set in place, why DOESN’T Bramson know what’s going on? Next years budget won’t magically come together the week after the election so he must know the bad news now and just isn’t sharing it with us. We’re all adults so I think we can handle it, but the truth won’t get him re-elected so he continues with games.

      2. Bob,
        After the election we

        Bob,

        After the election we will all learn if the tax cap sticks and who gets laid off. Nice way to play the game Noam. Get elected then shove it to everyone as usual.

        Bob,
        B

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