Too many times have we heard stories of people afraid to blow the whistle on this administration out of fear of retributive action.
Couple that with selective enforcement of city laws, questionable ethics and downright illegality regarding donations and the out & out financing of city council campaigns by the current administration and we have ourselves a dystopian fascistic hegemonic stranglehold on power.
Pay no attention to the rampant crime, everything is just as it should be.
RE: WELL DONE !! An image which speaks a thousand words.
The imagery is potent. Yet, it is this statement that truly reverberates : “Pay no attention to the rampant crime, everything is just as it should be”. Yesterday, some friends of mine ‘ventured” into downtown New Rochelle only to find the rampant crime, disorder, and debris everywhere. For some reason, they chose to walk along Main street, that crowded, filthy, chaotic strip of 99 cent stores and dirty fruit stands to visit a highly recommended restaurant. As they attempted to make their way to the restaurant, they saw drugged out, deranged, drunk, aggressive panhandlers about, children sitting on the floor playing with debris, and people in push carts picking through the garbage pails. This all was hardly appetizing, it was, as my married friend said to me ” Galling” She later went on to rant. ” How can the Mayor let this happen? How did this happen? This is New Rochelle, this is not supposed to happen here..” etc..etc..etc. She was so upset, she took her two daughters and her Mother elsewhere to dine. And so, another, “highly recommended” New Rochelle restaurant lost another potential patron due to the blight, crime, and squalor that is the new and enduring image of the ” queen city of the sound”. My friends are die hard supporters of the Mayor, and yes, live in the bucolic North end which is ‘shielded” from the horrors of downtown; their ignorance kept them in utter bliss. However, her outrage is similar to all who ‘think” that downtown has improved because their leader “insisted” it had and then have their eyes opened by brutal reality. I agree with so many of the previous posters suggesting that the North end voters visit downtown New Rochelle, the now defamed ” So-NO district”, to see for themselves what horrors abound. Do not listen to your leader, EVERYTHING IS NOT AS IT SHOULD BE ! As Colucci suggests, New Rochelle can be a GEM of a place as long as its citizenry does its duty with diligence and determination. The ONLY people who can correct everything are the people of New Rochelle. Do your duty and take your city back. Do not idly sit by awaiting some panacea or slogan from some self serving career politician to save your city. SAVE IT YOURSELF ! End the Orwellian nightmare.
Funtime and Todd
Agree or disagree, this is brilliant stuff and well done. It has the scent of truth; Orwellian or not, somebody is putting something in the Kool Aid to cause a large segment of our population to become blinded or jaded to the deterioration, the blight and you guys may have come up with a answer to my dilemma which is simply why has the simple become the complex. Why are relationships between the absense of a clear City Code, the conditional consequences of a disfunctional school board, the failure to migrate city department and services…. enough, I am a broken record at this point.
Again, well done. Perhaps it explains why all services and power are contained in a single space (515 North). I only know the answer is to unbundle this, shed light on it, get people of good will to try at least one more time to put it right. Vapires live in the darkness and this Hallowween. We need light, not heat. You guys have lit a candle and now use it. Thanks for the picture and the words — helps me in my argument that politics is entropic and dangerous to the balance in a community.
Have a beer on me. I enjoyed this even more than I have said earlier and it makes the case for that the darkness has become endemic — it is beyond one man, it has infected a large segment of the community. Once we all take some responsibility it has to turn toward where the light is in nature; any direction but the north.
Kudos
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain..” I too am very amused by this imagery. But now look at what we are facing. Another vote of confidence to Mayor Gaddafi, since his opposition has been basically made impotent (although it was his lack of impotence that made him so).
Perhaps the GOP would be better served if its defacto mouth piece would attempt a run at an office that he failed to achieve in his political infancy… but then again, being an entrenched member of the legislative minority is a tough gig to pass up.
Are Citizens Really Interested
There are two meetings this week that concerned citizens should attend and ask questions. First,this evening the League of Women Voters, 7pm, Richard St. Paul and Noam Bramson, Board of Legislators, City Hall. Second, Oct. 25, 7pm, NAACP, 95 Lincoln Ave., Richard St. Paul and Noam Bramson, Jared Rice and John Earvin.
I urge the citizens of New Rochelle to attend one of these meetings. You might learn something about the future of our city. Or better yet, the candidates might understand why people are so upset and want our city to change for the better.