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PRESORTED STANDARD PERMIT #3036 WHITE PLAINS NY Vol. V No. XVI Thursday, April 21, 2011 Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly Majority Leader Patricia McDow LDCs Out of Control Page 4 CIPs for Yorktown Page 6 Mayor Mandel Interview Page 7 The Greatest Generation Page 8 Spring Break Page 9 Key Infrastructure Projects Free Page 10 The Middle Class Despite the Crime Page 12 Lack of ethical Conduct War Horse By Hezi Aris - Pg. 2 Page 22 westchesterguardian.com Page 2 The WesTchesTer GuArdian THURSDAY, APrIL 21, 2011 Of Significance Governmentsection Government Section .................................................................2 cover ........................................................................................2 Flim Flam Conclusions by Yonkers Ethics economic development ..........................................................4 Government .............................................................................6 Board over Majority Leader McDow OPED ....................................................................................12 By Hezi Aris Truth and Justice ....................................................................14 It was in May of 2010 when Message from Governor cuomo ..........................................14 the Yonkers Tribune was tipped off Community Section .................................................................15 to the many years Yonkers city council corporate ...............................................................................16 Majority Leader Patricia Mcdow utilized a The spoof ..............................................................................16 parking spot to store her unregistered, unlicensed BMW, at no cost Books ......................................................................................17 to her for which we requested an accounting ed Koch Movie reviews .......................................................18 of her conduct. It took months for the Yonkers Weir Only human ................................................................19 Parking Authority (YPA) to respond to our inquiry of the circumstances. eventually, the Truth and Justice ....................................................................19 YPA responded by revealing they were unaware health ....................................................................................20 of the non-payment for services rendered. Majority Leader earned favor over others in deputy Mayor William “Bill” regan sits on the Music .....................................................................................21 government as stipulated canno be sanctioned YPA Board of directors as its chairman. On under the Yonkers city charter. In other eye On Theatre .....................................................................22 Thursday, April 14, 2011, the Yonkers Board words, If the cost to store a vehicle in a Yonkers of ethics divulged its conclusions, but only to Legal Notices ............................................................................23 Parking Authority garage costs $100.00 every a degree. month, Majority Leader Mcdow must pay the Our resolve to alert Yonkersites of Ms same rate as any other resident. Mcdow’s travesty would in time cause Yonkers The hon. Judge Nocca chairs the Yonkers Inspector General dan schorr to issue his Board of ethics. After over a one-hour exec- finding on January 31, 2011, Mrs chorr’s distil- utive session, this reporter and the court lation of “facts” were lackluster; we had more stenographer were permitted entrance again facts than he, but he chose to ignore them. The into the Mayor’s conference room where the Westchester’s Most Influential Weekly “preeminent ethicist” deflected the political hot preceding took place. Judge Nocca requested potato from his office and relegated the respon- Fred Buhler summarize the conclusions arrived sibility upon the volunteer Yonkers Board of by the Board of ethics that night. Mr. Buhler Guardian News Corp. ethics. I.G. schorr’s deflective action exempli- advised that with regard to the stage of a vehicle P.O. Box 8 fied his political and legal ineptitude as Yonkers by Ms. Mcdow in the Buena Vista Parking New Rochelle, New York 10801 Inspector General, revealing his lack of will Lot, “several mistakes and assumptions on both and intestinal fortitude to right the wrongs and the part of Ms. Mcdow and the YPA had taken Sam Zherka , Publisher & President transgressions tolerated or encouraged under place. he did not reveal what those “mistakes” Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone’s regime. [email protected] or “assumptions” were. he further pointed out It has taken almost a year since the Yonkers that there was an “appearance of impropriety.” Tribune’s report to get a “conclusion” on the here too, he did not elucidate over how the Hezi Aris, Editor-in-Chief & Vice President issue of whether the Yonkers city council [email protected] Continued on page 3 RADIO Advertising: (914) 562-0834 News and Photos: (914) 562-0834 Assemblyman Katz On the Level with Narog and Aris Fax: (914) 633-0806 New rochelle, NY -- Assemblyman steve Katz of the 99th district is richard Narog’s and hezi Aris’ guest on the On the Level radio show Published online every Monday heard between 10 am and 11 am this Tuesday, April 19th, and every Print edition distributed Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Tuesday on WVOX-1460 AM on your radio dial and worldwide on www. WVOX.com. Graphic Design: Watterson Studios, Inc. For those who live and breathe radio, listen to hezi Aris on Good Morning Westchester when wattersonstudios.com he and the host, Bob Marrone, discuss all things Westchester at 7:35 am. Listeners and readers are invited to send a question to [email protected] for possible westchesterguardian.com use prior to any shows’ airing and even during the course of an interview. The WesTchesTer GuArdian THURSDAY, APrIL 21, 2011 Page 3 COveR Flim Flam Conclusions by Yonkers ethics Board over Majority Leader McDow Continued from page 2 how did I.G. schorr conclude the time to Yonkers Board of ethics came to that be less than 6 years? Political arm twisting; conclusion. In fact, no rationale was ever that’s how. Were a car with an expired given over how their “ethical” conclusions registration and without an affixed license were distilled. plate on a city street, that car would even- It was next noted that Ms. Mcdow tually be ticketed and thereafter soon had reached an accommodation between towed. It is “common knowledge” that the herself and the YPA by which a “fine” of Yonkers Violations Bureau were advised an unspecified amount would be paid by not to ticket her vehicle while it was in her over the 2011 calendar year. It was storage in the Buena Vista Parking Lot. said she has paid three of twelve install- It may be outside the purview of the ments so far. Yonkers Board of ethics, yet issue three When one thinks of ethics, one often must be what protocol has been insti- references the biblical solomon whose tuted by the YPA to guarantee “mistakes ethical compass is remembered by its and assumptions” regarding payment for being deduced before the public. That services rendered do not recur. And how is, solomon spoke to the people with his to collect payment in a timely manner and wisdom rather than at the people with to keep records thereof. arrogance. This may be worthy of the Fourth, how did Ms Mcdow arrive Yonkers Board of ethics study at their at the “assumption” that she was entitled next meeting, whose next meeting is still to free storage of her vehicle at a YPA to be divulged. garage? did anyone in the Amicone / solomon was tasked to decide regan administration promise her this between two women to which belonged perk? Just as in the case of solomon, there a child claimed by each. Both women was no document or contract to back claimed unrelentingly that the child was her story. That is why she relented to an her own and not the other. The passion installment payback of the arrears she with which each woman claimed the child accrued by her “assumption.” flummoxeds olomon until he advised that Fifth, and this is the most egregious, the only solution would be to cut the baby despite the lack of proof to validate the in half so that each woman would have contention of Ms Mcdow being offered a equal part of the child. One woman free storage, though I believe that Is the concurred this to be reasonable while case, her vote was sold to the adminis- the other woman said she could not bear tration for a paltry sum. can any of the the thought of her child killed by split- votes cast by Ms Mcdow be treated as ting her child in two. The second woman valid today knowing what has trans- beseeched solomon give her child to the pired all these years. My conclusion is, first woman to spare the child. solomon “No!” shame on her and shame on the gave the child to the woman that was administration for allegedly extorting the willing to give up her child to spare him/ weakness of her Achilles’ heel . her. I retell this only to point out that the sixth, seventh, eighth, etc. will process of deduction is the foundation to consume too much time to enumerate clearing the air, especially when there is and today is hastened by deadlines that an “appearance of impropriety.” must be met for the Yonkers Tribune and There is a reason why favoritism is The Westchester Guardian. outlawed by the Yonkers city charter, The People demand knowledge that is, specifically to avoid an “appearance of the penalty assessed between Ms. of impropriety.”