Amicone takes on the “Steamroller”
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- April
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Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone isn’t too happy with Gov. Eliot Spitzer these days.
It seems the governor has not returned any of Amicone’s telephone calls since the nor’easter struck the region last week.
“I asked for him to declare it a disaster area,” Amicone said just after Nick Spano’s press conference at Prudential Rand in Yonkers. “Never got a return call from him. His office staff acknowleged that they got the call from us. (We) still haven’t heard from him.”
Amicone said he was disappointed in the governor’s behavior.
“Frankly, I think it wouldn’t have been inappropriate for the governor to call the mayor of the fourth largest city in the state that had suffered fairly severe flood damage just to acknowledge the fact that I called on behalf of the people of the city,” Amicone said.
Spitzer’s office has not yet resonded to a request for comment. The governor did tour flood-ravaged Mamaroneck on the day of the storm and immediately said he would seek federal disaster relief for the region.
UPDATE – Paul Larrabee, a spokesman for Gov. Spitzer just called to say that the governor telephoned Mayor Amicone this afternoon to discuss the storm recovery and the aid that is now available to city residents. Larrabee said the governor had tried to reach Amicone after the storm but was unsuccessful. He could not explain why the governor was initially unable to reach Amicone.
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on Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm by Glenn Blain.
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Maybe the mayor should call on the new State Senator from the 35th senate dist. she had Spitzer here in the dist. enough throughout her campaign making all kinds of promises… where is she NOW!! yeah right like she could accomplish anything for Yonkers.. Thanks all you Greenburgh nuts who voted for her hope your happy with all that we have to pay for now thanks to putting her in office. Did anyone read where she tourned any of the devasted areas of Yonkers to see just what happened. guess not. why doesn’t the paper pick all this stuff up about her doing nothing.. guess they like her. Thanks for trying anyway Mayor.
The governor has an obligation to the people of yonkers
whether or not they have a republican mayor…to respond
in cases of disaster related issues….Andrea is sitted
on her butt and is giving the job no attention at all
you would have thought she would call the governor
and get him to come down to yonkers and meet with the
mayor…party affiliation should play no roll..
the president declared westchester a disaster area
and he lost it big time…Spitzer is turning out
to be an arrogant, self serving, self indulgent
petulent and childish..You can take the boy out of the
city…but you can’t take the city out of the boy
I completely agree with amris and the consultant-The devastation that Yonkers experienced from flooding was extensive. Where waw Andrea and Sptizer? Spitzer was in Mamaroneck, which also experienced flooding-15 minutes away from Yonkers guess his schedule didnt permit him to come to us. Where was Andrea-who knows, I saw firsthand the devastation at Brooklands-Mayor Amicone and Assemblyman Spano did too-they were there trying to help our residents.
Andrea couldnt deliver the money needed for Yonkers Schools at least she could have gone to flooded areas and pretended she cared. Congrats to those of you in the 35th dustruc who voted for her. We lost a great leader and ended up with her. Great