Dem leaders back Berger in Greenburgh
To no one’s surprise, Greenburgh Democratic Party leaders threw their support behind Suzanne Berger, the party’s popular chairwoman, to topple Democrat Paul Feiner for Town Supervisor.
According to her campaign spokesman, Berger got 15 out of 24 votes from the executive committee to be the party’s choice for supervisor. Three committee members did not attend the meetong.
Bill Greenawalt, the party’s choice to topple Feiner two years ago, got 6 votes.
No one voted for Feiner, who has been Town Supervisor for 16 years and who has locked horns with the party leadership in the past. Feiner said he would run as an independent if he loses the primary.
Feiner was the only incumbent who didn’t get the committee’s support. The executive committee backed Town Board members Eddie Mae Barnes and Steve Bass, Town Clerk Alfreda Williams, Town Justice Doris Friedman and county legislators Lois Bronz and Tom Abinanti.
The entire Democratic Town Committee will meet on May 24 to choose the party’s official designations for the Sept. 11 primary.
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sazanne burger is a perfect choice for greenburgh supervisor
replacing a gadfly ..if she needs professional consulting
services i will gladly help her for no charge
way to help the republican party mike
when was the last time a republican won in the town
of greenburgh…we have our hands full in a lot of other
places….or would you rather have paul feiner remain
in office
According to Ken Edelman, this lack of supports shows Feiner is history. Further, a more sophisticated town board has shown that Feiner is out of his league in running a 90,000 person town. Send Feiner a train schedule. He can join Nick Spano on the Metro North platform.
and congratulations to brian maloney the republican
leader of white plains, who has endorsed along
with his committee the candidacy of favorite son
Rudy Giuliani for president….As of now Rudy is
crushing all comers including John McCain who is
looking older and more out of touch with the
centrist voters who make up most of the electorate
I am not including the democratic left or the republican
right…and brian made the endorsement notwithstanding
the fact that the new york state chairman Joe Mondello
did not want him to do it..what’s the matter Joe
Rudy seems good enough for the republicans around
the country..are you still a wholey owned subsidiary
of alphonse d’amato…you need to step down along
with most of your county chairs…who were responsible
for last years debacle,
If Feiner runs as an Indy he’ll win in November. Edelman can be his new police chief.
You know I also have to say the Greenburgh Democratic Committee has never liked Paul Feiner. Go back how many years you want to, the executive committee has wanted him out for the longest. This year is no different and does not really reflect what voters think about him town wide.
In 2005, when Greenawalt got the endorsement there was an executive committee member jumping up and down like a kid with a lollipop at Greenburgh Town Hall. You know I hope Greenawalt stays in it only makes it harder for Berger.
Go, Bill, Go!
an independent cannot win an election in greenburgh
too many registered democrats…maybe I will do
susan’s campaign for free…susan you listening?
Congratulations to the political experts on News12’s Newsmakers show for calling it like it is—agreeing, Democrat and Republican alike, that Feiner’s “done” in Greenburgh.
Over the years, successfully challenging Feiner has proven to be a very difficult task. But two years ago Bill Greenawalt, a relative unknown, nearly pulled it off, proving that Feiner is so bad that anybody could do it.
And now that Democrats have a truly impressive candidate in Suzanne Berger who enjoys widespread support at all levels of government—federal, state, county and town—Greenburgh may finally be able to rid itself of Feiner once and for all.
Berger has the talent and brains to bridge all the divisions in town that Feiner has made a career of exploiting for his own personal political self-aggrandizement: rich versus poor, black versus white, villages versus unincorporated, neighborhood versus neighborhood, town versus gown—the list just goes on and on. Unlike Feiner, Berger also enjoys a well-earned reputation for being fair and ethical.
So, optimism in Greenburgh is growing. The days of Feiner’s incompetence, corruption, divisiveness and cronyism may finally be drawing to a close.
thanks for the compliment..I accept it in the spirit it
is given….I have observed paul feiner for almost 30 years
and I am as unimpressed now as I was originally…Paul
almost lost last time…and will absolutely loose this time
and it will be well deserved..
Getting the attention of News12 and, more important, having the Newsmakers on New12 get it right, as they did this past weekend, is critically important for a town like Greenburgh which, nestled between Yonkers and White Plains, gets remarkably little news coverage.
The irony is that polls in Greenburgh show that most Greenburgh residents say they get their news about Greenburgh from, you guessed it, News12. The same poll showed that those who say they get their news from News12 were the least informed among Greenburgh residents. Most informed were readers of the Scarsdale Inquirer (which covers Edgemont and parts of Hartsdale) and readers of its sister paper, The Enterprise (which covers the Rivertowns).
Not surprisingly, Greenawalt beat Feiner two years ago by more than 2-1 in those areas served by the Scarsdale Inquirer; he won by a similar margin in Ardsley, which is served by the Enterprise, and ran even with Feiner in the other Rivertowns.
So where did Greenawalt lose? In those areas not well served by the media.
That’s why News12’s report this past weekend was so helpful.
Hopefully, we’ll see more of News12’s coverage—there’s so much to report, but unless you’re an avid reader of the Scarsdale Inquirer (which unlike the Journal News actually sends a reporter to the town board meetings), you might not know about it—and polls show that Feiner’s success at the polls has largely been due to a lack of voter information about him and all his problems.
We will be dealing with the feiner race from time to time
because this particular race is an interesting one in that
an incumbant is being challenged by those in his own party
for specific reasons…actually republicans can be helpful
in getting rid of paul by not nominating a candidate
and cross endorsing susan berger…but that would
take a lot of doing probably..However since republicans
cannot win greenburgh as a whole, the next best thing
would be to demonstrate their force in the voting booth
to get paul out of office…asap
The only vote that likely will matter will be the Democratic Primary in September.
By law, the deadline for Republicans in Greenburgh who wanted to switch registration to vote in the Democratic Primary was last October. Although not publicly reported at the time, there was a voter registration drive last year aimed at getting Republicans and Independents to switch registration so that they could vote in the supervisor’s race.
Under the heading, “Time for a New Supervisor,” paid political ads to that effect appeared in The Scarsdale Inquirer last fall by a group calling itself the Independent Democrats of Edgemont.
Feiner lost two years ago in Edgemont by more than 200 votes—the largest single vote margin against Feiner in the entire town.
Republicans and Independents who want a return to good government in Greenburgh can still make a difference in the Greenburgh race by contributing to Suzanne Berger’s campaign.
Challenging an incumbent, even a sleazy one like Feiner, is not easy.
Feiner has raised more than $140,000 from developers and their lawyers and consultants—all with active applications pending before the town. He’ll spend whatever it takes to get re-elected—and because the Democratic Primary is where the race will ultimately be decided—that’s where he’ll spend the most.
With no disrespect to Suzanne I hope she is the beacon of hope you all wish for. Somehow I think you would vote for anyone over your “nemesis” Feiner.
I’m curious to envision what a Berger administration would look like. Would she be able to fulfill all your hopes and dreams like you think she can?
In government you can’t satisfy everyone and if she were to win she’d soon find that out. Sure she’d have a honeymoon but sooner or later there would some fighting again.
Oh and so the “consultant” has observed a politician for thirty years and is unimpressed? So then I ask who does impress you?
Does Nick Spano, Phil Amicone, and the Yonkers GOP impress you? Did Sue Kelly impress you? What about Dick Ottinger? Does he still haunt you?
Aren’t you out of your league since judicial races is where you make your cash?