Politics on the Hudson

White Plains Councilman Dennis Power, who also works for Westchester County, “did not violate”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS02/707130407/1026/NEWS10 any federal ethics provisions in taking the job, the feds say.

Keith Eddings reports: “The federal Office of Special Counsel was the last of the city, state and federal agencies to review conflict-of-interest allegations that city Republican and Conservative leaders filed against the Democratic councilman, who is running for re-election to the council.”

“I felt for a long time it was a nonissue, and this final wrap-up proves my point,� Power said yesterday. “We need to get on with managing the affairs of the city of White
Plains.�

A Putnam County legislator has ended his campaign “for Carmel supervisor”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS04/707130376/1026/NEWS10.

A state report is critical of “Putnam County’s purchasing practices”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS04/707130368/1026/NEWS10. This comes on the heels of a report the county has mismanaged “its golf club”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/NEWS04/707120360/1026/NEWS10.

The Yonkers purchasing department, on the other hand, “is improving”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS02/707130351/1026/NEWS10, according to that city’s inspector general.

Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick was “shaking hands”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS02/707130352/1026/NEWS10 while others were squeezing tomatoes.

And break out your jokes about Assembly Republicans “becoming extinct”:http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS02/707130372/1026/NEWS10. Everyone else has.

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