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Nick Spano vows to help party

July
13

Although, his younger brother caused a stir by defecting to the Democratic Party, former state Sen. Nicholas Spano says he remains a Republican and is committed to helping the Westchester GOP rebuild.

Spano, in a telephone interview on Friday, said he realized the difficulties caused by Mike Spano’s decision to bolt from the GOP and has told newly-elected Republican Chairman Douglas Colety that he will do whatever he can to help – including raising money for the party.

“I made a commitment to him that this decision by Michael is not going to diminish the role that I intend to l play in helping to rebuild the party,” Spano said.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 13th, 2007 at 7:10 pm by Glenn Blain.
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62 Responses to “Nick Spano vows to help party”

  1. USED TO BE REPUBLICAN

    DONT WORRY AS LONG AS DOUG COLETY TAKES OVER THE PARTY IT IS D.O.A!!!THERE IS NOTHING NICK CAN DO,THATS WHY THE TREE PLANTER LEFT THE PARTY.HE SAW A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL AND IT WAS AN AM-TRAK HEADING FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!!
    DONT BLAME BUSH ON THE FALL OF THE REPUBLICANS,THAT IS ONLY PART OF THE REASON,THE OTHER PART IS CAVALOWS CONNECTION TO SPANO AND COLETY!!!I JUST VISITED A WEBSITE CALLED http://WWW.WESTCHESTERINTEGRITY.COM I COULDNT BELIEVE WHAT I SAW!!!!

  2. John Khader

    What great news to hear that Nick Spano will try to “rebuild the Party” since he was the one most responsible for destroying it.

  3. Ethan Edwards

    Gee, even Nick Spano sounds more grounded than the Consultant—who claims to be a (self-anointed) Republican mouthpiece, but sticks up for the defector Mike Spano.

    The Consultant is his own breed of “Republican.” He makes excuses for Mike Spano rather than criticizing him for abandoning the Republican Party after so many years and all that support he received from the Republicans.

    But that is because, in real life, the Consultant is a card-carrying member of the Spano-Pirro-Angelo Martinelli Party, not the Republican Party. The Consultant fools no one.

  4. norman

    john khader what a joke. first class moron and he is going to make judgements !!!

  5. norman

    i agree that cavallo is a big problem but with people like khader how can we ever take the integrity committee seriously!

  6. Bandit

    John Khader part of the Westchester Intergrity Committee now thats an oxymoron-Nick Spano has always been a great leader and will rebuild the Republican Party-he is a man of intergrity class and dignity-obviously qualities that John Khader will never posses nor does he know the meaning of

  7. Martino

    Between Jay Savino, Zehy Jereis, Joe Bruno, Jeannie Pirro, all under investigation, do blame anyone for defecting from the republican party. Look at what Savino did to my campaign in Tuckahoe, he ruined it.

  8. Martino

    Between Jay Savino, Zehy Jereis, Joe Bruno, Jeannie Pirro, all under investigation, do you blame anyone for defecting from the republican party. Look at what Savino did to my campaign in Tuckahoe, he ruined it.

  9. LaVante

    Khader, Spiezio, Sayegh, all are slated next for an investigation. What ever happened to Tony Sayegh, did he ever get his four covered up DWI’s cleared. I heard that this was all uncovered recently.

  10. LaVante

    Cavallo is a saint compared to Khader, Spiezio, Sayegh. All three of you are not advancing anywhere. Does Uncle Judge Joe Giamboi know what a disgrace you are Spiezio.

  11. the observer

    you criticize mike e. for defending spano pirro and martinelli all republicans in one breath than you criticize
    him for not criticizing mike spano for “abandoning the party” but it is not about party’s at the local lever
    and in fact at the national level it is starting not
    to be about parties as well, the president has put
    all republicans on the defensive with his Iraq war
    policy…now you see members of his own party
    “abandoning his position” lugar, dominici, warner
    all good republicans…here at the local level
    you don;t seem to understand that the republican
    party is split between moderates and right wingers
    and the westchester republican party which should
    be promoting a moderate agenda went out of its
    way to put faso and spencer over the top ..
    that is not the republican party I know..

  12. Ethan Edwards

    Johh Spencer was a disaster. He couldn’t win a ward in his home city. Faso is a nice guy but had no chance against Spitzer. Those two candidates were “sacrificial lambs” last year because the broken down Pataki machine is what really put the Republican Party in a deep hole.

    No viable “moderate” was availabe to run, or could get enough backing to run, against Clinton or Spitzer.

    But look at Mike Spano…he leaves the Assembly to “spend time with his family,” becomes a lobbyist, wants his seat back, the Spanos dump Mosiello, Mike wins the seat back just last November…and now becomes a Democrat. Huh? Just look at that very recent track record.

    Do you think the Dems trust the Spanos? No way, no how. They know the Spanos are all about the Spanos, and nothing else. So don’t be surprised if Silver is setting up Mike Spano to get rid of him once and for all.

    The Republicans also better do something about Zehy Jereis, who has caused enough problems as it is and also is under Federal investigation. Now, he is on record saying he will back the Demorcrat Mike Spano. That’s an unreal posture for a Republican city leader to take. Colety and the others better deal with Jereis come September.

  13. WestchesterInteg.

    The second post about Khader(2:43am)was not posted by John just some one starting problems ,even though I agree with it,But to the poster norman,lavante or who ever you may be why not call me 914 -423-5466 and I will show you just what a joke I am when I meet you. COWARD

  14. LOU

    KHADER IS A JOKE.. A LOSER THAT HAS NEVER WON ANYTHING AND STILL THINKS HE HAS SOME POLITICAL CLOUT. STOP TRYING TO BE A TOUGH GUY JOHN, WE ALL KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT. KHADER A MEMBER OF THE INTEGRITY COMMITEE? YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME.. THIS GUY DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE WORD MEANS! MAYBE ONE DAY JOHN YOU CAN BE EVEN A QUARTER OF WHAT NICK SPANO IS… THEN YOU CAN TALK. BUT FOR KNOW YOU ARE JUST A BOTTOM FEEDER SO SHUT YOUR MOUTH PUNK!

  15. LOU

    KHADER CALLING SOMEONE A COWARD?? NOW THATS FUNNY COMING FROM THE KING COWARD HIMSELF… WE ALL KNOW JOHN…..

  16. the observer

    mr ethan…what is it you expect the county leader to do
    about the yonkers city leader..leaders are picked by
    their respective town or city executive committee ..coulety
    has to live with yonkers’ choice…and you have forgotten
    that William Weld former governor of the state of Mass
    was available and wanted to run for governor…but al
    d’amato stopped him ..just like he stopped jeanine from
    running for the senate..and how did d’amato get so
    powerful…by making deals with the conservative party
    state leader…to either bless or dis the republican
    party;s choices..that is why we cannot win…
    John Spencer is now spending all his time and his
    leftover senatorial campaign money to defeat
    the man he personally chose to succeed him,
    phil amicone..and the yonkers city leader
    is doing everything he can to undermine
    amicone as well…as for michael spano
    he is extrememly popular among all parties in
    his assemblydistrict and will have no problem
    getting re-elected in a presidential year…
    as a democrat..and if the people of yonkers
    are smart they will return nick spano to the
    senate

  17. WestchesterInteg.

    lou you have my number,but you wont call because you are a worm that shines nicks shoes

  18. LOU

    WELL SAID OBSERVER….

  19. LOU

    OKAY TOUGH GUY….KHADER – YOU ARE NOTHING! YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN NOTHING AND YOU ALWAYS WILL BE NOTHING! EVERYONE THAT KNOW YOU SAYS THE SAME THING, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A BOTTOM FEEDER WHO IS DYING TO BE ITALIAN.. GET OVER IT

  20. WestchesterInteg.

    say it to my face coward!!!and i am proud to be arab american!!!
    easy to hide behind the screen of a computer say it to my face you have my number…..JACK OFF !!!!

  21. LOU

    WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING I HAVE YOUR NUMBER TOUGH GUY? IF I NEVER SAW YOU THAN MAYBE I WOULD TAKE YOU AS A THREAT. BUT I KNOW YOU. I KNOW THAT YOU ARE A BIG FAT BASTARD.. LOSE SOME WEIGHT CHUBBY… THAT MUST SUCK TO NOT ONLY BE A FRUSTRATED POLITICIAN BUT ALSO TO BE A FAT ONE TOO.. GET A LIFE LOSER…...HAHAHHAHAHAHAHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

  22. WestchesterInteg.

    BECAUSE YOU ARE A FAGOT AND YOU WONT DARE SAY IT TO MY FACE BECAUSE I WILL DROP YOU IN A HEART BEAT!!! AS FAR AS MY WEIGHT GOES THATS IRRELEVANT MAYBE I JUST EAT BETTER THAN YOU????? PUNK KEEP HIDING BEHIND THE COMPUTER…...YOU MUST BE CAVALOWS DRIVER OR NICKYS SHOE SHINE GUY????

  23. Lola

    It is really pretty sad to read these blogs. Are you guys men or little boys calling each other names. All you need is the “Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah” to complete your sentences.

    And to have either of you represent a party is disgusting and disheartening to say the least. I think you both should grow up. Have you all lost sight of the issues.Or are the issues irrelevant? Guess I am too naive to understand that.

    You obviously don’t even care enough to make a pretense of issues that may or may not be grounded in what the voting public believe, at least giving them the option of voting for whomever pretends to support those positions close to the voter’s moral views.

    This blog is particularly juvenile and it makes clear the reasons why so many don’t even bother to vote anymore.

    Perhaps one day, you will realize that what you have written on these blogs are public domain and you will hopefully have grown up to the point to actually be embarrassed. Or will that only be when your children are old enough to read what you have deemed important enough to post for all to see now and forever.

    Sign me,
    One member of the voting public who has had enough of the Westchester County political antics. Time to bring back accountabilty to those whom you are supposed to serve!

  24. USED TO BE REPUBLICAN

    Lola you are right but sometimes people get carried away,I know the westchester integ.cmtte has been fighting a long fight with the current leader called Guilio Cavalo who I know personally shakes down politicians, Khader I dont know personally but I hear he is a man of good nature and is been a leader to take out Cavalo,they are both wrong for postings these types of blogs online but I guess its a free country,anyway I hope they win!!!!

  25. Bandit

    Used to be a republican-your are correct Cavallo is no prize but he looks like a boy scout next to Khader-the Westchester Integrity Committee-take a look at who belongs to this committee. And yes you are correct that they are getting carried away going at each other-the point is that Nick Spano is alive and well and so is the Spano machine and Nick will be back-Michael in the Majority in the Assembly Nick back in his Senate Seat Yonkers will prosper

  26. Leader 1

    NICK SPANO IS DONE FINISHED AND GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!AND CAVALOWWWWWWWWWWWW SUNK THE REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  27. Mike Johnson

    Well said Lola. It will take sometime before all of the nonsense is ironed out. Hopefully soon the people supported by the issues will come to serve again, people who deeply care about reprsentative government.

  28. LOU

    I CARE ABOUT THE ISSUES BUT KHADER IS THE ONE WHO CAME OUT SAYING CALL ME, CALLING PEOPLE NAMES NOT ME. I JUST STATED WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE GUY AND THAT HE SHOULDN’T BE TALKING THE TOUGH GAME. KHADER YOU WANT TO TALK ISSUES AND STOP WITH THE BS THAN LETS DO IT. LETS TALK THE ISSUES.

  29. the observer

    please explain to me how cavalo sunk the republicans?

  30. Leader 1

    lou,norman,bandit look at all your postings you are the one that started with the guy ,looks like khader called you out after you caled him names i do not see any thing from khader that looked like he started except to confront you guys????

  31. LOU

    WHATEVER – LETS TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES HERE. LETS TALK ABOUT YONKERS NOT GETTING SQUAT FROM THE STATE, LETS TALK ABOUT HOW ALL OUR MONEY WENT TO LONG ISLAND INSTAEAD OF HERE. NICK SPANO SECURED 76 MILLION DOLLARS IN RECCURING AID LAST YEAR. WITHOUT THAT MONEY WE WOULD BE IN REAL TROUBLE RIGHT NOW. ANDREA CAN NOT DELIVER.. SHE HAS DONE NOTHING FOR THIS CITY… THOSE ARE FACTS..

  32. Jacob

    The best thing Nicky could do to help the GOP is to leave it it just like Mikey did. RINOs like him have driven the party into ground.

  33. LOU

    OH BY THE WAY KEADER 1 – TAKE A LOOK AT THE FIRST POSTING BY JOHN AT 1:26 AND THEN TELL ME WHO STARTED CALLING PEOPLE OUT..

  34. LOU

    THEN WHO ARE YOU LEFT WITH FOR THE GOP? NICK SPANO PUT THE GOP ON THE MAP WITHOUT WE HAVE NOTHING…

  35. The Speculator

    Lou, Senator Stewart-Cousins brought in 344 million in State dollars to the City of Yonkers. Check the info in your tax bill that you just received from the City of Yonkers. Nick is done in the Senate. Plain and simple. The City of Yonkers has two Senators – both Democrat. All but one of the Senators that represent Westchester are Democrats. All of the State representatives from Yonkers are Democrats.

    If what you mean to say is that organizations like the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce did not get a member item – OK. That is the same Chamber of Commerce that gave a 100,000 contract to the Yonkers Republican Chairman – Jeris and 50,000 contract to the 1st Vice-Chair – Martinelli out of a 170,000 contract. I forgot to mention that the Chamber of Commerce can find the contract for Jeris, can’t find any minutes that any Board member actually voted on receiving such funds and granting a contract to Jeris nor can they find ant resemblance of documentation to what they paid 100,000 to jeris to accomplish. I’d rather have Stewart-Cousins and Klein representing Yonkers making sure that OUR money is distributed in a way that most of us can understand.

    By the way, Westchester NEVER got any of the High Tax Aid even when Nick Spano was the Senator but heck never let good hyperbole get in the way of facts. Check the info, when Bill Ryan was an Assemblyman he was railing about what – the lack of High Tax aid for Westchester.

    Just because Long Island Republican Senators stole money creating a formula that would only apply to their districts does not mean that we should. Aid should be distributed by need no greed.

  36. the consultant

    another liberal democrat above telling us what should
    be rather than what is…what should be may take
    50 years to accomplish ..in the mean time the republican
    state senate is still republican and nick spano would
    have been the number three man in the senate meaning
    that nassau would not have gotten the entire
    67 million, and westchester would have gotten its
    fair share..stop trying to justify a lousy electoral
    decision by voters in the town of greenburgh who
    don’t know anything but voting kneejerk democrat
    regardless of the issues, regardless of the candidates
    and regardless of the effect on their own tax bills
    you got exactly what you deserved

  37. Ethan Edwards

    The Speculator may be spinning on some items, but is right on the money, literally, when it comes to Spano, Jereis, Angelo Martinelli and the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce.

    Jereis is a very heavy albatross around Nick Spano’s neck, and he also hurts the Republican party county-wide. But Nick and Angelo won’t make Jereis disappear from the scene. And why won’t they? The answer to that one is obvious to everyone, except perhaps to the Consultant, who conveniently loses his analytical abilities whenever the names Spano and Angelo Martinelli are mentioned.

    Jereis will be the final undoing of Nick Spano yet, and probably already cost him a bunch of votes last time around. There was a lot of bad publicity about Jereis, extortion, organized crime connections, etc., before the election. That couldn’t have helped Nick last time.

    And now, the Jereis problems continue because lately there is the ongoing Federal investigation, of which Jereis clearly is one subject, and also the Chamber of Commerce scam. But Nick (and Angelo Martinelli) do nothing about Jereis. Very curious. Or very obvious.

  38. Bandit

    Speculator Cousins didnt bring the money in its money that is mandated nothing extra-Nick Spano brought in extra aide for Yonkers consistenly-and if he was still in his seat a large portion of the money that went to Nassau would have come to Yonkers-there is a gap in the school budget in Yonkers-4 million would have been 80 million if it wasnt for Nick Spano bringing in 76 million in recurring aide-you are mistaken Nick Spano is not finished-cousins is-her performance in the Senate is dismal to say the least-she hasnt brought back anything for Yonkers hasnt passed one bill hasnt done anything. She said day one everything changes-it sure did we lost our voice in Albany-we lost a leader-we got nothing.

  39. Ethan Edwards

    Cousins has shown herself to be a major disappointment. If Spano would rid himself and the County Republican Party of Zehy Jereis and his few cronies, Spano would look OK again. But he has to deal with that big Jereis problem.

    Wonder if Spano will make an appearance tonight at Peter Kelly’s place on the river in Yonkers. Mike Bloomberg is hosting a fundraiser there for Amicone. That’s a pretty good endorsement for Amicone, and a strong show of support for him by Bloomberg, who eveeryone knows is now an independent.

  40. anti observer

    nice try Mike . . . “observer”

  41. jinx

    Whom ever Bloomberg endorses, always loses

  42. THE CONSULTANT

    I am never impressed when people lack creativity
    so the best monacle they can come up with is
    “anti consultant” or “anti observer”
    how about picking your own name and stop being
    against things..and advance your own opinion
    anti positions are really not positions because it’s
    easy to be against anything..actually it shows
    that there is a lot of envy, anger and irrational
    thinking if the only monacle a person can come up
    with is anti someone else..everyone else on the blog
    has his own mantle…bandit..col von ryan etc
    be a little creative…

  43. Edelman Who?

    Spencer for Mayor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  44. The Terminator

    Please click on photo, it is just a coincidence to have these three republicans all under investigation at the same time, no wonder people are jumping off the republican sinking ship:

    http://www.savinoforsenate.com/wms/images/41/Bruno_savino.JPG

  45. Dr. Van Nostrand

    The consulant has way too much time on his/her hands. Commenting on peoples user names??? Give me a break! Stick to defending the undefendable. Oh that’s right, you are attorney!

  46. the consultant

    you have just made my point…talk about negativity
    and the defensive thrust is of course john spencer
    maybe with all this time on my hands’
    I will volunteer to re-elect phil!

  47. LOU

    HEY MIKE – THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE ON THIS SITE WHO ARE SMART AND KNOW THE ISSUES WHETHER OR NOT THEY SUPPORT SPANO OR NOT. TAKE ETHAN FOR ONE – I DON’T LIKE WHAT HE SAYS BUT HE KNOWS THE ISSUES. IT SEAMS TO ME THAT HE DOES NOT DISLIKE NICK SPANO BUT HE JUST HATES ZEHY. I THINK HE WANTS TO LIKE NICK. THE BANDIT NOW HE KNOWS THE ISSUES THROUGH AND THROUGH EVEN RICH ISN’T BAD BUT HE SHOULD STICK WITH THE SPANOS AS THE SPANOS ALWAYS STUCK WITH HIM. BUT THE ANTI PEOPLE ARE JUST THAT. ANTI EVERYTHING, NO SOLUTIONS EXCEPT WE HAVE ANDREA NOW. ONBLY THING IS YOU KNOW THAT DON’T CARE ABOUT YONKERS BECAUSE IF THEY DID THAN THEY WOULD WANT NICK BACK IN OFFICE. EVERYONE CAN SEE THAT ANDREA CAN NOT DELIVER FOR US. WE ARE ALL GOING TO SUFFER FOR THIS.

  48. Ethan Edwards

    Lou, there is an old saying which holds that people are judged by their friends and by the company they keep.

    Zehy Jereis is dreadful, and he drags down the Yonkers Republicans and the entire County organization by his presence. Nick Spano needs to divest himself and the Yonkers and County orgs of Zehy Jereis. He should have been bounced two years ago, at least.

    If Nick Spano does that, and forces Jereis out, I think he will gain considerably more support than he has now.

  49. the speculator

    The point I continue to make is that the State Legislature is made up of 2 bodies the Assembly – big time controlled by Democrats and the Senate – Republican by 2 seats.

    Next year, whoever the Republican candidate turns out to be for President, loses to the Democrat. It’s just the cycle. There will be no coattails for Nick Spano to run, the District is Democratic and like it or not the majority of voters are going to give Andrea Stewart-Cousinis a pass.

    They will not compare her at year 1 (Year 2 by that time) to the position of Nick Spano after 26 years. What did Nick Spano deliver the 2nd year he was a Senator.

    76 Million in recurring aid is really like 16 million after you deduct the money Yonkers was receiving on a recurring basis from the Desegregation lawsuit.

    Again the facts please, there a 4 Democratic Senators that represent Westchester (Oppenheimer, Hassell-Thompson, Klein and Stewart-Cousins) and 1 Republican Senator (Liebell). Why isn’t anyone screaming that the Assembly Democrats did not protect Westchester with the High-Tax Aid? The Assembly does represent 1 leg of the 3 leggged stool.

    Nick Spano doesn’t have a chance – but he is doing great at keeping his name in the mix. Even Spanovision admits that Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins is extremely popular.

    I wouldn’t be the Speculator if I didn’t speculate. Senator Stewart-Cousins wins going away. Nick Spano doesn’t run, kills the mystique. Spano will decide that some mysterious item (you pick) prevents him from running. Guiliani won’t make a difference, neither will Mother Theresa. How many more votes for Spano will come out than last go around. Not many.

    For the record, the Consultant did predict that Spano would prevail while County Legislator Ken Jenkins accurately predicted the Stewart-Cousins victory.

  50. Bandit

    Speculator-I dont care how many years Cousins would be in the Senate she will never even come close to being in the same league as Nick Spano. Thankfully we can fix that misstake next year. Nick Spano will be back next year if he chooses to-the only reason Nick Spano lost was because of a weak State ticket and Bush. Next year will be different and hopefully Nick decides to run so we can have our real Senator back, because we are in desperate need of leadership and Cousins sure dosent fit the bill

  51. LOU

    ETHAN – I DO NOT AGREE ITHER WITH ZEHY BEING AROUND BUT I KNOW WE NEED NICK SPANO BACK IN THE SENATE. I DON’T THINK YOU AND I ARE THAT FAR APART AS FAR AS WHAT WE BELIEVE. SPECULATOR – NICK SPANO RAN BY HIMSELF. HE RAN WITH NO HELP FROM ANYONE. HE HAD TO RELY ON PEOPLE VOTING FOR HIM AND ONLY HIM TO COME OUT. SPENCER, FASO, PIRRO, CALLAHAN C’MON.. IF NICK SPANO HAD ANY TYPE OF DRAW, JUST SOMEONE THAN HE WOULD HAVE WON. HIS DISTRICT IS BIG TIME DEMOCRAT BUT THEY REALIZE THAT HE DELIVERS. RUDY AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET NICK WINS BIG. NO DEM HAD A RACE HERE IN 2006 – PEOPLE WERE IN THE STREETS FOR ANDREA FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. WHY – BECAUSE ALL OF THE OTHER TOP DEM ELECTIONS WERE DECIDED ALREADY. WE NEED NICK SPANO BACK. WE NEED TO (IN MY OPINION) GET RID OF THE DO NOTHING ANDREA STEWART COUSINS AND RETURN A MAN WHO DELIVERS AND THATS NICK SPANO.

  52. LOU

    WELL SAID BANDIT – I FORGOT ABOUT BUSH – HE KILLED A LOT OF GOOD REPUBLICANS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY…

  53. Ethan Edwards

    IMO, a winning Republican ticket in ‘08 would be Thompson-Giuliani or Giuliani-Thompson. Newt Gingrich is a wild card at this point. He may or may not get in it. Romney has a fair amount of support, but probably not enough to win the nomination.

    If Rudy is on the ticket in either the prez. or VP slots, Nick Spano will win back the Senate seat, if he runs. He might win anyway, if he runs.

    The Speculator quoting Snooze 12 on Cousins’ alleged popularity is sort of like someone quoting Stevie Wonder’s comments about classic art.

  54. Bandit

    Ethan Edwards I completely agree with you-right on the money-Cousins popular?? with who-her performance has been dismal to say the least and by the way the speculator is wrong the 76 million in recurring aide dosent include deseg money and even if it did 16 million is a hell of alot more than cousins brought back-what did she bring back-nothing just the money that was mandated-please she delivered nothing the schools have a 4 million dollars gap-thanks andrea job well done-we need a leader in the Senate and that is Nick Spano-we need to re-elect him to his seat next year-plain and simple

  55. Dr. Van Nostrand

    Mike,

    Just for the record, this isn’t John Spencer. Isn’t is possible to not like your commentary and not be Spencer?

    I think it’s a good idea that you try and help Phil get re-elected, he needs all the help he can get. Or maybe not since he has the City for sale, but, he can’t buy the votes….

  56. amris

    Again to all, why in the heck would Nick Spano ever give up what he has now to go back to the Senate and have to run every two yrs. and listen to all the complaints against him. Every voter who voted for Cousins will never admit it but knows full well what they had and lost, she will never deliver anything out of Albany and yes she will get a free pass to make it look like she did great things, and she DID NOT bring home any 344 million dollars in extra aid to Yonkers, as was said that money was already allocated. Can anyone on this blog (and boy I wish they were Greenburgh voters as they are the ones that caused all this trouble by electing her) tell me other then the New Animal Shelter for Yonkers just what did Cousins do in Albany this year? Your right she probably will get re-elected again next year on a record of nothing just because of her enrollment and she is an Africian American woman. I guess if we look way back into the loss of Nick Spano, lets look at the Guy Velella days, he is the one that cost Nick Spano his seat by demanding of his friend Joe Bruno that he needed Eastchester in his dist. knowing full well he was going to be indicted and go to jail, not only did Joe Bruno make a big mistake by giving away a major Rep. area for Nick he then backed Guy’s person and ended up losing that seat as well. Again I like Nick Spano and all that he did for the 35th Senate Dist. and I don’t think anyone did or will work as hard as he did for his constituents no matter what all you Spano Haters say, Andrea is not and never will be a NICK SPANO and we will continue to pay for the lose of Nick and to him I say, go make the big bucks and get paid for your knowledge of 28yrs and screw politics.

  57. Ethan Edwards

    Nick will keep his hand in it, one way or another. He’s been a player so long he can’t help himself.

    As for Cousins, no argument. She has done little, if anything.

  58. LOU

    I AGREE THAT NICK IS DOING VERY WELL IN THE PRIVATE SECATOR. BUT…. THAT DOES NOT MAKE HIM TICK.. HE LOVED DOING HIS AND JOB AND EVEN STATED HE WOULD DO IT FOR FREE. I AM SURE HE WILL RUN AND IT IS MY HOPE THAT HE WINS. THE DISTRICT IS SUFFERING UNDER ANDREA DO NOTHING COUSINS.

  59. LOU

    A COUPLE OF TYPOS IN THAT LAST POST.. SORRY GUYS..

  60. Bandit

    lou you are obsolutely correct-Nick Spano is a leader something that Cousins will never be-we need him back in the Senate back in his seat, Cousins has done and will do nothing and we are all suffering because of it.

  61. LOU

    THANK YOU BANDIT

  62. FRANK THE TANK

    BRINGNICKSPANOBACK08.COM

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