From Stewart-Cousins to Kucinich
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- December
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Tom Staudter, the press spokesman for state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, just called to say he is leaving his job to join presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich’s press shop. He will soon travel to New Hampshire to prepare for that state’s primary.
Staudter said he gave notice to Stewart-Cousins in November with the original intention of devoting himself full time to a career in music management. He currently handles a few artists on a part-time basis. But that was before he spoke with Kucinich during a fundraiser the candidate attended in Hastings last month.
“I was about to walk away from politics all together and then I had this great conversation with Dennis Kucinich,” Staudter said.
Staudter, who worked on Rep. John Hall’s campaign in 2006, had only been on Stewart-Cousins’ staff since August. He described it as a “great job,” but not for him.
“Working in an office like that, it wasn’t a great fit for me,” Staudter said. “I’m a much more kinetic person.”
The timing could prove difficult for Stewart-Cousins, however, as she heads into an election year and has already been targeted by the state GOP.
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The republicans have target Cousins for good reason. Cousins has proven as predicted to be an ineffective Senator, Westchester County, Yonkers and Greenburg are paying the price for electing a person who does not have the ability or know how to make things happen in Albany.
Personally, I want my senator to have integrity, which is more than I can say for Bruno and her predecessor.
From Hall to Stewart-Cousins to Kucinich. Forget about music management; this guy apparently likes to work with clowns.
Please stop insulting clowns by comparing us to that crew.
The guy sucked. And in about 3 weeks he will be out of another job.
We had a Senator with intergrity-also by the way delivered for the residents of the district-now we face property tax increases-huge budget deficits-schools underfunded-the least of our problems is who Cousins press person is-we need a leader back in the Senate who can deliver-we need Nick Spano back in the Senate-
Tom’s a nice guy, but as he said, this job was not really made for him. He should do what he loves, and it is clear that is in the music arena. What Senator Stewart-Cousins needs is a Chief of Staff who will always be one step ahead of her, thinking the way she thinks and standing up for the causes she stands up for. I am sure she will find such a person shortly who will assist her in being re-elected to the Senate next November.
I nominate Barbara Ricci for Cousins’ Chief of Staff.
I nominate Symra Brandon for Chief of Staff. She has screwed everything else up, I am sure she would fit right in with Cousins.
Thank you for the nomination Ben, but I am extremely busy with The Westchester News, but I will be backing Senator Cousins in her re-election. She has done a lot more in the short time she has been Senator than Nick Spano has done in 12 years. Senator Cousins cares about the deplorable conditions that children “have been” going to school in for the last 12 years that Nick Spano was “supposing” to be bring in so much funding. The Feds will decide if Nick Spano will be a “Senator” again, not Nick Spano. After all, everybody knows that all the elections in Westchester County are fixed, so in reality, who really cares. If Nick Spano got you your job, then it’s only right you back him, what’s right is right, he’s the God-father of Westchester County, kiss his ring while you’re kissing his azz.
Barbara Ricci, Publisher
The Wedstchester News
www.thewestchesternews.com
Cousins has done wonders for the children of Long Island. Unfortunately, she has done NOTHING for Westchester.
Her press spokesman quit because he is a “kinetic person?” You cannot accuse Cousins of being “kinetic!”
Ben,
Let’s give Senator Cousins a break lend her some slack, her husband just died of cancer, that’s enough for anyone to endure without being a senator. Funding doesn’t mean a thing if it doesn’t do what it suppose to do for the school system. I have interviewed enough children, adults, teachers, politicians and elected officials to know, the funding doesn’t go where it’s suppose to be going. Don’t blame that on Senator Cousins, she hasn’t had a chance to give us her best, let her be, she’ll either get the eye of the tiger and get re-elected or she’ll resign. I think she’s a woman of substance, she just needs a back bone.
Happy New Year 2008!
Barbara Ricci, Publisher
The Westchester News
www.thewestchesternews.com
Funding doesn’t mean anything? That makes no sense.
Nobody says that Cousins is a bad person. The thought that she is ineffective becuase of a lack of effort is scary. If she wasn’t giving Westchester her best, she should have stepped down months ago. She promised improvements on Day One. We are still waiting. Is she still drawing a paycheck while producing NOTHING?
You may not like Nick Spano beacuase he is a Republican, but you have to admit that he served Westchester well as Senator and continues to serve Westchester well in his new role. Politics is not a spectator sport. Nick Spano was born with the Eye of the Tiger & plenty of back bone.
After digesting Barbara Ricci’s last statement containing an admission that Cousins’ has done NOTHING for the people of Westchester (for valid reasons in Ms. Ricci’s opinion) and the statement that funding doesn’t mean a thing, I hereby retract my nomination of Ms. Ricci for Cousins’ spokesperson.