McDow out, Annabi in as Yonkers Majority Leader
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After two years as Yonkers City Council Democratic Majority Leader, Patricia McDow was bypassed for another term this morning. Instead the Council picked Sandy Annabi to the post. Meanwhile, Liam McLaughlin was named to continue as Republican minority leader.
Though the City Council’s reorganization meeting following the November elections was set to begin at 9 a.m., the session did not begin until shortly before noon. In the interim, Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick met with council members in small groups and individually, attempting to forge an agreement among Council members that also included the Council’s committee chair posts.
Annabi, who represents the Council’s Second District and previously did not caucus with Council Democrats, descibed the change in party leadership as “a passing of the torch,” while Lesnick said “we are rotating leadership” – terminology that McDow was not buying. McDow, who represents the Council’s First District, said she sensed something was amiss beginning in mid-December when, she said, she suddenly heard very little from her three fellow Democrats on the City Council.
McDow said she did not know why the change had been made, but Annabi said that the Council did “not want to be beholden” to Democratic Party leaders and others outside the city, without elaborating. That seemed to be a reference to Yonkers Democratic Party chief and County Legislator Ken Jenkins who is allied with McDow.
As proof that the Council – or at least its Democrats – was one big happy family, Lesnick pointed to McDow’s new appointment as co-chair of two Council committees and chair of a third.
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How many LAZ-Y boy (or girl) chairs do they have down there? They’re chairing themselves to death. They’ve got more chairs than ideas. No chairs make for short meetings, which if one follows the history of this bunch, would benefit the people of Yonkers.
this appears to be related to the fact that annabi
is aligned with jeries and is totally anti amicone
while mcdow has shown she can work with a republican
mayor…hopefully this is not an indication that
the democrats on the council are going to attempt
to make the next four years contentious
So…McDow gets shafted and votes YES on herself getting shafted, and the minority leader doesnt get a single vote from any member of his party.
This belongs in Ripley’s…
Hey Pinochio, this was started by Spencer to get his way and then further abused by Councils there after.
I hear when Ms. McDow felt the pain, God had to cover his/her ears. The language from this woman was as guttural as it gets. What did she expect, she gets the lowest voter turnout and only represents one issue – hers!
Hey Pinochio, this was started by Spencer to get his way and then further abused by Councils there after.
You obviously don’t get the point
WHAT A LOSS NOT JUST FOR PAT BUT FOR ANDREA DO NOTHING COUSINS AS WELL AS KEN. IT SEAMS THAT WE HAVE A NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT WILL TAKE DOWN ANDREA SYMRA PAT AND KEN. LONG LONG OVERDUE