Mo’s on first for Chuck
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- January
- 8
Baseball fandom may the only arena more partisan than American politics these days, and few baseball rivalries are quite as nasty as that between the Yankees and the Red Sox.
That’s what makes Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick’s campaign fund raiser at Xaviar’s on the Hudson in Yonkers set for next week, so interesting.
Democrat Lesnick has announced two bold-face names for the event: state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, for political junkies, and—presumably for baseball fans—Mo Vaughn, the first baseman, DH, and 1996 MVP winner for the Red Sox.
The Boston team is an anathema west of New Haven, Conn., though Vaughn did finish his career with the New York Mets following a couple of years in Anaheim. That might not make a difference in Yonkers, where fans of the Yankees easily appear to out number those of the Mets. And given Vaughn’s two injury-plagued years with the Mets, fans of the Queens team didn’t get much of a chance to warm up to the big guy.
Since leaving baseball, Vaughn has found a new career and become a New Yorker. He’s the managing director of OMNI New York LLC, a company that buys and renovates low-income housing to provide affordable homes in and around New York City. One of OMNI’s renovation projects is the 195-unity Whitney Young Manor apartment complex at 358 Nepperhan Ave.
Even so, with suggested donations of $500, $1,000 and $4,838 (the legal contribitution limit) the Jan. 17 event doesn’t seem aimed at the bleacher crowd.
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Better get there early or Vaughn will have eaten the entire menu and the waiters.
They serving steroid appetizers there? If so, Mo should be happy.
Figures Chuckles would get a cheater…
Lesnick. What a clown.