A legislative song and dance routine
It seems that some Westchester legislators have talents beyond their political skills.
A group of them, according to a press release from the Board of Legislators, will be putting their theatrical skills to work tomorrow when “Legislator Bernice Spreckman and her talented troupe of Yonkers Seniors present their ‘2008 Spring Musical.’”
The musical will feature from hit musicals “Gypsy,” “My Fair Lady,” and “Annie, Get Your Gun.” Joining Spreckman in the show will be legislators Ken Jenkins, Vito Pinto, Jose Alvarado, Lois Bronz, Bill Burton and John Nonna.
The show begins at 1 p.m. at the Polish Community Center in Yonkers.
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I CAN’T WAIT TO HEAR KENNY SING!!!
May I suggest a cover of “I fought the Law and the Law Won,” by Sonny Curtis and the Crickets?
This is truly pathetic, a poor ripoff of the Gridiron Club in Washington and the Inner Circle in Manhattan.
Do these legislators (worthless, excepting Lois, whom I like) really think this will accomplish anything worthwhile?
Auditors: check the cash flow from this event.
Westchester residents: stand up for yourselves. Politicians are stealing from you. They do not deserve your respect.
yesterday I heard a lover sigh
oh me oh my.,
seven times he hurried off the train
and seve times he hurried back to kiss his love again
and holler
toot toot tootsie goodbye..toot toot toosie don’t cry..
etc..
invite me ….for an hour of jolson….
Im I the only one to notice that the consultant becomes a lot more cheerful rather punctually at about 7:30 each night? Couldn’t have anything to do with that large Grey Goose, could it? I mean, trying to crash a party to sing Jolsen!
ed, bro—we all become more cheerful after 7 at night. But beware “Five O’Clock Comes Early,” the double-entendred book so craftily written by Bob Welch many years ago.
I was in St. Louis five weeks ago, a much better put-together city/county than we have here in Westchester.
There isn’t the hostile division between “WOPS,” “Micks,” Jews,” and “WASPs” the way there is here. (Disclosure: I am part of all four, plus whatever the Railway Express guy was many years ago back in Los Angeles.)
No: in St. Louis, there is only the racial divide. You will hear a number of vile epithets there.
In the twelve years I have lived in Westchester County, it has quick become on its way to being the sieve I left in Los Angeles 28 short years ago, when the LA Times sent me east on a one-way ticket. I became an adopted New Yorker, and plan to live in this state forever.
But Westchester is becoming southern California, yet with more anger.
Or. . .in the words of our beloved Gilda Radner, speaking as Roseanne Roseanneadanna. . .”Oh, never mind.”
So you are a Mediterranean romantic who writes prize winning short stories, does very well in business, and retains a healthy and prosperous work- ethic. I send you, Tim, only the most positive of stereotypes.
ed:
rotflmao. You got me howling.
lunch soon.
That’s why I like you, Ed:
you remind me of my favorite columnist in the late-Weekly World News, “Ed Anger.”
See, I’ve been in the journalism biz since (oh, way back) and all I ever wanted to do was be a columnist for the WWN.
lol, read “Nixonland” and have some good historical laughs. I loved Nixon, Agnew, and RWR. I wish they were still around to break some radicals’ heads.
Timbo
WHEN I GET TO THAT SWANEE SHORE…..and its the am!
Just don’t sing “Mammy” while down on one knee, Consultant. No matter what time of day it is.
Ed’s up there talking about Sonny Curtis and the Crickets, which would be post-Buddy Holly. That was the original. But it was the Bobby Fuller Four in about the Spring of ‘66 who had the big hit version of “I Fought The Law.”
Indeed, Wahoo! But the real news is that the consultant awakens just as he last evening retired, with a song in his heart. I think he is tiring of this political scene and has Izod shirts, khakis, golf clubs, martinis, and Boca on his mind.
ED…I think you have it right…watching the latest
zherka show makes me quite ill..the press is afraid
to challenge him ….looking at the latest issue of
the guardian..it is clear that his editor richard
blassberg is making noises to set up a democratic
primary challenge to difiore by the twice loser Tony Castro He is claiming that the last election was stolen at
the warehouse where the ballots were stored..He puts
Castro’s picture prominently in the paper and he
quotes him all through the article…And the other
day Zherka gave his lawyer 100,000 in escrow for
information ..get this leading to the disbarment of
Di Fiore…This kind of behavior should not be tolerated
by the mainstream press.Zherka has indicated that he
believes he is under investigation by the manhattan
grand jury…what does that tell you….
so ed. you are quite right about being tired of this
whole westchester scene….This personal invective
politics does not exist in other places,....and
I don’t see anyone willing to debunk the kinds of
things that zherka and blassberg are trying to do…
in the name of journalism
Based on what I have seen and read, Sam Zherka is scared to death he is going to be indicted, and is setting himself up as a “victim.” He wants that to be his defense if he is indicted. Such a manueuver will backfire.
Yes, the local press is afraid of Zherka. It’s disturbing they allow a sleaze like him to intimidate them.
I also think the legal system and Bar Assn. should get involved in this abuse of the courts—as I see it, anyway.
See, I like Richard Blassberg, in a strange way—he’s like me, in the journalism and opinion biz, but with a very different point of view than my own. But he’s had to sell himself to a publisher (as we all have had to do) who may or may not be under indictment. That’s how we pay the bills. Okay: there’s Conrad Black, my favorite Nixon Republican, who is on his way to Club Fed after cooking the books in Chicago (and Canada). Is there a big diff between Black and the yet-unindicted Zherka? Who may or may not be involved in something justice-worthy?
When are we all getting comp’ed to Mr. Zherka’s club in the city?
Just kidding.
We’ll see how this all shakes out.
In the time-being, we would rather be in a country in which freedom of expression is legal, than in some backwater, like Iraq-with-Saddam, where we would be executed for speech offensive to the establishment.
Even if it offends our Republican selves.
Glad I’m still on this blog. Slander and defamation are not journalism, Tim. And Zherka is to journalism what Mussolini was to pizza parlors.
You do yourself no service by defending the likes of Zherka and Blassberg. Do you know anything about Zherka? If not, do yourself and favor and do a bit of research.
Tim…there is freedom of expression..but not when
you make things up about other people…and hold yourself
out as a honest journalist…there is a difference….
you can’t tell me that Janet Di Fiore stole an election
that simply didn’t happen…and if someone thought it
did why didn’t they take action at the time…
Castro was singularly unqualified to be DA..that
is why he lost twice…and he will lose again should
he be so foolish as to think he can primary the
nominee of the democratic party
Wahoo and Consultant:
I wasn’t trying to defend any actual defamation of others by the Guardian, nor was I saying that Zherka is equivalent to Otis Chandler, for whom I worked. But he has the right to publish, even if we despise his editorial content.
In the event of provable actual malice, our country’s laws provide for remedy.
Reading list: “Beyond Malice” (by the late-Dick Clurman, a magnificent Time Mag writer/editor).
The Guardian has taken out after a bunch of friends of mine; it has a political agenda (surprise). Unlike say, Joseph Pulitzer or WR Hearst or even Otis’s father and grandfather. Sarcasm intended.
We conquer that with our own words, and, if necessary, in the courts.
In the time-being, we have thick skins, and also realize that not everybody here in Westchester actually reads The Guardian.
We start censoring, we end up like Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega, or Russia under Stalin, or Iraq under Saddam.