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Spano gets environmental support in 93rd district race

October
7

Assemblyman Mike Spano announced today that he has picked up the endorsement of the Sierra Club’s Lower Hudson Valley Group.  Spano has received a 100 out of  100 legislative rating from EPL/Environmental Advocates. Democrat Spano, who is also backed by the Conservative and Working Family parties,  faces Republican-Independence candidate James Faulkner in his bid for re-election in the 93rd Assembly District

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19 Responses to “Spano gets environmental support in 93rd district race”

  1. cab

    Mike Spano is such a gentlemen, I hope after he gets reelected he considers running for Mayor of Yonkers. He is the type of person we need in our city, he knows how to get along with people and make thinks happen positively for the district he represents. “I Like Mike”

  2. conundrum

    Democrat with a Conservative and a Working Family Party endorsement? Gimme a break. What does he stand for (besides re-election?)

  3. cab

    How is this one, Mike may get all the same lines in the Mayor’s race. Mike is a strong leader who the people respect, Mike will run for Mayor on the same three lines and all his close friends on the republican side will support him. Mike may get the most votes ever if he decides to run for Mayor of Yonkers. I will be the first in line to volunteer for his campaign. It is not about the party, it is about the person and the people they represent.

  4. Jiminy Cricket

    You do that, Cab. Anyone who knows Mike Spano knows he can barely spell his name, let alone be mayor of anywhere larger than Tuckahoe.

  5. cab

    I know Mike Spano and he knows how to spell, he knows how to talk and believe it or not, he even knows how to walk.
    More importantly, he knows how to make things happen in government; Mike Spano understands that for government to run efficiently that you must surround yourself with people who are professionals in the fields that will help the city run. Mike Spano will need to hire a good city attorney, a good city planner, a good chief of staff, a good communications director, a good person to deal with economic development, etc…...

    You get it, Mike Spano will retain the necessary people for the city of Yonkers to assure that Yonkers is a vibrant city with quality leadership.

  6. conundrum

    Forget all this “communication director” BS. All these blasted county executives, mayors and wannabe mayors should be able to stand up straight and effectively answer pertinent questions without ventriloquism. If they can’t do that, they are useless and possess no cogent personal vision nor coherent, honest beliefs. The reason we have all these communication directors is because the people they communicate for have no idea themselves what the specifics are of what they want to communicate.

  7. Bruce on the Loose

    Jiminy, my boy…yu’re so far to the right,you’re floating in the Hudson. Mike is smart. But because he is now a Democrat he’s a dummy. Was he a dummy when he was a Republi-clone? I bet you liked him then.

  8. conundrum

    If he’s floating in the Hudson, he’s headed left. Maybe you want to put him in the Atlantic Ocean (literally and figuratively.)

  9. Jiminy Cricket

    I’m not Charlie the Tuna, so forget the Atlantic. As for Mike Spano, I don’t like flip-floppers. If anyone belongs in the Atlantic, it’s Mike Spano….he’s “Flipper.”

  10. Jiminy Cricket

    Flipper the dolphin.

  11. cab

    Mayor Mike Spano does sound nice. I look forward to the day I can pull the lever for Mike Spano for Mayor.

  12. smartporpoise

    He sounds nice? Do you say that about someone you know? Too many staged comments on these blogs. At least go to the trouble to try to make it SEEM real.

  13. cab

    This is as real as it gets, Mike Spano is a person who cares about others and does a great job for the people he represents. His decision to switch to democrat was brilliant, now Mike Spano is in the majority in the NYS Assembly and can effectively bring the necessary funding and legislation back to his Yonkers.

  14. cab

    I said: “Mayor Mike Spano sounds nice”. Please take the time to read the statement. I did not say Mike Spano sounds nice.

  15. smartporpoise

    You might have considered: “Mayor Mike Spano” does sound nice. He’ll be effective for Yonkers in the Assembly only so long as he goes along with Shel Silver’s plans to increase our taxes and to kiss union butts in return for campaign donations, block voting, and telephone-bank help. On any issue, only if Silver has enough votes securely in his pocket will he allow any of his minions to disingenuously and uselessly vote differently in order for them to look good at home. This is the way the game is played up there. They vote to tax you another billion and then they send home 50 grand for the Boy’s Club.

  16. cab

    Thanks for the grammer lesson.

  17. smartporpoise

    Actually, it’s “grammar,” cab, but who’s spelling? Don’t be bitter. I admit that I actually did misread your “nice” statement by trying to speed-read through the blogs. :)

  18. cab

    Glad to see you can admit to a mistake, that shows me good character in a person.
    At the end of the day maybe you will also admit that Mike Spano is a good man who cares about people.

  19. smartporpoise

    cab: What you say is true, and I know it. Problem is Mr. Silver, who dominates thinking and voting in the Assembly. Mike’s switch to the power party solidifies him in office, but puts a tight clamp on his being able to say what he needs to say. That he’s now hooked up with these people on the far left of the issues leads me to worry that he never will.

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