Comments on: Councilman calls for Rivers to step down

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:14:02 +0000

but what does that say about zherka and his puppet
castro

By: The Real Hmmmmm!!

The Real Hmmmmm!! — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:49:07 +0000

Here are the Top Ten Laws That Samuel Rivers Has Broken:

1)Threatened to Kill a Woman

2)Threatened to Kill a woman with a gun (with a weapon is a separate crime)

3)Rivers has failed to acknowledge on his campaign financial reports substantial financial backing he receives from various individuals and entities tied to one individual, Sam Zherka. That is a clear violation of NYS Election Law.

4) Rivers violated New York Election Law (during the 2009 petitioning period June/July 2009) by offering and paying campaign workers who collected petition signatures wages that were based on the number of signatures they obtained. This is a misdemeanor under New York Election Law Section 17-122(4).” New York Election Law Section 17-122(4) expressly forbids payment to the petition carriers on the basis of the number of signatures obtained, and doing so constitutes a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail.

5)Committed Grand larceny by stealing over $1,200 dollars (Christmas funds…how low) from a bank he worked at.

6)Was arrested over a month ago for driving with a license with over 13 violations

7)Was arrested several years ago for driving without a license or insurance and he hit another person. Had to pay restitution

8)Clearly forged several signatures on his petitions. Violation of Election Law

9) Has filed numerous intentional false police reports and law suits for political purposes.

10) Impersonated an assistant District Attorney on lohud.com under the blogger name “onelove, onevoice”

By: verbiage

verbiage — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:40:28 +0000

“Councilmen Calls for Rivers to Step-Down?” Step-down from what? There’s no height to step down from. Maybe he could, and should, step- aside.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:44:10 +0000

and now the US attorney is involved..good luck

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:12:51 +0000

some things bare repeating..over and over until the
general public gets it…..nothing is more important
than preserving the integrity of the two party system
nothing!

By: ed1

ed1 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:25:51 +0000

The man, right or wrong, speaks the reality of politics, not the morality of same. That is another topic entirely, a conundrum that will never be solved because of the inherent cynicism and inconsistencies necessarily included within the word’s definition.

By: lisa

lisa — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:39:56 +0000

edelman = broken record

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:52:21 +0000

what is going to be brutal about this election season will
be the demise of the influence of the independence party
and its chairman and the demise of the influence of sam
zherka and his newspaper…tony castro who is the proxie
in the democratic primary and who is subsidized by zherka
and handled by zherka’s employee blassberg, will get crushed
in the primary and will be left on the ind line all by
himself…the original theory was that a three way split
with difiore on the dem line and castro on the ind line
and schorr on the consv line would help defeat difiore
zherka and cavalo being the brilliant political strategists
that they are (NOT)..thought that somehow castro on the IND
would pull dem voters away from difiore leading to
a schorr victory..that of course was foolish thinking because minor party candidates don’t pull from any one
line…the garner votes from lots of places..and when a
candidate is only on a minor line they get far less a
percentage of the total vote which serves only to reduce
the universe of voters left to chose between the republican
and dem candidates on their own lines…however now, with
difiore also getting the conservative line, Cavalo has
bragged that he is going to give castro the IND line
how can he do that…you ask…run tony for judge on the IND
line and leave the line vacant..this power move will do
only one thing. reveal Cavalo to be a zherka ally and in
zherka’s pocket…the voting public will be disgusted by the
move and will take it out on schorr..who will have no
idea how to deal with it….once cavalo makes his move
schorr will also be tied to zherka…thats called
check mate

By: upsetinmv

upsetinmv — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:00:17 +0000

This is just the beginning of what promises to be another brutal election season. It has been horrible for the last 2 years with all the mud slinging and manipulating, over what? Our money? While all of this fighting is going on who is worried about the residents? Doesn’t anyone see that our kids ae watching? It seems like everything connected with this administration, be it current or past affiliations, has some real issues. Before it was fighting to get control. Now that they have it, they’re fighting each other and the public.

Councilman Griffith sounds like opportunist, Instead of dealing with the incident, he use the opportunity to try and down his opponent, who had absolutely nothing to do with the incident coming out of city hall. Was he speaking for himself or someone else? I understand that Walker had enough signatures on her own so what does Rivers have to do with Walker? With a “lil bit o luck” the city will survive the craziness.

By: nonaubiz

nonaubiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:49:45 +0000

More important is the fact that Rivers is claiming this was racially motivated.

This is truly evil in light of the serious racial issues that this country has experienced. To claim that race played a part in this is just preposterous and immoral on it’s very face.

Rivers owes the police and the community an apology. Frankly he owes the African American community an apology as well for using a serious problem as a front to avoid facing his own personal failures.

We all make mistakes but people need to own up to them. Blaming your problems on others is a disgrace, at best.

By: jerr

jerr — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:21:35 +0000

more importantly why is it that a candidate for district
attorney tony castro appears to associate consistantly
with those who a. carry guns and b. seem to get arrested
sam zherka carried a gun into city hall in mount
vernon and was arrested (what ever happened to the case)
now sam rivers is arrested and is found drunk in the
street with a gun…are these the sort that any candidate
for chief law enforcement officer should be palling
around with?

By: smartporpoise

smartporpoise — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:10:34 +0000

Exactamente! What in hell is going on?

By: Concerned 10550

Concerned 10550 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:56:15 +0000

This does beg the question as to what Judge authorized a full-carry permit for Mr. Rivers. Moreover, is the standard so low that someone like Mr. Rivers can acquire a full-carry permit or did the Judge just have a lapse of judgement?

Something worth looking at here.