Comments on: Conservative Long backs Astorino

By: Watcher

Watcher — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:55:50 +0000

I’m glad that Polly Rothstein, the founder of the Westchester Coalition for Legal Abortion and a sleazy anti-Catholic bigot, lived to see Rob Astorino, a pro-life, Catholic Republican, get elected Westchester County Executive.

It was also funny to see Nick Spano, who backed Andy Spano, lose another one.

By: jeffrey

jeffrey — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:52:30 +0000

all of this demonstrates the inherent danger in allowing
cross endorsements…we would not be having this discussion
if the republican astorino were simply running against the
liberal democrat..but because new york is only one of six
states to permit minor parties to cross endorse, we empower
the leader of those minor parties with far more authority
than they would have by virtue of the number of voters actually registered in that party…we let people like giulio cavalo thrust judges like jos allesandro on the republican party, we let cavalo and zherka combine to
deprive the republican dan schorr of the IND line based
on the rantings of the guardian…there should be a full
and complete investigation by the attorney general of
the amounts contributed to the IND club..and how that money
was spent going back for at least 5 years…there should
also be an investigation into the amounts contributed to
the IND dinner by candidates for office over the same period
of time and where that money has gone

By: Cheating is cheating

Cheating is cheating — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:49:27 +0000

I love to watch local partisan hacks try to muddy the waters with all sorts of stuff about Sam Zherka blah blah blah.

As smartporpoise said – the Conservative Party endorsing Andy Spano over Rob Astorino has nothing to do with Zherka, Cavallo or anyone else. Its a case of dishonesty and cheating, nothing else. Parties can cheat all they want and I couldn’t care less, if we, the tax payers, didn’t have to pay for their primaries.

Andy Spano is corrupt and out of touch. We spend over one thousand dollars a DAY on his “bodyguards”. His Democratic Committee members are cheating in Yonkers in the Sandy Annabi / Jose Alvarado contest and his cronies in the Conservative Party are cheating Rob Astorino out of a line on the ballot he earned.

THis whole County’s politicians remind me of New Orleans or Chicago or something. 90% of them are dirty as the day is long and the only people who support them on these blogs COLLECT A PAYCHECK FROM THEM!

I’m voting For Rob Astorino Virginia Perez Sandy Annabi and every other candidate on the ballot who does NOT associate with Andy Spano.

By: Taylorlady

Taylorlady — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:48:59 +0000

What a shame that Long did not come out earlier when the Conservatives where having trouble with Gail Burns. On News 12 she said 70% of the conservative leaders were for Spano. I say BS. She had proxies that were old the first time and proxies that had alleged forgeries the second time. Too bad the judge didn’t entertain this. Too risky for the judge.
Well I got new for you MS. Burns and your so called friend Nickie. Rob is going to win without the Conservative line. The Conservatives know that their line has been stolen by you and your liberal candidate.
All vote on Nov 3rd on the Republican line for the real Conservative!!!!

By: GOP

GOP — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:43:09 +0000

how do you endorse a person who has made this county the
HIGHEST TAXED in THE COUNTRY, spano is NO conservative.

By: Howie

Howie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:01:13 +0000

Note: The YouTube video in the main post runs less than a minute, and has a weak audio track. The Vimeo video posted by Howie runs 11 minutes, and has a very clear audio track.

By: Howie

Howie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:52:29 +0000

The corruption of the Westchester Conservative organization is a story that goes back about a dozen years. Giving a “tax-em-to-death,” baby-killing Democrat, who has signed on to the Working Families/ACORN socialist agenda, the Conservative line was just the last straw for Mike Long.
Here’s a video of the 11-minute press conference. http://www.vimeo.com/7294489

By: smartporpoise

smartporpoise — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:41:04 +0000

How is backing Rob Astorino teaming up with Cavallo and Zherka? Some people go to bed and wake up thinking of nothing but Sam Zherka. It’s a waste of time and energy. How long are we all going to live that we have another four years to waste with Spano and his duplicitous minions?

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:33:50 +0000

Michael Long has been lost for years now, he really has no clue what it takes to be the Conservative Party leader. God help us! The Conservative Party leadership in Westchester did what they thought was best for the party and the county. The Conservative Party leadership in Westchester County understands that if they teamed up with Doc Cavallo and Sam Zherka they would be stained forever. Sometimes decesions need to be made that are best for the long term and people need not be short sighted.

By: smartporpoise

smartporpoise — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:58:57 +0000

There are only two “conservatives” in Westchester who will vote for Spano – Gail Burns and Nick Spano – that is, if either of them bother to vote at all. If a Republican gets in, (as is true with the State), they’ll simply change clothes and become Republicans again.

By: Dapa

Dapa — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:38:10 +0000

Spano’s campaign makes some very good points.