Politics on the Hudson

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Liz Feld’s campaign filmed her stump through the 37th senate district talking to residents about local issues, primarily property taxes. The video is set to air on local public access channels and you can watch the video in its entirety here.

You can also watch Feld and incumbent Suzi Oppenheimer, D-Mamaroneck, square off during their interview with the Journal News editorial board here.

Liz Feld’s campaign is challenging her state Senate opponent, Suzi Oppenheimer, for apparently abusing a handicap parking pass.

In a release issued this morning Feld spokesman William O’Reilly cited a New York Post story that reported Oppenheimer’s husband was again wrongfully using the parking pass, despite not needing it.

O’Reilly said it raised questions about how and why Oppenheimer’s husband acquired such a handicap parking pass.

“This is disappointing behavior from an elected official who is supposed to know better—especially after her husband was caught illegally parking in a handicap parking spot in July 2003,” said O’Reilly.

O’Reilly said the matter was an insult to people with “legitimate disabilities who need those parking spots.”

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Last year, Larchmont mayor Liz Feld and the village board voted to place Richard Heine as a paid chief to oversee its fire department. The decision didn’t sit well with many of the department’s volunteer firefighters and 19 of them quit as a result.

Now, some of those former firefighters have launched a Web site opposing Feld’s state senate run. The group says Feld was “wreckless” with the paid chief decision and did so against the village’s interest.

(To be fair, it should be noted that the village has won two lawsuits over its decision to hire a paid chief).

Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld today received an endorsement from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.In an announcement, Bloomberg said Feld “is a hands-on mayor who delivers for her constituents.”He also said Feld is a “proven leader who puts aside politics to get results” and is “exactly the kind of independent voice we need in Albany to make real change.”

Liz Feld has released a TV ad criticizing state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, D-Mamaroneck, for being in Alaska last month instead of voting on the state’s property tax relief plan.

“When we really needed her, Suzi wasn’t there,” the ad titled “Vacation” said.

Expect this to be a recurring issue during this senate race.

Liz Feld, the Republican running for the 37th Senatorial District, will address the Scarsdale Republican Town Committee 8 p.m. Sept. 17.   The Larchmont mayor supports a 4 percent property tax cap and will be discussing its importance and effect on Scarsdale. She’s also discuss state issues. The meeting will be held at the Scarsdale Village Hall in the third floor meeting room.

Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, a Republican running against state Senator Suzi Oppenheimer for the 37th district, recently was endorsed by the New York League of Conservation Voters.

In an announcement, Feld touted her achievements in the village, among them passing a “no idling” law, enforcing a ban on leaf blowers and promoting bicycle use by installing more racks in the village.

She also said she’s overseen the plantings of trees and the rehabilitation of local parks.

Kieran Michael Lalor of Peekskill, the Republican challenger to freshman U.S. Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains, expects to appear on two additional lines in the November election.

The Lalor campaign says it has submitted about 6,300 signatures in support of adding his Energy Security Now! line to the ballot. Lalor also has the Conservative line.

“By casting their vote on the Energy Security Now! line, Hudson Valley voters … will be saying yes to more drilling, yes to safe nuclear energy, and yes to the development of alternative energy,” said Lalor campaign spokesperson Chris Covucci.

Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, a Republican candidate for State Senate in Westchester County’s 37th District, yesterday ripped The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to increase tolls and transit fares.

In a release, Feld said raising rates is “yet another example of New York taxpayers being stuck with the bill for Albany’s lack of fiscal discipline and planning.”

“New York State government is totally unprepared for an economic down cycle that virtually every economist in America has been predicting for the past four years,” Feld wrote. “New York has a $122 billion budget; how is it possible that we have no rainy day fund to help weather tough economic times?”

The transit agency this week proposed raising the fares and tolls 8 percent in July 2009 to help close a projected budget shortfall of $900 million.

Feld is running against longtime Democratic State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer. The 37th State Senate district includes Briarcliff Manor, Ossining, Chappaqua, New Castle, North Castle, Port Chester, White Plains, Rye, Rye Brook, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, Scarsdale, and New Rochelle.

Read transportation reporter Ken Valenti’s story here.

Republican state Senate candidate Liz Feld hits the airwaves today with the first commercial of her campaign against incumbent Democrat Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer.

The 30-second spot, which focuses on tax relief, is airing on local cable channels.

“Westchester County has everything that anyone could ever ask for,” says Feld, the mayor of Larchmont. “But right now, Westchester is suffering from the highest tax burden in the country. Who’s sticking up for Westchester? Who’s up in Albany fighting for us? ”

The 37th State Senate district includes portions of Briarcliff Manor, Ossining, Chappaqua, New Castle, North Castle, Port Chester, White Plains, Rye, Rye Brook, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, Scarsdale, and New Rochelle.