Category: Democrat

Lowey Meets With Leaders About Anti-Semitic Threats Against Jewish Centers

From left, JCC Rockland CEO David Kirschtel; Congresswoman Nita Lowey; JCC of Mid-Westchester Executive Director Karen Kolodny; and JCC On The Hudson Executive Director Frank Hassid at Monday’s roundtable discussion on bomb threats against JCCs. WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. — Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey , Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, Monday hosted a roundtable discussion with local Jewish leaders at the Jewish Community Center on the Hudson in Tarrytown to discuss the wave of 120 bomb threats made against JCCs and Jewish schools across the country.

Bronx Rep. Engel to Skip Aisle Handshake with Trump at Joint Session Address

New York Rep. Eliot Engel is breaking with a longstanding tradition in Washington tonight, saying he will not be shaking President Donald Trump’s hand when he enters to address a joint session of Congress. Engel, who represents parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, said today on the floor of the House he will be putting an end to the tradition tonight as a form of protest against the Trump adminstration.

Bomb threats at New Rochelle, Tarrytown JCCs

… Tarrytown police were called to the facility at 371 S. Broadway at 9:13 a.m., Sgt. James Kovacs said. Westchester County police said they sent their bomb squad and cleared the scene at 10:55 a.m. “My office has been in contact with local police and …

New York county proposes museum dedicated to Electoral College losers who won the popular vote

If you think that presidential candidates who lost despite winning the popular vote ought to be commemorated, you may be excited about the possible “Almost presidential museum/library” being proposed by the town supervisor of Greenburgh, New York. “I would like to recommend that a Westchester County college establish an almost president museum at one of our colleges to recognize the contributions of Hillary Clinton, the first woman Presidential nominee of a major political party who received the most popular votes in the nation,” explained Paul Feiner in a statement.

Several Democrats to skip inauguration

… York City Democratic representatives are among those who say they will not be going to the inauguration. Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino and GOP chairman Doug Colety are planning to attend the event. In spite of the spat, and the ensuing …

Sustainable Saturday: After Indian Point

… a clean energy future. An agreement to shutter the ailing Indian Point nuclear reactors in Buchanan, NY (Westchester County) was announced on January 9. Under the deal hammered out between keep its employees on board until the shutdown, finding new …

Is ‘Hillary Clinton for mayor’ crazy talk?

If there’s any glimmer of truth to the rumors that Hillary Clinton is considering a run for mayor of New York City, it would be evidence that she might have tripped and bumped her head during one of those long walks she’s been taking in the woods of Westchester County. It’s not that she couldn’t make a credible run.

NY Post Endorses Hillary Clinton for Mayor

… also for constituents in areas far from the media spotlight.” Clinton, who lives in Chappaqua, N.Y., in Westchester County, would need to become a city resident “and spend months building ties to Gotham’s neighborhoods,” the editorial notes. “Nor …

State, Federal Lawmakers React To Deal To Close Indian Point By 2021

Indian Point’s two nuclear power plants would be closed permanently by 2021 under a deal confirmed Friday by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who called it “a complete surprise to us” and “potentially catastrophic.” Early reaction to the proposed permanent closing of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors by 2021 has been met with a mix of shock, disappointment as well as praise.

Letter: Angry white men didn’t deliver presidency

Former President Bill Clinton recently told the editor of the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, a community newspaper in Westchester County, N.Y., that, “one thing he [President-Elect Trump] does know is how to get angry white men to vote for him.” I am a white male, but I did not vote for Trump because I was an “angry white” man.

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

Hillary Clinton, Bigfoot

The “Hillary C.” is usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid …. Scientists discount the existence of the Hillary C. and consider it to be a combination of folklore , misidentification, and hoax , rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population. Whoa, wait! Did I type in that “Hillary C.” above? Oh, I am so sorry! I meant to say “Bigfoot”! Bigfoot, Bigfoot, Bigfoot! The Sasquatch! And scratch that “Westchester County, NY,” too.

Bill Clinton: ‘One thing’ Trump knows ‘is how to get angry, white men to vote for him’

Bill Clinton did not mince words when asked by the editor of a small New York newspaper for his thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump. The editor of the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, a community newspaper in Westchester County, New York, bumped into Clinton at a local bookstore last week, where the former president proceeded to give candid answers about a series of election-related topics to a group that had gathered around him.