Steve Mayo: The American Constitution of Liberty - Envy of the World
Mayo contends that there is no basis for the assertions by Mayor Noam Bramson that the Gadsden Flag belongs to any private party or entity. The removal of the flag from the Armory is nothing more than the suppression of the First Amendment.
Steve Mayo is an attorney and businessman. He is the host of The Steve Mayo Show on WVOX. He was the Republican nominee for City Council District 6 in 2011.
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That said Bramson's has injected his ideas and control for 17 years council person in district 5 and Mayor.
Yes I know that the charter is a City Manager form of government.
Bramson runs the roost and Chuck barely visits the rest room in City hall without phoning his friend.
I pointed to the development idea's and structure that Bramson was responsible during his Council years and now as the guy behind the curtain moving the pieces like the Wizard of Oz.
Ikea, he is in, he is out he is indecisive. 5th Avenue has yet to recover. Hello Noam.
New Roc City, nothing going on there that is an economic boom. What is it. Entertainment? Hello Noam.
Now for the Ceremonial Mayoralty.
LeCount Place.... Bramson floats out Eminent Domain in the media threatening private owners to sell to Cappelli. Owners make deals.
He even tries the same with the USPO with his buddy Senator Schumer on the steps of the PO on a Sunday telling the USPO to drop their selling price.
Project decaying the area further bringing in the .99cent store economy. Hello Noam.
Avalon1 and 2 Taxpayers footing the bills for schoold children while Bramson understates numbers willfully on the DEIS. Hello Noam.
Ceremonial Mayor controls the NR IDA appoints his cronies gets Cappeli abatement after abatement for these wonder projects while the City gets nothing back unless you call some blue moving lights on the bridge over Hugenot St. Something.
Trump Cappelli, half empty not retail not a drain on the neighborhood but certainly not a boon either.
Hello Noam... So Sussman you can pretend he is only a ceremonial mayor and therefore not on the Hook but anyone follow for the last 17 years knows the real deal. He is running Tammany Hall like Boss Bramson and I think he needs to wear all the ribbons for his great failures. Vote him in on his record not on his hot air.
Let me explain something Brian, the American Dream is not thriving. Since the early 1980's, life has been getting harder and harder for middle class Americans largely due to, if not solely due to, government policies. It started with Ronald Reagan and his economic policies that deregulated the trucking and transportation industries. Unions went bust and the pay for many, if not everyone, in these fields, plummeted. Then, Clinton, NAFTA, and the global economy led to thousands of US jobs being shipped overseas. Americans can't afford homes, they are struggling to keep up with the high cost of energy, property taxes, healthcare, and education. They are lucky if they have a job with a retirement, not to mention one that pays a living wage.
When I was growing up in NR, my father had a modest paying middle class job. With that, he had a pension plan, he was able to raise three kids and my mother didn't have to work, he owned a home, had a car, sent his kids to private schools, and only had to work 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week. Now, with a $75,000 a year job, most Americans living in Westchester couldn't even think about enjoying the same lifestyle. Why? Because government couldn't care less about the middle or lower class. It pushes policies without considering their full ramifications and in the end destroys life for a good many people. Once they create the damage, undoing it is slow and often impossible. This is why this country is falling apart and more and more
people are losing their homes and winding up on government benefits.
In the early 1980's, there were hundreds of jobs in manufacturing, trucking, the airline industry, with utility companies, automakers, construction, and the like, that all had good benefits, pensions, and that paid living wages. Thanks to NAFTA and Reagan's deregulation, most, if not all, of these jobs, cut wages, increased working hours, eliminated pension plans, and reduced health care benefits. American workers have been replaced by low paid illegal immigrants, or their jobs were shipped overseas to countries that pay low wages in exchange for long hours. Americans are lucky to be able to afford a home or live on a single income.
Meanwhile, you have Bramson, another closed minded politician who wants to push his agenda on the American people. And I emphasize, it is HIS agenda. No one is begging for his transit-oriented development plans, high-rise buildings, density, or small expensive apartments to live in. Nor did they say they want to give up their dependency on the automobile. In fact, many blue collar workers are forced to commute to work via the automobile. It is politicians like Bramson who are incapable of listening to the people, and who have this grand, distorted vision of what America should be, that have destroyed this country. Now, I know Bramson is only running for County Executive, but he is using this as stepping stone into Congress where he can push his fantasies at the national level. He is a dangerous man.
Astorino, on the other hand, is not an extremist who has an agenda to push. Nor is he using his position to obtain higher office. He was elected because County residents were fed up with high taxes and government waste. They wanted swift and immediate change. Astorino delivered what he promised. He gave County residents tax-relief that was a benefit to all middle class property owners in the County. This is what people wanted. Bramson on the other hand, will raise taxes so he can use the money to push Agenda 21, which he ultimately sees as the new world order. While increasing taxes and adding fees, he will cut government services to the core and eliminate more jobs that pay a living wage. If you look at NR, you can see that there is still virtually no meaningful retail, fees and taxes have increased, and services have been cut. The police officers and firefighters struggle to their jobs, their moral is low, and they struggle to get new contracts. Bramson is gambling with public safety. He is risking lives to benefit rich developers. He has his OWN agenda that has nothing to do with what the people want. The only thing he has done is to protect the quality of life in the northend where the bulk of his supporters live. Everyone else is just a thorn in his side who he wishes to silence. If you want a County government that is closed minded, sweeps things under the rug, one that can't accept responsibility for it's screw ups, one that ignores what the people want, one that refuses to release information, and one that loves tax increases, then Bramson is your man, or boy. If you want a County leader that listens to the people and places the people first, the I suggest you vote for Rob Astorino.
Ouch!?!
I'm surprised you took my reference to George Washington's car seriously.
But I am also surprised you ignored the more serious reference to the original American Dream, also including owning slaves.
And the original American Nightmare was being a slave, and after 1865, living under segregation and Jim Crow. There are still de facto segregated communities in Westchester. When I was attending Davis School 1958-63, that school was completely White, as I believe Ward School was, while Lincoln School did have at least one White kid (who I met at my 40th NRHS reunion), but was otherwise all Black. The reason Davis and Ward were segregated, was because the neighborhoods were until Whitney Young moved into my Davis School neighborhood around 1962.
Women did not get the vote until 1920. Many Blacks were unable to vote until the 1970's. There continues to be prejudicial laws to the detriment of gays, women's sexual freedom, and a lot of social bigotry in the USA against Hispanics and Muslims.
Clearly, the American Dream is certainly more attractive for more Americans in 2013, than it was from 1776 until recent times. For some minorities, it still needs much improvement. Obviously, America's and the world's economies took serious hits from 2000-2008, but the USA seems to be recovering financially,and even more than Europe and Asia.
So you're are clearly mistaken in thinking the American Dream is dying, when it is actually thriving more now than it was for most of the USA's past.
Perhaps its your personal dream whose bubble has burst, but don't get your personal focus confused with the American Dream.
I'm no fan of Forest City Echo Bay, Avalon or Trump, but I don't blame Noam for that. Rather I blame our having an undemocratic City Manager form of government. Noam has only one of seven votes on the City Council, and he doesn't run our government as our chief executive is our City Manager.
Throughout the USA, the reason poor and moderate income people pay too much tax, is because wealthy people do not pay enough taxes. And yet it is poor and moderate income Republicans, who are the main ones advocating that the ultra-wealthy should pay less taxes, despite there being little demand for tax reduction by the wealthy.
The County will suffer from the incompetence and ultra-conservative, reactionary perspectives of Astorino. Westchester will be much better off with Noam Bramson as our County Executive.
Brian, you need to lay off the sauce. Of course George Washington didn't own a car, in fact, nobody did during his presidency as you might recall. But if cars had been invented then, I am sure he would have had one. And of course the people of moderate and low income complain the most about taxes. They are the ones getting screwed by people like Bramson. Tell your boy to build high rises on Pinebrook Blvd. As far as services go, Bramson has decreased services in NR steadily since he has been Mayor, and at the same time, raised taxes. And where is the money going: to developers like Forest City Rattner. The County will be doomed under his, and I use this term loosely, leadership.
To all interested citizens, please plan to attend the East End Civic Association meeting tomorrow evening, June 4 at 7:30pm at Holy Name Church.
All are welcome.
If New Rochelle voters are begging for immediate tax relief, how come our citizens willingly vote for tax increases every year in our Board of Education and Library budget referendums?
The actual facts fully contradict your assertions.
The truth is, a minority of New Rochelle and Westchester voters are begging for immediate tax relief. Those people in the USA, Westchester and New Rochelle who pay the highest taxes tend to prefer more government services rather than lower taxes. Ironically, throughout the USA, it is the people of moderate or low income and taxes who complain the most about taxes.
BTW, The American Dream has always been that immigrants can come to the USA and make a better life for themselves and their children. Except for American Indians and Eskimos we are all immigrants or descended from them. Neither George Washington nor Abe Lincoln owned a car, and I see no reason to attribute car ownership as the definition of the American Dream. George Washington did own a private house, but then again he could afford to do so because he also owned people. In many ways, the USA is a far better place than to live, than it was 200, 100 or 50 years ago. As such, the American Dream is thriving.
It is the Republicans who vote blindly.
Noam has been Mayor since 2006. If you want to inaccurately call his mayorality a regime, you can only refer to 7 years, not 17 years, so you need to stick to actual facts and avoid posting your fantasies as if they were truthful.
Regarding your calling any New Rochelle mayorality a regime, there is no way to truthfully assert that for any Mayor since 1932. Since 1932, our city has been run by a City Manager, therefore any New Rochelle governmental regime must be attributed as being that of a City Manager.
By making believe the Mayor runs New Rochelle, one inaccurately places blame or credit on a political office and on persons who are not the executives managing our city, while failing to recognize that New Rochelle's problems are due to the non-democratic form of government inherent in our city's chief executive being the City Manager, an appointed position.
The real solution to New Rochelle's problems is not to blame any Mayor, but to advocate for a new City Charter, where our citizens vote for the Chief Executive of New Rochelle,, and where there are no At-Large Members of our City Council.
Attached is a link to the May 31, 2013 letter from HUD’s Deputy Secretary Maurice Jones, to the Chair of the Westchester County Board of Legislators.
This letter demonstrates that Rob Astorino is a desperate liar regarding his false assertions of Westchester County 's obligations to HUD, by the Federal Court’s ‘Stipulation and Order of Settlement and Dismissal’ entered in United States ex rel. Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York and Westchester County’, USDC SDNY Docket # 06 CIV 2860, referred to as ‘The Settlement’.
The Settlement was agreed upon by the government of Westchester County, so it’s clear its terms were not forced on Westchester by HUD, but instead was willingly agreed upon by our County government. As such our County Executive is obligated to the terms of that settlement.
According to the HUD letter of May 31, 2013, Westchester County is obligated to build at least 750 fair and affordable housing units. Despite Astorino’s intentional lies, Westchester is not obligated to build more that 750 units, but is not precluded from doing so. As such Astorino’s owes Westchester County residents an apology and the truth regarding his knowing lies or hallucinations of HUD obligating Westchester to build 10,000 units.
Apparently Rob Astorino also appears close to bigotry, in how he attempts to paint this Court Stipulation as the Federal Government illegally forcing wealthy Whites to have Black neighbors. This is an issue of providing affordable housing for minorities including Hispanics. The 14th Amendment makes unconstitutional, those State laws, regulations, acts, etc., violating the US Constitution.
Rob Astorino also lies, big-time, when he falsely claims that HUD wants to eliminate zoning throughout Westchester. Westchester’s obligations, under The Settlement, is to determine whether zoning is intended to create or perpetuate patterns of segregation, and to develop a clear strategy to overcome exclusionary zoning practices. Obviously, it is immoral and disgusting to advocate or to ignore intentional segregation of minorities.
HUD, while recognizing a community’s legitimate interest in zoning, properly asserts that “there is no place for a zoning scheme that, whether by design or effect, violates federal or state law by improperly precluding a protected class of individuals.”
http://westchesterlegislators.com/pdf/HUD_Letter_to_Chairman_Jenkins_5-3...
Noam is a moderate, not a liberal.
To extreme conservatives, moderates appear liberal.
In fact there are few liberals in government anywhere in the USA. In general, American politics has become very conservative over the last 40 years, with both major political parties shifting to the right. So what used to be moderate is now being called liberal by conservatives. At the same time, today's moderates perceive today's conservatives as reactionary.
I often have small items that merit a tweet but not a story.
I have been looking at ways to leverage my iPhone and Twitter more and embedding some tweets into a single post as a way to address that.
What do you think?
Is there a better way to do this?
More of the same Bramson Spew.
He has Presided over 17 years of poor performance and he wants to bring more of his talents to the County level. Run on your record Noam not on your years of Bull Sh**.
You are the Mayor of the .99 cent economy.
You have given away more to developers and got so little back for it.
You have burdened the tax payer during the process with nothing in the win column.
New Roc City exactly what is that Noam?
LeCount Place what did you bring with that Noam?
Trump Cappelli half empty no retail what an a accomplishment Noam?
Avalon's what have they done but foster your .99cent economy Noam?
Now I am sure that most Democrats will vote blindly but anyone voting on results will have plenty of reasons not to vote for you Noam.
17 years of decline under the Bramson regime.
I had hopes for Bramson early on but time has proved he is nothing more than a rich brat. Every time he runs for office it is the same old thing: attack and discredit his opponent with things not related to the issues at hand. He did it when he ran against Ron Tocci, he did again when he was up against Richard St Paul, and it is playing out again in his quest to defeat Rob Astorino.
If Bramson would take the blinders off and open his ears, he would learn that NR residents and County residents have been begging for immediate tax relief. No one in NR, and I have yet to hear anyone in the County, complain about the lack of housing for young professionals. He somehow thinks
he is going to redefine how society functions. I can say this, Noam destroyed NR and all the "visions" he had for the City have yet to materialize. Now that he left NR taxpayers with higher taxes, a library tax, and a garbage fee, he wants to jump ship for a higher office. After he does the same at the County level, he will leave behind his mess and make a move for Congress. At the national level, he can then push the country towards Agenda 21 and try to redefine how people live and work. In short, we are looking a high rise buildings, downtown density. mass transit, and high rents. The freedom of owning cars and private homes will be just for the very rich. The American Dream is finished.
Bob,
Thanks for the explanation.
I think Fox probably benefits more from Astorino than he does from them, at least in his getting votes in Westchester. I think his main benefit would be to maximize financial contributions early in the campaign.
For the same reason, Noam should go on TV, but he has no reason to go on Fox even if they invite him.
Actually, most Westchester voters won't pay attention to this election until after Labor Day, or until they walk into the voting booth, if they bother to vote at all. This will be a year of very low voter turnout, and of little voter interest.
Brian,
Having been on many TV and radio shows, including Fox News several times, I can tell you how it works.
You have to be ASKED.
Astorino went on because he asked because a producer at FNC decided they wanted to do the story and they had Astorino on. I can also tell you that FNC liked the story because it fits in their narrative of an over-reaching Federal government.
The idea that Rob chose to go on Fox News to do this or do that presumes that Rob gets to pick and choose which TV shows he goes on. It does not work that way.
Rob Astorino’s statement on Fox News is apparently intended to misinform and confuse the American public, with assertions that our American government intends to intrude on the property rights of all Whites in Westchester, or at least in 31 of its municipalities. As his appearance was on Fox News, I presume it was intended more for a national audience of Tea Partiers, than for the voters of Westchester.
Astorino’s statements would never play well among most of Westchester’s voters, so I presume his assertions are actually intended to obtain campaign contributions nationally, from people who know little of our enlightened, progressive Westchester County.
Astorino seems to imply that Westchester Voters will have to pay $1 billion to build 10,000 units.
But there is no such directive from HUD, from the federal monitor overseeing implementation of the settlement or from the federal courts. “It just isn’t so,” HUD spokesman Brian Sullivan stated.
What Astorino no doubt objects to is a rebuke from HUD contained in a March 13, 2013 letter. It rejects the county’s view that Westchester need not consider — when analyzing local impediments to fair housing — an authoritative study that concluded Westchester would face a shortage of nearly 11,000 units of affordable housing by 2015.
HUD wrote “The Department disagrees. Both the Needs Assessment and the Allocation Plan (the data predict future housing needs and set forth where units should go) provide important evidence of the regional needs. As such, the Department expects the County to consider such evidence in examining whether a zoning ordinance considers regional needs and requirements.” But that is no instruction to build — or to saddle taxpayers with a $1 billion-plus tax bill and 200 percent tax hike.
HUD spokesman Sullivan stated “Our calling attention to that report is not the same as requesting the building of 10,000 units at a cost of $1 billion. It just isn’t so. No matter how many times you say it, it doesn’t make it so.”
Actually, since 2009, Westchester County has been obligated to build only 750 housing units at a total cost of $51 million, which averages as $68,000 per unit. That sounds pretty inexpensive for housing in our expensive county.
Rob Astorino implies the tax burden is on Westchester tax payers. But as these are HUD related housing units, it certainly means that federal funding will be provided, in addition to whatever proportion Westchester taxpayers pay. That federal HUD money comes from all taxpayers in the USA, including persons and businesses, and will simply be spent in another county or state if Westchester refuses it. Why would Westchester voters want to turn down receiving federal money?
Astorino’s paranoiac false assertions that all zoning codes in Westchester County will be eliminated by our American government is beyond belief. Perhaps, some of the 750 housing units will need rezoning in a few municipalities.
But our municipal zoning has been affected by federal policy as long as there has been zoning and the USA government. Without local zoning changes, our American government would have been unable to fund or construct infrastructure, such as roads, canals, railways, airports, dams, our interstate highways, and of course buildings.
I suspect Rob Astorino went national on Fox News in hopes of getting campaign money from people living in other states, who know little of Westchester. Perhaps his main objective is donations from the Koch Brothers or secretive Tea Party PACs.
Going on Fox News is unlikely to obtain additional voters for Astorino, and probably will cause some voters to shy away from him.
Noam Bramson is the consummate social engineer supporting Agenda 21, Iclei, GreeNR and transit oriented development. If Noam becomes county executive Westchester can look forward to higher taxes, new "FEES" and increased current fees. Bramson has never met a tax he didn't like.
Bramson has twice porposed privatization so civil service employees will no longer have to worry about contributing to their health insurance because Noam Bramson will replace them with private sector companies.
Bramson is anti-first-responders consistently supporting corporate welfare tax abated development while reducing the number of first responders. Bramson was the ONLY council representative to vote against maintaing New Rochelle's already depleated New Rochelle Fire Departent staffing in the 2013 budget vote.
Here's a question for Noam; If you believe that Astorino is incorrect, why haven't you changed the local zoning in districts 5 & 6 (North End) to allow high density, low income housing? Better yet, fi you are such a champion of women's rights, why haven't you called for Shelly Silver's resignation?
I cannot help but feel Noam is feeling a little jealous these days. With his local nemesis Peter Parente getting on national TV and now his rival for the CE spot also getting on national TV, Noam must be thinking why can't I get on national TV? I expect Noam is working right now on ways to get invited on MSNBC.
I like these tweets, especially the one at the top, where Noam seems to imagine that Rob has some way to force Fox News Channel to book him as a guest and that his reason for doing so is to get softball questions. Even better, Noam offers a counter-example of an NY1 interview Rob did where he got a "real" interview.
Does that even make sense?
In Noam's mind, that Astorino appears on NY1 and took "real" questions somehow supports Noam's idea that he went on Fox News in order to get softball questions. What I see is that Astorino will appear on TV when he is asked and he will take softballs, hardballs and any other pitch an interviewer cares to throw. And that's a bad thing?
Even more hilarious is this coming from Noam Bramson, a guy who stacks every deck, rigs every committee, and has otherwise shown himself unable and unwilling to engage in a real and public debate on topics of interest to New Rochelleans such as Echo Bay.
What I would really like to see is Noam go on Fox News and debate Sean Hannity. He ought to call FNC and demand equal time.
I'm James O'Toole does anyone know me?
This change is for the better, Change is progress. Now can The City of New Rochelle Change?
Talk of the Sound/Bob has given the people a forum to step up and speak up, many stories tell of the behind the scene deals, the barber shop and cigar store plotting, the fiendish plans and yes, the back room politics. Unfortunately some of the bad people and events have overshadowed the good ones that are affecting change and doing good things. We have to inspect what we expect. If you see something, say something.
That is what Bob has done here at TOTS; give the average Joe a place to put the information out in the public eye. Send a note for further follow up about something that you see is wrong but can’t confirm it. Conversation is now being had and changes are starting to come. Just remember in the posts that are done, in order for there to be any change and credibility, you must keep it clean correct and be willing to except the answers you get back. Like so many cases here the answers may not be what you what to hear. With the new policy, some of the name calling and threats will stop so we may along with this site, move forward and progress. Continue with true open dialogue. Otherwise we are no better than the nay Sayers and critics.
We now have a forum to speak up and have conversations. Yes some/many people say the wrong things and have hidden behind their cover names. But that is the price we pay for the world of fast track media we live in. People are starting to see the real goings on in New Rochelle. Now we are looking for a change in the way this city does business.
It is never too late to effect change. If more people had kept up the pressure over the years and let The City Council and City Manager know that we do care and are watching them, things could be different. The citizens are also to blame by turning a deaf ear and throwing up their hands in defeat. Problem is that the people that want to say something haven’t or are afraid to for fear of retribution or ridicule. Now we have a venue to speak out here on “Talk of the Sound”. Things have changed due to the coverage this site gets. Remember, Change is good!
“Common Sense for the Common Good”
Good luck with the website conversion. I am sure it will be well worth the effort.
We will be getting back to the business at hand soon enough.
However, the change in policy is actually a part of other changes that I am working on -- basically an updating of the entire site.
I am in the process now of setting up a new installation of our software, migrating us from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.
While there are many good things about Drupal 7, the one thing I am unhappy with is that Drupal 7 does not have a working Blog API module. What that means is that we cannot use blog editing software like MarsEdit or Windows Live Writer to create new posts for the site; for now everything will have to be done within the browser itself. This negatively impacts my workflow and anyone else who has followed my advice to use this sort of software.
So why make the change?
Well Drupal 7 is now a stable release (t has been out for a couple years but I prefer to wait a bit before moving my site over).
The big thing is that it offers "responsive themes".
What that means is the software knows if you are on a desktop computer, a table or a smartphone and serves up the site in a format suited to that form factor.
The current theme used on TOTS is not "responsive" so I have been sorting out getting a new theme (look and feel) for the site.
If you want to see a demo version from the developer of the them you can visit here: http://demo.morethanthemes.com/pressblog/default/
I will change the color from blue to white and add in some additional blocks but that is a basic of idea where the site is going next.
Bear with me; I am hoping to make this conversion this weekend but there are ALWAYS problems so expect them.
I do know how to spell association. Concerned citizens please try to attend. Discussion about the city yarn and Echo Bay is very important. Let's work together and get this right.
Now that we have the new rules and maybe Bob has had a chance to rest up from his hard fought run for School Board I am hoping we get back to the matters at hand.
Any New Ro elected officials caught with Goats these days?
Do we have any pictures with the City Manager wearing his Gadsden flag Snuggy in front of the Tube?
Aren't there any Garbage Men sleeping along the I95 Corridor?
Has anyone tried hiring someone lately from the cronie list.
Any School Library Sexual Escapades?
Any Commissioners playing Golf, or getting free meals.
Seems Like New Rochelle has turned into a place of integrity these day.
The site has grown in leaps and bounds fostering open debate and free exchange of information, good and bad. With over 2 million visitors you can't deny the impact on all things local and New Rochelle is in a far more better place for that.
Since nearly it's inception I have posted under the name of John D. I have never shied away from what I have posted, nor have I ever expected any anonymity. I have long been known as John D or JD (this isn't unusual with a name as common as John). In fact whenever I spoke to people about TOS, I have always introduced myself as my former moniker. That being said, it has always been my intention to make my content the most significant issue rather than who it came from. Agree/ disagree, it's all part of the bigger picture in opening up dialogue. So, if adding a few letters to my screen name helps, I'm all for it. In fact, a couple of years ago in a dialogue between Bruce and myself, it was noted who I was. (I do look back fondly at some of the actual anonymous posting. There was some really funny stuff out there. I hope those folks will continue to follow along.)
Anyhow, for the few left out there who still may not know me. My name is John D'Alois and I am a "Sounder". To all the other Sounders out there, well done and carry on!
I leave you with a quote from another famous New Rochelleian who once said " if
there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may live in peace."