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Omerta Report Redux

We forgot to mention a few things in this weeks Omerta Report.

1. We think it is crazy that Rebecca Martin and her gang of liberal bobble heads are praising the fact that Niagara Water plant did not get funding from the state. We think it's sick that there are actually people that oppose this. She's not a businessman like Quigley.  Quigs is looking at getting maximum value out of this, he gets the big picture. This company will pay for old pipes that the town would have to pay and update the system saving millions. It also would provide a lot of local jobs to the area. Frankly we think Ms. Martin is nothing more than a malignant cunt that needs to get laid.

2.  Brian Seche said in the Daily Freeman today that the form department heads and Aldermen are asked to fill out under the newly adopted Ethics law is too much and needs to be modified. That is until Andy Zweben's  broken ribs heal and our Kingston Capo sends his attack poodle to cuts off  Seche's balls again. Furthermore even though we have chosen this life and are just a bunch of gangters in nice Brioni suits, we support the ethics law. We believe that an elected official should serve his position out of love and passion for the job and the people they represent. Especially on a local level, you should not have law makers making money off of business dealings they have by selling their votes or blindly supporting companies or non profits they have a vested interested in, even if its not necessarily monetary gain. That goes for employees too, they should go to work do there job and that's it. When you work for local government, you have an obligation to be honest and do the right thing. What you do on your time is your business, hey we gotta eat and times are tough but don't fuck over the public that put their trust in you.

The ethics law is a good thing and if anything it does not go far enough. Kudos to Mayor Gallo for filling his disclosure, the other members of the city council and department heads should follow suit. I'm shocked that dept heads have not all done this. Where do they get their balls from? When the boss asks or even suggests you to do something, you do it. Back in the day if the boss had to ask you a second time usually it's a whisper in your ear before he puts one in the back of your head.

3. We were thinking earlier that Kevin Cahill would make a great Mayor. Now I know you'll say it's a step down but it's not. Mike Spano did it four years ago. Kevin is a legislator in the state assembly, the office of Mayor is an executive position. Cahill has the experience through his successful management of WellCare under his tenure. He knows the issues and is mayoral...which our current Kingston Capo lacks. In 2016 the job of mayor will pay $100k it looks like. Kevin is a powerful Assemblyman and after his $74k base salary he makes more than 100k with the committees he serves on, I am sure but no more driving to Albany. Cahill can be closer to his family and be the King of the City he loves. Kevin Cahill won every ward and every district in the city of Kingston in November. That's very impressive. Gallo deserves to be beat and Kingston deserves Cahill's leadership.


That's all for now.

The Omerta Report

Our boss Mike Hein received an award he nominated himself for in D.C. last week recognizing him for being one of the best local elected officials in the Country. That photo represents the Executive crew, the inner sanctum of Hein's administration. Hein speaks only through Adele and information is given to the other captain's and buttons. Hein is very guarded and smart in that respect, he operates in a way that a boss should.

Senator C.C. Tkacyk gave one final parting shot to Assemblyman Kevin Cahill the other day, it was reported in the Record that C.C. wanted it known that our party should work together to support Mike Hein in his reelection next year.  In a letter to supporters she wrote this:

"Next year’s local elections include races for the County Executive and County Legislature in addition to judicial races," she wrote. "It is my hope that we will stand as one with County Executive Mike Hein and our other Democratic candidates to ensure that there are sweeping Democratic victories in 2015 on the local level."

Senator Tkacyk do us a favor and stay out of Ulster County politics, if we want your opinion on who to support for Executive we'll ask, until than butt out sweetheart and enjoy your retirement. The Senator's endorsement was a shot at Kevin Cahill in our humble opinion, C.C., took Hein's side during the sales tax fight and we never understood why. I'm sure she's bitter and a little bit jealous that Kevin Cahill will be returning to Albany, while she will be stuck milking goats in Doonsbury. Kevin Cahill really gained a lot of political capital this past year and can write his own ticket in our opinion.

We hear Corporation Counsel Andrew Zweben took a nasty fall slipping on some ice outside his West Chester mansion, breaking a few ribs. Rumor has it he slipped on bourbon ice cubes that dropped out of his glass. We don't want to appear soft but we wish Andrew a full recovery but he should take as much time off as he needs to recover. Really you gotta be careful Zweb, stay out of city hall as long as humanly possible.

Kingston Capo Shayne "brother" Gallo was rumored to be on the outs with the Don over the last few weeks over the Catskill Mountain Railroad. Gallo had backed himself into a corner supporting Hein blindly on the issue. The polar express has been a huge success selling out every ride they have put together and tickets are not cheap, we believe they go for $35 a piece. Gallo has become increasingly upset that he can't take credit and him and Hein had a fight over it when Gallo hinted that he might be changing his tune. The Kingston Capo has no choice,  Hudson Coffee Traders sold 10,000 cups of hot chocolate and Designs Bakery sold over 15,000 cookies...there is no question that this is a major tourist attraction here in Kingston.

Gallo and Hein have since made up and are now offering up a compromise to allow a rail and trail for about two in a half miles in Kingston. The railroad is against it saying they need the tracks to do other adult themed rides.  Hein should back off and really he can save face on all of this. The boss could take credit for getting the Catskill Mountain Railroad off its ass and doing something because we all know before Hein proposed removing the tracks, they did little to nothing. Hein deserves some credit he really does. Give the Devil his due.

Council Regects Their Own Lawyer ---- Seche Sells Out

" Mayor Gallo sure, I'll vote against my own proposal, how would you like my stugots, medium rare? Will you be sharing them with our corporation Council Andrew Zweben, we hear he's a fan of all different types of stugots. "

                                                                  -Alderman Brian Seche  12/2/14 6:30pm



The council voted against what was in their best interests again tonight. Voting against having their own part time lawyer to advise them on legal matters, opting to trust Gallo's attack poodle instead. How many times will they put their hand on the stove before they learn?  Trusting Gallo is always a gamble, trusting Zweben? Let's just say if I was an African American in Ferguson Missouri, I would trust Officer Darren Wilson before I would Andrew Zweben. The guy has no character or morals, he's a snake.

We posted earlier today that we were pleasantly surprised that Alderman Seche proposed this idea, as his lips rent space on Shayne Gallo's ass. We spoke too soon, Alderman Seche tonight voted against his own proposal saying it had become too political.  LMFAO!!  Brian Seche has NO BALLS!! Plain and simple, Mayor Gallo convinced this man to vote against his own proposal, you have to laugh because it's so absurd. Does he realize what a pussy that makes him look like? Separate from having no stugots, he voted against something he truly believes is best for the City of Kingston. Who gives a fuck what people think?? If it's the right thing to do and you believe in it than support it Seche.  Ward two constituents should be appalled, this guy lost any credibility or political capital he had with this reversal. Mind you this is the same Brian Seche we hear that applied for a job with Chris Gibson three years ago only to withdraw his name from consideration after Mayor Gallo told him Carrie Ross Jones had also applied, who at the time the Mayor was dating.

ROLL CALL:

Those in favor of adding 25k for the council to have their own legal representation separate from Gallo's attack poodle Zweben:  Alderman Dunn, Alderman Will, Alderman Carey, Alderman Schabot

Those Opposed: Alderman No Stugots, Alderman Dawson, Alderman Ball, Alderman Brown, alderman Mills.

Resolution failed by one vote. Interesting side note, the fact that Alderwoman Ball voted against this makes us think this raise is a calculated behind the scenes move on part of Gallo, Ball and Zweben. Zweb is the new brain trust of Gallo's 2015 campaign we hear w Fuentes and Blabber gone. Well played Gallo, well played.

Alderwoman Ball Requests Pay Raise for Mayor in 2016.. Good Idea but Why?

We find a few things interesting about a story that appeared in the Daily Freeman about raising the salary of the office of Mayor. The first thing and most interesting is that the pay raise would take effect in 2016. In short we support this but there are a lot of speculation that can be made from this proposal.

It's hard to keep track as to the relationship between Mayor Gallo and Alderwoman Ball because it changes by the day. Ball who supported Clement over Gallo in the last Democratic primary for Mayor has had a difficult relationship with the City's Chief Executive since he has taken office but a lot of that is Mayor Gallo's fault not Alderwoman Ball's.  After the primary Elisa supported Gallo strongly and after all the bad blood between Gallo and Judge Ball you can't really blame her for supporting her colegue Clement who was the party's nominee over Gallo who has never been very nice to her.

We thought about this this morning over our tea and a few thoughts came to mind

* Gallo did defend Alderwoman Ball over the last few months, we don't feel need to get into specifics and we don't put it past Gallo to ask her to make this proposal. The fact that it takes effect in 2016 makes us think that's not the case, if Gallo is using a surrogate to make the proposal, why have the stipulation that pay raise take effect in 2016? However, she constituently is quoted in the Freeman article today saying that Mayor Gallo is under paid vs. the position of Mayor itself so who knows?!

* Elisa Ball may be reconsidering her departure from Kingston politics and with Hillary as the likely 2016 Democratic Nominee, maybe this is her chance to run for the seat herself? Again, we also think this is unlikely but not for reasons you may think. We firmly believe Elisa Ball is a very bright woman and could easily become Kingston's first woman Mayor.

* The Democratic committee knowing Elisa may not run again for reelection and confident they can beat Gallo next year is making the proposal now and using a safe person to propose it that won't lose any political capital from angry Kingstonian's who's median income is in the mid $30k range

* We also feel that by raising the salary now to say $100,000 which is about what the salary would probably be at the end of the day after talking with some friends of ours, that it would attract quality candidates to run against Gallo and for the office of Mayor no matter who the candidate is. Businessmen and other professionals that wouldn't normally run because it's just not worth it for them at $75k a year.

We personally feel it's a combination of the last two but whatever the reason and whoever the mayor is in 2016 this is the right proposal.  The people of this city elected Shayne Gallo to be Mayor for four years at a pay rate of $75,000 a year and they should get just that. Raising the salary starting January 1, 2016 to six figures, whether it be by design or not, it will attract a better field of candidates to run for Mayor. Whether it be Majority Leader Dunn or a businessman that is not political per say, they are more likely to run if they feel they will be appropriately  compensated for their work.  The current Mayor Shayne Gallo is absolutely under paid but he knew going into the election what the salary was for the Mayor and how long the term was. If he is to be reelected though, he also deserves a pay raise. Say what you want about Gallo but he's smart dedicated and hard working, no one can take that away from him.

When voters approved the strong Mayor form of government, it gave the mayor a tremendous amount of power and responsibility. No longer is it the role of the Mayor of Kingston to just go to chamber breakfasts and cut a ribbon every time a new business opens up. In many ways it's a thankless 24/7 365 day a year job that requires very long hours, constant phone calls from angry constituents and having deal with nine different personalities that sit on the council that have their own gripes and complaints that need answering.  Not to mention the mayor sits as president to every board in city government from Fire, Police to dpw.  The job should pay substantially more than it does and we support Elisa Ball's proposal and the timeline of her proposal.

Common Council Should Get Own Attorney

The Kingston common council is considering adding $25,000 to the 2015 budget to hire their own lawyer to advise them on matters, we think this is a great idea. Putting aside the fact that current Corporation Counsel Andrew Zweben has shown zero fiduciary duty to the common council but we must ask how can you blame him?  He serves two masters, two completely separate forms of government:  the executive, where he advises Gallo on the day to day issues of governing. And the legislative where he advises the council members as to why they should get in line with the executive branch of government.

The legislature of Ulster County does not rely on advice from County Attorney Bea Havrenak to provide them legal advice, there would be a clear conflict of interest in them doing so.  Zweben being the City's lawyer and Gallo's very own attack poodle can not also represent and advise the Common Council impartially. The same conflict of interest that applies to the county applies to the City and for the same reasons obviously. The executive and legislative branches of government are separate and should have separate representation. The council as a whole in Kingston are equal to and just as powerful as the mayor, that's the way our city charter is set up. It is the council's right to have an attorney that will give them objective advice and city attorney Andrew Zweben and Mayor Shayne Gallo, both lawyers should support this measure and respect it.

Majority Leader Matt Dunn had this to say in the Freeman today:

 “It is important, from time to time, for the council to get its own separate advice,” he said. “We have had a host of issues that have come up during the Gallo administration that would have been prudent to receive advice from an attorney that did not have to answer to the mayor.”

This hasn't been done in the past because for a city with 25,000 people there is a certain level of community and trust. Everyone knows the local Mayor, the majority of members of the council grew up with one another and they trust that the advice they get from the city attorney appointed by the Mayor is in the best interest of the city and that it will be fair and impartial. It never should have been that way but that is the basic reason as to why for all these years it has been that way.  As observers who have followed city government for over eleven years, we can honestly say we have never witnessed a Mayor fight with members of the common council with such viciousness as the current administration and we have never witnessed a corporation counsel that has had such an adversarial relationship with the common council as Zweben has had with this one. Not to say that there have never been heated disagreements, but none not even the most contentious ones we've witnessed during the late Mayor Gallo's administration or that of Mayor Sottile's tenure come anywhere close to what we have seen the last three years.  Furthermore never in the history of the city have he had a corp council this incompetent since, well, the Heitzman years ;)

The votes are there to do this, Alderman Brian Seche who proposed this law is a Gallo ally and is doing for a change what is in the best interest for his Ward and the city and we applaud him. While we despise Zweben and think he is a disaster, the common council should never set policy or pass amendments based on their like or dislike of a particular person. This amendment should have been passed years ago and to Seche's credit he talked about this when he was on the council way back when, he was right than and he is right now. Simply put, it's the right thing to do. The Gallo administration has just illuminated the reason as to why it should be done.

Post script: Is there anything at all that Alderwoman Debbie Brown won't support Mayor Gallo and Andrew Zweben on?

Parete Facing Challenge?

" If you wanna be the man, you gotta beat the man"

                                                       - The Nature Boy Rick Flair

We hear around that legislative Godfather John Parete may be facing a challenge from some of his colleagues  who are unhappy with his leadership or we should say they are unhappy they are not as politically savvy as Mr. Parete and are jealous of him. We hear two names T.J. Briggs and Peter "polka dot" Lougran. Peter is a lazy cunt, we don't like the guy at all, if he was drowning we'd throw him a cinderblock but T.J he should know better, T.J. had his chance and blew it.

Loughran is lazy has no vision and if not for his mother he would not have his seat to begin with. Peter does not deserve to be a legislator, how he has not been primaried in all these years amazes us. We hear he is trying to court some Republicans, his hate for John runs deep and he's a jealous whiny bitch.  Lougran is playing the Savona card with Republicans, him being Savona blood by injection of the sister in law, is a stretch even for Lougran. The guy doesn't have a chance.

T.J. Briggs, we like him we don't think at end of the day he has the stugots to primary Parete and like we said, T.J. had his chance two years ago, it is very rare that a Chairman is challenged after on year especially when no big scandal has happened. To be honest we feel the term of Chair should be two years anyway, not one. The Chairman should not have to go through all this unneeded stress each year.

Shame on Jeanette Provanzano, H-Rod and Loughran for not getting behind their Chairman. Especially Jeanette after all Parete has done for you over the years, do we need to get into specifics? Jeanette helped orchestrate a coup against Sinagra many years ago and now she holds resentment against Perete for doing same thing?!  The woman is lacking oxygen in the brain which is affecting her ability to think straight, if she didn't have her head so far up Hein's ass maybe things would be different. We expect more out of Provanzano but aren't holding our breath, she showed her true colors when she backed down from Hein over the sale of Golden Hill.

Parete needs to act swiftly and stop being so nice, no leadership postions for Provanzano, Loughran, H-Rod or Briggs. Let them starve.

Goodfellas Peanuts: Funny, How? Happy Thanksgiving..a must see!!!

Gotti Tells His Grandson About Life

On The Streets

I was picking up some collections yesterday, some local protection money and who do I see lunching it at the Market Basket in Uptown Kingston? Indy Boss Len Bernardo and Elliott "Lucky" Auerbach...They could have been talking about the Nevele, they are both from that neck of the woods and we hope they were because I'm still waiting see money from all those free buffets and open bars we're paying for out there. Or they could have been talking about the 2015 race for County Executive?!

I Forgaddddddyyyyyyy!!!

We apologize to the Boss of the Conservative party for not mentioning him on this blog sooner. We borrow an old headline from the NY Post that some of our friends in the life will catch on to.

Anyway, Ed Gaddy is unique in the sense that he flies under the radar and has something that is rare for a boss, longevity! Gaddy has served as boss of his party longer than any local boss that I can think of. There is one boss in this thing of ours that never served a day in jail, his name of course is Carlo Gambino. Gambino was a ruthless killer and shrewd boss that built a half a billion dollar empire, with about 100 made men and over 400 associates in it's prime.  The Gambino Crime family is obviously named after him, you didn't mess with this guy but if you ran into him on the street in NY you could easily confuse him with a gentle old grandpa. Gambino like Gaddy laid low, didn't flaunt his position, lived in a modest house and kept his mouth shut. The FBI didn't even bother using wire taps against him because the guy never spoke about business directly, it was all done with head movements or through his brother in law Big Paul Castillano.

The Conservative party is on row C for the next four years after a strong showing in this years gubernatorial election and will carry significant weight in future elections that are of interest to our family, the mayor and Executive race come to mind immediately. There are a lot of members of our Dem family that foolishly run away from the line to curry favor with people that are going to vote for them anyway. Current legislative Chairman and former Boss of the Dem Family, John Parete said to me once: You know what you call a Democrat with the Conservative line? What's that John... a winner, he replied. That my friend is the difference between John Parete and Frank Cardinale and that's the reason Parete has more w's under his belt than Cardinale could ever dream of.

The Omerta Report

Let's start off by saying it takes a big man to compromise what he thinks is right for the better good of his crew and Ulster County. Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum did just that by stopping the warrant checks to save his soldiers in the security division, that could have been whacked out by Legislator Bartels if her amendment to the 2015 budget had went through.Van Blarcum suspended the warrant checks and a formal policy by the county legislature will be adopted in short order.  We also applaud Tracy for having the guts to take a stand when a lot of others kept quite. Not to say compromise is always a good thing, when I was in college upstate, I wanted some fresh mannagot, I compromised and had a grilled cheese made on a space heater. I wanted a woman, I compromised, I jerked off in a tissue but we digress.

On Friday I'm listening the Kingston Community Radio and this woman Reverend was comparing Michael Hein to Jesus Christ. I wish I was kidding, she was going on about how Mike is some sort of savior. Marone! Give us a break. It's bad enough we have to wear sunglasses so we are not blinded by his tan now we have people comparing him to Jesus???? Enough is enough. I'll let you in on another secret too : Hein doesn't really walk on water.

Hein is a p.r. genius I'll give him that and the Reverend  was right he does surround himself with great people that do the job for him. Hein would still be shining gems at the mall if not for Adele Ryder. Anyway, Hein received some bullshit award recognizing him as one of the best elected officials in Ulster County. Here's the kicker, we hear that HE NOMINATED HIMSELF!!! Where does this guy get his balls from, go get your shine box!!. If that's not bad enough, he parlayed it into a nice little fundraiser for himself at the lazy Swan in Saugerties. Wasting no time, I had an invite in my mailbox the other day. Unfortunately, I have to go and smile and give the arrogant prick his tribute, $25 out of my pocket into the smug fuck's campaign account. It kills me, this guy holds more fundraisers than the make a wish foundation and all our collections across the board are light, these envelopes are down almost twenty percent from last year but Micheal he's still getting his, 80% all our collections are kicked upstairs to pay for that palace on the sixth floor.

Kerri Savona has declared victory and is officially the winner in the Ulster County Family Court race, I'm waiting to look at the numbers but both Gilda and Kerri ran a good race and I know the Hon. Kerri Savona will do a good job. I wonder if Marueen Keegan will be at her swearing in? Anyway, Kerri had a nice party, invite only, her father in law Manny Savona and I go back a long way. Him and I had dinner with John Gotti in Little Italy in the early 90's and played pool at the Ravonite Social Club, Gotti schooled us and took me for three dimes. It was good to reminisce a little about the old days and his daughter in law will be a fine Family Court Judge, salute!

Gilda Riccardi Congratulations, Keri, I wish you all in the best in your new position as our new Ulster County Famiy Court Judge.

November 18 at 10:56pm

GILDA RICCARDI ALL CLASS!!! DESERVED BETTER THAN WHAT SHE GOT FROM OUR FAMILY


While we are happy for Kerri we can't help but think that Dem Consigliore Frank Cardinale is sitting on 200k, and in our humble opinion a mere twenty thousand  of that 200k would of given Gilda the victory. 10K would have gotten her a great county wide mailer and the other 10k for canvassing to shore up the base in Kingston, Saugeties, Woodstock, New paltz even a few in Hurley and Gilda woulda won. There is no excuse for the incompetence that Cardinale has shown. This is not his first blunder, the way he treated Mayor Gallo in 2011 is another ex that sticks out, that alone was enough to have him clipped as Chair. Cardinale has to go as Consigliore, his Napoleon complex and extreme bad judgments will continue to cost Democrats election. And when the fuck did Cardinale become such a bleeding heart Liberal?? He has no really values, whatever way the wind blows and for that reason he just needs to resign.

Comments Redux

Lets all grow up and not leave ridiculous comments. I do not wanna have to moderate comments, I have no time for the shit. We support free speech but this is not your blog and we're not taxing you to read it. You're getting a quality service at our expense after all. You don't have to love us or love what we say but you will respect us!! Use your brain before you leave a comment. We have no problem with opposing points of view, we actually encourage it and will allow it to be posted in real time, not that phoney shit that Little Dick Cahill's blog does. Wise up.  Im not gunna spell out what can and cant be said in terms of standards but for this blog we will use the Roth standard, capish?

Sit Down Tonight Between Bartels and Van Blarcum

A sit down has been called to figure out what to do about these warrant checks at the Ulster DSS building, that our Sheriff plans to implement at every county building in the future. Bartels has put her foot down demanding that it stops or she will look to whack the entire security division in the U.C. Sheriff's office, obviously this is even more of an extreme measure than what Van Blarcum is doing with these warrant checks..so, a sit down has been called amongst capos that serve on law enforcement and public health committees. We hear a compromise will be reached. Van Blarcum will have to kick an extra few points upstairs and the legislature will scrap this proposal, warrant checks will probably be limited to county probation. We will update when we know more. Some balls on Tracy Bartels for taking such a stand, we applaud her. We wish she would join our family, she has great leadership potential and very sexy to boot. We apologize for talking out of school about a Captian like that but marone!

Omerta Report Mini Edition

We hear H- Rod, New Paltz legislator Hector Rodriguez may be up to something trying to shake up the leadership in the legislature. Some friends of ours are buzzing about a meeting amongst Democratic capos next week at our uptown social club to determine the leadership in the legislature next year.  In the life, Hector is known as a mush, he brings bad luck to us and has lost three leadership posts in a row. John Parete could be so lucky for Hector to challenge him. In regards to Hector's potential challenge we say to Chairman Parete :Figurati!

Hector could try and challenge Woodstock Dem fam Capo Don Gregorious, for Majority leader and to that we'd just have to flip a coin. Only kidding Majority Leader Gregorious is no dummy, we don't always agree but the current leadership is fine the way it is. Parete should remain as our Chairman and Gregorious Majority Leader. It's a good balance.

We have heard rumors over last few weeks from solid sources in our family that Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo, Capo of the premier Kingston crew, our family's biggest crew both in membership and as earners, may not run for a second term. On one hand we say God bless, on the other we would like Gallo to run on his record like a man and not take easy way out. It's not like Mayor Gallo had any sorta big career going before he became Mayor he had two part time jobs both with government, what is he gunna do? If he does go, we feel our boss has the responsibility to find a good job for him in county government, Gallo has carried his water since day one, sometimes at the expense of what was in best interest for him and his city.



 Anyway, we heard the other day that city purchaser Brian Woltman is telling anyone that will listen that he will run if Gallo does not. Che Palle!!!! Are you shitting me? The guy has his current job out of pity of the current Mayor's late brother. Former Dem family boss T.R. Gallo gave Woltman the job because as he put it to me: " what else is the poor hump gunna do, he has a lisp I feel bad for him, he can get my sandwiches at Carmines or something, cuz, don't worry about it. That was what he told me and I never brought it up again, Woltman is a low level button, we don't run in the same circles, out of sight out of mind.

Woltman is not as dumb as he looks but he is not mayoral material, he is very disrespectful to high ranking friends of ours and a suspected rat on current city employees and officials. What kinda man rats on his friends and co workers?. Mayor not a chance! .Mi fa cagare! Some may remember last year Woltman got drunk and recorded a Christmas video of him dancing to some fanook style music and posted it on facebook. It's embarrassing that he even has his button let alone any sort of leadership position. He has no idea he is laughed at behind the backs of our family circles and we find the whole conversation a moot point because he will never get out the gate. Even Under Boss Gallo will tell you that.

On the GOP side, we hear that Andi Turco Levin will run for Mayor, and has cozied up to mustache Tony Sinagra who was recently reinstalled as Chairman. The Kingston family is almost non existant and has little chance to win the top seat in Kingston but Turco Levin is smart and sexy and could give us a run for our money we do not under estimate her if she makes it to the general election.

Conservative Chair Rich Cahill is not a fan of Andi's after she beat him for the GOP nomination amongst fellow gop buttons in 2011, after the primary however, where any Republican can vote even associates, she lost to Ron Polacco.. who's father is well respected in that family. Cahill harbors a lot of jealousy against Andi but we hear that he will not have the final say, the county Conservative's executive committee will ultimately decide who gets that endorsement which could spell bad news for Gallo as it's the only line he probably will get without having to primary.

This blog hit over 600 hits on Sunday and we thank you for listening to what we have to say and hope you will keep leaving comments and add to our discussion. Check back often for new pictures, updates and features in the next few weeks.

Until then, Salute my friends!

Hein Puts the Muscle on Auerbach

A lot of the people in this thing of ours, describe our boss Hein as someone that likes to eat alone. In other words he's greedy and self centered, its all about Hein. Hein doesn't like to share, he's the boss and in his opinion all the action should be kicked upstairs while the buttons and associates survive on scraps. That's all well and good, he is the boss and he deserves his taste on all our dealings but he is out of touch with the rank and file.  He used to be a member of the Republican family after all. Look at Sammy the Bull, Gambino's took him from the Genovese's back in the day and we see how that turned out. Long story short, the skipper knows there is dissatisfaction and that he could be challenged for the big seat next year and has become increasingly paranoid lately, and he has every right to be paranoid. The bottom line is a lot of the buttons just don't trust him, he hides up on the sixth floor with his million dolla + army of staff, and the rest of us can go shit in our hats. A lot of us in the life feel at the end of the day whether it be w money or support of our local candidates in elections or help with everyday governing, we feel he simply doesn't have our back.

ENTER AUERBACH.

Comptroller Auerbach had to kick the back door in to get where he is today, in 2008, our boss was practically Jim Quigley's running mate in what was the closest race in Ulster County's history and there has been some tension from that but it hasn't all been bad either between the two.

Auerbach who would be considered one of the top Dems to challenge Hein in the 2015 Executive race, became victim of the Hein pr machine tonight. With a manufactured story by the Freeman that suggests Auerbach is using too much money on travel expenses to train his staff. God forbid we have people in county government that know what they are doing rather than any jamook off the street.

First off, Hein's staff would trample and destroy Auerbach's staff in a heart beat. Auerbach has a very low budget and a very small staff even though he is the Chief fiscal officer for Ulster County. It's laughable to read and it has Hein's name written all over it. Hein is trying to beat Auerbach up and damage him to sorta say I'm the boss and this is what you have to look forward to if you run against me. It's all smoke and mirrors.

What the Freeman story fails to mention is the following:

- Hein's office approved all these trips and there is documentation to prove that, which we will update in short order.

- Two of Hein's people accompanied the staff in the comptroller's office on the Boca Roton training.

- Hein spent more than 48k on his hair and tanning alone this year!!

- The trips were trainings for Auerbach's staff not the Comptroller himself.

Some may point out you can do some of these trainings online and save money but you get what you pay for. If you're an employer looking to hire someone do you hire the guy that studied at Yale or the guy that studied at the University of Phoenix? And we'll leave it at that. A lot of our family are alumni of the same college that has housed such notables as Mr. Matthews and Allan Hevisi but that's neither here or there.

These trainings accomplished the following:

Invested in the Comptroller's staff to make them better at what they do.

Thanked citizen volunteers with breakfast at early morning meetings. Gotti was beloved in his neighborhood in Queens because he never overlooked the little guy.

Recognized local h.s. students for contributing their entrepreneurial efforts for their school and community.

Made sure that the best and the brightest are working in government

With all due respect to our boss, people should not be fooled, this story was manufactured by Hein through the Freeman to try and discourage the Comptroller from challenging him. Elliott should expect a dead fish in his freeman box if he doesn't get this hint from the Skipper.

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The Omerta Report

We applaud Tracy Bartels for stepping up to the plate and coming out against Sheriff Van Blarcum's warrant checks for people that use county buildings particularly dss buildings. Now while we think the skells, shouldn't be using our tax payer dollars when ninety percent of them can work and don't but it sets an awful precedent.  And anyway, I got enough to worry about, now I gotta worry about getting pinched if I go to take a piss at the glass menagerie? Marone!

The Sheriff needs to let this one go, it's not winning him any friends that's for sure.

We hear CeCe is taking her loss very hard, we almost feel for her....not! She had her chance, she was such a hypocrite, she campaigned on getting money out of politics, which right there is a reason we would vote against her but truth was she was getting tens of thousands funneled to her. She said shed stop the tax payer funded mailers and it was reported she was the biggest offender sending out the second or third most mailers of anyone in the NY senate! We never liked her and we are glad voters saw through her bullshit. Go back to Doonesbury and start milking some sheep hun,  cuz your time milking the tax payers with your bs and lies is about to come to an end.

Last week we opined about some possible candidates that may run against Mayor Gallo and we wanted to add one, it's a long shot, a very long shot but it would be phenomenal if Jimmy Sottile stepped up to the plate and ran. He's got the fire in his belly and Gallo has done nothing but bash him and all work he did during his tenure as Mayor. I know Jimmy wants to do it but his other family, his real family wont let him and we respect that. Being the captain of Kingston is a thankless job but who wouldn't wanna see the Gallo/ Sottile showdown? Jimmy always had insecurity about his legacy as being second best to T.R. Gallo, even though Jimmy was probably more honest and may have done a better job, T.R. had a gift, he was boss of our family for years. Hell, he started this thing of ours, he put a lot of people in action, including Sottile himself, there was something about that man that was larger than life. Jimmy and Shayne both live in T.R.'s shadow in different ways. T.R. would be sitting in his favorite bar stool in heaven sharing a beer with Franky Keiong, looking down watching the best Mayor's race in Kingston's history.  We can dream right?!

Some friends of ours are buzzing over what to do with our Consigliore Frank Cardinale, after the showing in last weeks election, he's gotta go. We never liked Frank, he has that napoleon complex that led to that rat Sammy the Bull's downfall, unlike Sammy though, Frank is an idot and makes dumb decisions regarding leadership positions. A friend of ours said it best at Sunday dinner last week,  he said to me, the only Democrat to win was the one that Cardinale ignored. Of course he's referring to Assemblyman Kevin Cahill. He's right. More than that while our family is struggling to eat and dealing with light envelopes cuz of this civil war our family is having,  Cardinale is living large, he got a lot of money from our union friends to help out CeCe in her election, we are talking like 360 large. He spent about 160 of that on CeCe, where is the remaining 200k??????


Read This

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/de-blasio-fundraiser-50g-made-developer-feel-uncomfortable-article-1.1992475


Excerpt:

The News on Wednesday found additional examples of Democrats using county committees to funnel money to individual state Senate campaigns.

The Ulster County Democratic Committee on Oct. 14 took in $364,000 from four labor unions and a Manhattan-based corporation. On Oct. 17 and 20, the committee turned around and sent $160,000 to the campaign of Sen. Cecilia Tkacyzk, who is in a tight race.

That's a lot of money and not for nothing, CeCe lost. So either Frank was too dumb to use every penny on her or he was greedy in keeping the money for other things. Either way you're out Frank!!

The problem is who will replace Cardinale, while Mickey mouse would do a better job than this fanuc, we need to pick someone that will help us grow as a family. Someone that will be objective and work with the family's leadership,  Brain Cahill would be a good choice, someone along those lines. Maybe Hoffay grows some balls and comes out of retirnment, what else does he have going on? We know he wants back in, he lives for this stuff, Tommy step up to the plate, you know you have the support!!  Maybe we can elect a woman as Consigliore, ten years ago you could get clipped for even mentioning that but times have changed, our family is talking and promoting this woman equality crap, let's not be hypocrites, we're better than that. There are a few great women in our family that could do the job.

Water Water Everywhere and Not A Drop to Drink

What is going on with all this water stuff. Lets say for the record we support Niagara Water company in it's quest to sell water from Cooper Lake and pay the City it's tribute for use of our lake. It's a win win for all of us. We get our aging equipment fixed by a private company and years down line the city and town of Ulster will make a profit and hundreds of jobs created. Sounds good right?

In government nothing is easy, you have the crazies on the left against it for environmental reasons, you have anti Gallo people against it because they hate Gallo and you have Rebecca Martin's panties in a bunch because she has nothing else to do. Now she wants a study, what the fuck, why don't we study how far that stick up your ass is Ms. Martin? Than you have Gallo and Quigley, two Captains and good earners in our organization fighting to see who has the bigger dick.

Ulster should have lead agency status, giving it to the state makes no sense, why give up control? Gallo needs to stop listening to Andy Weasel and work with Supervisor Quigley and get this done. Gallo and Quigley are from two different families and for that reason there is always tension but the two have always gotten along until recently. We know Quigley is smarter and more savvy than Gallo, you can throw Quigley down a sewer and hed come up with a gold watch in each hand, he knows how to make money and that's what this business is all about. Gallo on the other hand is more aggressive and commands a higher level of respect, you know not to fuck with him, he's the boss.


Cooler heads must prevail and our two families need to work together to get this done, there is a lot of money in this, garbage is no longer our bread and butter like it has been in the past. We need to expand our horizons and this water thing aint a bad idea. We feel all this coverage in the paper and fighting between families is just the beginning and that's a shame because Christmas is coming and our envelopes keep getting lighter and lighter with all this fighting.

Van Blarcum Gives Falutico the Boot

Some friends of ours are buzzing about a big fight between Paul Van Blarcum and Frank Falutico in the Ulster Sheriff's office last week. Van Blarcum who was just reelected to a third term told Falutico to get the fuck out or retire. Falutico chose the latter and his last day is Friday. We respect both men so we wont go into specifics but it's very interesting stuff to say the least.

Van Blarcum couldn't of got elected if it was not for Frank in 2006, Frank was the brains behind the campaign and left the district attorney's office to become Van Blarcum's Under Sheriff. However in politics friends come and go, it's sad, there is no loyalty anymore. We also know the situation and it was probably for the best. Frank should work on his golf game the next few years and consider a run for Sherriff. Van Blarcum probably will retire next time around and as long as Frank fixes things with some of the rank and file police from his kpd years, he should be our next Sherriff.

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Eating Crow

Rumor has it that a local female lawyer that I think of when some friends of ours drink a local beer, we think when we drink that beer that she is partner in a premier local law firm in Kingston. Anyway the attorney in question may have had one or two glasses of wine to much at a local event earlier this year and mouthed off to Keri Savona that she was just another pretty face and proceeded to tell her that she had no right to run. Well, Keri Savona is now a family court Judge, and you are number two in a second rate law firm..You're no Manetti, Manetti and O'Connor and we will leave it at that. We hope the Hon. Keri Savona has the last laugh. Even though we wish Gilda would have won, we know Keri will do a great job. :)

Post Election Brief

Well we hate to gloat but we were spot on with all our election day predictions. CeCe got destroyed, congratulations to Senator elect George Amadore!!!! We also congratulate our Congressman Chris Gipson on schooling that rich kid trying to but his way into Congress. We have no problem with young people in elected office. In fact that young Congresswoman elect in NY --Elise Stefanik is some piece of ass or should we say, some Honorable piece of ass. Wow!! What a sexy woman. Congrats to the people of her district, we hear she is a very bright competent woman.   In short it was a great night for Republicans across the Country and Ulster County was no different. Sad to see that Gilda Riccardi lost but some friends of ours are close with the Savona family and think Keri will do well, salute.

All in all, Ulster Democrats need to regroup and be united next year. Does that mean getting behind Mayor Gallo and making sure we stand behind him in a united front? Maybe it does, sometimes putting past in the past and focusing on the future is the best way to go. However, Gallo needs to grow the fuck up and dump Zweeben for that to happen. More later.

The Omerta Report ---Special Election Day Edition

Election day is upon us here are our predictions based on conversations at Sunday dinner with some friends of ours last night. We have not been updating last few days, after our initial post, Mike Hein has had the family on lock down and looking for blood. Hein once put Adele in a thirty day quarantine for sneezing near him so we need to be careful.


C.C. enjoy your last few months as a New York Senator, we hear even her main staff know she's going down. Rumor has it her main guy was caught on tape talking shit about how bad her and Eldridge were going to lose. Now Im no fan of CeCe's but that's grounds for being whacked out of his job. Alanna should have that position anyway and we'll leave it at that. Alanna is loyal and cares about her boss, she would be a good chief of staff to any local candidate and deserves to get her button for full membership of our family.


Sean Eldrige proves that money can't buy support. He is losing 26 plus points in the polls and has no chance to pull this race out.


We predict a Riccardi victory for family court that will go to absentee ballots, we would not be surprised if it goes the other way. The race will not be a blow out either way.


Kevin Cahill will easily shoot back his challenge from Legislator Roberts.


Cuomo, Schneiderman, DiNapoli will all cruise to reelection, while Cahill is a good choice for AG and will give Schneiderman a run for his money, some friends of ours (Vince Bradley and Jonathan Sennett), both work for AG Schneiderman so we are making our calls, putting pressure on the unions to get this guy back in office.


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In other news:


We hear Ellen DiFalco, who is husband of former Independence boss Crazy Joe DiFalco has become a Democrat and wants her button and a seat on the Kingston Democratic committee. Sweetheart, surely you jest!! Not a chance in hell that will ever happen!


Supervisor James Quigley is trying to get in shape, we hear he is working out walking the rail trail and trying to get in fighting shape for a possible 2015 run for County Executive. Can you imagine the Auerbach/ Quigley rematch for the top office in the county? It makes some political junkies cream in their pants just thinking about it.


We hear Kingston Corp Council Andrew Zweben is still an asshole no news there. Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, Zweben! Any police that read this be on the look out for a silver Audi lp# UC 64 driving around late at night. We hear he frequently leaves local establishments under the influence and drives home. tisk tisk Mr. Zweb, tisk, tisk!

Gallo's List

Who is running against Mayor Shayne Gallo? Here are a few names we have heard:


Bill Reynolds, former 18 yr Alderman and Majority Leader, we hear he is putting a lot of feelers out there about a potential run next year and he would be the best choice to unseat Gallo.


Jen Fuentes, the former Working Families Boss recently switched her enrollment from WFP to Democrat. WOW!!! Another formidable opponent.


Matt Dunn, Matt could win but he probably will not run as it would be a huge pay cut for the current Kingston Majority Leader that has a young family.


Brad Will...Has no chance but he may run.




We also hear that Gallo is warming up to Sinagra about getting the Republican line. Rich Cahill who is the Conservative Chair in Kingston, has his mouth around Gallo's cock ever since he was appointed fire commissioner so you can expect that Gallo will have the conservative line.


Independence and Working Families will both go against Gallo, the endorsements depend on who the Dem nominee will end up being next year. Reynolds, Fuentes or Dunn whoever is the candidate after the dust settles will have all three.

The Omerta Report

Where to even begin?  Let's just do a basic run down of some of what's going on in local politics.

We think it's awesome that John Parete is chair of the legislature. His legacy is a great one and he deserves to go out on top. I got caught up in the anti Parete stuff for a bit andwe have regretted it for years. We are actually friends, we  just still feel guilty.



The big war as we all know is between Hein and Cahill. Cahill has the advantage and doesn't even know it. As far as I can tell they are not even close.  Yes, Hein is a clever smart guy, he has done a good job getting that message on billboards, tv ads, mail,  milk cartons, facebook, twitter, you get the point but has he ever been tested? I will give him that he beat Sue Zimet, so did Cahill in the same type of way.  Hein has never had to run on his record and he's pissed off a ton of people, including WFP and Independence, which both would likely go to Cahill.  Cahill has been around twice as long and has twice the electoral history. To the people in this thing of ours, the life, Hein is not trusted.  Cahill has his liberal credentials. a resume that knocks Hein's out of the water and he's been tested time after time.  Lets be honest, Cahill got his button while Hein was still hawking jewelry in the mall.  Cahill being a pussy could be to the advantage of Comptroller "Lucky" Elliott Auerbach.  Like lightening, his unbelievable luck may strike twice.

Auerbach has the charm, Hein has the wink, the phony thumbs up, the smile, and the tug..and lets just say he's gonna be doing some extra winking and tugging to counteract just how a seasoned veteran like a Cahill or Auerbach would run circles around him.


The one strong ally that the skipper has is that he is friends with "brother " ; Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo. We are disappointed he has aligned with Hein over Cahill. We are disappointed in Gallo over a lot of things, the fighting with Matt Dunn in the front page of the paper, what are we writing a gossip column? Stop always taking the bait and grow the fuck up. His paranoia over little things that cause him unneeded stress. Gallo is his own worst enemy at times. Gallo is brilliant and earned this job in his own right, Blaber and Fuentes may have helped but they are casualties of war. Gallo overcame all odds he spent years on Democratic committee helping other candidates, was passed over for two Judge ships, was belittled and mocked, he made it, he's the Mayor and a smart effective one. He's also a tough mother fucker and that's what Kingston needs.  He has our full faith and confidence.  Gallo's ego could be his downfall.


Senator Cecelia Tkaczyk is just a miserable hippy twat. Vote Amadore, enough said.

Lisa Fisher would be a great addition to the State Supreme Court, she would be the only woman serving in that Judicial district.

Gilda Ricardi the Democrats' Abe Lincoln deserves to be our next family court Judge.

A new poll suggests that U.S. Rep Chris Gipson is leading challenger Sean Eldridge by more than twenty points!!! Wow, the Eldridge campaign reminds me of a bad thought out Republican presidential campaign. All the build up Rick Perry and Herman Cain got only to fall flat on their face. Sean Eldridge has failed to get his message out as to why I should vote for him over the military Vet that is doing a pretty good job as my Congressman?  Do I wanna see that district go blue? Yeah but not by a empty suit,  heiress snot like Shaun Eldrige. He's not in the life, hes not in this thing of ours, he's not a gangster, he hasn't paid his dues. You pay your dues with sweat and hours of phone calls and door knocking and getting abused by made members with big egos, writing big checks to pay tribute is a big part of it but you can't just buy in with cash and cash alone. Don't get it twisted, Sean Eldridge, we want your money, we'll put it in our housekeeping fund and use a portion of  it to feed needy gay kids, now write a big check, ok? Thanks, you wanna be a state committeeman ? maybe. Our Congressman? Not even close.

And another thing kid, stop comparing yourself to Maurice Hinchey, you are no Maurice Hinchey. Your money is the only reason you have Dem nomination. This district does not elect carpet baggers just ask Jim Tadisco.

We hear Hein is Gallo's bitch, doing his dirty work for him. It's being talked about among some friends of ours that Hein went up to Majority Leader Matt Dunn and told ' him in not so many words to get in line with Gallo. The skipper doesn't ask that twice. For the Don himself to get so aggressive  shows how much clout Gallo has now. Enough to crush Cardinale? Well Shayne, cash that chip in now bro, you need all help you can get next year. We actually want you to win but we think Gallo underestimates the people he has allienated and his stubbornness at times is annoying. Why can't this brilliant guy get his anger in control? self control Gallo, get it in check! Gallo he's a good earner and his brother started this thing of ours, he has vision, brains that others don't, we can use all that.

Getting back to Cardinale, even Hein can't stand him. We hear Hein keeps him around because he has dirt on him. FYI to Hein:  The pictures of you shining the cubic zirconia in the back of Zales are hidden in Frank Cardinales toupee. Next time you see him pretend like you have to tie your shoe and take them.  Manja Lugots!!!

Welcome, Who We ARE?

We are very much in the loop and have a great deal of inside knowledge of the politics of Ulster County. This is our secret journal, as political foot soldiers/pows in the Mighty Heiny Army, I must do this blog anonymously as to not break the code of omerta. The skipper will hit us with his golf clubs if we speak to the press.  It'll be our secret, ok?  I hope I only have to say this once,  Capish?  Who are we?  We are doctors, lawyers, pediatricians, construction workers, veterans, degenerate gamblers, Shylock's,  we are prisoners of War to the Mighty Heiny.  We once crossed the mighty Heiny and he put  a spell on us. We are political soldiers by day and a prisoner to the Mighty Heinys campaign army for all of eternity. That's my vow to my Godfather Mike Hein, we have chosen that life but we will use  this blog to relieve the guilt.

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