The Omerta Report --- Kingston Mayor's Race

First we wanna say that we have not posted for a little while but have been closely following what's going on. We will try and post as much as possible during election season but we have a life too. We also research and provide quality material on this blog, maybe there is only one post a week but that one post is fucking special.


Shayne Gallo announced he is running for reelection as Mayor of the City of Kingston to a crowd of about 150 people, we will give the Devil his due, he turned out a nice crowd for the event. We had to laugh that he chose the King's Inn to announce, it would be like Mike Bloomberg announcing he's running for Mayor in front of Pepsi Cola headquarters. It just didn't make sense. The only worst place would have been across the street at Bank of America where the Kingston Capo promised he was going to build a police station. The guy is literally standing on one of his failures and saying I want another four years. Or mumbling it, the guy is the worst public speaker we have ever witnessed. ok you understand,. ok you got that. ok.  We did find it humorous that the crowd which was predominantly African American, he referred to several times as '' Afro Americans" My administration has done a lot for the Afro Americans, ok.  Four years ago when Shayne Gallo announced at the King's Inn, it was genius, partly because it was our idea, not only did we come up with the location, we wrote his speech while he mumbled it to a crowd half the size in the pouring rain, ok. But four years later what has happened? it's a parking lot with a few benches. Wow!! Talk about economic development.  

We are not much more impressed with the candidacy of his primary opponent Steve Noble. Capo Gallo is a novice when it comes to politics but he is a brilliant man and capable of anything, Noble should be consulting with his Uncle, Kingston Underboss Jim Noble before he goes to the paper and says this city is on an upswing, and allowing Gallo to school him in the paper. Than there was the story about how he's going to be a gentleman Mayor which didnt make him look like a gentleman, it made him look like he lacked genitalia.  Just saying you're going to be a gentleman Mayor does not do him any favors. Instead of looking like a gentleman, he looked like a pussy and made Gallo look like a no nonsense knock around guy that gets things done, instead of the insecure bully that he is.

Don't get us wrong Gallo is no gentleman, nor is he a stand up guy and temperament is an issue that Noble needs to be hitting Shayne on but he needs to frame the issue correctly in a way that resonates with voters. The story that the Freeman ran the other day where Gallo attacked Noble for seeking funds for the Hodge Center,( you know that tired old program, that is in that tired old building his brother built and his mom the great Nancy Gallo teaches kids in.) that was a good example of who Gallo is. Gallo is a bully that will go after you with a vengeance if you dare disagree or oppose him, even if it is at the expense of the City of Kingston. That's where temperament is an issue, Noble needs to show voters that Gallo's rage effects his judgement as Mayor and leads him to do things that are counter productive and against the City he represents. ok!

We hear a prominent African American will be entering the race for Mayor of the City of Kingston, this person will be the first African American to ever run for the office and will make the race interesting. We look forward to it.

As for endorsements, we know Cahill is giving the Conservative line to Gallo, he claims it's a committee decision but the committee consists of three people including himself. Why can't the guy be a man and just say I like Gallo and I'm endorsing him, that's what we would do. This pussy footing around and trying to be the most clever guy in the room is Cahill's problem and why he will never become Capo of Kingston, a position he wants more than anything. The Working Families line is gunna be a fight between Gallo and Noble. Team Gallo seems pretty confident which surprises us. A few years ago Gallo screamed at the NYS WFP director's mother whose in her eighties at a local gym in Kingston and we all know how strongly Shayne feels when it comes to his mother, for that reason  and the fact that he's not progressive at all and seeking the Conservative line we can't imagine that he will get their endorsement. Indy line we have no idea who will get it but we do know who wont: SHAYNE Gallo. Gallo's ace in the whole endorsement came to an abrupt end when DiFalco the city Independence chair was clipped in the last election cycle failing to retain a seat on the committee as the defacto boss by a single vote, thank Blaber for that one...we again give a devil his due.

The Republican race for Mayor is interesting, the candidate will be Ron Polacco, we're fairly confident, he's a friend of ours in the life that represented a Democratic ward as a Republican for many years and he took on the GOP party machine four years ago and won, only to be crushed by Gallo in the general. That was a different time, after Gallo won the primary there was a lot of hope and good will that he would be a great Mayor like his brother T.R., people now know that he is no T.R. Gallo and no Mayor Sottile we don't mean that as a compliment. ;) Gallo has shown basic competency for the job no question but he is not half the Mayor that his brother was and his predecessor Jim Sottile?! Forgetttttabooutttit! Shayne Gallo isn't qualified to shine Sottile's shoes.  Besides all that, Gallo has shown that he is insane and  just unstable. If Polacco and Dimecco team up while Gallo and Noble fight it out, you could see the first Republican administration in this city in over twenty five years. As for DiMecco's candidacy for Mayor...surly you jest. The guy has been out of the game ten years. A Polocco/DiMicco ticket on the other hand that's a strong ticket, both are hard campaigners that have the interests of the city at heart not power and greed. Power and greed is what drives Capo Gallo, he governs in the same way Big Paul Castilano governed his crew, he got greedy and forgot who he was, he forgot he was a gangster but we digress. In closing we feel that a Polocco/DiMecco ticket is a winning one and just to see Rich Cahill's face when it happens is worth the price of admission.