The Omerta Report

Petition Season is over and now the election really begins to take shape and we at Kingston Goodfellas are really excited.

In the County Executive race Mike Hein will be on the Democratic line, which could end up being his only line as he faces a challenge on the WFP line from Fred Rasmussen who is a member of the Working Families Party and working hard to win the support of his party.  A Green party candidate has also filled petitions, Hunter Downing, like Fred he is with the railroad and they pan to steam roll over Hein so the tracks stay in Ulster county. Terry Bernardo, former chair of county legislature, who has signifigant Dem support will appear on the Republican, Independence and Conservative lines.

Shayne Gallo, author of a new book coming out this fall, how to lose an election without really trying, filled petitions to run on the conservative party line. Gallo to be fair is the most Conservative candidate in the race but this will not help Gallo in the Democratic primary. It does give him good placement on the ballot if he takes the race to the November election to have all Kingston voters decide his fate. 

Gallo and Noble both filled Democratic petitions, Noble got 895 to Gallo's 700...pretty even and impressive on Mayor G's part, that's a lot of signatures without support of the Democratic committee.

Ron Polacco filed petitions for the Republican, Independence and Conservative lines and looks to be in good shape as the Democratic civil war is about to go in full swing. Polacco has a good shot of becoming the first Republican in twenty yrs to take the front office at City Hall.

Steve Noble did get a nice boost in his campaign the other day, with Assemblyman Kevin Cahill endorsing his candidacy over Gallo. That's a big fucking deal. Cahill likes to play it close to the vest and to come out against the sitting Mayor even if he's a lunatic, that's a big deal. It shows the confidence the party and leaders in the community like Kevin have in Noble's race in the Democratic Primary.


Crazy Joe DiFalco made some boo boos on some of Gallo's Aldermadic candidate's Independence petitions; Andrew Champ Doran and Tony Davis (who we also support) will not appear on the Indy line in the November election after DiFalco failed to identify the City and County on their petitions respectively. 

Dean Fabiano was cross endorsed for County Leg by the County Democratic committee after making a deal with our party that he would support Peter Loughran or Hector when the chairmanship votes comes in January. Put it this way, he made a deal that he would not back Parete. We are very unhappy with this deal, the way the party continues to disrespect John Parete amazes us, he's a former boss that achieved great things and made our family the majority party in Ulster county. Mike Hein, Paul Van Blarcum, Elliott Auerbach and countless others are enjoying the fruit of John's hard work. It wasn't too long ago that our conventions were held in telephone booths, not the fucking Holiday Inn with a standing room only crowd.

Speaking of deals we hear Fred Wadnola has made a deal with Jim Maloney to make town clerk Linda McDonough the Supervisor. Linda who wants to be Supervisor is a little worried about beating Quigley's people at the caucus and knows he wont challenge Fred. The plan is to make Fred the candidate, and have Maloney stack the committee on vacancies so Wadnola can step down before September and the committee will appoint McDonough to represent the ticket in his place. And with no Democratic Opponent, essentially that three member committee will be electing her the next town supervisor. Absolute power, corrupts absolutly!