How Much is An Endorsement from CSEA Worth?!

We are hearing around that the President of the Ulster County CSEA, Mike Cimorelli recently received a civil service promotion that increased his salary by approx 7k a year. Cimorelli who works for the county at their informational services offices on South Manor Ave in Kingston, went from a Grade 13 Field Tech to a grade 15 Support tech.

It's no secret that Hein has issues with labor unions, specifically CSEA, this is a guy that strongly believes in privatization, he has privatized Golden Hill and practically the entire county mental health department, which has resulted in many job loses in the county work force.  All the while The Hein Regime on the sixth floor grows each year, only thing larger than the Executive's staff is the Executive's ego.

With that being said one could understand why CSEA, which represents the most employees in county government would not want to support the guy.  The rank and file do not support the guy, we hear that CSEA Union President Cimorelli, after getting a substantial raise in pay, tried to sneak through an endorsement of Hein by bio assign members of local county CSEA and making a recommendation that went straight to the regional office in Beacon while a few key CSEA officials in Ulster County were on vacation. We hear the regional office shot the endorsement down right away and that Cimorelli is appealing, despite fact that rank and file of the Ulster County CSEA do not support Hein.

The more disturbing part about this if this is all true, is that the civil service commission which is appointed by the County Executive, increased Cimorelli's salary on an election year. We weren't born yesterday, we know what time it is, this was a legal bribe with taxpayer dollars! We are all gangsters here and we get the boss of family has to do what he has to do to get re-elected but usually that money goes in a brown paper bag is a one shot deal with the boss' own personal money. To give the guy a raise like that, and that taxpayers have to pay for to get an endorsement from a union he doesn't support is enough to make you wanna vomit. We will have more information about this in next few days.

On top of all that, Hein recently was able to knock Fred Rasmussen off the WFP ballot stopping a potential primary between the two. It's a blessing for the Bernardo campaign that this happened, I'm sure Terry was not looking forward to Hein having his signs and billboard ads out a month early while she would have to wait not being in a primary herself.  The interesting or disgusting irony of Hein knocking off Fred is that he hired the Harris Beach law firm, the same law firm that represented the county in the sale of Golden Hill.  So Hein hires the same firm that helped destroy countless CSEA union jobs, to secure his position on the ballot if a labor party. That's what WFP is, it's a party that is 90% supported and funded by unions and their platform is union based support. You can't make this shit up.