The Omerta Report--- Post Primary Report

Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo went down in flames last Thursday night with Steve Noble trouncing the outgoing Mayor with 57% of the vote.  Noble ran a very shitty campaign, he made mistake after mistake and did everything in the world to hurt himself but still won and won big! In reality this election was not so much Noble winning as it was Gallo losing. Not to take anything away from the kid at all, I'm sure he does a good job at the zoo with the animals but I would be willing to bet there are a lot of Democrats that woke up Friday morning kicking themselves that they did not run...two people that immediately come to mind are Bill Reynolds and Dave Donaldson both who would have easily won. Another two come to  mind as well; the first is Hayes Clement, that was the race that people wanted to see and I have to think especially after losing by six votes four years ago that Clement had to have thought about running and has to be kicking himself now that he didn't. The other is less obvious and that is Jim Noble, the Uncle of Steve. I don't care what he says, in his heart of hearts he would love to be Mayor and everyone but him knew that he was the obvious successor to Sottile four years ago and would have destroyed Gallo in the primary then or last Thursday. In the back of Jimmy Noble's mind he wishes it was him and not the nephew, without question.

The general election could go either way but with a divided Democratic party and with Ron Polacco having four lines he is the odds on favorite. Eight years ago in 2007, sitting Poughkeepsie Mayor Nancy Cozean was beat in the Democratic primary by Fred Knapp, in a vicious primary that mirrors the Gallo/Noble primary but in the general election despite a huge enrollment advantage for Knapp he lost to Republican Tkazyik who was a former member of the Poughkeepsie Common Council, it's amazing the similarities of the race. Why did Tkazyik win despite the enrollment advantage for Dems? Same reason Polacco will win: a divided Democratic party that was pissed that their Mayor was ousted and a need in the City for change of a one party dominated City for so long.

Polacco will balance City government in the sense that Jim Noble has already been reelected, he has no race, so unless you want one family running both the Executive and legislative branches of city government than you have no choice but to support Polacco. Polacco a two term Alderman that served on the council's powerful Finance committee oversaw four budgets as Alderman and has the experience, he will however have to deal with a veto proof common council that will likely be 9-0. Again though for the first time in 21 years Kingston will have checks and balances in our government. You can't have one family being that powerful. The Noble family will essentially become Gambino family in Kingston, controlling city government completely with an iron fist and more employees on city in government than I have fingers and toes, but I am missing a pinky finger from a bad bet that happened a long time ago, details not needed.  I think it was John Gotti that said Absolute power corrupts absolutely! ;) But for real!

Knapp Beats Sitting Mayor Cozean

From Wikipedia:

 Tkazyik was elected to the City of Poughkeepsie Common Council in 2001. He was reelected to the Council in 2003 and 2005. He successfully ran for mayor in November 2007 and served on the Common Council until he took that office on January 1, 2008. He was sworn into office as the City of Poughkeepsie's second youngest mayor. He was reelected to a second term in 2011


Team Gallo is bitter as ever! I will tell you that we heard Ellen DiFalco was in tears on Friday morning at City hall and crazy Uncle Joe is about to lose it, I ran into him on primary night and he threatened to have the commission whack me out. I also ran into Alderwoman Dawson the other day who was not her friendly self in my presence, the fact is the Kingston Capo is gone and Gallocrats are sore winners, I can't imagine what they are gunna be like the next few months as losers.  I will say it's been an emotional few days for our family too, a civil war is never good and a Gallo losing even if it is Shayne hurts my heart on some level. I really feel bad for Nancy Gallo, my second favorite Gallo.

Common Council:

Wards 1,2,3,4,5,7,8, are all going to be Democrat no matter what, we are happy that Seche got his balls cut off by his no name challenger.

Wards six and nine will be competitive we give the advantage to Davis is six but support Corchran and the advantage to Johnson in Nine and support her candidacy as well.


County Legislature:

Congrats to Jennifer Schwartz Berky on her victory, great lady, Woltman is a friend of mine, we at Goodfellas thought she would be a good choice but voters felt differently and wish the new legislator elect the  best of luck!


County Exec:

Not a good week for our Boss Mike Hein

We hear one of his deputy Exec's was busted over the weekend for a dwi and then we say this in the comment section of the blog regarding CSEA ENDORSEMENT:

 Mike Hein went down in flames last night at CSEA region 3. Cimorelli did piss poor job.
Joyce Howard and John Staino were his only supporters.
Both are running next year for region office. Important to let all county employees know that Cimorelli Warnock Joyce Howard and staino cannot get elected next year or Hein will have card blanch in ulster county CSEA. 

On top of all that we have confermation that Christine Hein is now a Kingston resident living with her Mom on Hoffman Street. Not a good news week for Ulster Capo Mike Hein

Terry Bernardo meanwhile held a fundraiser on the train that drew more than 200 people could we be witnessing the upset of the year?



Also we will post later with reults from Ulster GOP Caucus regarding the race for Town Supervisor: GO TEAM QUIGLEY!!!