The Omertà Report

The Gallo Curse is no more. We thought on election night that history was going to repeat itself when Andy Champ Doran pulled out an upset victory on election night having just one minor party line in the Ward 3 race for Alderman. Alderman Will who has been a frequent critic of Gallo looked like he would be the second Democrat in Watd 3 to lose their seat at the hands of a Gallo. TR Gallo took out Charlie Landi, a let's say, ten yr incumbent in 2000 by going door to door with GOP newcomer Jankowakie.  I give credit where it's due, it's very impressive  Champ Doran was able to capitalize on the ethics issues Will faced last month.  The committee though was nothing more than a joke, all people on committee were appointed by Gallo. The Chairwoman Jean Jacobs who is easily influenced by power was made to feel inportant by Gallo and she followed his orders. Jacobs is also BFFs w Gallo's secretary Ellen DiFalco.  The two would get on their brooms a half hour before the meeting and fly up to the bell tower where DiFalco would hand Jacobs Gallo's requests. That committee did what Gallo said and Ms. DiFalco should be ashamed of herself for using Ms. Jacobs friendship for political gain. I don't blame Jean she doesn't even know she was used.

Alderman  Will looked like the likely successor to Matt Dunn for Majority Leader but after winning by just 17 votes will he get it? Steve Shabbot Should be Majority Leader. Mills who could do the job and a good one,  will not get it because she is preseved as a Gallocrat and Will is very snarky and arrogant. Steve Shabot in Ward 8 should be the next Majority Leader, he's very even keeled can work with every member of the Majority without infighting, plus he's a fucking rockstar. On Facebook we saw an advertisement that Shabot would be performing at Uncle Willy's with his band.. Very cool.

Gallo cut Steve Noble's job out of the budget next year and Noble is pushing for it to be put back in. Personally, I wouldn't want anyone working with my wife, if I was Steve Id say salute and move on. Julie is more than capable of doing the job by herself you don't need two people, what do one of Noble's cousins need a job? I don't get why it's neccisary to add this spot back. Steve is the Mayor- elect he won the battle and the war, let the position just go and focus on your transition because you have no fucking clue what you're about to step into son. Everyone thinks that being Mayor is easy until they sit in that chair.   Mayor elect Noble however  insists  on putting the job back in the budget which will happen, whatever he wants he will have.

Why? Well because his last name is Noble duh! And his Uncle is counsel President Jim Noble and they are members of the Noble family dynasty.  In addition to that as counsel President Noble presides over an 8-1 veto proof Democratic counsel, which is the problem. There will be zero checks and balances in city government for at least the next two years, probably four. That's not good government. Getting back to his job thou, if they wanna put it back in the budget, I'll volunteer to do the job,  I don't know what the fuck I'm doing but I'll do the job  just to work w Julie, we can go on little nature walks and picnics. Also,  I really would like to be Mayor one day and I know that the position of envirmental educator will give me the neccisary tools and experiance to do the job, so sign me up baby!

Mayor elect Noble is in over his head in our opinion, do you really think Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer are gunna meet with this guy and take him serious? I don't see it, I see Cuomo getting in his limo and chuckling all the way back to Albany. Wtf how did this happen? I do wish him the best though, don't confuse us busting balls with us not liking Noble, we don't even know the guy to be fair. We give him the benefit of the doubt and his Uncle, who we know very well, is one of the nicest people we have ever met. We supported Polacco for Mayor and we still feel he should have won but the people have spoken and we should all give the guy a chance cuz he's gunna need it. 33yrs old and the Mayor of Kingston..that's scary but damn impressive, no matter how he did or what his last name is, there is defiantly some jealousy on our part that comes out of us while writing this, we hope Steve has a good tenure as Mayor and wish him well.


County Legislature-  who will be chairman? Our money says Rich Parete, who's a great guy is the odds on favorite, he will be the reason why the GOP is in the majority and he should have the chairmanship as a result. Before Democrats wanna open their mouth and attack Rich for this, they can thank Mike Hein. It was Mike Hein that endorsed Parete's opponent in the Democratic primary and it was Mike Hein that made sure Parete lost the convention. Mike Hein should get on his knees and blow the Parete's on command, how quickly he forgets that while he was a Republican, working shining  earrings at a jewelry store in the mall, it was  the Parete's that were building the Democratic Party in Ulster County to the power house it is today. It's John Parete that got the neccisary signatures for proposition one, which was passed in 2007, changing the charter to an executive form of government. How Hein is able to shrug that off amazes me. What did Hein do for the Democratic Party? What has he ever done for the Democratic Party even as executive, he's done nothing to help candidates and promotes only himself.! Ken Ronk may also be in the running for Chairman so it'll be interesting.

Speaking of Ken Ronk, him and David Donaldson introduced legislation to increase the pay for county legislators from 10k to 14k. First off we support it, Ulster County by far has the lowest paid legislators we have ever seen. 14k is not unreasonable, however it was sneaky to introduce the legislation in December. The law states they must do this salary increase on certian election yrs and the reason for that is to allow the people to decide and to have their voices heard on the matter.so To introduce this in December may be legal but it's  shady. Not to single Donaldson or Ronk out this is something I'm sure everyone agreed on months ago. Both party's rank and file knew too. Everyone but the voters knew apparently.

Jim Quigley proved on election night that he is still the boss of the GOP in this county and certainly the town of Ulster, Quigley easily beat Wadnola for reelection and his candidate for clerk won over Incumbent Linda McDonough. Don't fuck w Quigley.