The Omerta Report -- Gallo's Campaign Impolding

DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT

As we have all heard by now Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo is not having a great week but before we get to the obvious we wanted to address the CSEA endorsement of Gallo. The CSEA endorsed Shayne Gallo's reelection and here is why it doesn't matter and why it is all smoke and mirrors. The CSEA endorsement was not a fair endorsement by any means nor was there anyway they were going to support anyone but Gallo. This is not us being bitter, the Second Noble and Polacco got their questionnaire they had to of known they were not getting it. The contact person was a woman named Jill and we like Jill and respect her so we will not post her last name or say she personally did anything wrong but we must point out that this woman is Mayor Shayne Gallo's cousin and not only did she lead the interview process and interview all the Mayoral candidates; before she conducted a single interview for Mayor or read a single one of their questionnaire responses  she went out and got Mayor Gallo close to 100 signatures to get him on the Democratic ballot.  This was not a fair open process by any means it is all smoke and mirrors,  don't forget Shayne Gallo used to work for CSEA as a labor specialist before he was FIRED for his erratic behavior, these are all facts, look into them. Ask Howard Baul, the Current CSEA labor specialist what he thinks of Shayne Gallo. CSEA endorsement was delivered to Gallo by his cousin and Troy Ashdown's friends both his cousin and Ashdown's work together and are good people and they did their boss a solid and he owes them for the P.R. Splash but the rank and file members are not voting for the guy, they are smarter than that.

 With that being said  we an get on to what the entire City is buzzing about: On Tuesday the Board of Elections threw Shayne Gallo off both the Independence and Conservative party lines after his campaign failed to file his acceptances on time. To be honest this baffles us, we knew from day one that the Gallo campaign would look like amateur hour, Gallo's key team that put him in office are all no longer associated with the man or his campaign and the remaining few that are leave a lot to be desired in terms of campaign experience.. Mayor Gallo himself has no idea how to run a political campaign, all the nuts and bolts of it were done for him four years ago and he took a lot of that for granted. However, the acceptance form is such a simple thing to do and with Andrew Zweben as his attorney it defies logic how it could have happened. Zweben may be pure evil but he's smart when it comes to election law he knows the process, he knew this had to be done. Zweben we hear was practically living at the B.O.E.the last few weeks and we just do not understand why he did not file that form during one of the many times he was in that building last week.

Zweben has told people many different reasons as to why it was late, he claims he never got the acceptance letter from the board until the last day, while the general public may hear that and shed a tear the people that know this process just call bullshit on it. Lets say the boe never sent it out at all, Andrew knows it had to be filled and he knows that he can get that form at the board by going in and asking for it or by going on the website and printing it off, there is no excuse as to why this was late.

In our opinion not only was it late but we do not believe for a second that the envelope that was sent into the Board of elections was stamped in his office on the 13th, we believe it was much more devious than that. We believe it was back dated for the 13th after they realized on the 14th it was late. First that's not the type of form you mail in especially if you're in a hotly contested race and live in City of Kingston where BOE office is located. You certainly wouldn't mail it in if it's the 13th and the form is due on the 13th, you drive to the boe and file it yourself or you go to the post office and walk inside and watch the clerk stamp it in front of you. We believe neither of these things happened because it was prepared and signed on the 14th. No way Andy on the day of deadline just threw it in the mail and hoped for the best, no reasonable person that knows this process believes that.

There are others who believe that Andrew deliberately fucked Gallo out of these two lines because he is sick of his shit and constantly being embarrassed in front of people by the Mayor. Some do give Andrew the benifit of the doubt and blame Gallo for over extending Zweben. The guy does wear a lot of different hats, from Gallo's shoe shiner, legal adviser, to his campaign manager, to the spokesman of the city, the henchman trying beat up and discredit Gallo's precised enemies. It could be that Andy just had his hand in too many different things and took his eye off the ball.  We may never know real reason but regardless what the reason is the bottom line is the paper was late and Zweben fucked up big time and handed Ron Polacco the Independence and Conservative party lines in the November election.

Gallo is in a due or die situation for the Democratic primary now, the only way he can win reelection is by winning September primary. No word on whether Gallo will or even has the organization at this point to get the 600 required signatures to create his own line.

We also find it ironic that after weeks of Gallo and Zweben relentlessly blasting Noble over the mere possibility of the City losing money because of the mistakes in paperwork Noble allegedly made, the guy can't even get his own petitions in order to get him on the ballot, talk about incompetent! Maybe Gallo should of had Swanzy examine his acceptances instead of Noble's grants.  Lastly it is poetic justice that it was Jeremy Blaber that filled the objections that knocked Gallo off the lines and possibly what will end his career as Mayor.

GALLO AFRAID TO DEBATE?

Gallo is known to be an awful public speaker and does not want to participate in any debates. How dare anyone run against him anyway. They are not worthy to share the same stage with him in his opinion and  doesnt want to be bothered.

We hear yesterday in the midst of  seeing his tenure as Mayor flash before his eyes he found out that the league of women voters had organized and scheduled a debate between all the candidates for Mayor a few days before the Democratic primary at City Hall. Our sources in City Hall tell us Gallo screamed and berated City Clerk Carly Williams questioning her loyalty and competence for doing her job and allowing them to reserve space, saying it was not the appropriate venue for it.

Is this guy losing it??  It was the appropriate venue four years ago when candidate Gallo participated in a debate at city hall when running for mayor. It was an appropriate event two years ago for his girlfriend to use city hall to organize an event for some organization shes associated with. It was an appropriate venue to hold the wfp convention in back in 2011 that he won or the Democratic convention that same year where he was crushed.

Gallo's brother restored Kingston City Hall for Kingstonians alike to use and enjoy, it is unconscionable for Mayor Gallo to say the residents of the city of Kingston do not have the right to go to City Hall and hear from the candidates looking to lead their city. Furthermore it is a disgrace to his late brother's memory, and to the city he represents.

Richy Cahill Wastes No Time to Suck Gallo's Balls

Rich Cahill the Conservative that sold his soul to Gallo over a Fire Commisioner appointment loves to attack our blog. Usually instead of being a man about it he will write snarky comments on his blog anonymously. Afterwe posted the Omertà Report last night Cahill wrote two stories based on information he read on our blog, instead bashing us he should send us a thank you letter.

Cahill wasted no time in sucking Gallo's balls about the number of signatures his campaign collected and secondly questioned whether Kevin  Cahill endorsed Noble last week. We read the story in the Freeman and it sounded like an endorsement to us. Rich claimed the succesful Cahill is too crafty politically to endorse in a primary, you know like Gallo did last year when he endorsed Zimet over Cahill, a woman that didn't even stay in the race more than a few weeks. But Gallo gets a pass. What the fuck am I talkin about here just a few days Rich opined himself that Cahill and Hoffay were doing it to help Noble and how popularity was not transferable blah blah blah, so what are we splitting hairs is there any question who Kevin Cahill is voting for? We stand by our post from last night, in out opinion Cahill endorsed Noble in a politically crafty way to quote little Richy.

Lastly richy Cahill always pretends that someone called him and that he doesn't read our blog, in reality he checks probably 15 times a day. And if someone did call him it's because like him people read this blog in great volume. We are without a doubt the best sourse for politics in this county. There is no one more knowledgable about Kingston and County politics than me. I have sources with power players in every political family, included several elected officials. Our information is the best it's honest, it's direct, it's funny and Cahill is a jealous little bitch because his doesn't even come close to our blog and he's been doing it for five times as long. Rich is lucky we mentioned him today because now he'll get the attention he most desperately craves. And you're welcome Richard for the information you get off this blog to write your own.

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!

Gallo Sinks his Anchor for Midtown Kingston

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Gallo's once bold plan to make this building his anchor for the rehabilitation of midtown Kingston and the centerpiece of his administration, is now more like a sinking ship, and the same can be said about his administration, the people are realizing the Mayor Gallo they thought they were electing and had so much hope tied into has been gone for many years."

                                                                                          -Kingston Goodfellas

Gallo called the Bank of America building his anchor for Midtown Kingston three years ago when he announced that the Bank had released the property to the city for $1 and claimed at the time he had the funding in place to transform the bank into KPD headquarters an idea we supported, makes sense, next year Kingston voters will elect a second full time Judge and Judge Kirschner will need the extra room. ;~) Also to revitalize Midtown, why not have a police presence right in Midtown?! However that plan failed like most of the Kingston Capo's promises ( getting a building at Kings Inn, building a police station, creating quality of life task force), like most bipolar skitzos, Gallo shoots from the hip, gets excited about something and a week later he gets bored with it and is licking a window, paranoid another imaginary enemy is out there plotting against him.

We kid about Shayne but it's no laughing matter, the man is fucking sick, he needs help, he's brilliant and suffers with undiagnosed bipolar, has severe daddy issues and needs therapy. Here we are advocating therapy, in the old day therapy was given to us in the back of the head. Now we got this one in fucking rehab, that one in therapy..who says gangsters are just impulsive creatures that cant evolve? Problem with Gallo is he hasn't evolved, he's stubborn, a typical old school gangster that sees getting help as a sign of weakness and that will lead to his down fall come September. The guy could be Attorney General if he got his act together, he's that fucking smart. His mental heath issues are so severe though that it gets in the way of his judgement and costs the city money and he's too dangerous, too much of a liability to keep him. Rumor is Gallo was forced to sell the bank of America building to cover Chris Rea's back pay and lawyer fees. ;~)

On paper the bank sale looks like a good deal, they acquired the property from the bank for $1 and sold for $365k, well at least we know when he loses this November, he can join Hayes and Andy in the Real Estate business because that's where all the failed mayoral candidates seem to land and that's a hell of a profit Gallo got with Bank of America, he's off to a great start!!

The problem is he was able to get the building from Bank of America because he promised it would be used as a tool to help Midtown Kingston. However it was sold to a developer that has a less than stellar record with completing these sort of projects in Kingston. The developer was the same guy that got tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars from the City to build the Noah Hotel. After many years of one failed promise after another, the Noah Hotel never developed, the guy finally admitted he didn't have the money to do it.  And we doubt this guy ever paid the money back he owes to the city but we don't know that for sure but it's safe to assume he probably did not.

So Gallo gets the bank of America to give their property away for $1 under the premise it would be used by the city as a police station to better Kingston. Then Gallo declares that this is the anchor of his plan for midtown and he gives that anchor which represents a big chunk of his legacy as Mayor, to a guy who's from NYC and his only claim to fame was that he jerked off Kingston taxpayers for years while getting money from the city on a project he never completed. . What the Fuck are we dealing with heree???? No one is talking about this yet but if Noble takes a piss wrong its on front page of every paper w Gallo bitching and complaining. This is a huge blunder by Mayor G. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Gallo's once bold plan to make this building his anchor for rehabilitation for midtown Kingston and the centerpiece of his administration, is now more like a sinking ship, and the same can be said about his administration, the people are realizing the Mayor Gallo they thought they were electing and had so much hope tied into, has been gone for many years.

While the City is not required to go out to bid with this, they should of, especially being Gallo got it under the premise it would be used better the community. There should have been a process. Instead Gallo gives his Anchor toward saving midtown to literally the first guy that came along and made an offer,  a guy that has proven he's incompetent with his previous dealings with the City to boot. Plus this guy has yet to offer what his plan is for the property in detail, other than vaguely saying he'll do mixed commercial retail. So we are supposed to believe that a guy that did shit before is going to spend close to a million to restore this building  AND also rent out the space to retailers in Midtown Kingston of all places? Yeah, OK Gallo, you believe that than I got an Ark to sell you, it's nice, Jesus had it built. Our Family needs to stop the madness we can not reelect this stunade as Mayor and defacto leader of the family.

Im not crazy, Im just like you, see?!!

A Nightmare In Ulster

Fred Wadnola, is running for Supervisor of the town of Ulster. Jeez, this guy is like a horror movie, once you think he's gone and they finally got rid of him, he comes out of his hole and raises havoc, on all town of Ulster residents. One two Freddys coming for you, three four better lock your door... the guy was an awful supervisor, did even worse with his handling of the RRA as Chair of the County Legislature and now he wants back in? We will give credit where credit is due, he is savy, he has at least three pensions and has never lost an election in his life which is impressive. But Really Quigs, you cant come up with a better successor?  The Republicans in Ulster are like the Democrats in Kingston, they are the majority party, control everything but are in a huge civil war. Quigley and Maloney are fighting hardcore, they hate one another. Marrow is on and off with Quigley and we hear Quigley does not want Linda McDonough to be supervisor but we hear she is a Wadnola allie so Fred may not be Quigley's pick.

Eric Kitchen or John Marrow would be much better as Supervisor of the town. Or even better our family can wake up and capitalize on the gop civil war in Ulster and take back the Supervisor's office and retire Wadnola once and for all, we can frame the election like a horror movie too:  The Wad, the Final Chapter in poll booths everywhere November 3rd.

Gallo Self Distruction Tour Continues As He Bashes DA Carnright

 

Gallo Does His Best Rendition of Hamlet in Counsel Chambers: To be or not to be a crazy egotistical fucking lunatic, that is the question..ok..

Get your tickets here, to the Gallo self destruction tour 2015, this guy is fucking insane! Someone has to say it, he's the Capo of the City of Kingston and the acting Under boss of our family and he makes Vincent the Chin look like an even-keeled gentleman. A lot of made guys and bosses of other families are talking, this guy is outta control. He's making people come after him, you win a fight, you walk a way humble, this guy gloats when he loses fights...battle after battle he loses and declares victory and blames the victors as being wrong, the guy is delusional.

Now he's getting into a pissing match with the District Attorney??!! Are you kidding me? We hear that there are many reasons that he should not be fighting with Holly Carnright. Those in glass houses Mayor G....

Gallo's latest attack was saying that the DA should have prosecuted Chris Rea. First off if anything Holly should have prosecuted you for the way you dealt with that lady. Secondly, who is Gallo to challenge the District attorney? Gallo became a lawyer in his late thirties maybe early forties, was fired from any job he has ever had and didn't have a full time job until he became Mayor.  The guy had his mother go to Jimmy Sottile and beg her to hire her little boy. This is the same bully that acts like he is the smartest guy in the room all the time. Che palle!

Gallo Fundraisers Draws Crickets

 

We hear a fundraiser for Mayor Gallo's reelection campaign last night at Armadillo drew just a handful of people and was very poorly attended. More bad news for Mayor Gallo and it's just the beginning of July.