WPCNR MR. & MRS. & MS. WHITE PLAINS VOICE. December 31, 2005: Upon reading Mayor Joseph Delfino's letter to Deputy County Executive Larry Schwartz, (acting as County Executive while Andy Spano is away), criticising Mr. Schwartz's handling of the 85 Court Street homeless housing the county is pushing on White Plains, according to the Mayor, a reader remembers how The Coachman homeless was established on East Post Road:
Remember the story about people who live in glass houses?
Questions:
* If Joe Delfino voted for the housing of 400 homeless on Post Road in the Coachman Hotel in White Plains, ("and continues to support it") when he was a county legislator, why does he object to housing 43 more homeless at 85 Court Street?
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* Did he insist, as a legislator from White Plains, that the county work with the city to devise a management plan for housing and rehabilitating the homeless at the Coachman as White Plains proposed and even offered to develop if the county allowed White Plains a say in its execution? NO!
*Did he insist, as a legislator from White Plains, that the county work out a solution to the problem of daily calls to the White Plains police and fire for prostitution, rape, drugs, vandalism to cars, etc., at the Coachman? NO! These problems were resolved in spite of our former legislator from White Plains!(Joseph Delfino)
The fact remains that the largest homeless shelter in White Plains came into being while our Mayor was a county legislator and now he takes credit for establishing a homeless shelter while objecting to additional homeless in White Plains. What a city!
A Citizen Observer for 2006
