White Plains CitizeNetReporter - The Hissy-Fits Begin at the Michaelian

WPCNR BLACK COFFEE. By WPCNR WESTCHESTER COUNTY ROVING CORRESPONDENT, NANCY KING. February 14, 2012: It is safe to say that County Executive Rob Astorino did not get his New Year’s wish of having a more bi-partisan legislative branch. Having broken the super-majority the Democrats still hold the majority on the eighth floor. On Monday night it was apparent that things haven’t changed a damn bit with Democrats voting against the County Executive five out of eight times. At question were appointments that the County Executive had proposed for the purpose of overseeing volunteer citizen committees. The committees in question are as follows: The Housing Opportunity Commission ,Deferred Compensation Board, the Human Rights Commission, The Fair Housing Board, and the African-American Advancement Board. The dozen or so nominees were primarily Republican supporters of the County Executive but they are all volunteers. There isn’t a single appointee that was to receive any sort of salary or stipend for serving on any one of those committees. As each name was read and a vote was taken, the Democratic side of the board continually voted against those nominated. Republican legislator JimMaisano stated during the proceeding that he has “never seen such partisan and destructive antics from a group of legislators as now are witnessing from the Democratics on the board”. It was hoped after reaching a historic compromise on the budget, that these two sides of the CBoL would be able to work with one another in a more bi-partisan manner. We can expect contentious meetings from the CBoL for the rest of the legislative session as Mr. Astorino appears to be in full campaign mode while we still await a final declaration of candidacy from Chairman of the Board, Ken Jenkins.


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