Leaders and supporters of the WFP explained their strategy to block Frascone from serving a spoiler role at a press conference this morning in Tarrytown.
Thank you for reporting this story. The average citizen has to rely on information like this to ensure they vote with an opened mind. I am not sure when statemen disappeared and politicians appeared probably longer than I remember. So it is hard for the truth to rise about the falsehoods. What a shame for America.
Thanks. Croton should be proud that its own homegrown online newsletter beat out all other media on the judge’s decision by three full days and has been ahead of the story the whole time. Not to brag of course!
Thank you for your reporting Michael. If I may suggest, another future topic to explore in depth is how one sided our school board is. Our board president administers a social media page that engages in censorship. Mr. Oshiro shows up at the home of a (freshly confirmed legal) candidate he doesn’t like to arguably intimidate him. Mr. Diamond made his waves publicly accusing our local fire and police departments as white supremacists not too long ago. I’m hoping the lawsuit from PDE goes away, but it is this board’s policies that unnecessarily exposed us to it.
I have written quite a bit that is critical of school board members and I expect I will again in the future. I agree that the school board president has a serious conflict of interest controlling a community Facebook group that might want to discuss district policy. As for showing up at Frascone's house, I can't get too excited about that. He is supposed to be the WFP candidate but he won't talk to party members, so folks need to stop pretending that he is anything but a deliberate plant. It may be legal, but that reality cannot be denied IMHO.
I haven’t researched a whole lot the WFP candidate issue other than your reporting. From my limited knowledge I agree, the new candidate feels like a plant, but it was played by the rules. Do the voices of the new WFP members, who allegedly signed up to pull off this stunt, not count? It rhymes with Trump’s 2020 claim that his election was stolen from him because new voters (very legal) were successfully engaged by the dems to show up and vote.
Manipulation of rules in order to mislead voters isn’t something to be respected, even if it’s legal. A wide variety of forms of misinformation - including claiming that an election was stolen - are technically “legal,” but they are equally as dangerous to democracy.
I will just weigh in here to say that we are talking about two different things. The judge has ruled that the law requires Frascone to stay on the ballot so yes his presence there is legal. But that does not change the fact that he and those who engineered his candidacy used entirely dishonest methods to get him on the ballot. Two things can be true at the same time and so one true thing does not cancel out the other.
Agreed. Dishonesty and legality are two completely different things and both can be true at the same time. I’m not remotely trying to defend Team Lawler’s tactics. Voters should take notice (Again thank you for your reporting!) and vote accordingly.
Bringing it back home, literally… When Croton Dems moved the local election date from March to General, was it a completely honest tactic? Very legal for sure, but honest?
What I’m trying to point out is politicians will always politician. People need to step back and start using their own independent thinking, not highly processed party produced group think.
Please remember the rule here against personal attacks. There is nothing wrong with being an activist, even if one can disagree with the focus of the activism.
Thank you for reporting this story. The average citizen has to rely on information like this to ensure they vote with an opened mind. I am not sure when statemen disappeared and politicians appeared probably longer than I remember. So it is hard for the truth to rise about the falsehoods. What a shame for America.
Thank you for reporting on all this. People should know what is going on.
Thanks. Croton should be proud that its own homegrown online newsletter beat out all other media on the judge’s decision by three full days and has been ahead of the story the whole time. Not to brag of course!
I agree. This proves Croton’s own Croton Chronicle is cutting edge and very timely offering readers transparency on major events. Thank you!
Thank you for your reporting Michael. If I may suggest, another future topic to explore in depth is how one sided our school board is. Our board president administers a social media page that engages in censorship. Mr. Oshiro shows up at the home of a (freshly confirmed legal) candidate he doesn’t like to arguably intimidate him. Mr. Diamond made his waves publicly accusing our local fire and police departments as white supremacists not too long ago. I’m hoping the lawsuit from PDE goes away, but it is this board’s policies that unnecessarily exposed us to it.
I have written quite a bit that is critical of school board members and I expect I will again in the future. I agree that the school board president has a serious conflict of interest controlling a community Facebook group that might want to discuss district policy. As for showing up at Frascone's house, I can't get too excited about that. He is supposed to be the WFP candidate but he won't talk to party members, so folks need to stop pretending that he is anything but a deliberate plant. It may be legal, but that reality cannot be denied IMHO.
I haven’t researched a whole lot the WFP candidate issue other than your reporting. From my limited knowledge I agree, the new candidate feels like a plant, but it was played by the rules. Do the voices of the new WFP members, who allegedly signed up to pull off this stunt, not count? It rhymes with Trump’s 2020 claim that his election was stolen from him because new voters (very legal) were successfully engaged by the dems to show up and vote.
Manipulation of rules in order to mislead voters isn’t something to be respected, even if it’s legal. A wide variety of forms of misinformation - including claiming that an election was stolen - are technically “legal,” but they are equally as dangerous to democracy.
Claiming a legal election as stolen is exactly what makes Trump very dangerous for democracy. I couldn’t agree more with that.
Here’s to hoping Mondaire and his supporters don’t do the same if they lose.
I will just weigh in here to say that we are talking about two different things. The judge has ruled that the law requires Frascone to stay on the ballot so yes his presence there is legal. But that does not change the fact that he and those who engineered his candidacy used entirely dishonest methods to get him on the ballot. Two things can be true at the same time and so one true thing does not cancel out the other.
Agreed. Dishonesty and legality are two completely different things and both can be true at the same time. I’m not remotely trying to defend Team Lawler’s tactics. Voters should take notice (Again thank you for your reporting!) and vote accordingly.
Bringing it back home, literally… When Croton Dems moved the local election date from March to General, was it a completely honest tactic? Very legal for sure, but honest?
What I’m trying to point out is politicians will always politician. People need to step back and start using their own independent thinking, not highly processed party produced group think.
Please remember the rule here against personal attacks. There is nothing wrong with being an activist, even if one can disagree with the focus of the activism.