Rockland County Democrats and County Executive Ed Day continue to clash not only over policy but over basic outlook on fiscal reality. Day vetoed all but four technical amendments made to his budget by Democrats on the Legislature. The Democrats have 11 votes in hand (including Republican Douglas Jobson, Jr.), but require 12 votes to […]
Rockland County GOP Chairman Lawrence Garvey, one of the first county chairmen in New York State to formally endorse President-elect Donald Trump this spring, was amongst a coterie of GOP attorneys dispatched to Wisconsin and Michigan to oversee recount efforts demanded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Garvey answered several questions about the trip in […]
“Mayor de Blasio’s endorsement of Keith Ellison for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee is a slap in the face to the more than one million Jews who live in New York City. Congressman Ellison’s long history of anti-Semitic leanings and anti-Israel positions are disqualifying and should be of deep concern to all Americans. Despite […]
BY ROCKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE ED DAY It would have been so easy to return to the Legislature a 2017 budget unchanged – with all of their many amendments and the promise of a 50 cent per month tax cut. But Rockland residents elected me to do the right thing, which is not necessarily the easy […]
Your Tax Cut Is In Jeopardy – Save It! By Legislator Toney Earl (D – Hillcrest) Majority Leader Rockland County Legislature When the Rockland County Legislature approved the 2017 budget with a tax cut for Rockland’s long-suffering property taxpayers, few could have envisioned the political grandstanding that followed from politicians AGAINST giving you a tax […]
BY TOM FITTON Over the years, Judicial Watch has called out many White House conflicts of interest. We fought in court against President Bill Clinton’s taking money to pay his legal bills through a legal-defense fund. During the George W. Bush administration, we questioned the propriety of his father, President George H.W. Bush, working for […]