Given
that your Piermont, New York Village Hall government and Piermont Mayor Bruce
Tucker have now collaborated with ignoble Rockland County faux laptop
journalist Tina Traster alias "The RCBJ Succubus", to launch a farcical
piece of whole cloth propaganda assaulting Preserve Piermont:
https://rcbizjournal.com/2024/07/30/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-talks-about-controversy-engulfing-his-village/
…
it is once again time to deflate their patronizing premeditated prose, and actually
translate each item of their planted fake “news” article for you, the Piermont
resident.
These
below translations are provided to you as a public service by “Unhand
Piermont!” and “Get Your Hands Off Of Piermont”, whose carefully-researched communications can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558931499740
https://www.facebook.com/groups/988245836121689
What
follows are the original individual textual passages from the fake news article written and
published yesterday by The RCBJ Succubus, with each passage first identified as “FROM THE
ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK: …” – and then translated for you immediately
thereafter in text identified as “TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK
INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: …”
Point. Then counterpoint. Throughout.
As
for the planted quotations therein from Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker alias "The
Elizabeth, New Jersey Home Goods Garmento" himself, each passage attributable to Tucker is instead identified
as “FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK: …” - and then translated for you
immediately thereafter in text identified as “TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK
INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: …”
Now, without
further ado:
-
- - - -
https://rcbizjournal.com/2024/07/30/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-talks-about-controversy-engulfing-his-village/
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Piermont
Mayor Bruce Tucker Talks About Controversy Engulfing His Village”.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Piermont
Mayor Bruce Tucker Explains How He Completely Trashed What Was Once A Beautiful
Village, In Six And One-Half Short Years Of His Dysfunctional Self-Serving Tenure”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Proposed
Development Has Cost Village Public Officials, Ongoing Litigation & A
Social Media Campaign That Has Turned Personal and Ugly.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Proposed
Development Has Given Tina Traster Yet Another Reason To Suck-Up To
Low-Rent Rockland County ‘Public Officials’ For Her Own Perceived Delusional
Fantasy Of Self-Aggrandizement”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“By
Tina Traster.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“By
The RCBJ Succubus”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Since
2018, Piermont’s Mayor Bruce Tucker has had a sweet ride –”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Since
2017, Piermont’s Mayor Bruce Tucker has put the Village’s Net Position 7.6 million dollars into the hole from an original US$800,000 surplus, while redistributing
the wealth of unsuspecting village residents into crushing long-term pension and other obligations in a manner that would make Che
Guevara proud, thereby mortgaging the collective futures of the next three
generations of Piermont, New York residents into veritable oblivion”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“…
the 66-year-old retired textile factory owner…”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“…
the 66-year old former towel and sheet salesman out of Elizabeth, New Jersey and a state
university in New York…”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-tucker-39b008104/
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“…
has worked tirelessly as a full-time, but part-time paid, civil servant and in
return has held onto his seat for what is now his fourth two-year term.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“…
has worked tirelessly to flout the interests of the Piermont residents that had
previously elected him in good faith and looked to him in vain for leadership, all
for the benefit of shifty real estate developers and his own personal
self-interest, and to the rank detriment of the Village of Piermont itself”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“The
first design was not anywhere near ready to fit in with the village and the
developer got the message”, the mayor said.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What
is amazing is that Piermont Village Hall, the Piermont Board of Trustees, the
Planning Board, the Zoning Board, and I, all coddled and encouraged the
developer since as far back as Year 2021 - and every 'message’ we gave the
developer was that the developer was welcome to run roughshod over the Village,
its environment, and its residents as long as the developer paid Village Hall
the requisite dollar-amounts”.
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/document_center/Department/Planning%20&%20Zoning%20Board/Planning%20Board/Plan_Board_Documents/2022/5-9-22/Piermont%20Developers%20LLC%20Package.pdf
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“But
the Village’s passage of a rezoning plan along Main Street last March that
gives wider berth to a proposed 14-unit apartment complex’s land-use approval
process is causing a ‘seven-year itch’, so to speak.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside
from the fact that there is more to Marilyn Monroe than the mere application of
peroxide alone, the ‘Seven Year Itch’ is the itch of recognition that, when you
elect a towel salesman, you get a towel salesman - just like if you elect an HVAC dude or a fisherman, you get an HVAC dude or a fisherman”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Are
Village residents ‘breaking up’ with Tucker, or is the daily drum of vitriolic
criticism on Facebook limited to a small subset of neighbors who live close to
the proposed development?”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Do I, Tina Traster, think that the constant uploading of primary original documents to Facebook and the
Internet is exposing the fraud that is Piermont Village government and Bruce
Tucker’s mayoral reign, while at the same time rendering obsolete and worthless my fake and sycophantic ‘Rockland
County Business Journal’ website? Don’t answer that. It’s a rhetorical question”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Can
this once-happy ‘marriage’ be saved? Is it even in danger?”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Can
a piece-of-dreck faux news article on the Internet possibly be more
overwritten than this RCBJ one? Don’t answer that, either. It’s also a rhetorical
question”.
https://rcbizjournal.com/2024/07/30/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-talks-about-controversy-engulfing-his-village/
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“For
now, the answers to these questions remain unclear.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“For
now, I, the RCBJ Succubus, have no idea what I am talking about, particularly because I never
learned how to do any real original research through FOIA, FOIL, and OPRA – as
opposed to my simply collaborating with corrupted anti-environmental low-level Rockland County public
officials to plant digital stories on their respective behalves like an online Al Samuels”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“But
for the first time in his tenure, Tucker finds himself amid a barrage of
controversy in a negative social media campaign that has cost the Village its
Planning Board Chairman and a Board Trustee, and has tied up the Village in
litigation over its zoning amendment.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Wait
a minute. Let me, the RCBJ Succubus, be more accurate. A ‘social media campaign’ is not what
excised disgraced former Board Trustee Rob Burns – the Piermont voters
did, and rightfully so. Sore loser Rob Burns then quit in disgrace, took his
little ball, and went home to play in his own sandbox. Moreover, while former Piermont Village Planning
Board Dan Spitzer quit in shame a number of weeks ago, there were several
reasons for that. Sure, Dan Spitzer was uncomfortable reading on the Internet about his Client
Nine Luv Gov brother of black socks, trench coat, Ashley Dupré, and
folded-courtesan-into-luggage infamy. Sure, Dan Spitzer was trying to escape
public life before anyone blogged the plaintiff’s opening statement in the Jones
medical malpractice case that pre-rehearing initially led to a US$56 million
dollar jury verdict before later monetary reduction:
https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/08/12/paralyzed-woman-wins-56-million-verdict-against-rockland-doctors-after-botched-spinal-surgery/
https://casetext.com/case/jones-v-jones-62673
But the real reason why Dan Spitzer skipped out on his
government post, was because he saw the inquiries to federal and state law
enforcement officials flying around on the 447-477 Piermont Avenue debacle, he
knew it was a dirty real estate deal, and he wanted to appear like he washed
his hands of it. So he bugged out faster than you could say ‘Kevorkian’.”
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Debate
over whether the “Central CBM (Central Business Multi-Use)[sic] zoning district was
a sound policy decision has metastasized into an indictment on just about every
decision the village has made or is making, whether it relates to issuing
filming permits, an oil spill, [sic]finances.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“This
is understandable when the ersatz public official making the decisions is
nothing but a former towel salesman out of Elizabeth, New Jersey”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“I
had no sense that this was going to be so controversial”, said Tucker,
referring to the CBM Zoning, which was promulgated to allow greater density and
to bring the entire historic downtown district into zoning compliance.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“I
knew full well in advance that the CBM Zone was calculated to rape the land to
the detriment of the Piermont taxpayers, residents, and voters - and to the
advantage of the sketchy monied real estate developers with whom I routinely cavort.
Yet I didn’t care at the time, because, given how asleep the Village residents were until
Year 2024, I was pretty sure that I could get away with it. My only regret now is that I am not getting away with it”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“The
mayor said the proposed downtown development would add tax rateables[sic], get rid
of an unsightly dirt patch that’s been used as an ad hoc parking lot for
years, and provide housing aimed at millennials and empty nesters to the
village.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Speaking of 'unsightly', you should see the photos of me in the toga... And aside
from the fact that ‘empty nester’[sic] should have a hyphen between the
two words, (but what is The RCBJ Succubus after all - a writer?) – I could not possibly care less
whether Village residents have adequate parking. I am desperate for any
ratables because I already mortgaged the futures of the next three generations
of Piermont residents with crushing long-term obligations, putting the Village’s Net
Position 7.6 million dollars in the hole.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
Moreover, I intend to keep selling-out the
Village to sketchy developers to build as much multi-story housing as possible
while I watch Piermont slowly flood away into the Hudson River. What do I care?
I’m aging out and retiring anyway, and this is how I retire along with my aging-out buddies in Village Hall”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“What
has shocked the mayor most about navigating his first significant controversy
has been relentless ad hominem attacks on a Facebook page called
“Preserve Piermont”, accusing him of enriching himself or enacting laws in
secret, particularly when proposals and adoption of the zone change were
noticed and voted on in public hearings.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What
has shocked the mayor most is that Village of Piermont residents actually woke
up to the pattern of malfeasance that he and his Village Hall cronies have
perpetrated upon them for years – particularly after Tucker made sure to conceal
the Piermont financials from the Village website for a four-year period from
Year 2020 to Year 2024, while propagating an opaque website otherwise that communicated little of anything of value to the taxpaying villagers paying for it”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“‘Listen,
I can take criticism’, said Tucker, who has lived and raised a family in the
village for 34 years. ‘But the worst of it is the vitriol on Facebook. If
people disagree, I’m more than willing to discuss it. But to start accusing us
of unsubstantiated inappropriateness, of kickbacks, of being paid off by
developers, of not holding public hearings, making personal attacks – this is
just dishonest.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What
is actually 'dishonest' is a towel salesman out of Elizabeth, New Jersey
pretending to know how to preside over a village of 2,500 people and its
finances. What is actually 'dishonest' is a mayor purposely failing to remediate flooding
in a village just so that it can be further exploited by developer friends for
the maximum amount of time before all those individual Piermont houses ultimately
need to be put up on freaking stilts.”
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Preserve
Piermont Facebook was founded in March; it has more than 600 members… Piermont,
a picturesque village on the Hudson River with a population of 2,500 residents,
has long been a peaceful but pricy enclave that avoided the media’s glare.
Mostly, the once working-class village that began gentrifying three decades
ago, is comparatively expensive and exclusive compared to much of Rockland
County. Notably, its downtown district rarely has vacancy signs; the village is
a magnet for area residents and day trippers in search of awesome Hudson River
access, coastal beauty, a dining scene, shops, galleries, and a touch of
history. The Victorian village played a major role during World War II when
more than a million troops marched from Camp Shanks to board vessels destined
for Europe, earning the nickname ‘Last Stop USA’… For his part, Tucker is proud
of his record. In citing his accomplishments, he lists closing the Piermont
Pier Park to motorized vehicles on Sundays from May 1 to Sept. 30, creating
Gair Memorial Park, formation of a traffic committee, passing a ‘Do Not Knock’
law, and securing grants for raising and repaving flood-prone Ferry Road. The
Mayor’s administration has also taken a lead on becoming an
environmentally-forward community, created a plastic bag-free policy via a
Reusable Bag Law, banned Glyphosate (an herbicide) on village-owned property,
converted street lighting to LEDs, tightened up an AirBnB law to prevent ‘ghost
blocks’, created a rental registry, and has taken steps to protect the seawall
and completed $100,000 in storm drainage improvements on the Erie Trail.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside
from the fact that The RCBJ Succubus cannot decide whether to capitalize the phrase
“The Mayor” or not, throughout this article, (but what is she after all, a
writer?) – I, Mayor Bruce Tucker, fully realize how beyond specious a notion it is that I have somehow protected the environment
of Piermont while it visibly becomes Venice-Italy-On-The-Hudson, given that
447-477 Piermont Avenue is planned to pave over a former Sunoco gasoline
station site that had underground gasoline tanks, and given that I just almost
paved over the Village baseball field – but hey, I screwed
in some new light bulbs, and at least no one is knocking on your door in the
middle of the night trying to buy your house at a deep discount yet, right?”
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The
village also approved a marijuana dispensary in the commercial district along
Route 9W to ‘bring revenue to the village to offset rising costs and taxes’.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Because
there’s no better way to ameliorate the dangerous road conditions of Route 9W
than to put a weed shop right on it.”
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Part
of Tucker’s Piermont ‘honeymoon’ with village residents is owed to the board’s
feat of 1 to 2 percent annual tax increases for six consecutive years. This
year, however, Piermont jolted residents with a 6.9 percent tax increase
because ‘everything hit at once’, the mayor said. ‘We’re dealing with sticker
shock on insurances, inflation, [sic] huge retirement mandates by New York State’.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What
‘hit at once’ is the collective realization by Piermont residents that their
Village government is being run by the equivalent of white-collar criminals –
although as long as I, Bruce Tucker, am around as mayor, the collars are also available in
percale as well, after a quick cell phone call to Elizabeth. Moreover, get used
to 7% annual tax increases and worse, while I and my mayoral successors will scramble in vain to dig Piermont out of its negative 7.6 million dollar Net Position hole, and
its pulverizing long-term pension and debt obligations. You have me to thank for
that inimitable brand of fiscal management”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“And
while the village’s May 31, 2023 year-end fund balance is more than $3.2
million – three times what it was when Tucker took office — financial
challenges lie ahead.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“A 'fund balance' is an illusion when your Village's Net Position is actually US$7.6 million in the hole.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
And saying to The RCBJ Succubus that ‘financial challenges lie ahead’ for taxpaying Piermont Village residents,
is like Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood firing up the ship’s P.A. system
to alert crew preparation for some choppy waters”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“When
prices increase like this, there are only two ways to keep taxes down: either
reduce services, which I don’t want to do, or increase rateables”[sic], the Mayor
said.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside
from the fact that The RCBJ Succubus still cannot decide whether to capitalize the
phrase ‘the Mayor’ or not, throughout this article, (but what is she after all, a writer?)
– the reason that I am so desperate to increase ratables has little to do with
inflation, and everything to do with the fact that I already spent the Village
of Piermont into oblivion”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Therein
lies the rub: Piermont has few vacant sites on which development can take
place. It is land poor. There is one pending application for development at 675
Piermont Avenue along the riverfront, though that application has been stalled
because the proposed restaurant project is too dense… Apart from the gaping
hole at 447-477 Piermont Avenue, there are no significant development
opportunities. ‘We’re almost to the point of zero spaces’, said Tucker. ‘The
fact that this is an apartment building means it’s taxed at a commercial rate’.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside
from my offensively misquoting Shakespeare (but what do you want from an RCBJ Succubus, anyway?):
https://good-death.english.cam.ac.uk/to-die-to-sleep-to-sleep-perchance-to-dream-ay-theres-the-rub/
- the only
‘gaping hole’ is the gaping hole void of morality which allows Tucker to enable the
paving-over of a former Sunoco gasoline station site a few hundred feet from a
Superfund site - with no real environmental oversight on the proposed 447-477 Piermont Avenue project, while transmitting utter radio silence to his Piermont constituents regarding the environmental
consequences therefrom”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“According
to Tucker’s estimates, a 14-unit apartment complex on .4 acres on Piermont
Avenue would generate roughly $112,000 annually in tax revenue, with between
$100,000 and $200,000 in one-time permitting fees. In contrast, the mayor said
a $2 million, 5,000 square-foot house on the site, for example, would generate
about $15,000 in annual Village taxes.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Leaving aside for a moment the confiscatory hustle of US$200,000 in "permitting fees" that end up in God knows whose pocket, remember that also
according to ‘Tucker’s estimates’, the Village of Piermont is in great
financial shape - even though between Year 2017 and Year 2023, Tucker’s
‘stewardship’ as mayor took the Village from a US$800,000 Net Position surplus,
to US$7,600,000 in a Net Position hole. He’s a low-level miscreant Madoff who has been
kiting for six-and-one-half years".
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Residents
opposed to the apartment project made their opposition known at an April
Planning Board meeting when Piermont Developers LLC showed a modern, boxy,
brick-and-Hardie plank multi-family building more commonly seen in urbanized
downtowns like White Plains.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Actually,
it looked like a Motel 6 or Super 8 that you would be more likely to see off of
a decrepit run-down highway near Newark or Paterson, New Jersey”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Everyone
– including Tucker – agrees the building’s aesthetics sorely missed the mark
and would be incompatible with the village’s historical character. The
developer agreed and understood it needed to go back to the drawing board.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Of
course, that’s not at all true. Tucker never put any statement on record firmly opposing the project, nor did virtually anyone else in Village Hall. The developer, thanks to Tucker and Tucker's Village Hall
consorts, angrily retracted and then threated litigation in court papers. Moreover, Tucker
and his merry band of Village Hall pranksters were the ones that brought
Village residents the planned monstrosity construction at 447-477 Piermont
Avenue to begin with, years ago, hoping that it would simply sail by the continued inattention
of Piermont residents”.
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/document_center/Department/Planning%20&%20Zoning%20Board/Planning%20Board/Plan_Board_Documents/2022/5-9-22/Piermont%20Developers%20LLC%20Package.pdf
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Two
weeks later, four Piermont residents, who oppose the proposal, filed suit in
Rockland County Supreme Court seeking to void the village’s new zoning law and
to stop the developer’s application before any approvals or permits are issued.
Residents Janice Young, Laura Healy-Grznar, John Grznar, and Valentina Zitt,
live within 500 feet of the project site at 447-477 Piermont Avenue where
Piermont Developers LLC, also named as a defendant in the suit, seeks a Special
Permit to build a 14-unit, three-story multifamily residential building.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Of
course, the most common and predictable Village Hall propagandized
talking-point, is the pretense that the objection to 447-477 Piermont Avenue is
limited to four people. Yet at this point, virtually all of Rockland County
wants the 447-477 Piermont Avenue project to be scrapped - while also wanting Bruce
Tucker to retreat to Elizabeth, New Jersey back where he came from, to sell
some more towels until his much-needed retirement”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Zitt
and Young are the moderators of the Preserve Piermont Facebook page that has
become the village’s inadvertent ‘water cooler’.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“First of all, Valentina Zitt is not a moderator of the Preserve Piermont Facebook page, but why would the RCBJ Succubus ever let facts get in the way of a good story? Moreover, whether
you call the ‘water cooler’ reference a metaphor or else a simple figure of
speech, it sure tells you why The RCBJ Succubus can only blog to websites of her own
design in a third-rate journalism market, as opposed to working a real job at a
real newspaper”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“One
poster recently wrote: ‘The overarching problem is that the page has 600+
followers and is currently a vacuum for complaining and tearing people down to
achieve a goal’.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Leave
it to The RCBJ Succubus to cherry-pick the most mentally-unstable-sounding and inaccurate comment
on the Preserve Piermont Facebook page, out of the thousands of comments opposing
Bruce Tucker that now appear there. That must have taken The RCBJ Succubus all day.
But there’s one in every crowd”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The
requirement for a Special Permit is part of a new zoning law, passed in March
of 2023, that created the CBM (Central Business Multi-Use) zone. Plaintiffs
allege the new Zoning Law and the CBM zone are illegal and have asked the Court
to declare the local law ‘null and void’. Plaintiffs also say the Village has
violated the Open Meetings Law by not posting notices and meeting minutes as
required by New York State law.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“It
is always entertaining to read how The RCBJ Succubus tries to pretend to
practice law without a license”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The
legal dispute arose after the Rockland County Planning Department, in a series
of letters, wrote the ‘local law that created the Central Business Multi-Use
(CBM) District was not properly referred’ to the County Planning Department and
that it is ‘jurisdictionally defective’.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Notwithstanding
the derisive use of quotation-marks by the RCBJ Succubus, what the RCBJ
Succubus is failing to tell you is that a Rockland County attorney has already affirmed
to the Court that the County never received the GML referral”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Zoning
Amendments require review by the Rockland County Department of Planning under
what is generally referred to as GML (General Municipal Law) Section 239
Review.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Again,
it is always entertaining to read how The RCBJ Succubus tries to pretend to
practice law without a license”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“At
issue is whether the county received the document in a timely manner. To help
prove its case, Piermont said it sent a copy of the GML to Grandview on January
10, but the receiving stamp shows a March date after Piermont adopted the law.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Actually,
it is not at all ‘at issue’. The Rockland County attorney has already affirmed
to the Court that the county did not receive the GML referral in a timely
manner, and obviously Grandview did not
receive the GML referral in a timely manner either”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The
Village says it fully complied back in January of 2023 when it mailed the
proposed text amendment to the County Planning Department. The county says the
village did not comply and says the local law creating the new zone was ‘not
properly referred’.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“It’s
a lot more than ‘says’. The Rockland
County attorney has already affirmed to the Court that the county did not
receive the GML referral in a timely manner. Yet given the apparent non-existence
of the ‘legal education’ of The RCBJ Succubus, The RCBJ Succubus will probably
never appreciate the distinction”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“In
late May, Rockland Supreme Court Justice Hal Greenwald halted, at least
temporarily, the processing of an application pending before the Village of
Piermont for a Special Permit to construct a multi-family dwelling unit at
447-477 Piermont Avenue in Piermont… Greenwald in late May entered a temporary
order granting the residents the relief they sought. The order derails the
application, prevents the processing or granting of any approvals, and
precludes the village from holding a public meeting unless and until it
complies with New York’s Open Meetings Law by making the materials available
related to the application available to the public. The Court was supposed to
revisit the temporary order July 8th… The parties are due in court on Aug.
21st.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Again,
it is always entertaining to read how The RCBJ Succubus tries to pretend to
practice law without a license”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Tucker
does not understand why residents went to court, rather than await new
architectural plans.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Tucker
does not understand how it is possible that he didn’t get away with his scheme
that he and his Village Hall cronies planned so carefully over a period of so
many years. It was the perfect hustle. Where did he go wrong?”
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“‘The
first design was not anywhere near ready to fit in with the village and the
developer got the message', the mayor said. ‘People don’t have any patience.
The developer said he would redo the plans, but they couldn’t wait’.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“I
was about to ram this thing through in April of this year before any of the
residents realized it, and then BOOM!”
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The
residents who filed the suit and others have made it clear on Facebook and
through their community activism they believe a 14-unit apartment complex will
invite additional ‘unwanted’ development, as well as increased traffic along
Main Street.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Of
course, this is anathema to me, The RCBJ Succubus, given that my life’s work,
if you want to call it that, is regularly kissing up to low-life reptilian
members of the Rockland County business community, while planting fictitious ‘newspaper’
articles in their favor, as their supplicant”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“But
the mayor is even more distressed about a letter to the court sent by the
petitioners’ attorney Brian Condon that effectively questions whether the
village clerk/treasurer has perjured herself.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“But
the mayor is even more distressed about his Village government’s most obvious
point of exposure”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“In
25 years of practicing law, I have never accused anyone of perjury”, Condon
writes. “However, in light of the stamped document presented to this court
showing that the mailing was not made to the Village of Grandview until March
of 2023, I think (Jennifer) DeYorgi Maher must be questioned under oath”… Tucker
said he finds the accusations distressing”.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What
I, Bruce Tucker, am really afraid of, is what happens to me if I get put
on the stand under oath, though”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Jennifer
is the most honest person I’ve ever met”…
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“By the way, I
also hope you will support me, Bruce Tucker, in my next endeavor to become Press Secretary for
the next George Santos political campaign”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“…
adding she is an EMT, alongside petitioners on the lawsuit. “There’s no honor
with these people; they don’t even respect fellow volunteers. It’s
unbelievable.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“If
there’s one thing that I learned while a home goods garmento towel salesman in
Elizabeth, New Jersey dealing with customer returns, it is - Blame The Victim. Always
blame the victim”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Even
more confounding to Tucker is the Judge’s decision to impose a temporary
injunction… I thought the judge would by now have lifted the injunction”, said
Tucker.
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“It
is always entertaining to read how Bruce Tucker tries to pretend to practice
law without a license”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Condon
keeps submitting letters after the cutoff date. Our attorneys have never seen
anything like this.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“How
dare Condon win this case for his clients. How dare he!”
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“The
village has hired outside counsel to handle the case, Desmond Lyons of Lyons
McGovern LLP of White Plains… This is the first time in seven years the village
has been named in a lawsuit’, said Tucker. ‘We’ve had meetings where people
disagree but nothing like this has happened in a decade.’”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“The
reason why nothing like this has happened before, is because I got away with
all of it, including through COVID since 2020, in the six-and-a-half years that
I faked mayoral duties for Piermont”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Tucker,
who worked in the private sector for nearly 30 years…”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Tucker,
who sold towels in Elizabeth for nearly 30 years…”
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“…
said the village will get through this… I’ll get through this, the board will
get through this’, said the mayor. ‘This has been very distressing. Not the
fact that people are disagreeing but the personal attacks, the misguided
tactics. Residents who are for development are also being attacked’… He added: ‘If
I thought this one building in downtown would change the whole character, I
would never have been for it.’
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What
is very distressing is that I am going to have to blow out of town now, since I
will never be able to face any of these residents again after enabling 447-477
Piermont Avenue, after over-spending their flooded-out Village into oblivion, after mortgaging
away the futures of the residents, and after destroying their ecosystem and
habitat permanently”.
FROM
THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Asked
if he’ll run for re-election in 2026, the Mayor quipped: ‘Ask me in March’,
adding ‘a lot can happen’.”
TRANSLATION
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Can
one run a mayoral campaign from Waymart, Pennsylvania?”
https://rcbizjournal.com/2024/07/30/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-talks-about-controversy-engulfing-his-village/
… it is once again time to deflate their patronizing premeditated prose, and actually translate each item of their planted fake “news” article for you, the Piermont resident.
These below translations are provided to you as a public service by “Unhand Piermont!” and “Get Your Hands Off Of Piermont”, whose carefully-researched communications can be found here:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558931499740
https://www.facebook.com/groups/988245836121689
What follows are the original individual textual passages from the fake news article written and published yesterday by The RCBJ Succubus, with each passage first identified as “FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK: …” – and then translated for you immediately thereafter in text identified as “TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: …”
As for the planted quotations therein from Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker alias "The Elizabeth, New Jersey Home Goods Garmento" himself, each passage attributable to Tucker is instead identified as “FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK: …” - and then translated for you immediately thereafter in text identified as “TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: …”
Now, without further ado:
- - - - -
https://rcbizjournal.com/2024/07/30/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-talks-about-controversy-engulfing-his-village/
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker Talks About Controversy Engulfing His Village”.
“Piermont Mayor Bruce Tucker Explains How He Completely Trashed What Was Once A Beautiful Village, In Six And One-Half Short Years Of His Dysfunctional Self-Serving Tenure”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Proposed Development Has Cost Village Public Officials, Ongoing Litigation & A Social Media Campaign That Has Turned Personal and Ugly.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Proposed Development Has Given Tina Traster Yet Another Reason To Suck-Up To Low-Rent Rockland County ‘Public Officials’ For Her Own Perceived Delusional Fantasy Of Self-Aggrandizement”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“By Tina Traster.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“By The RCBJ Succubus”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Since 2018, Piermont’s Mayor Bruce Tucker has had a sweet ride –”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Since 2017, Piermont’s Mayor Bruce Tucker has put the Village’s Net Position 7.6 million dollars into the hole from an original US$800,000 surplus, while redistributing the wealth of unsuspecting village residents into crushing long-term pension and other obligations in a manner that would make Che Guevara proud, thereby mortgaging the collective futures of the next three generations of Piermont, New York residents into veritable oblivion”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“… the 66-year-old retired textile factory owner…”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“… the 66-year old former towel and sheet salesman out of Elizabeth, New Jersey and a state university in New York…”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-tucker-39b008104/
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“… has worked tirelessly as a full-time, but part-time paid, civil servant and in return has held onto his seat for what is now his fourth two-year term.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“… has worked tirelessly to flout the interests of the Piermont residents that had previously elected him in good faith and looked to him in vain for leadership, all for the benefit of shifty real estate developers and his own personal self-interest, and to the rank detriment of the Village of Piermont itself”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“The first design was not anywhere near ready to fit in with the village and the developer got the message”, the mayor said.
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What is amazing is that Piermont Village Hall, the Piermont Board of Trustees, the Planning Board, the Zoning Board, and I, all coddled and encouraged the developer since as far back as Year 2021 - and every 'message’ we gave the developer was that the developer was welcome to run roughshod over the Village, its environment, and its residents as long as the developer paid Village Hall the requisite dollar-amounts”.
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/document_center/Department/Planning%20&%20Zoning%20Board/Planning%20Board/Plan_Board_Documents/2022/5-9-22/Piermont%20Developers%20LLC%20Package.pdf
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“But the Village’s passage of a rezoning plan along Main Street last March that gives wider berth to a proposed 14-unit apartment complex’s land-use approval process is causing a ‘seven-year itch’, so to speak.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside from the fact that there is more to Marilyn Monroe than the mere application of peroxide alone, the ‘Seven Year Itch’ is the itch of recognition that, when you elect a towel salesman, you get a towel salesman - just like if you elect an HVAC dude or a fisherman, you get an HVAC dude or a fisherman”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Are Village residents ‘breaking up’ with Tucker, or is the daily drum of vitriolic criticism on Facebook limited to a small subset of neighbors who live close to the proposed development?”
“Do I, Tina Traster, think that the constant uploading of primary original documents to Facebook and the Internet is exposing the fraud that is Piermont Village government and Bruce Tucker’s mayoral reign, while at the same time rendering obsolete and worthless my fake and sycophantic ‘Rockland County Business Journal’ website? Don’t answer that. It’s a rhetorical question”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Can this once-happy ‘marriage’ be saved? Is it even in danger?”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Can a piece-of-dreck faux news article on the Internet possibly be more overwritten than this RCBJ one? Don’t answer that, either. It’s also a rhetorical question”.
https://rcbizjournal.com/2024/07/30/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-talks-about-controversy-engulfing-his-village/
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“For now, the answers to these questions remain unclear.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“For now, I, the RCBJ Succubus, have no idea what I am talking about, particularly because I never learned how to do any real original research through FOIA, FOIL, and OPRA – as opposed to my simply collaborating with corrupted anti-environmental low-level Rockland County public officials to plant digital stories on their respective behalves like an online Al Samuels”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“But for the first time in his tenure, Tucker finds himself amid a barrage of controversy in a negative social media campaign that has cost the Village its Planning Board Chairman and a Board Trustee, and has tied up the Village in litigation over its zoning amendment.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Wait a minute. Let me, the RCBJ Succubus, be more accurate. A ‘social media campaign’ is not what excised disgraced former Board Trustee Rob Burns – the Piermont voters did, and rightfully so. Sore loser Rob Burns then quit in disgrace, took his little ball, and went home to play in his own sandbox. Moreover, while former Piermont Village Planning Board Dan Spitzer quit in shame a number of weeks ago, there were several reasons for that. Sure, Dan Spitzer was uncomfortable reading on the Internet about his Client Nine Luv Gov brother of black socks, trench coat, Ashley Dupré, and folded-courtesan-into-luggage infamy. Sure, Dan Spitzer was trying to escape public life before anyone blogged the plaintiff’s opening statement in the Jones medical malpractice case that pre-rehearing initially led to a US$56 million dollar jury verdict before later monetary reduction:
https://www.nydailynews.com/2019/08/12/paralyzed-woman-wins-56-million-verdict-against-rockland-doctors-after-botched-spinal-surgery/
https://casetext.com/case/jones-v-jones-62673
But the real reason why Dan Spitzer skipped out on his government post, was because he saw the inquiries to federal and state law enforcement officials flying around on the 447-477 Piermont Avenue debacle, he knew it was a dirty real estate deal, and he wanted to appear like he washed his hands of it. So he bugged out faster than you could say ‘Kevorkian’.”
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Debate over whether the “Central CBM (Central Business Multi-Use)[sic] zoning district was a sound policy decision has metastasized into an indictment on just about every decision the village has made or is making, whether it relates to issuing filming permits, an oil spill, [sic]finances.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“This is understandable when the ersatz public official making the decisions is nothing but a former towel salesman out of Elizabeth, New Jersey”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“I had no sense that this was going to be so controversial”, said Tucker, referring to the CBM Zoning, which was promulgated to allow greater density and to bring the entire historic downtown district into zoning compliance.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“I knew full well in advance that the CBM Zone was calculated to rape the land to the detriment of the Piermont taxpayers, residents, and voters - and to the advantage of the sketchy monied real estate developers with whom I routinely cavort. Yet I didn’t care at the time, because, given how asleep the Village residents were until Year 2024, I was pretty sure that I could get away with it. My only regret now is that I am not getting away with it”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“The mayor said the proposed downtown development would add tax rateables[sic], get rid of an unsightly dirt patch that’s been used as an ad hoc parking lot for years, and provide housing aimed at millennials and empty nesters to the village.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Speaking of 'unsightly', you should see the photos of me in the toga... And aside from the fact that ‘empty nester’[sic] should have a hyphen between the two words, (but what is The RCBJ Succubus after all - a writer?) – I could not possibly care less whether Village residents have adequate parking. I am desperate for any ratables because I already mortgaged the futures of the next three generations of Piermont residents with crushing long-term obligations, putting the Village’s Net Position 7.6 million dollars in the hole.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
Moreover, I intend to keep selling-out the Village to sketchy developers to build as much multi-story housing as possible while I watch Piermont slowly flood away into the Hudson River. What do I care? I’m aging out and retiring anyway, and this is how I retire along with my aging-out buddies in Village Hall”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“What has shocked the mayor most about navigating his first significant controversy has been relentless ad hominem attacks on a Facebook page called “Preserve Piermont”, accusing him of enriching himself or enacting laws in secret, particularly when proposals and adoption of the zone change were noticed and voted on in public hearings.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What has shocked the mayor most is that Village of Piermont residents actually woke up to the pattern of malfeasance that he and his Village Hall cronies have perpetrated upon them for years – particularly after Tucker made sure to conceal the Piermont financials from the Village website for a four-year period from Year 2020 to Year 2024, while propagating an opaque website otherwise that communicated little of anything of value to the taxpaying villagers paying for it”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“‘Listen, I can take criticism’, said Tucker, who has lived and raised a family in the village for 34 years. ‘But the worst of it is the vitriol on Facebook. If people disagree, I’m more than willing to discuss it. But to start accusing us of unsubstantiated inappropriateness, of kickbacks, of being paid off by developers, of not holding public hearings, making personal attacks – this is just dishonest.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What is actually 'dishonest' is a towel salesman out of Elizabeth, New Jersey pretending to know how to preside over a village of 2,500 people and its finances. What is actually 'dishonest' is a mayor purposely failing to remediate flooding in a village just so that it can be further exploited by developer friends for the maximum amount of time before all those individual Piermont houses ultimately need to be put up on freaking stilts.”
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Preserve Piermont Facebook was founded in March; it has more than 600 members… Piermont, a picturesque village on the Hudson River with a population of 2,500 residents, has long been a peaceful but pricy enclave that avoided the media’s glare. Mostly, the once working-class village that began gentrifying three decades ago, is comparatively expensive and exclusive compared to much of Rockland County. Notably, its downtown district rarely has vacancy signs; the village is a magnet for area residents and day trippers in search of awesome Hudson River access, coastal beauty, a dining scene, shops, galleries, and a touch of history. The Victorian village played a major role during World War II when more than a million troops marched from Camp Shanks to board vessels destined for Europe, earning the nickname ‘Last Stop USA’… For his part, Tucker is proud of his record. In citing his accomplishments, he lists closing the Piermont Pier Park to motorized vehicles on Sundays from May 1 to Sept. 30, creating Gair Memorial Park, formation of a traffic committee, passing a ‘Do Not Knock’ law, and securing grants for raising and repaving flood-prone Ferry Road. The Mayor’s administration has also taken a lead on becoming an environmentally-forward community, created a plastic bag-free policy via a Reusable Bag Law, banned Glyphosate (an herbicide) on village-owned property, converted street lighting to LEDs, tightened up an AirBnB law to prevent ‘ghost blocks’, created a rental registry, and has taken steps to protect the seawall and completed $100,000 in storm drainage improvements on the Erie Trail.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside from the fact that The RCBJ Succubus cannot decide whether to capitalize the phrase “The Mayor” or not, throughout this article, (but what is she after all, a writer?) – I, Mayor Bruce Tucker, fully realize how beyond specious a notion it is that I have somehow protected the environment of Piermont while it visibly becomes Venice-Italy-On-The-Hudson, given that 447-477 Piermont Avenue is planned to pave over a former Sunoco gasoline station site that had underground gasoline tanks, and given that I just almost paved over the Village baseball field – but hey, I screwed in some new light bulbs, and at least no one is knocking on your door in the middle of the night trying to buy your house at a deep discount yet, right?”
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The village also approved a marijuana dispensary in the commercial district along Route 9W to ‘bring revenue to the village to offset rising costs and taxes’.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Because there’s no better way to ameliorate the dangerous road conditions of Route 9W than to put a weed shop right on it.”
“Part of Tucker’s Piermont ‘honeymoon’ with village residents is owed to the board’s feat of 1 to 2 percent annual tax increases for six consecutive years. This year, however, Piermont jolted residents with a 6.9 percent tax increase because ‘everything hit at once’, the mayor said. ‘We’re dealing with sticker shock on insurances, inflation, [sic] huge retirement mandates by New York State’.
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What ‘hit at once’ is the collective realization by Piermont residents that their Village government is being run by the equivalent of white-collar criminals – although as long as I, Bruce Tucker, am around as mayor, the collars are also available in percale as well, after a quick cell phone call to Elizabeth. Moreover, get used to 7% annual tax increases and worse, while I and my mayoral successors will scramble in vain to dig Piermont out of its negative 7.6 million dollar Net Position hole, and its pulverizing long-term pension and debt obligations. You have me to thank for that inimitable brand of fiscal management”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“And while the village’s May 31, 2023 year-end fund balance is more than $3.2 million – three times what it was when Tucker took office — financial challenges lie ahead.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“A 'fund balance' is an illusion when your Village's Net Position is actually US$7.6 million in the hole.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
And saying to The RCBJ Succubus that ‘financial challenges lie ahead’ for taxpaying Piermont Village residents, is like Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood firing up the ship’s P.A. system to alert crew preparation for some choppy waters”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“When prices increase like this, there are only two ways to keep taxes down: either reduce services, which I don’t want to do, or increase rateables”[sic], the Mayor said.
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside from the fact that The RCBJ Succubus still cannot decide whether to capitalize the phrase ‘the Mayor’ or not, throughout this article, (but what is she after all, a writer?) – the reason that I am so desperate to increase ratables has little to do with inflation, and everything to do with the fact that I already spent the Village of Piermont into oblivion”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
“Therein lies the rub: Piermont has few vacant sites on which development can take place. It is land poor. There is one pending application for development at 675 Piermont Avenue along the riverfront, though that application has been stalled because the proposed restaurant project is too dense… Apart from the gaping hole at 447-477 Piermont Avenue, there are no significant development opportunities. ‘We’re almost to the point of zero spaces’, said Tucker. ‘The fact that this is an apartment building means it’s taxed at a commercial rate’.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Aside from my offensively misquoting Shakespeare (but what do you want from an RCBJ Succubus, anyway?):
https://good-death.english.cam.ac.uk/to-die-to-sleep-to-sleep-perchance-to-dream-ay-theres-the-rub/
- the only ‘gaping hole’ is the gaping hole void of morality which allows Tucker to enable the paving-over of a former Sunoco gasoline station site a few hundred feet from a Superfund site - with no real environmental oversight on the proposed 447-477 Piermont Avenue project, while transmitting utter radio silence to his Piermont constituents regarding the environmental consequences therefrom”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“According to Tucker’s estimates, a 14-unit apartment complex on .4 acres on Piermont Avenue would generate roughly $112,000 annually in tax revenue, with between $100,000 and $200,000 in one-time permitting fees. In contrast, the mayor said a $2 million, 5,000 square-foot house on the site, for example, would generate about $15,000 in annual Village taxes.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Leaving aside for a moment the confiscatory hustle of US$200,000 in "permitting fees" that end up in God knows whose pocket, remember that also according to ‘Tucker’s estimates’, the Village of Piermont is in great financial shape - even though between Year 2017 and Year 2023, Tucker’s ‘stewardship’ as mayor took the Village from a US$800,000 Net Position surplus, to US$7,600,000 in a Net Position hole. He’s a low-level miscreant Madoff who has been kiting for six-and-one-half years".
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/07/he-spent-it.html
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Residents opposed to the apartment project made their opposition known at an April Planning Board meeting when Piermont Developers LLC showed a modern, boxy, brick-and-Hardie plank multi-family building more commonly seen in urbanized downtowns like White Plains.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Actually, it looked like a Motel 6 or Super 8 that you would be more likely to see off of a decrepit run-down highway near Newark or Paterson, New Jersey”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Everyone – including Tucker – agrees the building’s aesthetics sorely missed the mark and would be incompatible with the village’s historical character. The developer agreed and understood it needed to go back to the drawing board.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Of course, that’s not at all true. Tucker never put any statement on record firmly opposing the project, nor did virtually anyone else in Village Hall. The developer, thanks to Tucker and Tucker's Village Hall consorts, angrily retracted and then threated litigation in court papers. Moreover, Tucker and his merry band of Village Hall pranksters were the ones that brought Village residents the planned monstrosity construction at 447-477 Piermont Avenue to begin with, years ago, hoping that it would simply sail by the continued inattention of Piermont residents”.
https://cms9files1.revize.com/piermont/document_center/Department/Planning%20&%20Zoning%20Board/Planning%20Board/Plan_Board_Documents/2022/5-9-22/Piermont%20Developers%20LLC%20Package.pdf
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Two weeks later, four Piermont residents, who oppose the proposal, filed suit in Rockland County Supreme Court seeking to void the village’s new zoning law and to stop the developer’s application before any approvals or permits are issued. Residents Janice Young, Laura Healy-Grznar, John Grznar, and Valentina Zitt, live within 500 feet of the project site at 447-477 Piermont Avenue where Piermont Developers LLC, also named as a defendant in the suit, seeks a Special Permit to build a 14-unit, three-story multifamily residential building.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Of course, the most common and predictable Village Hall propagandized talking-point, is the pretense that the objection to 447-477 Piermont Avenue is limited to four people. Yet at this point, virtually all of Rockland County wants the 447-477 Piermont Avenue project to be scrapped - while also wanting Bruce Tucker to retreat to Elizabeth, New Jersey back where he came from, to sell some more towels until his much-needed retirement”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Zitt and Young are the moderators of the Preserve Piermont Facebook page that has become the village’s inadvertent ‘water cooler’.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“First of all, Valentina Zitt is not a moderator of the Preserve Piermont Facebook page, but why would the RCBJ Succubus ever let facts get in the way of a good story? Moreover, whether you call the ‘water cooler’ reference a metaphor or else a simple figure of speech, it sure tells you why The RCBJ Succubus can only blog to websites of her own design in a third-rate journalism market, as opposed to working a real job at a real newspaper”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“One poster recently wrote: ‘The overarching problem is that the page has 600+ followers and is currently a vacuum for complaining and tearing people down to achieve a goal’.
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Leave it to The RCBJ Succubus to cherry-pick the most mentally-unstable-sounding and inaccurate comment on the Preserve Piermont Facebook page, out of the thousands of comments opposing Bruce Tucker that now appear there. That must have taken The RCBJ Succubus all day. But there’s one in every crowd”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The requirement for a Special Permit is part of a new zoning law, passed in March of 2023, that created the CBM (Central Business Multi-Use) zone. Plaintiffs allege the new Zoning Law and the CBM zone are illegal and have asked the Court to declare the local law ‘null and void’. Plaintiffs also say the Village has violated the Open Meetings Law by not posting notices and meeting minutes as required by New York State law.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“It is always entertaining to read how The RCBJ Succubus tries to pretend to practice law without a license”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The legal dispute arose after the Rockland County Planning Department, in a series of letters, wrote the ‘local law that created the Central Business Multi-Use (CBM) District was not properly referred’ to the County Planning Department and that it is ‘jurisdictionally defective’.
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Notwithstanding the derisive use of quotation-marks by the RCBJ Succubus, what the RCBJ Succubus is failing to tell you is that a Rockland County attorney has already affirmed to the Court that the County never received the GML referral”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Zoning Amendments require review by the Rockland County Department of Planning under what is generally referred to as GML (General Municipal Law) Section 239 Review.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Again, it is always entertaining to read how The RCBJ Succubus tries to pretend to practice law without a license”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“At issue is whether the county received the document in a timely manner. To help prove its case, Piermont said it sent a copy of the GML to Grandview on January 10, but the receiving stamp shows a March date after Piermont adopted the law.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Actually, it is not at all ‘at issue’. The Rockland County attorney has already affirmed to the Court that the county did not receive the GML referral in a timely manner, and obviously Grandview did not receive the GML referral in a timely manner either”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The Village says it fully complied back in January of 2023 when it mailed the proposed text amendment to the County Planning Department. The county says the village did not comply and says the local law creating the new zone was ‘not properly referred’.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“It’s a lot more than ‘says’. The Rockland County attorney has already affirmed to the Court that the county did not receive the GML referral in a timely manner. Yet given the apparent non-existence of the ‘legal education’ of The RCBJ Succubus, The RCBJ Succubus will probably never appreciate the distinction”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“In late May, Rockland Supreme Court Justice Hal Greenwald halted, at least temporarily, the processing of an application pending before the Village of Piermont for a Special Permit to construct a multi-family dwelling unit at 447-477 Piermont Avenue in Piermont… Greenwald in late May entered a temporary order granting the residents the relief they sought. The order derails the application, prevents the processing or granting of any approvals, and precludes the village from holding a public meeting unless and until it complies with New York’s Open Meetings Law by making the materials available related to the application available to the public. The Court was supposed to revisit the temporary order July 8th… The parties are due in court on Aug. 21st.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Again, it is always entertaining to read how The RCBJ Succubus tries to pretend to practice law without a license”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Tucker does not understand why residents went to court, rather than await new architectural plans.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Tucker does not understand how it is possible that he didn’t get away with his scheme that he and his Village Hall cronies planned so carefully over a period of so many years. It was the perfect hustle. Where did he go wrong?”
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“‘The first design was not anywhere near ready to fit in with the village and the developer got the message', the mayor said. ‘People don’t have any patience. The developer said he would redo the plans, but they couldn’t wait’.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“I was about to ram this thing through in April of this year before any of the residents realized it, and then BOOM!”
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“The residents who filed the suit and others have made it clear on Facebook and through their community activism they believe a 14-unit apartment complex will invite additional ‘unwanted’ development, as well as increased traffic along Main Street.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Of course, this is anathema to me, The RCBJ Succubus, given that my life’s work, if you want to call it that, is regularly kissing up to low-life reptilian members of the Rockland County business community, while planting fictitious ‘newspaper’ articles in their favor, as their supplicant”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“But the mayor is even more distressed about a letter to the court sent by the petitioners’ attorney Brian Condon that effectively questions whether the village clerk/treasurer has perjured herself.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“But the mayor is even more distressed about his Village government’s most obvious point of exposure”.
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-to-access-court-file.html
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“In 25 years of practicing law, I have never accused anyone of perjury”, Condon writes. “However, in light of the stamped document presented to this court showing that the mailing was not made to the Village of Grandview until March of 2023, I think (Jennifer) DeYorgi Maher must be questioned under oath”… Tucker said he finds the accusations distressing”.
“What I, Bruce Tucker, am really afraid of, is what happens to me if I get put on the stand under oath, though”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Jennifer is the most honest person I’ve ever met”…
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“By the way, I also hope you will support me, Bruce Tucker, in my next endeavor to become Press Secretary for the next George Santos political campaign”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“… adding she is an EMT, alongside petitioners on the lawsuit. “There’s no honor with these people; they don’t even respect fellow volunteers. It’s unbelievable.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“If there’s one thing that I learned while a home goods garmento towel salesman in Elizabeth, New Jersey dealing with customer returns, it is - Blame The Victim. Always blame the victim”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Even more confounding to Tucker is the Judge’s decision to impose a temporary injunction… I thought the judge would by now have lifted the injunction”, said Tucker.
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“It is always entertaining to read how Bruce Tucker tries to pretend to practice law without a license”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Condon keeps submitting letters after the cutoff date. Our attorneys have never seen anything like this.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“How dare Condon win this case for his clients. How dare he!”
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“The village has hired outside counsel to handle the case, Desmond Lyons of Lyons McGovern LLP of White Plains… This is the first time in seven years the village has been named in a lawsuit’, said Tucker. ‘We’ve had meetings where people disagree but nothing like this has happened in a decade.’”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“The reason why nothing like this has happened before, is because I got away with all of it, including through COVID since 2020, in the six-and-a-half years that I faked mayoral duties for Piermont”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK:
“Tucker, who worked in the private sector for nearly 30 years…”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL RCBJ SUCCUBUS-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Tucker, who sold towels in Elizabeth for nearly 30 years…”
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“… said the village will get through this… I’ll get through this, the board will get through this’, said the mayor. ‘This has been very distressing. Not the fact that people are disagreeing but the personal attacks, the misguided tactics. Residents who are for development are also being attacked’… He added: ‘If I thought this one building in downtown would change the whole character, I would never have been for it.’
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“What is very distressing is that I am going to have to blow out of town now, since I will never be able to face any of these residents again after enabling 447-477 Piermont Avenue, after over-spending their flooded-out Village into oblivion, after mortgaging away the futures of the residents, and after destroying their ecosystem and habitat permanently”.
FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK:
“Asked if he’ll run for re-election in 2026, the Mayor quipped: ‘Ask me in March’, adding ‘a lot can happen’.”
TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL GARMENTO-SPEAK INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
“Can one run a mayoral campaign from Waymart, Pennsylvania?”
