A picture is worth a thousand
words.
In yet another photograph
which a Piermont, New York government official decided to publicly-post to
social media and the Internet, here’s an image of the new Village of Piermont
DisTrustee, one Rondi Marie Casey, getting skunked on what looks to be an
oversized shot-glass of Pepto Bismol:
Dateline October 15, 2024. It
is the Tuesday after Justice Greenwald’s Friday decision voiding out Mayor Bruce
Tucker’s favorite 447-477 Piermont Avenue overdevelopment and farkakte “CBM
Zone”. Yet as of this publication, Tucker refuses to get out in front of the story
and communicate directly with his Piermont constituents about it. Tucker should
be apologizing for wasting tons of their taxpayer money and leaving the now-dispirited
Village of Piermont in shambles, financial and otherwise. Instead, while now planting newfound threats
of an even more expensive litigation appeal through the Village’s Westchester
outside counsel and the fake newspaper of the RCBJ Succubus, Mayor Bruce Tucker
himself continues to hide from those residents that elected him and put him in
office, like the coward that he is. Each further day of his own silence, Tucker
continues to earn and deserve the Big Chicken award that Unhand Piermont!
conferred upon him:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/10/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-hides-from.html
A number of days ago, Mayor
Big Chicken realized that he needed to set up the Piermont Village Board of
Trustees so as to prepare to override a likely Rockland County rejection of the
447-477 Piermont Avenue overdevelopment and the CBM Zone, following the
inevitable New York State Supreme Court decision against him out of New City:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-courts-decision-in-young-v-village.html
You see, a few weeks prior, Tucker
had just scared the wits out of former Village Trustee Nathan (Nate) Mitchell,
making Mitchell "quit" the Village of Piermont Board of Trustees over what could
only be described as a Dean Vernon Wormer threat of Double Secret Probation worthy
of that scene in “Animal House”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tfK_3XK4CI
So Bruce Tucker realized that
he had a potential problem. To override the Rockland County Department of
Planning on their likely-imminent rejection of the CBM Zone and the 447 development project, Tucker needed a supermajority
of the Village of Piermont Board of Trustees – that is, a numerical majority plus
one more vote. The Piermont Village Board of Trustees is typically comprised of
five people, inclusive of Mayor Big Chicken himself. Yet after forcing out Nate
Mitchell, Tucker only had four people left on that Board – himself, Christine
McAndrews, Michael Wright, and Mark Blomquist. Now, you might jump to the
conclusion that a “supermajority” of that residual body would simply be four votes
out of four - given that a numerical majority would be three, so therefore a supermajority would be
three plus one. Yet that would require unanimity - all four votes. Also, it is not clear
that the override vote of a four-person body would be valid without the participation of an obviously-missing trustee. Even if a four-person vote was valid, Mayor Chicken did not want to
take the chance that one of his three hench-persons would go rogue and side
with the County disapproval at the last minute. So Tucker concluded that he needed
to plug the hole in his Piermont Board of Puppets.
So who would Bruce Tucker
anoint to fill the vacant fifth spot on the Piermont Board of Distrustees?
The early money was on the
idea that Tucker would resurrect one of the prior Piermont government quitters,
in the same way that the Syracuse Bulldogs team unleashed retired hockey goons McCracken and
Ogilthorpe in the Paul Newman film “Slap Shot”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jjlaCJ3C2A
Maybe Tucker would pick recently-dumped excised-DisTrustee Rob “You Can’t Fire Me, I Quit” Burns for the newly-vacated fifth Board of Trustees
spot. There's your Ogilthorpe.
Or maybe Tucker would pick former Village of Piermont Planning Board Chair Dan “Edward Scissorhands” Spitzer for the spot. There's your McCracken.
Or, maybe Tucker would select
one of the other Fellini-esque characters that populate the quaint little
Hudson River Village of Piermont. Maybe Tucker would enlist one of his buddies
from Piermont Hose – if they weren’t too busy themselves initiating their young new recruits
in the ways of the world, that is.
But no. Mayor Big Chicken
Tucker did none of the above.
What Mayor Big Chicken Tucker
did do, was appoint one Rondi Marie Casey as your new Piermont Village DisTrustee.
And guess what Rondi Casey’s qualifications are for Piermont Village
DisTrustee?
She’s a sculptress.
A SCULPTRESS.
So what could possibly go
wrong with that?
Once the Rockland County Department
of Planning rejects the 447-477 Piermont Avenue project and the CBM Zone, Mayor
Chicken Tucker will in all likelihood bring the matter back before the Village Board of DisTrustees to try to end-run around the County. Tucker is bitter and he wants revenge against his own Piermont neighbors.
At that point, the individual
likely to cast the deciding supermajority vote to trash Piermont’s landscape
permanently, is a SCULPTRESS. Like an ugly clay monstrosity on a potter's wheel, please, I ask you, let that sink in for a while.
Or else, since we know that
Tucker, Wright, and Blomquist are already in lock-step with each other, the
deciding supermajority vote to trash Piermont’s landscape permanently, will be
cast by this luminary instead:
Yes, these are also photographs that an inept and clueless Piermont DisTrustee and government official decided to publicly-post to social media and the Internet. (And wait until you see the other photo she posted besides these two winners).
