The overt hypocrisy of Piermont mayoral candidate Kevin Timoney has again reared its ugly head, as previously noted to this Blog last week:
In his self-absorbed and grossly disingenuous social media postings, Kevin Timoney feigns to envision a Village of Piermont “where ideas can be shared without fear,
and where we support each other instead of tearing each other down”.
Timoney’s “each other” would therefore ostensibly include his current political opponent Nate Mitchell, also running for Piermont Mayor.
Kevin Timoney decries “contentious public meetings”, “personal attacks”, and “vitriol”
in social media, in favor of “constructive dialogue”:
Therefore, why is it that in his Friday, June 20, 2025 YouTube-posted interview with his good friend, Carol Channing impersonator Richard Skipper, Kevin Timoney launched baseless ad
hominem attacks at his mayoral opponent Nate Mitchell - not once, not twice, but at least three separate times - slamming Nate Mitchell as somehow lacking in ethics?
Kevin Timoney is a total fabricator.
Here is the transcript of those appalling interview segments, if you can read through Kevin Timoney’s now-characteristic run-on sentence word-salad narratives. The full video is currently on garish display at:
https://youtu.be/o7uPOOwO1Vk- - - - -
Richard Skipper
Celebrates Ethics In Our Work.m4a
In his self-absorbed and grossly disingenuous social media postings, Kevin Timoney feigns to envision a Village of Piermont “where ideas can be shared without fear, and where we support each other instead of tearing each other down”.
Therefore, why is it that in his Friday, June 20, 2025 YouTube-posted interview with his good friend, Carol Channing impersonator Richard Skipper, Kevin Timoney launched baseless ad hominem attacks at his mayoral opponent Nate Mitchell - not once, not twice, but at least three separate times - slamming Nate Mitchell as somehow lacking in ethics?
https://youtu.be/o7uPOOwO1Vk
Friday, June 20, 2025
https://youtu.be/o7uPOOwO1Vk
[Bold-face emphasis supplied, below]
… RICHARD SKIPPER
[ 00:01:20 ] And I also have someone who is running for Mayor of Piermont, New York, where I live. So without further ado, we’re going to be talking about ethics today, ethics in terms of the paths that we’re on, how we approach our jobs, how we navigate when the people around us are not ethical…
[ 00:26:13 ] … Speaking of someone who’s molding the story, I’m going to bring on Kevin Timoney right now. He is here in Piermont where I live with my husband of 35 years. Kevin has decided to throw his hat into the ring. And he is running for the Mayor of Piermont… So, thank you. Thank you. So, Kevin, first of all, and I talked a brief moment about this before we started the show… Why?
KEVIN TIMONEY
[ 00:26:49 ] That’s an amazing question, and I get that a lot. So it literally happened out of nowhere. Not out of nowhere, but I was talking to a lot of my friends, and we were saying that we weren’t very happy with the candidate who was running for Mayor… And my husband and I, we have a five-year-old daughter that we adopted in 2020.
… RICHARD SKIPPER
Now let me interrupt for just a moment.
[ 00:27:09 ] I want to let everyone know that this candidate was running unopposed.
KEVIN TIMONEY
[ 00:27:14 ] Correct. Yes so I was out to dinner with some of my friends that live right down the street and they were like you know you should run… um[sic]… we’re not a fan of his and I was like[sic] I work full time I have a five-year-old I don’t need extra stress… um[sic] but I don’t[sic]… I also like to go running, like[sic] physically running. And I went [outside] that Sunday morning, I was running by myself and I was like[sic], “It’s an easy excuse to kind of push it off to somebody else and say someone else didn’t do it”. So I texted my friends that I had dinner with that evening before. And I said, “I’m going to meet the candidates on Tuesday. After that, I will then make a decision”. So I went to the “Meet the Candidates” that they had in our Village Hall and I heard him speak. I was not impressed, let’s say…
RICHARD SKIPPER
[ 00:28:00 ] I was there.
KEVIN TIMONEY
[ 00:28:01 ] I know you were there. I remember. That’s how I mentioned it. I wasn’t happy. And I actually just didn’t like, I don’t know if this is the forum to get into it, but there’s a sordid history with him and why he’s on the current… uh[sic]… Board of Trustees that he is[sic]… he didn’t answer any of these questions… um[sic]… since he’s not running for re-election for that he’s doing mayoral thing[sic]… he didn’t really need to… um[sic]… So I just didn’t like it. And speaking of ethics, I actually, that’s why I am running. I don’t think he is very ethical. So I decided to throw my hat in the ring. It was literally that Tuesday night before Memorial Day. I’d already missed the Democratic primary to be on that ballot with him, which then wouldn’t give Piermont voters have[sic] a double choice in November, so I spoke to a bunch of local people in politics on the [Piermont] Democratic Committee and they were like[sic], “It’s not over yet”. They said, “You know, we do can get it if we can get enough signatures and we create a party, you can run on the independent line”.
[ 00:29:04 ]
All weekend, I went out and I was getting signatures. I went, I got, I think I needed to get 62. I ended up getting over 150.
[ 00:29:14 ] On a holiday weekend I think the weather helped me that it was[sic]… it wasn’t great but I got enough signatures. I went to our Board of Elections I got… um[sic]… it’s notarized stamped[sic]… so I’m officially in as… uh[sic]… Independent for “Piermont United”… um[sic]… so as I… I[sic]… think Richard mentioned… um[sic]… it’s good to give people choices though too… So if he was running unopposed it’s really not fair for the Piermont community just to have one choice so we both hopefully[sic]… we’ll be able to have a debate, we’ll be able to… um[sic]… show what we both can give. I’m a 22-year public servant. I’ve worked for the state and the city, and I currently still work for the city of New York, where I manage IT contracts.
[ 00:30:01 ] I manage quite a large staff, so I know about procurement, I know about budgets, I know about how to treat people… with respect and kindness… um[sic]… I[sic] my staff that I currently work with… um[sic]… we all have a great relationship I’ve never[sic]… like they’re the hardest workers I will never make them do work that I can’t do myself that I don’t know how to do so I’m much I’m[sic]… a hands-on person I want to know their process and my process and be collaborative so you know I keep saying I have a five-year-old daughter I love her she’s my everything so I’m running because I love Piermont where Richard and I live and I wanna[sic]… I don’t want this you know go down[sic]… I want her to be safe and I want her to be able to ride the streets on her bike when she’s old enough and meet her friends and worried that people are yelling at her because something is “green space” versus “private property” and it seems right now in Piermont… um[sic]… and if I’m speaking too much let me know but no, no, it’s important.
RICHARD SKIPPER
[ 00:31:06 ] Well, I’ve got a question that I want to ask you, and this was based on something that was said that night…
[ 00:31:12 ] And, you know, as someone who’s running for public office, how do you ensure transparency? And ethical accountability while also motivating people to believe that you are the change that is needed in Piermont?
KEVIN TIMONEY
[ 00:31:31 ] Great question. And I think one of the easiest things that I’ve thought of is really, I mean, get a college intern from St. Thomas Aquinas or Dominican College, which is right down the street from where we live. But they’re smarter than us. Get them to create a website that’s actually.
[ 00:31:48 ] easily[sic]… to use and where you can ask questions you can… um[sic]… go in and just ask questions and I can do like a Tuesday like[sic]… Fireside Chat where I answer questions right there online kind of similar to like a podcast or something like that where I will talk to the people… um[sic]… I don’t believe that we’re all going to always agree but we should be able to disagree in a respectful way and talk about these without having witch-hunts. And it’s been crazy here. Just for you guys to know, like there’s these blogs that have our names on there where if you don’t agree with something, you’re complicit. Like it’s gotten ridiculous where…
[ 00:32:26 ] we are Democrats, majority of the people here, and we’re fighting with each other. How are we going to beat the Trumpers and like[sic]… the federal government when we can’t ourselves come together? So I’m trying to bring a united front with our Democrats. I think we need[sic]… I know people have issues with our current Mayor sitting. And I think the guy who is running up against me is not ethical. He had to resign for his current position… position um[sic]… because he gave information to an outside group that wanted to sue the village and instead of using his voice in[sic] the Village Trustee that he was in[sic]… he gave this information which cost us taxpayers taxpayers[sic]… hundreds of thousand dollars in legal fees. He didn’t have to pay those because he rents an apartment. He’s not a property-owner. So he didn’t get affected by what we had to do. He had a voice and he chose not to use it. He went unethically behind our backs and gave this group this information.
[ 00:33:27 ] Um[sic]… so that’s upsetting to me, he was able to get back onto the ballot because he[sic]… all the paperwork was already in process, all stamped, and he was running unopposed in[sic] that Village Board um[sic]… line so four months later he got back on without any repercussions. There was no investigation because he did the resignation. I don’t want - and again it should be a drinking game. Every time I [see] my five-year-old daughter, I don’t want someone like that to be my Mayor. Where, you know, I don’t want to have a horrible president. I don’t want someone like that to just do what they want to do and be mayor.
[ 00:34:04 ] Like my daughter values a person.
[ 00:34:10 ] So that’s why I am running.
RICHARD SKIPPER
[ 00:34:13 ] Well, I love that. Well, we’re going to have a little round-robin game right now because I put together some questions about ethics in terms of our work… maybe I should ask Kevin this question - I’m not going to ask you. Do you think that ethics and ambition can coexist?...
... RICHARD SKIPPER
[ 00:50:39 ] How do you maintain your integrity and tell the truth at the same time?
KEVIN TIMONEY
[ 00:50:45 ] It’s a great question. Truthfully, I’m not ashamed of who I am. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve done.
[ 00:50:56 ] I can talk about anything I’ve done, um[sic]… happily and I got perfect[sic], but anything I’ve done, work-wise or anything, my personal life, I’m happy for that. If anyone wants to question me on it, I would love for that to happen. And I can speak freely about that. I think. That’s why I was saying earlier, we need a debate. I think we need to have, and I don’t know if Piermont, I don’t know if we’re big enough to have a debate or how that goes about, but I think we do need to like hold, like, like I mentioned before, I was stating stuff about my, which I don’t like and why he had to resign. But you’re right. He should have a platform to speak about that and give his reasoning behind it. I can say why X, Y. and Z it happened, but he needs to be able to speak for it. But it needs to be in a forum where....
