If you can cut
through the now-characteristic Kevin Timoney nervous gibberish, you will note a
few remarkable things about his mayoral debate “answer” from last
Thursday on how to protect Piermont from flooding and sea level rise:
DORIA HILLSMAN...Going back to the building questions... how would you protect the Village from the sea level rise?...KEVIN TIMONEYYes, thank you. Um[sic]… my opponent has great expertise in the water resiliency[sic], and… if elected Mayor, I would love to work with him on some of these behalfs[sic]. I’ve read it[sic] and there is a lot of great document[sic]… There’s a lot of great stuff in there. Uh[sic]… One is to-go bags that I see. I think everyone should have those… Um[sic]… I don’t know if they’re being utilized, but let’s get donations from people[sic]… from companies to donate, and we can hand these out to the people who are living in those affected areas to make sure in the case of a flooding or an emergency, they can get that. I also have, as I mentioned… um[sic]… contracts[sic] where we did with housing recovery where after Sandy, they had to rebuild in Far Rockaway. I would like to use some of those techniques that they used for the storm surges and for building of the… houses to bring that here and see that… what we can use to help us… um[sic]… as well as for the Office of Emergency Management, they have a lot of tools that we may not even know about but I have these contacts there that I would love to bring here and try to get us more informed as well.
First, Timoney admits that he could only look to more powerful authorities like OEM and its resources to solve these problems. He is already telling you that he has no capacity to fix things himself. And he’s right. He’s just an inane laptop drone of an inapposite city bureaucracy. He’s not an executive. He’s a pin-pusher.
Second, Timoney even tells you that he would look to his mayoral opponent Nate Mitchell himself for the solutions, given Mitchell’s “great expertise” on these topics as admitted by Timoney. So, this raises an important question. Given how serious an existential threat flooding and seal level rise really is for Piermont, then why don’t the Piermont residents simply elect Nate Mitchell as Mayor of Piermont and thereby cut-out the gibberish-spewing ersatz middleman who has no worthwhile original ideas of his own?
Third – “to-go bags”?... and THAT’S the answer that you’re going with, TIMBO... Really?...
In other words, this genius’s answer to flooding and sea level rise, is to first beg for bag money and then ask everyone in Piermont to bug out of town?
Kevin Timoney had an opportunity last Thursday night to impress Piermont residents with his research and capacity for original thought as a wannabe-executive over the next two years.
Kevin Timoney failed.
