{"id":276,"date":"2024-11-03T22:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T22:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:54:10","slug":"croton-rinky-dink-politics-nobody-is-forced-to-live-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Croton rinky dink politics: “Nobody is forced to live here”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That from the dopey Mayor Brian Pugh, who also is on Senator Harckham’s staff, or running his campaign. So he’s got bigger aspirations than the part-time mayor’s job in my village. See the commentary below the write in picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Croton is a one party – village, there is no organized republican party. I was never interested in local politics UNTIL the last couple of years as the five elected officials decided what Croton needs is urbanization. This has spawned a serious write – in campaign for the two trustee positions that are up for election. There are actually vastly more yard signs up for the write – in candidates than for the two incumbent Democrats – including signs in yards which also have Harris \/ Walz signs. Nevertheless a very long shot for them to win – I will be writing in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to MC for the link to this  commentary on the friendly Croton political scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a depressing note to end on, but the reality is that we get the community that 51 percent of us vote for. Mr. Pugh can ignore us and tell us that we are not being forced to live in Croton. Mr. Murtaugh can accuse us of being racists. Ms. Shatzkin can flip us the finger and return to her $1.3M Tudor City co-op while lecturing us about how we need to fill Croton with low-income apartments.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to be accepted by our tribe. In Croton that means we go in lock-step to the polls and vote \u201cRow A all the way.\u201d We might want to reconsider our unwavering devotion to a group of elites who literally give us the finger and tell us nobody is forcing us to live here.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But wait, there’s more!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BACK ONLINE—A LETTER FROM PAUL STEINBERG ON THE …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That from the dopey Mayor Brian Pugh, who also is on Senator Harckham’s staff, or running his campaign. So he’s got bigger aspirations than the part-time mayor’s job in my village. See the commentary below the write in picture. Croton is a one party – village, there is no organized republican party. I was never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11115,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/11115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}