SALAMANCA DISCUSSES HUNTS POINT VISION PLAN ‘S PROGRESS WITH NYC EDC
Councilman Rafael Salamanca
held a meeting with the NYC
Economic Development Corporation
to discuss updates to
the Hunts Point Vision Plan.
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(Left) Salamanca (l) listened
attentively as a NYC EDC representative
briefed him on the
Hunts Point Vision Plan’s progress.
Photo courtesy of
Councilman Rafael Salamanca’s Offi ce
The next meeting of the
Pelham Parkway Neighborhood
Association will be on
Tuesday May 14, at Bronx
House, 990 Pelham Parkway
South at 7:15 p.m.
Our special featured
speaker will be the Tanjila
Rahman, senior community
affairs associate, NYC Department.
of Consumer Affairs.
Pease bring your problems,
issues questions, and
concerns to our next meeting.
The Pelham Parkway
Neighborhood Association
works around the clock and
year round to improve the
quality of life in Pelham
Parkway. We can always be
reached by email at pelhamparkwayNA@
gmai l .com.
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It’s time.
The community is always
fi rst.
BY FRANK V. VERNUCCIO, JR.
Recently, presidential candidate
Pete Buttigieg talked
a bit about his campaign. As
reported by WSBT, the South
Bend, Indiana mayor said
that even though he would
eventually run a ‘substantive’
ideas campaign, “We’re
… not going to inundate people
with minutia of policy
before they understand exactly
what the big ideas are,
the values that motivate our
policies and the impacts
they are going to have on the
ground.”
Buttigieg’ comments may
well be the anthem of the Left
in the 2020 campaign, for
good reason. Another early
Democrat ‘star’ in the election
cycle is ‘Beto’ O’Rourke.
Luke Savage, writing in Jacobin
reports: “ Despite taking
the odd progressive position
here and there, O’Rourke
is assiduously vague and
slippery on policy specifi cs.
As the Washington Post’s
Jenna Johnson observed a
few months ago: “When it
comes to many of the biggest
policy issues facing the country
today, O’Rourke’s default
stance is to call for a debate”
— even when it comes to areas
he himself is fond of emphasizing,
such as border
policy and immigration.”
Specifi cs will not work for
the Party that has moved far
to the left of the American
mainstream, and touts policies
that have already failed.
The shining dream of an
election cycle that would be
dominated by Russian collusion
has turned into a nightmare,
following the Mueller
Report. Indeed, it now appears
that the only high-level
indictments that may arise
will be those Obama staffers
and allies who conspired
to defraud the FISA Court
and the American public in a
failed attempt to rig the 2016
general election for Hillary
Clinton, just as they rigged
the primary campaign to insure
Bernie Sanders’ defeat.
The collection of far too
many 2020 contenders have
largely relied on irrational,
disproven, and unaffordable
policies combined with identity
politics and baseless attacks
on their opponents.
They are heavily dependent
on the steadfast support and
biased reporting of the mainstream
media, cleverly censored
social web sites and
late night television comedians.
Consider the unpopular
concepts they support.
Some of the candidates
openly favor Socialism. No
wonder they reject specifi cs!
The briefest look at Venezuela
will turn off voters to that
idea, not to mention the last
100 years of failed socialist
regimes. They have turned a
blind eye to the vast expense,
crime, disease, and human
traffi cking resulting from
their insistence on open borders,
and instead call the U.S.
border patrol ‘Nazis.’ They
ignore the plight of so many
American workers whose
jobs were lost due to China’s
illicit practices, but criticize
the Trump Administration’s
moves to stop Beijing’s attacks
on the American economy.
Astoundingly, some of the
2020 candidates and their media
supporters refer to the
current White House as ‘fascist.’
Yet it is they who seek
to warp American government
to gain unfair advantage
and silence opposition.
Ideas include limiting free
speech, as Senate Minority
Leader Charles Schumer (DNY)
did in his bid to weaken
the First Amendment. They
have refused to condemn attacks
on moderate and conservative
students, professors
and guest speakers on
college campuses. Some have
proposed ‘stacking’ the U.S.
Supreme Court with additional
left-wing justices to
insure court victories. They
oppose sensible voter ID laws
to allow illegal aliens to vote
to overcome the preferences
of the citizenry. And more
recently, they have engaged
in moves to allow convicted
felons still in jail to cast
votes. Upon losing elections,
it is the Left that riots in the
streets, and assault individuals
for merely wearing hats
supporting Trump.
The success of the game
plan to warp the truth for
partisan advantage, by party
leaders, candidates and the
left-wing is clearly seen in
the extraordinary dishonesty
about the effect of tax cuts.
Despite clear evidence to
the contrary, reports CNBC,
“just 17% believe their own
taxes will go down, the NBC
News/Wall Street Journal
Poll found. By contrast, 28%
believe they’ll pay more, 27%
expect to pay about the same
and 28% don’t know enough
to say… In reality, 8 in 10
Americans stood to receive
tax cuts in 2018 under the
law, according to an analysis
by the nonpartisan Tax Policy
Center.”
The nation needs a substantive,
in-depth, vigorous
and open debate on the issues.
Instead, many candidates
have provided only evasion,
meaningless platitudes,
and personal attacks.
On Saturday, May 25 an
unusual event is planned.
John Fraser Bryan Post 19
recently discovered the fi nal
resting place of their post’s
namesake.
On that day at 10:30 a.m.
at the Woodlawn Cemetery
there will be a ceremony
marking the grave site.
Ed D did not say where to
meet but it may be an obvious
location?
Will pass additional info
out as I get it.
Here at the post we have a
busy month ahead.
On Friday, May 17 we will
be hosting the Bingo Night
for the Troops, a great night
out and for no better cause.
A
ll the proceeds from this
event go directly to packing
and shipping care parcels
for our troops in harms way,
thanks to all that make this
happen.
The following day Saturday,
May 18 members of
the post and Marine Corps
League will be heading to St.
Raymond Cemetery to place
fl ags on the graves of our
fallen veterans.
Everyone is welcome
to come and share in this
honor.
Saturday, May 25 our Sons
of the Legion will be holding
our Memorial Day BBQ, $20
a head gets ya burgers,dogs,
salads, desert and beer, wine
and soda, as well as a 50/50
raffl e.
Monday, Memorial Day,
the parade on City Island
will be held. Hotdog lunch
back at the Hawkins Post after
the parade.
Please take time out to remember
those that gave there
lives so we may enjoy these
freedoms. That’s all for now.
We are stronger as one,
let’s work together.
God bless America.