A+ District Attorney.. Really, Franky?

By most all accounts District Attorney Holley Carnright has been an absent District Attorney since taking office almost a year ago. Many go far as to say (and we agree) that Holley Carnirght has done nothing more than sit at Don Williams' desk, doing nothing to establish himself as Ulster County's District Attorney. Then of course there are the many fumbles that have taken place under his watch this past year, so we were more than a little surprised in the Saugerties Times to read a glowing report by Frank Dart rating Carnright's performance as A+!

There is a great segment on SNL done by Seth Myers and Amy Pholler called REALLY? It goes after people that say and do stupid things,this ones for you Frank...


REALLY? UC FISHBOWL EDITION

So you think Holley Carnirght is doing an a+ job huh?

REALLY, Frank? Everything is just great.. you could of given Holley any rating but you felt strongly about an A+. Not an A, that was not good enough or even an A- but an A+ ... Really? Frank, Really?

The same A+ DA that fudged the KHS Sex scandal two months after taking office?

Really, Frank? Really?

The same A+ DA that failed to indict a SINGLE person in the Ulster County Jail Fiasco, and you are the chair of the Criminal justice committee??

Really Frank? Really?

The same A+ DA that refused to even look at launching an investigation into State Senator Malcolm Smith after he practically solicited bribes on the DA's home turf?

Really, Frank, Really?

The same A+ that has done nothing but ask the County legislature for more money and pay raises since taking office?

Really Frank Really?

The same A+ DA that admits in the Saugerties Times that Ulster County residents are not safer since he took office?

ALL A + STUFF FRANK? REALLY?

UC Fishbowl 2009 Predictions

Len Bernardo is elected Independence party boss and becomes a major player in both GOP and Dem circles. (While we supported Hein, Bernardo is a good guy and we wish him the best)

The race for Ulster County District Attorney gets a very early start when a former candidate steps up to the plate and becomes an immediate front runner.

The Ulster County legislature stays solidly Democratic and while there are some losses, there are also some pick ups and the majority stays about the same.

Andrew Cuomo is appointed to the US Senate, Vince Bradley launches bid for NYS AG but loses in the primary to a liberal that no one knows.

Jim Quilgey announces that he is running for Supervisor of the town of Ulster --- Kevin Costello calls and reminds him how that worked out for him---

Nina Postupack runs unopposed for Ulster County Clerk ---Jonathan Sennett and Elliott Auerbach breath a sign of relief and start raising money for their respective campaigns.

In exchange for all of his hard work on the Hein campaign, Allan Lomita is rewarded with a job by Mike Hein -- Ambassador to Green County.

Sue Zimet announces she is retiring from Ulster County Politics...alright, that's not a prediction, just a wish!

Have a Happy New Year!!!

Kraft Out!!!!!

It's official, Pete Kraft submitted his resignation from the Ulster County Legislature effective January 2009. The jockeying for this coveted seat will begin immediately.

As we start hearing names of replacements we'll update blog. Positions like this rarely become vacant. Whomever wins the appointment should have little trouble defending the seat in this Democratic leaning area.

Ulster County Fishbowl is the place to find breaking news. We called Kraft's resignation last week.

We'd like to wish everyone a happy holiday.

Republicans decide not to challenge Dems in 2009

Republicans kicked off the 2009 election cycle by having to climb out of a deep hole. The re-election of Glen Noonan as minority leader sends a message they are not serious about gaining control of the legislature. Glen is a long time member of the legislature and is an example of everything wrong in Ulster County.

This move will most certainly hurt recruitment of candidates and gives voters no reason to vote Democrats out of office. Just two short years ago Noonan was in jeopardy of losing his seat. With the retirement of Tracy Bartels, Noonan was able to win with lite weight running mates Kathy Terezi and Ken (just out of diapers) Ronk. If Bartels returns next year Ronk will be the youngest ever elected (2007) and the youngest ever to lose (2009). Something he could tell his grand kids.

Anyone who is awake in Ulster County knows the Republicans have a weak group of legislators. What surprises us is that with such an important election coming up they took a leap backwards. Santa couldn't have given Democrats a better present.

Guy Kempe for Legislator

I think it's pretty well known that the staff at the U.C. Fishbowl are not fans of Legislator Sue Zimet, we feel she is incompetent, self centered and does not properly represent her constituents. To put it bluntly, it's time for her to go.

Who to replace her?

Luckily for whomever has the task of replacing Zimet, they will not have big shoes to fill. Zimet has done nothing for the last four years but talk about how great she is and complain how everyone is out to get her.

We have thought long and hard about who is the best for that district and have come up with two great candidates that will serve the Village and Town of New Paltz the way they deserve to be represented. At this point we will talk about one of those potential candidates, Guy Kempe.

Guy Kempe, is currently the director of community development for RUPCO and extremely community minded and has strong ties to his hometown of New Paltz.

Mr. Kempe also is very active politically, a former member of the New Platz Democratic committee and current member of the executive board of the Working Families party, he is abreast of all the issues going on in the county and is ready to get to work serving New Paltz residents on day one----something many residents have not had in over 4 years :(

We are proud at the Fish Bowl to start the Draft Guy Kempe for County Legislature movement and we look forward to another name surfacing in the coming months.

Legislator to resign seat.

According to sources, Legislator Pete Kraft told several members of the Democratic Party last week that he will be resigning his seat effective January 1st. Kraft has not been seen much the past year and his work commitments finally forced him to leave office.

Kraft's seat, which covers Hurley, Olive and Marbletown will be well sought after by Democrats. It's a reliably Democratic seat and the opportunity to run with the Parete's should bring quality candidates into the fold. We hear that Rob Parete is considering a challenge to Nina Postupack, we believe it's rumor but will keep our ears open.

Lets handicap Krafts possible successors. Topping the list would be Dan Ahouse or Roy Hochburg. Both are Hurley guys and would be top tier candidates. Perennial candidate Mike Shultis will throw his name in the ring. Linda Bertone switched back to Democratic and she might mount a comeback. We would have to eliminate Shultis and Bertone, the Hurley Democratic Committee will likely look for a new face. Olive and Marbletown may be wild cards. While we can't think of any candidates from those areas some may challenge for the seat.

While we wait to see who emerges for the open seat, one has to wonder how long the Parete's have known about this. Have they spoken to potential replacements? Is the new legislator a done deal? Stay tuned.

Thoughts From the Fishbowl

What is with this Erin Quinn broad? This amateur New Paltz times writer really is something else. We hear Erin uses her articles to go after Zimet's political enemies, first Sennett and now Brittany Turner. In a recent article in the Sunday NY Times regarding the NP town board race, Quinn went after Turner's DWI, which had no relevance to the story at hand but the attack on Britt did make Zimet all wet and wild (yuck)! Why the NY Times allowed Quinn to correspond for them is still a mystery to us. I mean really what ever happened to responsible journalism that tries to be remotely fair and even handed?

Speaking of Sue Zimet we hear this blog was mentioned at a Criminal Justice committee meeting last week after Zimet whined over the treatment she has received on this blog. Zimet was just trying to cover the comments that she made against the fine hard working members of the URGENT task force. Zimet's beef was that her comments were leaked to this blog by someone on that committee....umm, it's a public meeting, you making a political gaff is not privileged, so think twice before you attack the police or make asinine comments. We can't wait until someone primaries Zimet, word on the street is a team has already been formed.

We are happy to see that Elliott Auerbach has taken a small lead in the race for County Comptroller and we hope that it holds up.

Moving to the City of Kingston what is going on with council Democrats? Does loyalty mean nothing to them? Of course we speak of the Democratic Aldermen throwing Mayor Jim Sottile under the bus during the budget process these past few months. Funny last year, they all had their hand out asking him for money and support for their respective campaigns. Jim Sottile is the leader of their party and deserves their support, it's disgraceful to watch these guys attack him to score a few points in the Daily Disappointment. It's called leadership, my friend, man up like Sottile has and show some.

Young Dems in Ulster County ?????

What is going on with the Young Democrats in Ulster County? In a year where youth was mobilized all over the country, here in Ulster County it was dismal at best. That was thanks to the leadership of Shannon Schreibman and crew.

Under Schreibman's leadership, the Ulster Young Dems really took a nose dive and they are now without a chair or any real leadership, which is again a shame because there were some great people involved.

The first thing that needs to be done is reorganizing and electing a new chair, Jay Mahler, Jeremy Blaber and Stefanie West immediately come to mind as possible people that can do the job effectively. While a Mahler or Blaber chairmanship is tempting we think Stefanie West, of New Paltz is the person at this time to do the job.

Stefanie is currently the vice-chair of the YD's and like Blaber and Mahler, a member of the Ulster County Democratic committee. Again, any one of them would do a credible job but we feel Stefanie is in a position to move the organization forward and make it one that will be active and EFFECTIVE in local elections. Her work on behalf of Sennett, Hein and Auerbach gives her the necessary experience to that.

No matter who gets in office the UC Young Dems need to something with the age limit, while, it's been awhile since the staff at the UC Fishbowl has been eligible to be considered a "young Dem", word on the street is if we hold off in a few years we may be eligible!!! It seems that every time Shannon and Julian have a birthday, the age to be a young Dem keeps going up! Everywhere in NYS it's 30, in Ulster County 39...the same age as Julian and Shannon. We hear soon that Senator Byrd will be appointed for member outreach.

REDUX-- Zimet at it Again

Have you ever heard of a group of people that are not happy unless they are miserable? Meet the queen of that Village, Ms. Susan Zimet as well as her husband Steve Auerbach who can only be described as the Village's idiot.

Zimet is notorious for her attacks against her political enemies, the smear campaign against John Parete and Mike Hein come to mind almost immediately and now she continues her assault against former DA candidate Jonathan Sennett. Her husband, the Village idiot, also seems to be a big telephone tough guy from the living room of the over priced house he has for sale.

The difference between Parete and Hein is that Sennett has been nothing but nice to Ms.Zimet, giving her thousands of dollars on her embarrassing bid for the state Senate and even supporting her when she ran for Executive. While others stood on the sidelines and laughed at Zimet's joke of a campaign, the Sennett family stood there with her out of pure loyalty...to most people that is important.

So we were a little taken back to read the New Paltz Times this week and find that Zimet blames everything wrong with the New Paltz committee on Sennett and claims that he has torn the party apart.WHAT??? Nah, Zimet that would be your chair who mysteriously lost the paperwork on a candidate neither one of you supported. Zimet's husband takes the craziness to another level. After Sennett donated hours of time to try and fix the deliberate error, Steve says that Jon should not be paid for his work and compares what Jon did to stuffing envelopes and making phone calls for candidates.

Hmmmmmmmm, I did not know it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to be educated to fold envelopes these days. The comments are beyond insulting! Not surprisingly, Steve acted just like his wife does when confronted on something, quiting the committee....good riddance.

The bigger part of this story is just the pattern of behavior on Zimet's part of being a scumbag. How can someone really be so disloyal and have absolutely zero integrity...the staff at Ulster Fishbowl are truly amazed but not at all surprised by Zimet.

Another outrageous Susan Zimet attack.

With her latest accusation, loudmouth legislator Susan Zimet continues to show her stupidity.

Sources tell us that a recent meeting attended by Ulster County Sheriff Paul VanBlarcum, District Attorney Holly Carnright, and loudmouth Zimet. Sue made some serious for the record statements about Ulster County's law enforcement officials and officers. Zimet told her audience that New Paltz Police and the Ulster County Sheriff's Office (URGENT team) are allowing drug sales to take place directly in front of the New Paltz police station. We are told Susan said that high level people in the Sheriff's office and New Paltz police department are directing officers to allow drug sales and not arrest anyone. Zimet said illegal drug sales are happening in broad daylight and police are looking the other way.

We did a little research and found that Ms. Zimet was opposed to the hiring of the new Police Chief in NP and is trying to have him ousted. There is a power struggle between Legislator Zimet and New Paltz Supervisor Toni Hokenson.

One has to really question the mental fitness of a public official when they make these sort of accusations against others with absolutely no proof.

We here at the Fishbowl appreciate the hard work of the law enforcement community and we resent the big mouth's accusations against Sheriff VanBlarcum and the men and women of his department and those who work for the New Paltz PD.

Zimet--go after someone else to score your political points.

Will Julian Be Smart for 09 and focus on Sennett's 2011 Bid?

I know that we are barley over this past election but as we look ahead to 2009 what will Julian do in the County Clerk's race? Nina Postupack is almost a lock for reelection and should probably switch parties and be cross endorsed for another term but will Julian, the clown prince of the radical left go for it? We doubt it and it's a shame, Postupack is not a bad clerk and if we don't play our cards right Dems will have a lot to lose.

Next year we have the legislature up, and if Uncle Al Spada feels Postupack is in trouble he will throw a ton of money in the race and it may cost Dems the legislature.

Another benefit of a cross endorsement is that if we do not have a county wide campaign to worry about it can give us a head start on a county-wide campaign the Dems CAN and WILL win. Of course, I speak of the office of District Attorney and it will give our next DA, Jonathan Sennett an opportunity to get a head start on fundraising and allow him to trample over the very vulnerable Holley Carnright in 2011.

Now, the staff at the Fishbowl realize that the party is bigger than one person and there should not be special favors given for specific people but the benefit of cross endorsing is much bigger than just Jon Sennett and the DA's race. Unless Dems put up a candidate like Rich Parete or Brian Cahill for county clerk, they will lose, which hurts them in future races and in the local races that will take place next year.

Julian is in a tough spot, if he runs a Sue Zimet candidate and loses the clerk race and legislature, he will be out on his ear next year but if he cross endorses, the radical left that put him in office will turn on him. Will he stand up and show leadership or will he pander to people who really have no clue about politics, only time will tell.

Dumbest post election comment of 2008.

Less than 48 hours after the polls closed we have one of the most ridiculous post election comments ever, by none other than Democratic Chairman Julian Schreibman. In today's Kingston Freeman he asses the Comptroller's election results and says "what we have is essentially a tie". No Julian, you have a 7000 voter enrollment edge, you had super popular President-Elect Obama, more popular Maurice Hinchey, and Kevin Cahill leading the ticket. Plus, most Republicans despise their current leader George Bush. If you think your Comptroller candidate being 600 votes behind is "essentially a tie" then I feel sorry for the Democratic Party in Ulster County.

Jim Quigly's now probable victory opens the door for Republicans in the next election and many more. It was a lost opportunity for Democrats. Not only do Republicans have confidence in getting out the vote and winning. Quigly will make a name for himself on Fair Street and is able to finance any other office he desires. A loss for Auerbach will have a lasting effect in Ulster County politics.

Stupid comments from Schreibman don't help.

Outcome of Tuesday Election--Our Predictions

I have to say I am happy that election season is ending. Presidential candidates have been campaigning for nearly two years. Our predictions will not make everyone happy but we are fairly confident that we will get it correct.

President---Obama wins 2-1 in Ulster County

Congress--Hinchey also by 2-1

Assembly--All incumbents win--Cahill 2-1, Kirwin 55-45, and Lopez is unopposed. Kirwin may lose Ulster County section of district but we believe he will hang on. His opponent was in trouble last year and Kirwin has not brought that up. This tells us that Kirwin's polling numbers are fine.

Senate--Bonacic breezes in like last year. Larkin wins but the Obama effect will make this closer. We think 55-45.

State Supreme Court--McGrath wins Ulster County by around 57-43. Judge Carpinello has support from both sides but Obama's coattails will help everyone.

Executive--Both candidates have been visible the past several months. Neither has run a particularly good race and are lucky there were no primaries, because neither would have survived. The race is going to be won by Mike Hein and I'd say it will be 60-40. Again the Obama effect will be to much to overcome for Bernardo.

Comptroller--For both parties this is the only race that could go either way. We predict an Auerbach win with about 55% of the vote. I know some are going to jump up and down screaming at this, but we believe the Obama wave will sweep Auerbach into office. Quigley has better credentials and would be all over the Democrats (which is good) making sure each penny was spent wisely. But it is hard for us to see any non incumbent Republican winning. If Quigley returns next time we could expect a different outcome.

The news is not all that glum for Republicans. They ran credible campaigns in an extremely tough environment for them. They will be disappointed election night but the groundwork has been laid for the 2009 election cycle.


When we say "09" cycle we feel that Republicans have shown they are alive in Ulster County. It will be nearly impossible to beat Nina Postupack next year and with the right candidates Republicans will have a good shot at taking over legislature.

Enough for today. Best of luck to all Tuesday.

Will someone find Pete Loughran a job!!! Please

Even though he lives at home with his mother, Peter Loughran apparently can't survive on his legislator salary. The man dubbed "chronically underemployed" by Ulster Publishing's Hugh Reynolds is so desperate for a job that he is now targeting Commissioner of Jurors Richard Mathews position. The chatter in Kingston is after his recent failed attempt at Board of Elections, Loughran is telling everyone that he deserves a patronage job because he has paid his dues to the Democratic Party.

The information we have is the Juror job is coming up for appointment. Loughran and fellow Kingston Democrat Dave Donaldson are working on a plan to oust Mathews. Mathews job is a four year term appointed by Chairman of the Legislature, County Court Judge, and longest serving Ulster County Supreme Court Judge, i.e. Karen Peters. With Donaldson a Democrat and County Judge Michael Bruhn a Republican it would come down to Judge Peters to decide appointment. Loughran is telling anyone that will listen that Donaldson is putting "pressure" on Peters to back him. We sincerely hope Judge Peters will not succumb to pressure and will stay with Richard Mathews. We are unsure if the pick will shift to Executive from Chairman after January 1st. If the decision goes to new Executive then Mathews job is safe. Hein and Bernardo would likely support Mathews.

We will keep you apprised of any new developments.

The Wicked Witch of Ulster County Politics

A few emails written by Ulster County Democratic Chairman Julian Schreibman's wife Shannon to Democratic supporters has been circulating the internet the last few days. I've read them and all I can say is WOW, where does she park her broom? This woman is mad, crazy, nuts and a whole lot more. It is a matter of time before the Schreibman's turn everyone in Ulster County off.

Here's the email to a Marbletown volunteer.

Judy, unless a ton of signs went up last night, this is an exaggeration. You know I have sent multiple emails about lawn signs. I just delivered a bunch of signs to people yesterday. I'm delivering more signs tonight. I can look up Bernard Carney's number, but since you know him well enough to call him "Bernie" -- why don't you ask him to put up signs?

IN GENERAL, I am SICK AND TIRED of the DISRESPECTFUL tone you take with me. IT REALLY TURNS ME OFF. And your mass communications about the Marbletown Committee are OUT OF LINE and I AM SICK OF IT.

I ALSO DONT LIKE THE WAY YOU RANDOMLY CAPITALIZE WORDS --- IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE ARE EITHER CRAZY OR SHOUTING ALL THE TIME


Another:

Your inability to change when spoken to about it is a reflection of you.

I will not be part of any attempt to make you look as if you care about the Democratic party, your behavior over the past two years says otherwise.

Is the goal of Shannon to have everyone quite the Democratic Party? We also have some new information that we are working on regarding Shannon Schreibman's stacking her town committee by appointing Ben Shor to a position even though he attacked a woman at a Democratic meeting last year and was forced to resign. We'll update that soon.

Where is Julian Schreibman hiding? HELP OUT!!!

It's sad to see Mike Hein hanging by his ankles as Republican party leaders relentlessly attack him from all sides. Mike needs and deserves help from his party chairman, but where is Julian? Is Julian in over his head? Does he understand his job? Is he spending to much time working in New York City? John Parete would have been out front, standing side by side working for and protecting his candidate. We know Julian has supported Sue Zimet and Dave Donaldson all along but please get out and support the Democrats choice.

The good news for Mike and Elliott is that there will be a tidal wave riding through Ulster County and all Democrats are going to be sworn in January 1st, 2009. What should be a concern to Democrats is what support can their nominee for County Clerk expect next year? How does he recruit legislative and town candidates when he won't even support candidates for such important offices this year. Democrats are already complaining about Julian's erratic behavior. I guess the honeymoon is over.

Investigation of new Democratic Chairman?

Wow, lots of talk around town of investigations. Sources tell us that Albany may be investigating Ulster County's indictment of Harvey Sleight for his part in the UC jail debacle. Former Assistant District Attorney Julian Schreibman indicted Harvey Sleight even though the statue of limitations had run out. It appears that Albany is not happy about it and there may have been some ethics violations. While the heat may come down on the current DA, in our opinion the question of ethics falls squarely on the shoulders of the prosecutor who was in with the Grand Jury. We also hear that Legislator Frank Dart has complained that he has been told the Grand Jury wanted to indict 3 others for the jail mess but were not allowed by Mr. Schreibman. Julian was campaigning for Democratic Chairman around the same time the investigation wrapped up. Was Julian playing politics with the jail investigation?

Another well known rumor is that Julian's new law practice on Wall Street has been suffering severely from a lack of business. Well placed insiders in the new Democratic leadership tell us that because of the lack of business he is working in Manhattan three days a week. Is this the reason Julian wants to change the day of the Executive Committee meetings from the longstanding Wednesdays to Mondays?

ZIMET: Do as I say, Not as I Do

There is a big controversy brewing in the town of New Paltz over a town board seat up for election this year. Corrine Nyquist failed to file the paper work on time for a candidate that won the Democratic caucus in New Paltz and the candidate was thrown off the ballot. Some people have suggested that it was done purposely but that is neither here nor there. After the incident took place, Jonathan Sennett, a Kingston lawyer and New Paltz committee member, filed an article 78 and tried to get the candidate back on the ballot, with no success, the following is an excerpt from this weeks New Paltz Times:

"Basically, the statute is very clear cut," Sennett said. "It states that filing a nominating petition late is a fatal defect. Judge Work felt constrained by the statute -- regardless if the lateness was due to human or clerical error, and she denied our request."

Sennett's argument, in a nutshell, was that the two-day delay of the nominating certificate did not prejudice the integrity of the electoral process, in light of the fact that there is no other candidate on any other ballot line for this position.

"We argued that justice and voters were better served by remedying the error and placing Mr. Logan back on the ballot, as he was duly nominated at the Democratic Caucus," Sennett said. But the argument failed against the statute.

HERE IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING


Ms. Nyquest offers her resignation and Jonathan Sennett, the Vice-Chair, is asked by a few people to run for chair. Well when losing State Senate candidate, losing exec candidate and left wing nutcase Susan Zimet finds out Sennett is being considered, she immediately throws her name in and says she is going to run.

Are you shitting me?

Now put aside the fact that Mr. Sennett gave Zimet thousands of dollars in her failed bid for State Senate and was loyal to her until she stabbed him in the back because Mr.Sennett wanted to support Mike Hein for County Exec over her last minute candidate. But is this not the same woman that launched a jihad against John Parete, saying that as a county official and party leader there was a clear conflict of interest?????????

Zimet, the same woman that screamed from the rooftops that this ethics bill she proposed was something she believed in with all of her black heart and it had nothing to do with politics. The same Zimet that even said that she would've proposed the ethics law, otherwise known as the unethical law, even if it effected her own husband??

Now, the staff at the Fishbowl partly believe that part, there is no doubt in our mind that she would throw her husband, mother or even her own children under the bus if it furthered her own political agenda.

Zimet of course backed out like she always does when she faces any sort of opposition but not before having her husband write a letter to the New Paltz committee saying that Mr. Sennett was not entitled to receive any money for the work he did on behalf of the New Paltz committee and that as committee treasure, it would be a cold day in hell before I write a check to Jonathan Sennett. Keep in mind the money was just for filing fees and other expenses that Mr. Sennett had no control over. What a class act those Zimet's are.

Expect Zimet to face a strong primary next year in her bid for reelection. The people of Ulster County deserve better.

Supervisor's screwed by Bischoff!!!

Ulster County Legislator Gary Bischoff's incompetence screws up town budget's all over Ulster County. A resolution that was pushed by Gary Bischoff authorizes the county to charge back the towns and the City of Kingston for expenses incurred by the Board of Elections. This has resulted in $1.25 million of County costs being shifted to municipalities. The amount is double what Bischoff had told Supervisor's to expect and worse yet, he released the numbers to towns after some had already announced their tentative budgets.

Mr. Bischoff is well known for standing up and criticizing State and Federal representatives for pushing unfunded mandates. In a desperate measure Bischoff would rather let the towns get heat for their budgets than do what Dutchess County did and incur the costs of elections.

Looking at Legislator Bischoff's responsibility as Chairman of the Laws and Rules Committee it says he is only responsible for one county department, Board of Elections. How in the world can a legislator with such little responsibility screw this up so bad? Gary has a reputation of being underhanded and this clearly confirms our suspicion.

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