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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Baychester News: Community's Champion to have Street named After He...

Baychester News: Community's Champion to have Street named After He...: Community's Champion to have Street named After Her BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- A woman who fought for her community will be honore...

Community's Champion to have Street named After Her

BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- A woman who fought for her community will be honored with a street sign. Longtime Community Board 12 District Manager Carmen Rosa passed away in March after a long battle with cancer. Mayor deBlasio on Monday signed legislation renaming East 229th Street & White Plains Road "Carmen Rosa Way." The sign bearing Rosa's name will be in front of Community Board 12 where Rosa worked for so long. A date for the sign unveiling has not yet been scheduled.

Monday, August 10, 2015

Baychester News: Community's Champion to have Street named After He...

Pol Manos Fuera Mochilas, diversión para los niños

BRONX NEWS: Pol Hands Out Backpacks, Fun to Kids: Los residentes del noreste del Bronx llegaron por centenares para celebrar con Nueva York concejal Andy King el sábado en el segundo comunitaria anual Día de Servicio de compromiso fuera de su Oficina de Distrito en el Bronx.

Pol Hands Out Backpacks, Fun to Kids

BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- Northeast Bronx residents came by the hundreds to celebrate with New York City Council Member Andy King on Saturday at the second annual Community Engagement Service Day outside his District Office in the Bronx.

All the ingredients for a beautiful summer day were in place: Clear skies, street games for youngsters, face-painting, music, dancing, health and wellness screenings and lots of food.

“It’s a fun and informational day for everyone. We bring government and resource information directly to residents, and at the same time everyone comes out and gets to meet their neighbors,” explained King, who, along with his wife Neva Shillingford-King, an executive vice president at 1199 SEIU, had purchased and donated nearly 100 backpacks to the youngsters in attendance.

Initiated and sponsored by Council Member King, the event has grown tremendously in a year. Stretched from the middle of the 900 block of East Gun Hill Road and around the corner onto Colden Avenue to the intersection of Colden and Magenta were more than 50 government agencies and non-profit organizations, ranging from firefighters giving away children-size firefighter hats and coloring books along with fire safety information and CPR demonstrations, New York University Dental vans with free oral screenings, Rite Aid giving free flu shots to the U.S. Army Reserve passing out information on college scholarships.

Impromptu street games sprang up and demonstrations by members of the New York Yo-Yo Club, headed by Council Member King’s Special Assistant Brian Melford, an international yo-yo champion who will be traveling to Japan on Tuesday.

Many of the senior residents sat on chairs along Colden Avenue and watched the line dancing, Zumba exercises and other entertainment on stage.

The barbecue grill was a big hit, manned by Council Member King’s Staffers and volunteers and food was donated by the local eateries Spices, Golden Krust, Ultimate Grill and RK Super Heroes.

Baychester News: Political Shenanigans?

Baychester News: Political Shenanigans?: Political Shenanigans? Mailer was a Mistake or Intentional? By Robert Press BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- That is the...

Political Shenanigans?

Mailer was a Mistake or Intentional?

By Robert Press

BRONX, NEW YORK (BRONX NEWS)- That is the question that Mr. John Perez wants answered as both the Board of Elections and Stanley 'King' Schlein (the man who helped write the book on election law) sent out a mailing to contact person John Perez without an apartment number resulting in the mail not being delivered.

On July 9^th, Mr. John Perez clocked in four petitions at the Board of Elections at 32 Broadway. I was able to get copies of all four petitions with the first BX 1500668 for the 78^th A.D. with the Board of Elections time stamp July 9^th10:59 p.m. over one hour before the deadline. Petition BX 1500669 for the 78^th A.D., Petition BX 1500670 for the 85^th A.D., and Petition BX 1500671 for the 79^th A.D. All four petitions were clocked in by the Board of Elections at 10:59 PM July 9^th 2015 well ahead of the deadline.

Since he was an insurgent all four of Mr. Perez's petitions were challenged, and the challengers represented by election lawyer Stanley Schlein who is also the lawyer for the Bronx Democratic County organization. At the hearings Mr. Perez, a proud former Army NCO, came in uniform to show his character. I was not at the hearings held on Tuesday, July 28^th, but the result was that the commissioners of the Board of Elections refused to accept Mr. Perez's argument that he was not properly served by the Board of Elections and election lawyer Stanley Schlein. It seems that both the Board of Elections and Mr. Schlein did not put Mr. Perez's apartment number on their correspondences to Mr. Perez. You see Mr. Perez lives in an apartment building of over 150 units, and told me there are at least three other families with the same last name.

On July 30^th I went to the post office that delivers the mail Mr. Perez gets. You can go to my blog at www.100percentbronx.blogspot.comarchive section on the lower left side to the month of July posting “ I Found the Missing Specs for the 78^th, 79^th, and 85^thA.D.” to see photos of the four envelopes sent to Mr. Perez by election lawyer Stanley Schlein. You will notice that on none of the four envelopes sent by Mr. Sclein is there an apartment number. You also see markings by the carrier that the envelopes were undeliverable due to lack of apartment number. I was told that if the apartment number was left off intentionally that it could be taken as Mail Fraud which is a federal crime. I also asked where the envelopes sent by the Board of Elections were, and was told they were already sent back to the sender.

Not happy with what I was told at the post office I went the next day to the Board of Elections to see the executive Director Mr. Mike Ryan. I was told Mr. Ryan was unavailable, and then asked for Ms. I then asked for Ms. Valarie Vazquez who I worked with three years ago when I was investigating a similar problem. Ms. Vazquez was not in the building I was told, and her assistant Mr. Joshua Giaramita came out to talk to me. He assured me that Mr. Perez had left out his apartment number on all four petitions, and that was the reason that he did not receive any notice from the Board of Elections, and the reason all 4 petitions were thrown off by the commissioners.

I was able to obtain copies of all four of Mr. Perez's petition cover sheets, with BX 1500668 the first one handed in pictured in the July 31^st blog posting UPDATE. As you see there is clearly an apartment number listed, and I went back to Mr. Giaramita with this information since he was sure that no petition had an apartment number on it. I then asked Mr. Giaramita if the Board of Elections had gotten the returned mail from the post office since it could not be delivered. He could not answer that question, and said that he would have to get back to me. I informed him that I was told it could be interpreted as mail fraud by the postal service if leaving off the apartment number was done intentionally so the packages could not be delivered. I said that both the Board of Elections and Mr. Stanley K. Schlein (the other contact person) had not placed the apartment number on any correspondence to Mr. Perez. I had earlier showed Mr. Giaramita the photos of Mr. Schlein's packages with the postal carrier's comments that it was undeliverable.

I suggested that there be a second call on all four petitions since there had been an apartment number on the first petition which should have been the one gone by for an address, and said that the objections should be voided since there was no proof of service since Mr. Schlein had left off the apartment number either by mistake or on purpose. It will be up to Mr. Perez as to what to do if his petitions are not placed back in good standing, and his candidates not placed back on the ballot. A lawsuit of a conspiracy theory by both Mr. Schlein and the Board of Elections, or to make a federal case out of it.

Since I am on deadline and have not gotten any further comments from Mr. Giaramita, Ms. Vazquez, Mr. Ryan or anyone else from the Board of Elections I will have to say that there was 'NO COMMENT' from the Board of Elections.

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