Letter to the Editor:  Candidates show contempt for party

In response to your June 8 article, we wish to thank Greenburgh Democratic Chairman Bill Greenawalt for the courage he showed in speaking out. As the Democratic district leaders who placed Town Board candidate Francis Sheehan's name in nomination at the Greenburgh Town Democratic convention, we share Mr. Greenawalt's ire and indignation.

At its convention a few weeks ago, Francis Sheehan was officially endorsed, while Timmy Weinberg, an incumbent, , was not. Typically, the names of all the endorsed townwide candidates have always appeared on a single "designating petition." Weinberg, not endorsed, doesn't want to appear on a petition alone, as others have done to get on the ballot in previous elections. She wants her name to appear on a petition with her fellow incumbents.

Supervisor Paul Feiner, along with fellow incumbents Diana Juettner, councilwoman, and Alfreda Williams, clerk, already appear on the party's petition of endorsed candidates, but nevertheless  chose to add their names to Weinberg's petition so that it would appear more official. This creates confusion for the average petition-signer by making it difficult to discern the party's endorsed slate from this other one. By disregarding the party's choice of candidates, these four individuals have chosen to ignore the vote of the convention and have thereby undermined its value. They are showing contempt for the district leaders who have worked so hard for them in the past. They are choosing loyalty to one another over loyalty to the party responsible for their election to public office.

We join Mr. Greenawalt in his condemnation of their "rogue petition."

Phillip Chonigman
Hartsdale

Sheldon Malev
North White Plains