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Republicans
seek to break Democratic lock on Town Council
Two candidates to run for seats in
November election
Robert Marchant
The Journal News
A retired teacher and a college professor
will run on the Republican ticket for open seats on the Town Council in
the November election, the Town Republican Party
announced yesterday.
No one has yet stepped forward from the
Republican ranks to challenge Town Supervisor Paul Feiner, but Thomas
Donohoe Jr. and Frances Pulle will seek to break the Democratic monopoly
at Town Hall. Donohoe, of Hastings-on-Hudson, will be running in a special
election for a two-year term against Steven Bass, who was appointed to
fill a vacancy. Pulle, a Tarrytown resident and adjunct professor in
politics and American
history at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, is seeking a four-year term on
the five-member Town Council.
On the Democratic side, Feiner is seeking
re-election. Incumbents Diana Juettner and Timmy Weinberg are also
running, as is another candidate, Francis Sheehan. Sheehan, Juettner and
Bass were endorsed by party leaders at a convention last month. Weinberg
was not. A Sept. 11 primary will determine which candidates win
the nomination for the
Democratic party, which has been divided.
Pulle said she was running because she
wanted to make a difference in the town. A former resident of Hartsdale,
she moved to Tarrytown five years ago. "I have a lot of desire to
work in the community," she said.
Pulle said she wanted to focus on two
issues she believes are of great importance in Greenburgh: affordable
housing and questions relating to the elderly. "I am very
sympathetic to any issue
relating to the elderly," she said.
Donohoe, a retired New York City teacher,
ran unsuccessfully for the Hastings village board in 1992. He could not
immediately be reached for comment.
Stephanie Bellino, secretary for the
Greenburgh GOP, said the campaign would seek to convince the public that a
new vision was needed. "I think there needs to be a different voice
on the board. The one-party system, which has been in
effect for a number of years, needs to be changed."
While only two Republican candidates have
so far announced their intention to run, the party has until next month to
make final selections for the fall contest
Democrats, meanwhile, have pointed to a
stable financial structure in town government and various improvements to
services.
Council members are paid $22,000 a year.
The supervisor's' salary is just over $100,000. |
