DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD

Today was a monumental day for the people of Peekskill. They saw the Republican Party in Peekskill for what it was, a bunch of bullies and thugs. Aided by a misinformed group of patsies called Peekskill First and Martin Ginsberg who wanted to squeeze every last dollar out of peekskill before he left us with a lot of poorly constructed condos. The best thing for the city would be for little Martty to take his ball and go home, like a spoiled child.

We at the Peekskill Guardian see this election as a referendum on John Testa's 6 years of using Peekskill as his own life size version of sim city. Unfortunately for John a real life city doesn't have cheats built in. But he sure tried. Now that Game Over is flashing in his face I'm sure we can expect one more additional cost associated with the Testa Team. After all those giant Mobile shredders don't come cheap. Seriously, we hope that measures will be put in place to prevent the destruction of city records. Rumor has it that the mayor has already quietly put his house up for sale in case he needs to make a quick get away.

Hopefully the people of our city will not forget or forgive just how disgusting Bill Schmidt's behavior was during this election. The lies he told, and the people he savaged, both personally, Schmidt is the author of Peekskill Guardian and through his LOHUD hit squad. They say you shouldn't kick a guy when he down. We say that in this case it's just a smart precautionary measure to keep him from rearing his Clairol colored head again.

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Until the changing of the guard the Peekskill Guardian intends to keep a close eye on city hall. We also intend to use the time between now and January to take a closer look at the members of Peekskill First. When they formed a PAC and attempted to influence the voters of our city they became political operatives and fair game. As you can see from their website http://www.peekskillfirst.net/ they've all crawled back under their Queen Victorian rocks. But we'll flush them out one by one.

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We have high hopes for the Foster administration. Many people feel that head should roll and the new mayor should start from scratch. We hope this is not the case. It would make the democrats no better than the republicans. For a generation Peekskill City Hall appointments have been made based on party not ability. In the process some capable republicans have been appointed. If they feel they are able to continue serving the city, they should be allowed to do just that. With that said, we have learned through reliable sources that complaints have been filed with the State Attorney Generals Office's Public Integrity Unit against city information officer Tony Seideman. The Peekskill Guardian is conflicted on this topic. The thought of even one more city dollar going to this contemptuous individual sickens us to our core. But, perhaps it would be better to let justice take its course. Na, Seideman must go!

ALL THE FILTH THAT FIT TO PRINT

Ok, Bill Schmidt is a hypocrite, we knew that from his time on the common council. He’s for free speech, but went along with having the librarian put in jail because she went over her allotted time at the microphone and the republican majority didn’t like what she was saying.
He's the law and order candidate, but he actively sought the libertarian partys support and they support legalizing drugs and prostitution. By the way, for the first time ever our local police union has endorsed a candidate for mayor, it was Mary Foster.
He thinks lawn signs are pollution, but he now has lawn signs. The Peekskill Guardian doesn't buy his excuse that his political action committee did the signs without his permission. If he can't control this small group of newcomers, how can we believe he can control city hall. Finally Mr. Schmidt has said he wanted a civil campaign where both candidates ran on their record. This was something Mr. Schmidt knew he could never do. It was less than two years ago that based on his record the voters of Peekskill rejected him for common council. Why on earth would they make him mayor? Mr. Schmidt knew that to win he would have to do what he does best, smear, misrepresent and outright lie. But how was he going to do it? If he wasn’t covert people would see the mean, nasty, vindictive Bill Schmidt that so many of us know from his letters to the editor and snide dismissals of citizens wishing to be heard at council meetings.

With this in mind let’s look at the Schmidt Campaign

The first thing he did was to start Peekskill Guardian, He’s best buddies with Mr. Bazzo of the bozzo manifesto. They’re as tight as school girls, and just as mean. Andy taught him the ropes and he was off on his mary way. He needed help, all that hate doesn’t just spread itself. Wait he thought, Tony Siedeman hates the democrats, he’s mean and vindictive with a generous helping of self-righteousness. Since he’s sure to lose his cushy job if they take the majority, I know he will help. Mr. Siedeman, the city misinformation officer stuck his head out of John Testa’s pocket long enough to say, I’m on board, and the rest is history.

Together with help from Mayor Testa they created Peekskill Fist. A group so misinformed that their campaign brochure was declared "factually flawed," by Westchester’s fair campaign committee. With Seideman using his position as city information officer, Peekskill First has called press conferences misrepresenting the reasons. On every occasion when the charade became clear they were rebuked by the press.

What has Bill Schmidt left in our mailboxes? Not one of Mr. Schmidt’s mailing has promised anything other than the status quo. He has simply recycled the Testa Team literature from the last election.. It the one instance where it’s fortunate for the Republicans that nothing they promised in the last election has come to fruition. He compounded the insult to the voters intelligents by filling his literature with misleading lies about the democrats voting record. The same lies that were discredited by the Westchester fair campaign committee. As George Bush says, "ya gotta catapult the propaganda."

Mr Schmidt has authored misleading push poll calls through a company called RDI Marketing in Ohio. Their Manager, Josh Bridges verified that the calls were being made on behalf of Bill Schmidt. Mr Bridges refused to release the whole script but confirmed it was provided by Mr. Schmidt. Anyone wishing to verify this on their own can call RDI at (513) 984-5927. For those of you who do not know what a push poll is, let us explain. The caller will ask who’s got your vote. If it is not the unscrupulous candidate they will ask increasingly negative questions until you change your vote. For example, if you said you where voting for Bill Schmidt, they might ask , Would you still vote for Schmidt if you knew he voted to raise taxes by 60% while a councilman? If you said yes they would up the rhetoric and say, would you still vote for Bill Schmidt if you knew he was connected to organized crime? They keep going until you say No. This is one more reason to say no to Mr. Schmidt on Tuesday.

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Lets not forget the political theater created by Nelson Ave. harpie Barabra LoPrete and other Peekskill First members at common council meetings. If you want to them to ask them about their behavior they're the only ones on nelson ave with Schmidt signs. They placed the rest illegally around Peekskill on public land.

Finally, Bill Schmidt showed his real face. Masked only slightly by the front group, Citizens for a safer Peekskill a.k.a. Tony Seideman. This misleading photocopied flyer tries to link the democrats to sex offenders. This was very interesting considering some of the emails we have received regarding Mr. Schmidt’s personal behavior.