Mayor Kamal Johnson was interviewed recently by his friend Vern Cross. The interview, which, it seems, may be part of the mayor's reelection campaign, can be heard here, on Cross's Facebook page. Among the topics of discussion is Johnson's relationship with Eric Galloway and the Galvan Foundation, but nothing is revealed that hasn't been said before.
Vern Cross shills for the mayor. Shocking. Did he ask him about all the police calls to his home on domestic issues? Why he was fired by the HCSD? Why Galvan sought an order of eviction earlier this year against him? Didn’t think so.
ReplyDeleteWas Kamal not notified of the Mill Street lawsuit that halted that development?
DeleteThe Mayor's Office and Kearney should move quickly to identify a new location so that the $9m grant from Albany does not get re-allocated to another town or city. This is an immediate action that the mayor can take tomorrow to increase housing in Hudson. Aren't there other sites (without flooding and environmental issues) that were already identified in earlier comprehensive plans for workforce housing? One specifically in the 1st Ward by the Galvan baseball field.
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Sincere question for future coverage: can anyone in City Hall or on Kamal's campaign highlight which housing units were built over the last 6 years specifically due to actions that Mayor Kamal took?
Dare I say that without fb there would be no Kamal Johnson on the second floor of City Hall, AND he certainly wouldn't still be on the ballot after losing in the recent primary?
ReplyDeleteI've been told that city department heads love Johnson because he does no supervising or managing, allowing business as usual at City Hall (including departments located elsewhere, of which there are now three). A municipality as poorly managed (or just unmanaged) as Hudson is will eventually fail. It's in the news regularly: municipal workers caught taking money or not showing up for work because no one was watching. Or pure incompetence on display after buying $150,000 of the wrong parking kiosks. The illegal abuse is probably happening right under Johnson's nose which is buried in his phone as he scrolls his fb page for comments from his "friends," fans, and voters. And he'll just ask the council for more money in next year's budget as if that's a solution to the missing funds. Quite the "leader" and "manager" we have.
That was the best softball seen in Hudson since they used to play it on the Mill St. field.
ReplyDeleteI’m excited to see when Kamal reveals his master plan campaign strategy that he’s teasing. Especially curious how doing nothing and losing the primary was a key part of it. Also interested about hearing how all the yard signs in Greenport will help. Or doing a “podcast” that so happens to be named after your corny slogan and only streams from facebook, and not even a group or page, just randomly on the mayor’s friends posts. The navel gazing is phenomenal. He campaigns like he governs.
Cute theme song though 😂
I haven't yet gone through the whole video but it's promising some doozies already that we will have to put up with in the upcoming months leading up to the election.
DeleteOn the topic of his rent situation, thus he responds:
One candidate doesn't have a fixed address and Kamal asks why this doesn't get as much scrutiny as his living situation.
Intuitively I'd say that one is a deplorable fact of modern live whereas the other is a hair-raising conflict of interest that makes the mayor look like a hypocrite. I find it not surprising that we are focusing on the latter.
In regards to Peter he bemoans that he has a really low assessment. Evidently that counts against him. Kamal omits to mention that the long-overdue citywide reassessment is the thing he is stalling.
What we will therefore see in the next few of months is an increase of what we have already observed: Everything Kamal will say that is not an ad-hominem attack is going to be a lie whereas everything else will give us a good glimpse into who he really is: A hypocrite who doesn't share any of the progressive sentiments that he likes to project. Most of it will be a combination of both.