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this Gallo campaign and it always feels good to give back to community.
Stunned Berky backers were predicting a 2 - 1 win for their candidate against last - minute entry Woltman, the city's purchasing officer and former
Gallo campaign treasurer.
Post-primary grousing had mayoral candidate Hayes Clement supporters accusing the Working Families Party of pouring $ 40,000 into the Shayne
Gallo campaign in the last month.
(Editor's note: Updated with Steve Noble comment,
the Gallo campaign's pending court appeal and an accurate number of how many
Carly Williams,
a Gallo campaign supporter with long experience in private - sector administration, was appointed city clerk at $ 45,000 per year.
Blaber, who is paid $ 14,653 per year as a part - time parking enforcement officer, is one of half a dozen former
Gallo campaign staffers who have made the transition to city jobs under the new administration.
Fuentes was one of a number of
Gallo campaign supporters appointed to key posts in his administration.
Not exact matches
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He was a onetime
campaign treasurer for former Kingston mayor Shayne
Gallo.
Noble, the city's environmental program specialist, presented himself as «a Democrat with a vision for Kingston's future,» which sounds remarkably like
Gallo's own
campaign theme.
There is now some speculation that
Gallo's
campaign against his former ally might have an ulterior motive in the form of a
Gallo - Cahill Democratic primary for Assembly next September.
This is not to say that
Gallo doesn't have numerous positives to which to point, only that his
campaign strategy is, to say the least, curious.
Kingston Mayor Shayne
Gallo got a bit defensive when quizzed about the six - pack of
campaign allies prowling City Hall.
Grant writer and former Hudson River Sloop Clearwater executive director Gregg Swanzey had no connection to
Gallo or the
campaign before he was hired to head up the city's Economic Development Office for $ 50,000 per year.
At the polls
Gallo narrowly fended off Clement's write - in
campaign to snatch away the third - party line by a vote of 28 - 26.
The appointments, which began immediately after
Gallo took office and have continued since, include
Gallo's
campaign manager, former school board member and president and family law attorney Dan Gartenstein.
And
Gallo, who ran on a
campaign of accountability and transparency in government, said the appointment of trusted
campaign aides to key posts in city government is necessary to make that promise a reality.
In the simmering embers of a vicious
campaign there are some, including
Gallo, who even believe Ron Polacco can overcome a better than two - to - one Democratic enrollment advantage in November.
Council Majority Leader Tom Hoffay (D - Ward 2) said he had no problem with any of
Gallo's appointments, or what he called the routine practice of placing
campaign supporters in city jobs.
Critics had called the cuts vindictive and politically motivated, an effort to punish city employees
Gallo deemed insufficiently loyal in his Democratic Party primary
campaign against Steve Noble.
There was Jennifer Fuentes, who played a key role in
Gallo's 2011 election
campaign and served as his director of community development — until she was abruptly fired in 2013.
Gallo, speaking the afternoon after his triumph, attributed the crushing victory to a strategy based on coalition - building with an emphasis on bringing people into the
campaign who had felt shut out by politics - as - usual in Kingston.
Not all of
Gallo's appointments come from the ranks of
campaign supporters.
On election night
Gallo, with that bunker mentality so often displayed during his soon - to - be-ended administration, had his own delusional ideas of why his
campaign imploded.
In his brief comments,
Gallo thanked his volunteers, the Working Families Party (which provided critical support during the primary
campaign) and the Kingston Democratic Committee — in that order.
Mayor Shayne
Gallo embarked on a «new citywide revitalization
campaign» when he took office one year ago.
A handful of absentee ballots also held the key to the Independence Party line where Clement ran a write - in «opportunity to ballot»
campaign against
Gallo, who was handed the ballot line by party leaders.
Some Capitol insiders are still shaking their heads that former state Republican chairman George
Gallo is going to prison for accepting kickbacks in political
campaigns.
Gallo, by contrast, raised just $ 5,560 in the run up to the primary and relied on a dedicated corps of volunteers for door - to - door
campaign pitches.
Gallo's
campaign relied on a simple message: economic development won't come until the city addresses pressing quality - of - life problems like blight and crime.
Give
Gallo credit for running the best primary
campaign.
Slidshow image: Shayne
Gallo, center, enjoys a light moment Monday with attorney Andrew Zweben, left, and
campaign chairman Dan Gartenstein, right, during the final absentee ballot count Monday.
Woerner, who holds the Democratic Committee nomination, has spent much of the
campaign blasting
Gallo on a number of issues, including his plan to install a police station in a former bank building on Broadway.
Dawson, a longtime resident of the ward, has connections with the
Gallo family going back to the 1990s when she worked on the late T.R.
Gallo's
campaign.
«My whole
campaign was about reconnecting with the rank and file and re-energizing the party,» said
Gallo.
Gallo, meanwhile, was left without a party line to run on after his
campaign missed a deadline to submit forms needed to run in the Independence and Conservative party primaries.
But
Gallo said his own
campaign attorney, city Corporation Counsel Andrew Zweben, had described the appeal as a long shot.
Joe DiFalco, incoming chairman of Kingston's Independence Party committee, was also on hand as
Gallo narrowly fended off Clement's write - in
campaign to snatch away the third - party line by a vote of 28 - 26.
As a footnote, I've gotten some flak from the Clementines for calling
Gallo's the «best
campaign» By that, I meant
Gallo's back - from - the - dead stretch run, detailed above, not his
campaign tactics.
Clement called the narrow loss «heartbreaking» but said that he bore no ill will towards
Gallo and looked forward to
campaigning on his behalf in the general election.
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Gallo Family Vineyards partnered in support of this
campaign.
Gallo Family Vineyards compensated me for participation in this
campaign.