Spano: ULLIC Underwrites $250 Million of Cappelli’s Concord Resort Project
Yonkers, NY -- Assemblyman Mike Spano (D-C-WF, Yonkers), as a member of the New York State Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee, applauds the Union Labor Life Insurance Company’s decision, through “J for Jobs,” to commit $250 million to the $1 billion redevelopment project of the historic Concord Resort. Their generous support of the project makes a significant contribution to the completion of Phase I in this Renaissance Project.
“J for Jobs” was created by Union Labor Life Insurance Company in 1977 with the intention of generating favorable risk-adjusted returns for investors and establishing work for unionized workers. It is responsible for partnering with Labor in tough economic times to create initiatives.
The Concord-Empire Resorts Hotel and Casino will be built on the historic 150-acre site where the Concord Hotel once stood in Kiamesha Lake, New York, located in Sullivan County. Phase I, made possible in part to the Union Labor Life Insurance Company’s funding, and will include the relocation and rebuilding on the Monticello Harness Racing Facility within the 150-acre site.
When all phases are completed, the Concord Resort reconstruction will prove to be the largest project, outside of Manhattan, ever in The State of New York. The project is not just historic due to its magnitude, but also its timing in this unprecedented economic downturn and its job creation potential. Managing Member of the Concord Associates, LP, Cappelli Enterprises, expect to employ 2,000 union construction workers and over 1,900 permanent union hotel and restaurant workers by the time construction concludes.
“In these tough economic times, this project will not only help to revive a county, but provide an undoubted boost to New York State’s economy. Union Labor Life Insurance Company along with Cappelli Enterprises should be proud of the labor movement and positive impact that their involvement with the project is making in New York,” Assemblyman Spano stated.
SOURCE: Office of Assemblyman Mike Spano
You moron, the City of Yonkers is facing the bigest financial crisis in it's history and you are puting out press releases about your buddy's project in the Catskills.
Go run for Mayor of the Catskills and stop the bulshit that you propegate on us, the good people of this City.
Shame on you for this new low in stupidity.
Posted by: | January 16, 2009 at 17:41
"J" is for jerkoff
Posted by: | January 16, 2009 at 18:20
Another politian living in lala land. Hey Mike do you notice what's happening in Yonkers??????????
Posted by: | January 16, 2009 at 19:30
Yes Spencer
Posted by: | January 16, 2009 at 20:16
"Mike Spano." That says it all. What an incompetent fool.
Posted by: | January 16, 2009 at 21:31
The fact that Mike Spano is working so hard to help Cappelli get funding only means one thing ( what has Cappelli done for him lately?)
With Yonkers and Westchester County in so much Disarray, the highest taxes in the nation, homelessness, people losing houses and jobs, Amicone firing cops and firefighters, is Mike Spano telling us he has nothing else to work on but Cappelli's project upstate NY? WOW!
Looks like Mike might be solitifying his own demise.
Sam Zherka
Posted by: Sam Zherka | January 17, 2009 at 13:13
or you might want to look at it another
way...if the concord project is successful
it will generate lots of new jobs...those
wage earners will pay state income taxes..
the new hotel will also pay large amounts
to the state in income and sales taxes
now the more revenues that can be generated
for the state the less the state will have
to cut its aid to the cities ..and the yonkers school system..so spano may be on
the right track after all
Posted by: | January 17, 2009 at 14:57
Dear Mikes (plural)
The only thing you are interested in generating is more campaign contributions and campaign consulting contracts in exchange for helping your favored friends, while the people of the City continue to get screwed.
BTW, IMHO campaign financing in exchange for favors from elected officials should be considered bribery.
Do you think that Capelli will be funding Mikey's campaign for Mayor? I do.
Posted by: | January 17, 2009 at 18:47
2:57, Edelman, is an embarrassing Spano spinner. What a ridiculous post he made. But Edelman can't resist spinning anything and everything.
Posted by: | January 18, 2009 at 08:16
Jeanine Rose has been forcing Mike Edelman on the people of Yonkers for years, even though he has little true connection to the City. He is little more than a political mouthpiece for the old guard of Yonkers politics - those who have presided over the ruin of the City.
It may be that she and he have a personal relationship and she likes to promote her friends. Her promotion of friends is obvious when it comess to the Spanos.
Mary Calvi and Jeanine have another close personal relationship and since Mary is married to Mike Spano, it is obvious that News 12 is truly Spanovision.
There is no objectivity in what News 12 reports because all is slanted to promote those who Jeanine favors. Edelman is one of Jeanine's tools in getting her slanted view presented - the way she wants it and when she wants it.
It is outrageous that this has been allowed to exist for so long.
Her's a suggestion.
Boycott News 12 until the Dolan's remove her and Edelman and give us the quality of News 12 that exists in Long Island and other places.
At the same time write or call the executive offices of Cablevision and leave a mesage for the Dolans about this outrage.
It would be a better City if News 12 were a media outlet that exposed government and politics in a fair, balanced and complete fashion. That might lead to informed voters as opposed to brainwashed voters.
Posted by: | January 18, 2009 at 09:37
Good post, 9:37. News 12 is awful.
Posted by: | January 18, 2009 at 11:15
you guys have the same old agenda..you don't like people with independent points
of view..you refer to the yonkers old guard
but you are the yonkers older guard...the topics discussed on newsmakers are not
discussed in advance of the show...there is
no rehearsal of any kind.the show is done
off the top..you can ask any of the prior
news 12 guest commentators to verify it..you
don't have to agree with the opinions expressed jsut turn the dial..but the
fans of news 12 and especially the poltical
commentator portion are very high.and may
account in great deal for the overall success of the show...the small number of
disaffected malcontents that keep suggesting
that there is any influence by jeanine rose
over the content of the opinions expressed
by either the republican or the democrat
pale in comparison to the number of great
reviews they get from all over westchester
news 12 gets award after award for its news
coverage..sorry you don't enjoy the show
Posted by: | January 18, 2009 at 14:31
He, his wife and his son all voted for the Democratic Presidential Candidate in November, Barak Hussien Obama.
He is an avowed and confessed supporter of Mike Spano and Janet Difiore - both turncoats from republican to Democrat.
He is vehemently in opposition to the moral planks of the republican Party ...
And yet he's Jeanine Rose's spokesman for the Republican Party.
A complete joke.
By way of suggestion. He should run for some public office as a test of his self proclaimed popularity. Why not run for County Exec as a member of your hypothetical Republican affliation.
Then for sure we will know if you are as loved and as admired as you say you are.
Chances are you will be handily defeated as you were in your only other foray into a faceoff with the voters.
You do remember how handily you were defeated when Westchester County was a Republican County.
Please move to Florida and leave us alone.
Posted by: | January 18, 2009 at 17:00
News 12 - Mike Edelman does not speak for the rank and file Republicans in this county and your use of him as Republican Opinion guru is insulting. All Republicans should boycott news 12 and pull any advertising or boycott businesses advertising until a true Republican is selected. Doug Colty must take a stand. It's time for Edelman to go.
Posted by: | January 20, 2009 at 15:34
there is indeed a war in the republican
party between folks that are right wingers
on social issues and moderates like me..so
far you have lost the first test which was
the RNC vote the other day to choose the most conservative person as the new chairman
that litmus test failed...you have no idea
what the rank and file republicans in
this county believe...you only know what
you believe...after i revealed who i voted
for and that was only after the election
since I supported every singel republican
running for office prior I had at least
50-100 republiacans stop me all across
the county telling me they did the
same thing I did...so you will just have
to live with the fact that there are currently two brands of republicans I represent one of them and in new york
it is the majority view...since rudy giuliani for example a pro choice candidate
for president if you will recall..was the
most popular republican in the state.
you wouldn't know a "true" republican
if you stepped on one...because the party
has lost its way...it has become a party
of primarily rural, southern, and white
constituencies..every thing else is blue
so if you want a viable party you better
drop the ultra conservative dogma that
has relegated republicans to a minority
in new york and figure out along with the
rest of us how to attract minorities,
working people and older people to vote
for republicans..
Posted by: | January 20, 2009 at 15:56
You sound like a democrat to me. Just what IS the difference between you and a Democrat Mr. Edelma? And those 50 to 100 Republicans who voted like you, well 55 million Republicans across the nation did not vote like you. And, easy 50 to 100 plus county Republicans do not believe you speak for them. It's apparent by your comments on Rudy Giuliani that your Republican litmus test rests on the abortion issue and apparently that alone. I sir am a 'working people' and an 'older people' and could be considered a 'minority' as well and the Republican party attracted me, so what are you talking about.
Posted by: | January 20, 2009 at 16:56
fair question....I am not a democrat in
fact I chartered YAF at Lehigh....I supported barry goldwater...its not about
how many republicans voted for john mcaain
its about how republicans can win again...
in new york if you are pro life for state
wide office..you lose..why is abortion a
political issue..it should be a medical issue between a woman and her physician..
i am agnostic on the question of when life
begins..because i am not a scientist..but
conservative right winge zelots want to make
that issue the litmus test for nomination
ask mike long...he would not support jeanine
pirro for US senate only because she was
pro choice...john spencer and john faso
got his approval so they went to the republcian party and said we have conservative party support so you have to
nominate us..but yet 85% of new yorkers
are not pro life..they believe that it is
a private issue...I am a fiscal conservative
I am a foreign policy conservative..not a neocon...I believe in personal responsibility I don't believe in catering
to the unions..I don't believe in breaking
the bank to mollify the teachers or the fireman or the police unions...now.
you are the one making abortion the litmus
test not me...and if republicans are going
to win again in new york that issue has
to be taken off the table
Posted by: | January 20, 2009 at 17:48
You are a hypocrite and a liar.
You write that
"I don't believe in catering
to the unions..I don't believe in breaking
the bank to mollify the teachers or the fireman or the police unions"
Yet you are in the pocket of the Spanos, who's entire political lives have been committed to giving the store away to the unions in excjange for contributions and endorsements.
Just as Mike Long rejected your pal, Jeanine, for US Senate on an important issue, you too should reject the Spanos on this issue.
Otherwise you are a hypocrite and a liar. You certainly do not speak for Republicans.
By the way the abortion issue cannot be "taken off the table". It is as important if not more important than those that you consider "litmus tests" for candidates.
BTW, your other pal, DEMOCRAT Mike Spano will loose plenty of votes in Yonkers as a result of his ardent support of Partial Birth Abortion (you know that procedure where a full term baby is partially extracted from the womb and it's skull punctured so that it's brains can be sucked out)
Mikey will be ultimately defeated in Yonkers on that issue. He lost the mayoral primary to Phil on the issue.
So abortion is an issue that is here to stay. It cannot be taken off the table and in Yonkers, the pro life sentiment is greater than the pro choice. Another reason you do not speak for Republicans, especially here.
Hypocrite and liar.
Posted by: | January 21, 2009 at 08:03
you are exactly the kind of one issue fringe
republican who is not really a republican
you are a conservative period..and a one
issue conservative at that...but the ground
is changing under you...abortion is no
longer going to have the pull in the party
it once did...we are going to nominate candidates that are moderate on social
issues and conservative on other issues
and as for nick and mike..they are both
friends of mine whose pockets have never
paid me a dime..but then I don't take
positions based on money..I don't have
to...barry goldwater would be turning
in his grave to her people like you claim
to be republicans..keep the government out
of our pockets and our bedrooms is the
call of true fiscal conservatives not
the tune of the members of the religious
right
Posted by: | January 21, 2009 at 08:33
How dare you sumarily determine that the previous blogger is a one issue fringe Rep..
For your info, he sounds like a Reagan Republican, who if he were in your presence he'd probably slap you in the face. So would Democrat Harry Truman.
You still havn't justified your support of liberal Dems like Mike Spano while pretending to be a Republican.
Acording to your logic, your "friendships" are what matter when it comes to political philosophy.
Those nimwit Spanos can still be your friend while you reject their wierd leftist beliefs.
Wasn't Nick the keynote speaker at the Rainbow Coalition (gay rights) lobbying conference for several years while he served as Deputy Republican Majority leader.
You are a radical left winger - no republican of any sort.
Principle does not matter to you. Friendships obviously do.
Please do not ask us to believe that you have not profited from your strange support of the Spanos, Pirros, Martinellis and others.
If you had one bone of conscience in your body, you would voluntarily quit the farce of being a Rep spokesman.
People like you, the Spanos, Pirros and Pataki are what has ruined the rep party in New York.
Posted by: | January 21, 2009 at 12:09
your diatribe is unconvincing...you seem to think that your definition of a republican
is THE definition...but you cast aspirtions
on others who have successfully run as
republicans like nick spano who became
deputy minority leader, and gov pataki
and jeanine pirro....how dare you call me
a radical left winger...while you work anti
gay themes into your diatribe....the radical
right social agenda no longer controls
the new york state republican party..
and my point about friendships is that
I won't desert a friend based on their
political status..is that what you base
your friendships on..ie only right wingers
like yourself...the era of reagan is over
stop listening to Limbaugh...supply side
doesn't work its time to try something
else...it less ideological than attempting
to problem solve with practical solutions
those people like you who are inflexible
and clearly bigoted: gays do vote ..in fact
the log cabin society is a republican gay
organization...so if you had in westchester
a republican candidate for major office
this year who belongs to that group..does
that mean you are not going to support
that candidate..people like you would
love to see me give up the tv stuff..because
it rankles you that republicans are moderating all over the nation..
are you not going to support Rudy's run
for governor...I think Rudy would be
quite content with me as the spokesman not
you...and for that matter the Republican
State Committee in New York wants me to
be the face of the party not people with
your fringe right wing social beliefs..
you clearly put your social agenda above
what is really important..you talk about
abortion and gay rights..how about foreign
policy and economics..know anything at all
about how they work..I doubt it...
Posted by: | January 21, 2009 at 13:22