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A Proper Welcome…

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By:  Progress for WHB

On rather short notice, our village learned that Hillary Clinton the former:   First Lady of the United States; Senator from the State of New York; and Secretary of State would be visiting Westhampton Beach at Books & Books for a signing her latest book Hard Choices.  Mayor Moore was there to greet her and welcome her back to our village.

Mayor Moore Welcomes the former Secretary of State to our villageAlthough they had a reporter present at the event, an editorial decision was made at the Southampton Press to not report that our Mayor was there on Sunday representing the village.

The decision was also made to exclude the above photograph, as well as others that included the Mayor, from the  27east story while they posted 16 other photographs taken by Neil Salvaggio, a reporter for the Press.

Our residents should know that, contrary to the coverage by the Southampton Press, our village was represented by its Mayor, and that she did give the Former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, a proper welcome.

The Southampton Press and 27East has earned our first ever Dunce Cap Award

(if the Press can give out dunce caps, it can surely wear one.)

dunce-cap

from Progress for WHB

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Lucky…

As you can imagine, the Progress For WHB Party is exhilarated by the strong support in our village for Maria.

We also would like to note that Charlie Palmer received  the highest vote count on the trustee line, albeit in an otherwise uncontested race.

Charlie gave generously of his time regularly going door to door with Maria throughout the campaign.   He has weathered ridicule for his reputation for thrift, and endured personal attacks based only on innuendo.  These false attacks seem to have been a failed attempt to change the narrative of this campaign.

Maria’s election is the product of lots of work by many people each contributing in their own way, none could have done it alone.  We did it as a team.

Some thought there was no campaign opposing the incumbent mayor until the owner of the the Corner restaurant put up his signs.  What they didn’t know was that Maria and Charlie had already visited nearly every voting household in the village.

In the end, it is Maria who is the principle architect of her success.  She offered to serve after having accumulated years of experience as an attorney, as a parent, and as a resident of our village.  Maria’s greatest job qualification is her compassion and concern for every person she meets.  To meet Maria is to love her.

I met Maria 30 years ago at a law school barbecue, so I know.  A few years back another “Tom” Maria and I know dubbed me “Lucky Tom.” Nothing could be more true.  I am glad to share Maria with you as our next mayor– You’ll be lucky too.

Tom Moore