Candidates Debate takeaway:

Boring unimaginative questions and worse answers.

More affordable housing (apartments), which means nowhere near the candidates, who live in houses.

Affordable apartments for police officers and firefighters because they don't get paid enough money to work and live in White Plains. The obvious solution is to pay them more but then people in the houses would be paying extra, not developers. Plus, paying them more means they can live where they want, including a house.

No tax increases. Make developers pay for affordable apartments, which means pass along to market rate renters, who are not considered White Plains residents by people living in houses. The purpose of those renters is to subsidize the people living in houses

Green and sustainable but downtown parking free for residents so that people living in houses can drive and park downtown in ten minutes.

Have the malls replace some retail stores with services, whatever that means, and supply meeting space. Oh, and be sure to have enough income to pay your taxes to subsidize the people living in houses.

Bask in their humanitarianism.

Did these four Democratic candidates for the three open seats on the Common Council just arrive from another planet? Their thoughts are impractical, unrealistic and contradictory. Get real.

Have any of them ridden the Bee-Line bus this millennium? Live on a street with sidewalks?

In White Plains people living in houses want downtown to be a place for their amusement and only a ten minute drive away. But they don't actually live with the consequences of their decisions. The people living in the downtown apartments do.

Questions for tonight's candidates debate for Common Council.

At the library, tonight 7-9 PM. Hey, what else is the library good for?

Democratic party primary debate for THREE open seats on the seven member Common Council. Since White Plains voters registered as Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1, the Democratic nomination is tantamount to election, or more accurately selection.

The three candidates were selected in secret with no party wide vote. Then a fourth Democrat challenged and the matter eventually went to court and forced the Democratic party to have a primary Tuesday June 25, 2019.

The White Plains League of Women Voters is organizing tonight's debate; the League will not take questions from the floor but asked for them before in writing. Here are the four candidates for the three Common Council seats:
Nadine Hunt-Robinson, incumbent
Victoria Presser
Jennifer Puja
Kat Brezler, challenger

Ladies, here are some questions:

Do you live in a downtown apartment or a house?

As a candidate have you attended a condo or co-op meeting?

Is the only issue in White Plains having people drive from their house to downtown in ten minutes?

Are you a citizen of the United States of America?

Would you support controlled demolition of the Galleria and its garage for the purpose of creating a central park?

Open space on Galleria parking lot roof could be a park. Saturday, February 17, 2018

Do you favor changing White Plains government from electing Common Council at large to having them represent geographic districts? You know, like legislatures of Westchester County, New York State and the United States of America.

So, how do you feel about all those huge buses inundating downtown White Plains, especially the Hudson Link?

lohud blasts Hudson Link bus system. Email sent to Common Council. Saturday, May 4, 2019

Bus mania is to get train station money as hub for east-west Lower Hudson Transit Link? Tuesday, April 16, 2019