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Vets say they’ll march on Memorial Day, permit or not, but hope to do it ‘the right way’
Updated May 10, 2021;
Posted May 10, 2021
The Vietnam Veterans of American march at the Memorial Day Parade on Forest Avenue on Sunday, May 26, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Shira Stoll)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island’s veterans and their supporters intend to march on Memorial Day whether or not they receive a permit.
U.S. Army veteran Lee Covino and U.S. Air Force veteran Ted Cohen said during a press conference at Hero Park in Tompkinsville that they’d prefer to proceed with a permit that the city’s already denied, but that local veterans organizations intend to march no matter what.
New ‘Staten Island First’ Party Spawned by Democratic Borough President Candidate With Additional Reporting by Rachel Holiday Smith
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Staten Island voters could see a new political party on their general election ballots: “Staten Island First,” THE CITY has learned.
Mark Murphy, the Staten Island Democratic Party-backed candidate for borough president, is collecting signatures with two other Democrats to run in the general election on his new independent ballot line whose name echoes the Trumpian “America First” motto. Murphy wouldn’t say directly whether he’ll wage an active third-party run if he loses the June primary, responding, “I am a Democrat. I always support Democrats.”
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio rolled out a $98.6 billion “recovery budget” on Monday – the largest budget in the city’s history – but he’ll only get to spend half of it. Because six months into the next fiscal year, a new mayor will be taking office. So it seemed odd that the mayor’s executive budget was met with near silence from the eight leading Democrats who are hoping to inherit the city – and the $3.9 billion budget gap that de Blasio’s bean counters predict for the next mayor’s first full fiscal year. Shaun Donovan, who once managed the $4 trillion federal budget, was the only candidate who even put out a statement, criticizing de Blasio for failing to make progress on key issues like police reform and “passing the buck to his eventual successor and ultimately, the NYC taxpayer.” (Unlike his arguably misdirected finger-pointing at de Blasio for the census results, Donovan’s budget statement went largely unnoticed.)
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