Keep those palm cards handy
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- February
- 16
I get so many of those campaign palm cards during election season that I could wallpaper my cubicle. You all know what I’m talking about  you get them in your mailbox or at the grocery store. You hit up a local festival anytime between May and November and you could likely fill a small pillowcase with literature from local politicians and their challengers.
Personally, I’ve never found much use for them, other than seeing who has the best design or who should have thought to comb his cowlick before smiling for the camera.
But County Legislator Bruce Levine keeps an entire file of them, his to be exact. They are his own version of a to-do list. Every politician tells voters what he or she will do for them, but Levine said recently that he keeps his file to make sure he keeps his word.
“What they’re really looking for is action and results,� he said of voters.
Back when Levine was a legislator in the 1980s and ‘90s, he’d keep his palm cards from each election and then check them later to see what promises he’d fulfilled and what else needed to be worked on. Now that he’s back in his old seat and facing opposition in a September primary from former Legislator Alden Wolfe, Levine said he’s back in the old file.
And he better make this year’s palm card good. After he’ll be looking at it for years to come.
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on Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 12:29 pm by Sarah Netter. 
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Category: Alden Wolfe, Bruce Levine, COUNTY LEGISLATURE, Montebello, Rockland County
