Spring Valley candidates to boycott forum
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- September
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It wouldn’t be election season without some less-than-friendly competition in Spring Valley.
Several candidates for village and county seats are planning not to participate in tomorrow night’s candidates’ forum, hosted by the Spring Valley chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Signed by the members of the Caucus to Save Spring Valley, village trustee candidates Demeza Delhomme and Darlene Roc, village justice candidate Judeline Rouzard and County Legislature candidates Bettie Brown and Jacques Michel said they would not attend because of what they say are recent wrong-doings by their opponents.
Delhomme recently filed a police report charging that he was attacked by trustee candidate Anthony Leone (something Leone denies) and Michel filed a police report last week saying Fonvil damaged his son’s grave marker.
The following is an excerpt from the e-mail sent by the Caucus to Save Spring Valley.
“We have made every effort to ensure our campaign is issue oriented. We have been vigilant in getting our message to the Spring Valley community. We have made every effort to avoid those engage in negative campaigning. The ‘Caucus to Save Spring Valley’ candidates have decided that to avoid any problems they must decline participation in the forum.”
Brown today described the caucus as a team of candidates running together.
Sonia Tracey-McCallum the Spring Valley NAACP’s co-chair of civic engagement committee, said she wasn’t aware of the caucus’ plans to avoid the forum and didn’t want to comment further.
The forum is scheduled from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow at the Louis Kurtz Civic Center in Spring Valley.
Read more about Michel’s accusations against Fonvil tomorrow in The Journal News.
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on Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 at 5:27 pm by Sarah Netter. 
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Good, don’t come. Don’t participate in the Democratic process of this Country.
Makes some choices easier.
Dear Sara Netter,
wow are there any Jewish candidates because it comes out on Rosh Hashona (the jewish new year) isnt that ironic that NAACP which is suppose to be sesnitive to other religions or race is hosting a debate on a jewish holiday…(see journal news about inspector training on the jewish new year) unless ther are no jewish candidates or jewish people that want to attemd:(
The primary is September 18th, instead of 9/11, which it originally was set. Now, since organizations offer meet the candidate forums, they can’t help the dates that maybe they have open, or candidates have available.
Dear Claudia,
I dont even know if there are any candidates whom cant attend because of the Rosh Hashana is a very known holiday (parking rules are suspended in NY state, allot of banks are closed and so forth). Just picture if there was a debate held on a day which was important to black americans, i can bet you the NAACP would be screaming and looking for headlines across the us
Dear Ramapo Resident,
I do remember, years ago, the year they first had a Martin Luther King Day, there was a candidates night sponsored by the NAACP.
How is any sort of racism going to go away if everyone wants to point out labels?
Not every elected official, or County resident is Jewish, or Catholic, etc. And, not everyone is African-American (if you’re going to be specific about being politically correct and not use the term “black americans”) or Jamaican-American, Haitian-American, Asian-American, etc.
I think this was just a case of timing of the primary, etc. Making a mountain out of a mole hill is silly, yet you do it.
If some of those candidates don’t want to go, I assure you it’s because they have issues that don’t deal with it being any sort of holiday, etc.
Is this gonna end someday??
Why is it that so many people aren’t going to vote? I don’t understand how these people can not care about whats going on in their country politically.
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