Christopher St. Lawrence
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This blogger has noticed that posts with the name of Ramapo Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence draw an extraordinary amount of attention.
It’s not like Mr. St. Lawrence can drop his last name and be known around the world as Chris, ala Elvis or Ali, but hey, when it comes to name recognition, St. Lawrence rings a lot of bells in Ramapo.
It’s not like that everywhere. I recall doing a story in Clarkstown a few years back, when the woman I was interviewing forgot the name of her town supervisor, who by then had already served a few four-year terms.
“You know who he is,” she said, “that tall, nice-looking man. Vanderhoef’s his name.”
She was close. Charles Holbrook, then the Clarkstown supervisor, was tall, and so was C. Scott Vanderhoef, who was then and still is the county executive.
Back to the present…It seems that a blog only needs to have St. Lawrence in it to draw out heated exchanges between his supporters and detractors, while a reasonable question posted by the blogger is ignored.
Why is that? What makes St. Lawrence verbal dynamite?
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on Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 12:35 pm by James Walsh. 
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Maybe because voters outside the bloc don’t feel comfortable when he does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzydI5liD9c
Dear Mr Walsh.
SInce I noticed that you haven’t posted my comments on your article dated Aug 18, yet posted a total irrelevant (advertisement) comment by the Preserve Ramapo candidate makes me wonder…..(um….That’s right you removed it a almost a week later)
To answer your question….
1) First of al have you noticed that all “comments on St. Lawrence†are by the same 7/8 people? And are usually full of Anti Semitic posts
2) By provoking hatred regardless of which hatred you can cause a passion (look at the crusaders the Cossak’s or any riot) so the mere mention of St. Lawrence will always bring the haters to try to stir passion to get some votes.
(The usual excuse is “Maybe because voters outside the bloc don’t feel comfortable”, is so lame by now, that “bloc” vote is 40 percent of all residents in Ramapo lets not forget that even though St. Lawrence did carry allot of votes “outside the blocâ€,
cont…..in essence the “bloc†alone is the almost the MAJORITY of Ramapo)
wow sorry about all the posts..(my computer froze and stop typing & sent only half)
in short…St Lawrence carried 7000 votes “outside” the bloc which gave him and overwhelming majority of Ramapo residents with the “bloc” being a small part…..but then again haters will say whatever they want
The fountain head of Preserve Ramapo’s dark, energy comes from a hatred of a certain kind of Jew, not St Lawrence. There are, after all, powerful realities that have nothing to do with the Supervisor which facilitate construction of religious dorms and places of worship. One is private property rights. Another is RLUIPA, the federal regulation that gives certain rights to religisou minorities; that law was based on NEED, by the way. Another reality is the separation of responsibility between planning boards and elected officials. Replacing St Lawrence will not change those realities.
JN does not help shine light on the topic… As truthseekers wrote, the paper does not write much about St Lawrence triumphs in forward thinking…like open space protections and saving historic properties…and many more. Is the paper afraid? Do its reporters side with PR? What assignments do the reporters receive in the first place?
Jim:
The answer to your question abides in close proximity between reputation and trust. Conduct and their outcomes assign blame or praise. From my viewpoint, its the outcome of the policymakers creation. The name association is the polarizing affect you detect and are asking for here.
In reply to those posted:
Shakespeare wrote: “even the devil can cite scripture…” how it suits himself.
There is a seat for anyone at the Ramapo Roundtable to reason and find solutions, whereas, no such seats are available at Ramapo Town Hall.
Some here cite the law and deny first amendment rights to whom ever they disagree, in the same breath.
I am Anthony Mele and I invite you all to have seat at the Ramapo Roundtable to seek creative solutions to created problems.
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