Siegel’s Experience a Key Advantage in Bid to Return to Office

If experience, knowledge of the issues and a firsthand understanding of how town government works is important to you, (and it should be), then Susan Siegel deserves your vote in the upcoming special election to fill the vacancy on the Yorktown Town Board.

The Republican Party’s criticism of their opponents in last year’s election was that the Democratic candidates didn’t regularly attend board meetings and they didn’t have “credentials” from previous involvement with other boards. If that criticism was valid then, it certainly applies to their own candidate now.

In contrast, Siegel is, and has been, a regular and active attendee of Town Board meetings for decades. She has previously served as the town supervisor and as a Town Board member and was a devoted and tireless public servant in both of those positions. Having worked closely with Susan when she was town supervisor, I can personally attest to her unwavering desire to do what’s best for all the citizens of Yorktown. Ethics and personal integrity are her hallmarks, and backroom deals and the “good-old-boy network” are her bane.

When I read Mrs. Diana’s remarks about how she knows the issues from conversations with her late husband across the dinner table – that this somehow qualifies her to fulfill the duties of this office – I could only shake my head in disbelief. Like most married couples, my wife and I also discuss our jobs at the dinner table, but I would be the first to admit that that doesn’t qualify me to do her job effectively.

Bottom line, the tragic and untimely death of Diana’s husband is not a viable qualification for her candidacy for public office. In contrast, Susan’s extensive and specific knowledge and experience are the perfect qualifications for the job.

David Humphrey
Yorktown Heights

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