politics

We are excited to announce that our congresswomen who resides in Hudson has been chosen by Governor David Paterson to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.

Tanya Hollander, the woman charged with arranging prostitutes for the Emperor's Club VIP, appears to have been leading a secret double life as both a hippie-ish holistic healer and a power broker's madam.
Tanya, as the media has been spelling her name, is alleged to have booked girls for New York Governor-for-the-moment Eliot Spitzer. Meanwhile, Tania, an alias listed in charges unsealed by the U.S. Attorney's office on March 6, appears to have maintained an extensive "health counseling" website (now taken down but cached below) and a MySpace page (last login February 8), where she describes herself as "a grounded, creative, adventurous, and wise spirit," a practitioner of holistic healing in the Manhattan and Hudson Valley area who is "known to get lost in health food stores and wander for several hours."

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Tanya Hollander is a health counselor and ran a web site to promote her services. The site has since gone down. Here is our cached copy of her front page:

SPECIAL ELECTION UPDATE 11/5/07:
Halloween may be over but dirty tricks continue. Campaign flyers full of outrageously false claims with the tagline “Vote Team Traudt” have infuriated Rhinebeck residents who expect a higher standard from our local politicians. One of the more egregious fabrications is that Mr. Block is intent on combining the Town and Village. Aside from the fact that this would be legally impossible to implement as Town Supervisor is not a dictatorial position, it contradicts every public statement Mr.Block has ever made, including his interview with rhinecliff.org that you can view HERE.

The following letter appeared in the Poughkeepsie Journal November 4, 2007:

A recent letter from Joe Ely ("Block tries to spin his way out of poor choices," Oct. 15) regarding PANDATV23 insults the station and the municipal leaders who removed him from authority. Here are the real facts.

Ely was replaced as Rhinebeck town representative to the PANDA (Public Access Northern Dutchess Area) board in January because PANDA was suffering under his direction. PANDA's audio and video quality had deteriorated and little was done to train community producers.

Despite the loss of his board seat, Ely continued to lead PANDA as volunteer station manager. In April, he was finally removed, but it wasn't until the July 12 PANDA board meeting that those who remained loyal to Ely were finally replaced by newly elected officers.

By Aug. 2, the new officers discovered records at M&T bank showing more than $25,000 in unauthorized checks written and cashed and the PANDA treasury virtually emptied. Under Ely, the normal checks and balances were not observed. While no one is asserting Ely took part in any criminal wrongdoing, the authorities were contacted and another person has been arrested on grand larceny charges and the matter is before a grand jury.

Subsequently, each of the five PANDA communities authorized supplemental funding to keep PANDA operating, secure that the new PANDA leaders are accomplished professionals in film and commercial television with the highest personal integrity.

We could not allow self-serving inaccuracies to go without response.

Steve Block
Supervisor
Town of Rhinebeck
David Cohen
Mayor
Village of Red Hook
Marirose Blum Bump
Supervisor
Town of Red Hook
Marc Molinaro
State Assemblyman
former mayor of Tivoli

The Gazette Advertiser of November 1 featured a full page ad attacking the current Town administration for not passing the Comprehensive Plan as proposed. The Ad was signed by:

David Baldauf, Jim Closs, Nancy Kelly, Richard Kopyscianski, Mary Myerson, Kay Verrilli and Bob Wills.

In response to this political attack ad, the Democrats produced a point by point rebuttal.

Below are images of the advertisement and the response.