Latinos of Manorhaven won an important victory yesterday with the ouster incumbent Mayor Nicholas Capozzi. He is the politician shown on NYC's Channel 2 making, denying and then excusing these racist anti-Latino comments:
“The Spaniolis are rolling all over the [expletive] place … It looks like [expletive] Harlem. It looks worse than Harlem. It’s a [expletive] hole over there.”The public airing of the mayor's racist rant prompted outraged Latino and nonLatino Manorhaven residents to protest. When a petition demanding the mayor's resignation was ignored, residents then took the opportunity afforded by yesterday's mayoral vote to evict the disgraced Capozzi from power.
The voters instead chose local postal official, environmental activist and zoning board member, Michael Meehan, as mayor. Meehan, whose wife is of Guatemalan heritage, campaigned in part on improving village relations with the Latino community.
Congratulations to Meehan and the good people of Manorhaven.
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Everyone seems to forget who got Capozzi out of office, Earl Grenfell and Danny Aiello Grenfell had been telling the nassau County DA as well as residents about Capozzi's racial outrages but no one listened until Aiello helped Grenfell and recorded a conversation between Capozzi and Aiello that grenfell knew would happen when Aiello was seen with grenfell at village hall putting in a foil for former building Super. Len Baron. Grenfell knew as soon as Capozzi saw Aiello with him he'd call him and start harrassing him and he did and Aiello got it on tape. Not one person said thank you Aiello was called a rat and Capozzi threw him out of the building he was renting from Ames Ressa a capozzi supporter. Where is the justice Aiello had to leave his building and Dejana has Feri Amiryof 44 Mohegan Ave bring a bogus lawsuit against Grenfell saying he doesn't live in the village and grenfell didn't have the $25,000.00 to defend himself, so Meehan could waltz right into office. How Meehan thinks he won he didn't win Aiello and Grenfell won they got rid of Cappozi. How about thanking one of them.
Anonymous seems to have the inside scoop on how Capozzi's was exposed -- and, therefore defeated in his reelection bid for mayor of Manorhaven.
As is so often the case, the true heroes in righting wrongs are often overlooked or remain anonymous.
Earl Grenfell and Danny Aiello deserve our respect and gratitude for their actions in helping bring down the Manorhaven bully.
I do agree with Anonymous that the community should honor and protect those that are courageous enough to expose racists and bigots--especially those entrusted to serve the public good.
In a message to Mr. Daniel Aiello, I sent wrote the following: "You're a good man, Danny Aiello. Thank you for showing all of Long Island that one man can make a huge difference."
On behalf of Latino Long Island and its readers, I extend our deepest gratitude to Mr. Earl Grenfell as well. He, too, is a good man.
Do you idiots know that Grenfell endorsed Capozzi this last time? I have the flyer he sent around to say so. Anyone who suggests that Grenfell had anything to do with it is nuts. He couldn't win an election if he ran unopposed. In fact, maybe he DID help Meehan win. Grenfell's endorsement of Capozzi had to cost Capozzi a lot of votes.
Enough with the annoymous silliness. Here's my new rule for this thread: State your name or your comments will not be posted.
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