From the NY Post:He may be the king of Queens, but the borough's Democratic Party boss has his castle in Virginia.
Rep. Joe Crowley, who has the power to remake the political landscape in the borough -- as when he handpicked a candidate yesterday to replace Anthony Weiner -- actually lives 250 miles away with his family in Virginia, The Post has learned.
The Crowleys live in an expansive home in the leafy Washington suburb of Arlington, Va., where his three kids attend the community's nationally renowned public schools -- shunning New York City's educational system, property records show.
Crowley was spied yesterday in his driveway, keying into his Ford Fiesta, which bears a Virginia license plate and a bumper sticker that proclaims one of his kids is an honor student at a nearby middle school.
But Crowley keeps a toehold in the borough, maintaining ownership of a longtime family home on 65th Street in Woodside -- though neighbors on the block don't know who he is. That's not surprising, since he bought his house in Virginia for $690,000 in 2004, six years after he went to Congress.
His decision to raise his family in the DC suburbs rather than Queens raises eyebrows because of his role as the county's powerful Democratic Party chairman, which requires him to oversee politics throughout the borough, and not just tend to his congressional duties.
Crowley's response, courtesy of the NY Observer:
62 comments:
How many other Queens pols do not live in the borough?
You voted him in, he's been slightly exposed and YOU'LL still vote for him AGAIN.
This is no surprise anymore, if it is not one thing it is another. Has anyone really taken a look into what is going on around them? People of NYC, especially Queens have become complacent to the point of zombies.
Unless people wake up, start making some serious noise, not just on one or two blogs, but some serious noise, things will only get worse.
Another Republic failed in almost the same way a long time ago, and we are on the way.
Get off your rears, get out there, EDUCATE yourselves, VOTE, Protest, stand in front of their offices with signs, WAKE UP!!!
someone is just jealous of crowley, i hope ackerman losses his congressional seat!
I agree this smells. So vote him out. Problem solved. He'll do just fine in VA, which is the number one business state these days. Next.
He's almost as fat as Seminerio. What's with these guys?
someone is just jealous of crowley, i hope ackerman losses his congressional seat!
I don't understand the comment, could you explain what you meant by jealous? and I agree Ackerman needs to get gone as well.
"Get off your rears, get out there, EDUCATE yourselves, VOTE, Protest, stand in front of their offices with signs, WAKE UP!!! "
Well said Alfredo !
And i go around petitioning for this schmuck? NO MORE.. Atleast the republican party boss doesnt hold any other elected positions..Thats what we need or im joining the green party because atleast the greens stand for something
If he's been trying to hide this, what other shifty, maybe criminal, maybe sexual, things is Crowley trying to hide? If he thinks it's acceptable to pull this off, what else does he believe to be acceptable?
"Get off your rears, get out there, EDUCATE yourselves, VOTE, Protest, stand in front of their offices with signs, WAKE UP!!
Way to go Al
A tribute to "Virginia Joe" Crowley (with apologies to Flushing-born composer James A. Bland):
CARRY JOE BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY
Carry Joe back to old Virginny.
There's where the cotton and corn and taters grow.
There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
There's where this Queens Dem's heart am long'd to go.
There's where he labored so hard for old Nancy,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn;
No place on earth does he love more sincerely
Than old Virginny, the state where he wished he had been born.
Carry Joe back to old Virginny.
There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow;
There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
There's where this Queens Dem's heart am long'd to go.
Carry Joe back to old Virginny,
There let him live till he wither and decay.
Long by the old Dismal Swamp has he wandered,
There's where this Queens Dem's life will pass away.
Old Massa Tom Manton has long since gone before him,
Soon they will meet on that bright and golden shore.
There they'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There's where they'll meet and they'll never part no more.
Carry Joe back to old Virginny.
There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow;
There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
There's where this Queens Dem's heart am long'd to go.
and guess what im sure nothing will change at all even with the press involved
What choice do we have in the Democratic dictatorship of Queens?
Vote for some erratic weirdo Republican like Dan "hollerin" Halloran?
We're butt fucked anyway we vote!
Is this legal? Is there a residency law that he is violating? If not, he hasn't committed a crime. Voters keep voting this guy in again and again. He's a corrupt political hack and doesn't care about Queens and hasn't for a long time. He has too much power and can dictate who he wants to run for political office to oversee the taxpayers, yet, he doesn't even reside here. The scary part is that no one cares. You get the government you deserve. You all voted for him, now deal with it. If no one complains, he'll be a political figure in Queens for many more years to come. When you eat enough shit, you get tired of the taste. I guess no one is tired yet.
District Leader Evan Stavisky lives in Rockland County with his wife who is Rockland County Democratic Chair. The other District leaders are his mother and two of his lackeys. Then he gets to pick the Democratic candidates for Queens.
Oh, did I mention that those Queens candidates then hire his consulting firm and pay him big money?
What's good for Venezuela Hugo is good for Virginia Joe.
Congrats Queens Democratic voters your party leader lives in Virginia, and you're about to elect David Weprin to the 9th congressional district while he technically lives in Gary Ackermans 5th congressional district.
I understand that this is the way the law is written right now, but it DOES NOT make it right, and it should stop
WAKE UP QUEENS
What a dickhead.
Queens voters deserve Joe Crowley because they keep electing him and electing him and electing him...
Districts are sized by residents.
NY-7 has relatively small ratio of citizens to residents.
A small ratio of citizens to registered voters.
A small ratio of registered voters to people who actually vote.
And among the people who actually vote a large number of people in the dependency class (i.e. government employees, or otherwise receiving a government check or subsidy)
No wonder why Queens County is a shit hole. We have no one representing us that lives here. He should be impeached and brought up on charges.
This is news worthy. Where is the press on this one? Sorry....forgot......Casey Anthony UGH
Considering that the NY Post is the source for this leaves me feeling a lot less outraged than if it came from a legitimate news source.
It's OK, he's a dem.
That big of a guy fits into a Ford Fiesta? lol...I wonder what mode of transportation he uses in Queens.
Oh - so we only pay attention to the New York Times which would never out a Democrat living outside of his/her district?
Frankly, if the Post knew, the Times new, and it is to the shame of people working at the Times that they sit on the stories like this that don't serve their political agenda.
Anon-2, "legitimacy" in a free press only happens when that freedom serves the truth and not a conservative or liberal agenda.
Bottom line....if you hold office, you should live in the district you ran for office in. Feel the same goes for NYC workers, they should live there also. Spend your money where you are paid.
this is Queens legislative Representation by PROXY.
Is not Queens democrat dictatorship grand ?
ABC,Anybody But Crowley !!! RECALL,RECALL,RECALL !!!!
What a friggin' lame excuse he gave to the NY Observer. Didn't expect anything different. Therefore I wasn't disappointed.
This is a re post, apparently the first one didn't make it on (Not Verbatum)
"Vote for some erratic weirdo Republican like Dan "hollerin" Halloran?"
Thats why I agree with the posters that keep throwing out Al Centola name as a write in candidate. Now understand it does not need to be Al but anyone like him. I use him as an example because I have seen him in action and the man does not flip flop. He has stated his mission from day one and has stuck to it over ten years now. In the interim he has helped with several issues in the community with positive result, yet he never takes credit. He is not in the pockets of anyone but his family and what is best for them.
Again it does not have to be Al Centola, but an Al Centola is what we need in every district, in every community. The posters that keep asking for a write in campaign have the right idea, write his name in if he doesn't want to run, and then if he wins, let him decide at that point in time.
If you have someone in your community like Al, not the same tired old criminals that put on a good public face with "Democratic Clubs" (with or without Cigars (Cuban?)), "Lions Clubs" filled with Developers salivating at the chance to ruin for a buck, Community Park Clean up organizers that do it once during an election they are running for and are never to be heard from again, others that try to parlay their connections with the Parkside group in order to land a Council Seat and or a plum $100,000 plus job with whomever gets elected. I can go on and on.
So I say My write in vote will go to Al Centola, give yours to whomever you like, just let the Criminal Power base know that enough is enough and we can and will be heard!
unemployment is now 9.2 % to 18 % in NY.
tax and spend ,out of town local democrat reps. like OUT OF TOWN CROWLEY, have no clue.
they all (dems.) hop onto corporate jets at Teterboro and Signature A/L.,Millionaire A/L, Atlantic A/L, Marine Terminal (Laguardia)
ask any chauffeur , they know the truth. Many get NYS Trooper escorts.
Palin flys commercial A/L and gets her own luggage,with her family .
i saw it and i am saying it.
Queens Democratic Party Executive Secretary Michael Reich lives on Long Island!
"wake up in my own bed whether I like it or not" WTF does that mean?
a Q.C. commenter exposed this fact about "OUT OF TOWN CROWLEY"at least a year ago.
None of the N.Y.C. democrat/media/complex ever followed up on this data ,or knew and buried it.
your "LEFTIE" sarcasm is on deaf ears now. The people are finally getting pissed off at their GANGSTER GOVERNMENT that you marxists have sold them.
Wait a minute. There's no such thing as a sanity clause!
Honk!
Now that's the most ridiculous thing that I've ever hoid1
Hello, Old Timer!
Hey, I wonder if the Post read the comments.
2nd Qns. Dem, Michael Reich, lives elsewhere
Waiting patiently for the Stavisky expose...
The Queens machine honchos don't live in the borough - none of them! The last one that did was Tom Manton.
Queens politics makes that old "Crooks" county crew in Chicago look honest!
Daley, Manton, Crowley, (Mc Laughlin)...what's the difference?
The Irish surely seem to make the finest banboozlers!
I have the same feeling towards you as I do towards people who make Anti-Semitic comments here: complete scorn and pity for how you were raised.
I have the same feeling towards you as I do towards people who make Anti-Semitic comments here: complete scorn and pity for how you were raised.
Wait a minute. There's no such thing as a sanity clause!
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Oh yeah?
Wait a minute. There's no such thing as a sanity clause!
Well MY cat has sandy claws!!!
I called his office in Jackson Heights to ask a question about West Point applications two years ago and was told that I had to call his Main Office...I thought I did....the woman said no it's in Parchester. When I called there the woman told me that his choices had already been made and I said that it was impossible because the process for the Class of 2015 hadn't even started yet. This past
April I e-mailed Crowley to ask
the names of his appointees and although I received a reply thanking me for my question I never received an answer from him..
Since I live in his district I feel that I have a right to know.
"District Leader Evan Stavisky lives in Rockland County with his wife who is Rockland County Democratic Chair."
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Where does his Mom actually live?
HEY LEFTIE, READ :"Why i am no longer a brain dead liberal ",The Village Voice , 3/ 11/08 and "The Secret Knowledge" by David Mamet.
tick, tock.
This is why Rory Lancman would have been the better choice than Weprin for the Congressional seat. At least Assemblyman Lancman lives here in Queens. And he has a stellar record in Albany, really a true stand out. I hope he runs for city wide office.
The fact that Joe Crowley screrwed Rory Lancman shows you what a hack Crowley is. He should be thrown out of office if he lives on Long Island.
Queens County Democratic Party is run by carpetbaggers. Stavisky, Crowley, Reich... Why can't the voters figure this out and vote them out? They are raping Queens!
Weiner screwed himself, Crowley is screwing his constituents.
Anon. No 47:
I don't read stuff by overrated hack writers who have run out of things to say and have to write stuff like that to get attention.
What do you think of David Brock? He used to be a Conservative. He isn't anymore.
Nyuk, nyuk.
Read the US Constitution regarding residency for Congressman. They don't have to reside in their district and can live out of state.
These pols might as well just flip you the bird! They just become more arrogant and self serving every year......
Elected officials should be barred from heading their local political office.
Their primary residence should be in their home state, taxed as such.
Joe Crowley is ineffective save for remaining elected.
is rory lancman a district leader ? maybe he should be county leader! he is smart, honest, he takes on shelly silver and he lives in NEW YORK !!!!!
WAKE UP REPUBLICANS!!! The reason Crowley keeps on winning is not the fault of his fellow clueless Democrats. It is the fault of the Queens Republican Party run by Phil Regusa, Serf Maltese etc. They have never placed or so much as sought after a strong Republican candidate. Crowley keeps running unopposed with no viable Republican opponent. Maltese and his crony Regusa have made deals with Joe for years.
MESSAGE TO REPUBLICANS: Vote out Regusa as Chairman this coming fall and maybe the party will have a chance to get Virginia Joe packing back to Ol' Virginny oops I mean this home in Woodside. Horrors! his kiddies might end up in PS 229
you are absolutely irrational to believe the political crap that you posted.
knee-jerk democrats (5-1 ) in Queens will never vote for the opposition party candidate. most of them have drank the "JIM JONES KOOL-ADE".
give us the welfare state benefits and pensions,till we go broke.
then we will attack like the Greeks are doing.
Oh, take another snort of Johnny Jameson and go back to bed.
Since Boss Tweed the Irish have proved quite adept at political chicanery!
you would think that once crowley was exposed for his own residency issue he wouldnt support weprin, another guy who lives outside his designated district. what a hack crowley is.
Joe I've got a nice piece of property on the Maury river outside of Lexingto VA. if your interested. It's secluded, no nosey news people will catch you!
I'll be looking for your reply.
Will Crowley
lose his seat because of this?
Certainly not!
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