What an honor it is to have been nominated to run for mayor of White Plains. Moreover, my running mates, Anne Marie Encarnacao, Claudia Murphy and Carlo Albanese, respectively, each brings a unique White Plains’ experience while clearly unifying on an indelible message:

        White Plains can no longer function under one party rule. Our ticket has independent minded men and women, democrats and republicans alike; each uniquely qualified to lead. A true bi-partisan ticket!

     At the turn of the century, my wife Patricia and I chose to settle and raise our family here because there was a sense of hope; a sense that economically we could live here and grow. Well, we’re certainly living here and growing now with two beautiful grade school children.

That our taxes grow just as our children do is outrageous.

     Leadership is borne out of vision and vision is focused when input to that vision is honest and trustworthy.

     Currently, my opponent, Mayor Tom Roach, nevertheless a gentleman, has lost his way.

     He relies on his party patrons to sustain him, to guide him and fails to map out the future of the City.

         Yet, when we look around, growth has stalled, shoppers are leaving in numbers and morale amongst police, fire fighters and DPW workers is at an all time low. I know this for a fact because we talk.

     When we’re mayor, fiscal responsibility will be the first order. Depts will not spend their budgets down like DPW currently does.

      DPW spends its entire budget in the 3rd quarter, recently squandering $200,000 on unneccessary curbing and an acre of trees!

        Between this and a confounding $300,000 on a bike lane to nowhere, Mayor Roach wasted $500,000. And this is only the beginning. People lost their jobs at DPW. It doesn’t have to be this way.

     Another $20,000 to survey the Greenway! We have people in our government who do such work as part of their jobs! There’s more.

     The purpose here is to say thank you for trusting us with this honor to bring a campaign to the people that is framed in trust, honesty and competence. We plan to campaign on our merits and vision, where every citizen, every neighborhood matters.

      My promise as Mayor is to offer citizens a monthly forum to address the mayor and commissioners on the citizens’ turf, without the limits currently imposed at City Hall.

       The People’s Forum shall open the doors to government and render an elected body who is accountable to the people; not an elected body which currently is smug, entitled and aloof leaving an inaccessible path to City Hall.

My best regards,

Cass V. Cibelli

Candidate for Mayor