Village Democrats Nominate: McAndrews,
Young & Bernstein
by Judy Silberstein
( January 28, 2003
) As anticipated, the Village of Larchmont Democratic Party Caucus met on January
28 to nominate a full slate of candidates to run in the March 2003 elections:
Anne McAndrews and Geoff Young, for Village Board of Trustees, and Jerry Bernstein,
for Village Justice. Amid green and white balloons, bumper stickers and banners,
former Mayor Miriam Curnin presided over the Caucus, which unanimously voted
to support the slate.
Both Anne McAndrews and Geoff Young have already
served on the Board of Trustees, McAndrews served
from 2000 to 2002, and then ran unsuccessfully
for Mayor in the last election. Young served
as a Village Trustee from l987 to l991, but as
a Republican. The last time he ran in 1995, it
was for Village Justice against Jerry Bernstein
who won. |
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Anne
McAndrews
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Jerry Bernstein & Geoff
Young with supporter Lynne Crowley
Both McAndrews and Young are attorneys, she in private
practice with an emphasis on tax, and he as a partner
in the firm of Young and Rosenstratch. And both are
long-term, community volunteers.
Marlene Kolbert, the Board’s only current member
from the Democratic Party, nominated Anne McAndrews’ and
called her “up to speed and ready to resume her
work where she left off” on a long list of projects
currently before the Board. She mentioned: 2020 Task
Force Report proposals, the County construction in
Flint Park, the upgrading project in Flint Park, the
improvements to the Chatsworth Avenue streetscape,
the community block grant applications and plans for
emergency preparedness.
Seconding the nomination was McAndrews’ neighbor
Bill Gray who joked, “Thankfully for us, Anne’s
vow of abstinence from politics is quite short-lived.” More
seriously, he noted, “She’s about Larchmont.
She is Larchmont. She gets things done.”
McAndrews promised a campaign, “With a positive
message, a message of affirmation, a message that the
Democrats are good for Larchmont.” She will be “playing
to her strength” which she described as “constituency
service.”
Nominating Geoff Young was Kevin Ryan, who laughingly
recalled that he was in charge of Jerry Bernstein’s
campaign when he ran against Geoff Young. At the
end of that campaign, Ryan commented how it was a
shame Larchmont couldn’t have both men. “And
today, lo and behold, we have the opportunity to
have you both,” he declared. Ryan listed a
raft of committees and commissions on which Young
had served – including terms as Fire Commissioner
and Water Commissioner.
Seconding the nomination was New York University student
Alex Hu, representing the “college generation” of
the Democratic Party.
In his acceptance speech, Young “cut to the
chase” and immediately addressed why he was now
running as a Democrat. “I realized, I’m
fifty-two and I have never voted for a Republican president.” Though
Village elections rarely touch upon national issues,
he noted “If I work in the Village, I can do
some things for our little corner of the world. I look
forward to it.”
In accepting his party’s nomination, Jerry Bernstein
mentioned how much he has enjoyed serving for the past
eight years. “Every case is another
story, another event.”
For him, perhaps the most sobering and important part
of the job is dealing with youthful offenders. “Getting
a kid who is seventeen years old and is charged with
a crime is a horrific thing. Those are cases we need
to pay particular attention to. We have to see that
those kids are set on the right track,” he declared.
Not long after he accepted the nomination, word came
from across Larchmont Avenue where the Republican Caucus
was underway: Judge Bernstein would be running unopposed.
McAndrews and Young will be running for Trustee seats
against Mike Wiener, who was appointed to fill the
remaining year of Mayor Ken Bialo’s Trustee term,
and Philip A. Johanson, a newcomer to elective politics
who serves on the Village Budget Committee.
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