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WEIR ONLY HUMAN
Have You Ever Been Cold? Continued from page 11 put your arm in here,” she said, helping to get the coat in place. “Well, how does that feel?” she said, taking a step back. “It’s very warm, mommy, but what about the girl outside?” “What?” Cynthia said, looking confused. “What do you mean, what about the girl outside?” “I just mean that she was shaking from the cold, and I feel bad for her.” “Sweetheart, I feel bad for her too, but there’s nothing we can do about it. I’m sure her mother will take care of her,” Cynthia said, zippering the coat and pulling the collar up around her daughter’s ears. “But mommy, how can her mother take care of her? She looked like she was freezing too.” Cynthia rolled her eyes tolerantly. “Jennifer, what do you expect
me to do? It’s none of my business. It’s getting late and I have to finish up with the Christmas shopping. Now let’s get this coat to the cashier and get back home.” A few minutes later, as they were leaving the store, Jennifer was holding her mother’s hand while looking back at the shuddering figures. They were teetering back and forth on the balls of their feet, trying to keep the circulation going in their toes. Jennifer locked eyes with the other little girl and she began to resist her mother’s urgent pull. “Honey, what’s the matter?” Cynthia said plaintively. “What are you stopping for? Let’s get to the car. It’s freezing out here.” “But, mommy; what about them? They’re freezing too.” “Jennifer!” Her mother said in a stern voice. “I’ve had enough of this. I told you
there’s nothing I can do. Now get in the car!” As the powder blue Mercedes backed out of the parking space, Jennifer pressed her nose against the passenger side window. “Mommy, if that was you and me standing in the cold, do you think that girl and her mommy would help us?” she said, beginning to sob. Her daughter’s words plucked at her heart just as the images of the woman and her child came into sight in the rearview mirror. Cynthia stared at the scene for a few seconds before slowly driving back into the parking space. Her eyes clouded over and tears glistened on her cheeks. Jennifer looked up expectantly. “Are we going to help them, mommy?” “Yes, honey, we are,” she said, wiping her daughter’s eyes with a tissue. “And, thank you, for helping me.” Bob Weir is a veteran of 20 years with the
New York Police Dept. (NYPD), ten of which were performed in plainclothes undercover assignments. During his early years with NYPD, Bob earned a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude from New York Institute of Technology. He retired as a sergeant after supervising patrol in Midtown Manhattan, the busiest precinct in the country.He would eventually move to Flower Mound, Texas, where he began a writing career that started about 12 years ago having his first book published in 1999. Bob went on to write and publish a total of seven novels, “Murder in Black and White,” “City to Die For,” “Powers that Be,” “Ruthie’s Kids,” “Deadly to Love,” “Short Stories of Life and Death,” and “Out of Sight,” are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Books-a-million, and other major online book sellers. He also became a syndicated columnist under the title “Weir Only Human”.
Politics
GOP Legislators Outraged by Change of the Date for Budget Vote
Assert Democratic Leadership Continues to Act Irresponsibly on Important Duty of Properly Passing a Budget White Plains, New York -Republican County Legislators criticized a troubling move by Chairman Ken Jenkins (D-Yonkers) to reschedule the vote on the County’s 2011 budget to this Friday, December 10, despite the budget vote having previously been scheduled for the entire year for Monday, December 13, 2010.
“Moving up the vote by three days without any public discussion is exactly the type of shenanigans that turn people off towards politics. The budget vote was scheduled for the past year for December 13 and several legislators had planned their business and personal schedules around that date. To change it on a whim is just plain bad government,” said
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Minority Leader Jim Maisano Minority Whip Burrows (R-New Rochelle). stated, “The Democrats are now The budget vote was still rushing the budget vote through changed even though Minority – probably trying to hide the $43 Leader Maisano and Minority million in wasteful spending they Whip Gordon A. Burrows just added. It is a slap in the face (R–Yonkers/Bronxville) put to the legislators who planned for Chairman Jenkins on notice that Minority Whip the scheduled vote on Monday Gordon A. several Republican legislators and is unfair to taxpayers. We Burrows had conflicts with a Friday vote. have worked hard to foster a Several of the Republican legisbi-partisan spirit in legislative lators had commitments at their outside matters. In fact, only Monday night in jobs this Friday, and one legislator is outa historic bi-partisan vote, term limits of-town dealing with a child who needed legislation was passed for the first time in emergency surgery. Westchester County government history. This move comes on the heels That is the right way to conduct our of another budget maneuver by the legislative business. This Friday’s budget Democratic majority. This past Monday, vote is strictly a partisan effort to manipuDecember 6, the Democratic caucus met late the budget process and bad for the behind closed doors to plan restoring taxpayers of Westchester County.” some $43 million in spending that County Legislator County Executive Rob Astorino had cut Jim Maisano in his proposed budget. These fiscally 914-636-1621 irresponsible additions were done in the jimmaisano@gmail.com private Democratic caucus and outside of JimMaisano.com the view of the public and press, as well as the Republican legislators.