Dear Mr. Holden,
I appreciate your reaching out to me in order to work collaboratively with your civic association and help ensure that your community concerns are heard and addressed by the City. As the new Commissioner of the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, I have often voiced my view that my office’s relationship with community groups is a partnership. We rely on active and engaged community members like you to let us know about concerns of their neighborhoods, and be our partners in conducting outreach and finding pragmatic solutions to those concerns.
To that end, we approach all of our constituents with a level of courtesy and professionalism that reflects our role as City employees and representatives of the Mayor. The only thing we ask is that same courtesy and professional be returned, no matter how contentious the issue. Regardless of where we stand politically, we deal with one another and our constituents as rational and empathetic human beings. It is this personal touch and understanding that makes the people on my staff such phenomenal assets to the City.
One such person is Mathew Gorton, whom I believe you worked with on several issues concerning your community. While we were sad to see Matt leave, we were thrilled to be able to promote him to Legislative Affairs and see him continue his excellent work.
I have a new staff member, Jennifer Manley, who covers your district. Both Jennifer and I are ready and willing to work with you. However, I cannot make any commitments to meet with you or your group based upon your track record of treating your partners without any level of respect.
I was beyond disturbed to see a photograph on the front page of the Queens Tribune depicting a rally organized by your group during which a gentleman held a poster with a hangman’s noose (“reserved for”) Matt Gorton. (To be fair, Matt was in good company of the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor). Whether or not the poster was officially sanctioned by the Juniper Park Civic Association, your allowing it at your rally was at best A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP AND AT WORSE AN ENDORSEMENT OF THREATENING AND VIOLENT TACTICS.
I understand a community fighting for what they hold dear to them – what I do not understand and can’t accept, is this reduction of civil discourse to a crude personal attack. I certainly did not appreciate seeing what could be perceived as a death threat against one of my staff splashed across the front page of the paper. And neither did anyone else at City Hall.
As I said, we are happy to come to the table. But we will only do that with the understanding across from us there will be a group of mature adults whose goals are to improve their community through productive dialogue and work, not to stage cheap political stunts, such as the aforementioned poster, for a shot at the papers.
If you are willing to work with us under these conditions I’ve asked for, I would appreciate a PUBLIC APOLOGY to Matt and the others featured on that poster, including the Mayor and Deputy Mayor. THERE ARE LINES, EVEN IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, AND YOUR GROUP HAS CERTAINLY CROSSED ONE.
We certainly wouldn’t one misguided judgment to prevent our working together for the betterment of the community. However, we need a sign of good faith that you and your group are ready to move forward with us in the spirit of mutual respect. An apology would be that sign. I don’t think it’s too much to ask you to put your best foot forward with regard to future dealings with my office.
Sincerely,
Nazli Parvizi
This is a great letter but unfortunately it is hard to teach an unleashed old dog new tricks. To ask Bob Holden and the JPCA leadership to act with courtesy, respect and professionalism is like asking Larry Flint to start publishing children’s books. Bob Holden and his cronies only know how to operate by attacking individuals and using deplorable tactics. They have made many misguided judgments and have alienated so many because of their shameful devices.
It should be interesting to see if Bob complies with the Mayor’s reasonable request for an apology. Stay tuned.
We would also hope the JPCA starts apologizing to the hundreds of other people they have offended in the past!
Once again the Juniper Park Civic Association leadership has failed their community!
*Please click on the images below to view the actual letter which was sent to the JPCA.
7 comments:
Finally, some governmental officials who are not afraid to push back against the constant harrassment from the JPCA executive board.
You should see all the letters that the JPCA bozos constantly send to many different city officials threatening them. Thank goodness they are either not employed or under employed. There would be no other way they could continue their non-stop harassment via letters and phone calls.
The Mayor and his administration have finally had it.
Holden: You are persona non grata with the City (as well as a sizable majority of your neighbors). For the sake of the Middle Village community, you are requested to step down from the JPCA leadership position and to have a new election for a new executive board that is not juvenile, vindictive, and damaging to the community as the existing JPCA executive board has been.
What a rebuke! I'm loving it.
Holden and the Mental Midgets are SUCH a-holes. It's great that the City has finally had enough of their wasteful bulls**t and put Herr Holden in his place.
Great that the letter was leaked. I'm sure the JPCA d-bags are going to wear it as a badge of honor in their "take no prisoner" war against everyone. However, an official letter like this is a big black stain on their record.
This is a clarion call to the current JPCA executive board to resign and to hold new elections so that the old venerable JPCA can re-emerge from the long dark night it's been going through under Holden and the Mental Midgets.
Sic semper tyranis.
Your neighbors salute you, Bob Holden and lackeys, for being such a-holes that a city commissioner has to sit down and tell you to behave like an adult. This speaks volumes about your character at fitness for a "leadership" position anywhere--the CB, the civic, heaven forbid the City Council.
I hope you're stewing in your own juices now that your comeuppance has been made oh so public.
It's no badge of honor, it's a badge of shame. Wear it because the show fits Bobby-boy.
The stay-at-home, under/unemployed spin doctors at the Crapper are having a field day trying to read their own delusional interpretation into this letter. Over 40 comments so far! Most written by Doocey after too many glasses of red wine, and by Wilkinson, the self-proclaimed savior of Queens (Guidoland, as she calls it).
It's quite amusing.
The JPCA thinks that when you apply "pain" to our elected officials, that they can get what they want, no matter how unpopular with the electorate. Wrong!
Keep up your "War Against Everyone" and your know-it-all mentality Mental Midgets. See where it gets you.
A one way ticket to Palukaville, just like your glorius leader, recently demoted to plebe on the CB.
This is not a freedome of speech issue as the Crapheads are trying desparately to spin it. It comes down to their obviouls junvenile behavior and their sanctimony.
Finally, the Bloomberg Administration has had enough of their "pain", but instead of bowing to their "pain", Bloomie has a higher authority to report to: the People of the City of New York. You remember the People, don't you Crapheads? The ones who elected this Administration 2x and who did not elect you.
Hopefully this will lead to change. This group of people are not leaders they are bullies. And our neighborhood is getting a reputation of being unreasonable and meanspirited. Most people here are friendly & helpful the way neighbors should be.
I want to join the Brothers & Sister of Middle Village Maspeth!
This is funny JPCA has now managed to piss off everyone The Mayor, The City Council members, the Assemblywoman and the Congressman.
Where will they stop. You know why they keep protesting because they don't know how to sit down and try to resolve issues.
Shame on our community for allowing Bob Holden to be President of the JPCA.
The inmates are running the assylum
We know that the Crap heads read this blog so maybe they can answer these questions:
Does Bob Holden have an illegal basement with an illegal busisness?
Does Bob use Juniper Civic Money to fund his busisness?
Did the Juniper Civic Pay Al Hasienbein to illegally convert Bob's Basement?
Why doesn't the JPCA give Treasurers Reports at meetings as required by their bylaws?
When did the membership vote to use JPCA Civic funds on Long Island Baseball Players on a team called the Midville Dodgers.
What happened to the Midville Baseball Coach who violently attacked a kid during a game did the Dodgers suspend him or is he innocent until proven guilty?
I won't ask if Bob hit his wife we already know that answer.
The Crap will never answer because they know the truth and the truth hurts!
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