Community Corner

Letter to the Editor: 'Assumption of Trust'

Rye resident Jimmy Amico calls for an apology for the Rye Golf Club scandal from city officials.

When we approach the voting booths during elections from year to year we all vote on the ones that we "TRUST". Our votes derive from various opinions that we ourselves form, we form these opinions based on our personal knowledge of the individual, their experience, their beliefs, their passion, their energy, and from all this we build our "TRUST" in this individual and cast our votes!
 
I would personally like to apologize to all of you that "TRUSTED" in me as I lobbied for "CHANGE" with the French ticket in 2009, asking you to believe in me as I did them and cast your votes for the French ticket. I am extremely embarrassed from what has transpired from January 1, 2010 to todays date!
I whole heartedly believed this was the correct decision for RYE, I WAS WRONG & for that I now bow my head in embarrassment with the deepest of apologies! 
 
As so many of us do, I bleed Rye, we are many and we are strong, we will rise from these ashes and become a stronger Rye. This can only be done as we band together. We ALL MUST stand up, stand up now for Rye, for our children, for the future of RYE. We must put a stop to the extremely poor management from our top Officials, the ones "WE" put "OUR TRUST" in...the Mayor, select Council Members, our Police Commissioner, our Corporation Counsel, and with out doubt our CITY MANAGER! 
This behavior, their behavior MUST END HERE & NOW!!!
 
In the very least, no matter what role & how he played that role in the RGC SCAM, our City Manager MUST address RYE, he MUST make a public announcement & APOLOGY and he MUST do it NOW!!!
What ever his consequences and guilt Scott Pickup MUST ACT!!! 
 
“We work from an assumption of trust — that people that are here are honest and hardworking and have the best interests of the city of Rye at heart,” he responded. “When somebody violates that trust ... it shakes the core of the organization; it shakes us personally.”
 
"WE"??? 
 
Yes we, we the Rye Residents had "OUR" TRUST VIOLATED!!! It was not the core of the organization that was shaken, it is WE, the Rye residents, our children, our future, that is what has been violated and shaken!!!
 
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! WE All need to let our voices be heard, speak from your hearts, speak now.


"WE" ARE RYE & "WE" ARE NOT SOME KIND OF ORGANIZATION, "WE" are CIVILIZATION!!!
 
"WE ARE RYE"


Thank you,
 
Jim Amico

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