Theresa DiFalco For Rockland District Attorney
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In our last post, we introduced Rockland County to Theresa DiFalco, the write-in candidate for District Attorney.
So many people are disenchanted with current DA Tom Walsh, and want to have an option when they go to vote. We have now provided that option in an exceptionally qualified woman, Theresa DiFalco. Step one complete!
The moment this news was made known to the public two things happened. There was a palpable sense of euphoria from those longing for a capable person to step up and take on Walsh. As you likely know, Walsh, a Democrat, was also given the Republican and Conservative lines and was all set to coast to a second term unopposed despite what many consider to be an abysmal record in his first term.
Today the leaders of the various political parties have swung into action, along with those who support Walsh, trying their best to quash your grassroots support for DiFalco.? The political kingmakers gave District Attorney Walsh all three of the political lines in Rockland County.? They now control him and as voters, you were being denied the opportunity to vote for a person who will return equal justice for all of you who are living now in a very unjust Rockland.?
Today YOU, the people of Rockland, once again have control as to who your next District Attorney will be. You can sit out the race and just accept Walsh and spend the next four years complaining about what could be or should be, or YOU can make this unprecedented change happen.?
It is entirely up to YOU!? So don’t “should” all over yourselves.?
From a simple statistical view, if every person who says they want to see change takes the time to get 5 other people to agree with them and get out to vote for DiFalco, she wins! Five. Sounds simple doesn’t it? But wait, it can’t be that easy, can it? Theoretically it is, but the reality is never as easy as it seems, so we will do what we can in the next three weeks to help spread the word.
A petition movement a few months ago garnered nearly 3,000 signatures demanding DA Walsh resign over his handling of the Evergreen fire prosecutions. Ed Day said that as a former first responder, he was “appalled at the fact that the Lloyd and Hueston families would not get the justice they deserved.”
Walsh didn’t have the decency to do so!
Did you also know that twenty-four letters from firefighter organizations were sent to DA Walsh, condemning his plea dealing over the Evergreen fire? One letter stated that Walsh was “no longer welcome at any Spring Valley Fire Department function”. The writer stated: “May you have triple the amount of sleepless nights that first responders have had since the fire.”?
Walsh also ignored these pleas!
His attitude appears to be that with three party leaders standing at his back, he is guaranteed another four years so signatures demanding his resignation and letters of dis-invitation can be damned!
Therefore, as you can imagine, we are going to rely heavily on the fire service members to make this write-in campaign happen.? No segment of our Rockland community has been let down more by Tom Walsh than the brothers and sisters who served with Jared Lloyd. Your writing of Theresa DiFalco’s name and filling in the oval on the write-in box of your ballot can send a message to those who control Walsh that it is they who can go and be damned!
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Make no mistake, this race is not solely about that tragic loss of life in the Evergreen fire!? Therefore, in our next post, we will present a discussion with DiFalco regarding her views on the important role that must be played by our next District Attorney. She will speak about why she has agreed to run as a write-in candidate, and what her vision is for the future of the DA’s office.? We know that it is a vision with which all centrist Democrats and Republicans will be in bipartisan agreement.
So how can we get enough people to come out and vote for Theresa between now and Election Day?? Given that there are significant numbers of votes cast by absentee ballot and during early voting, we have even less time than we normally might to spread the word. So it is imperative that YOU, the citizens of Rockland who are reading this post, become our proxies and do everything you can to spread the word.
Do you have relatives, friends, neighbors, or acquaintances who are not on Facebook or other platforms? Copy our informative posts and share them by text or email. Print out copies and physically give them to those you know. Whatever you can do to turn your one vote into 5, or maybe even 10, will be so vital to the effort!
I’ll use myself as an example. Obviously, I’m voting for DiFalco. My wife and daughter don’t follow local politics that much, and frankly, they were turned off from it when I ran for office. But they will vote for DiFalco on my say so. So too will my wife’s family. I’m sure I will convince others as well, but right there I turned one into five. If I can do it, so too can any of you.
As this week moves along we will try to do as many things as we can that are familiar campaign methods.? This search for a top-notch candidate was not easy and others say that a campaign based solely on social media can not be won.? As a pragmatic realist, I generally agree with that sentiment but not with DiFalco as our candidate!? And we are not relying on just social media.?
We mentioned earlier our expectation is that the vast majority of the fire service will support DiFalco, which is roughly 2,000+ members. Take that and use the power of 5 and you are looking at the potential for 10,000+ votes. Clearly not enough votes to defeat Walsh, but it is a great start!
If you read this and are not motivated to help DiFalco on her road to victory then our take on the anger and resentment and disappointment of Walsh was a bad misread. I’m hoping that isn’t the case, and there are many of you who look forward to having an experienced yet fair District Attorney who will honor the blindness of the scales of justice, and who will work hard to deliver what the collective community of Rockland needs, namely a person of legal excellence who will investigate and prosecute criminal activity in Rockland, no matter where the investigation leads her.
Let me be perfectly clear on a very important and sensitive point.? This is not an “us versus them” situation with an axe to grind towards the Hasidic community. That is not who Theresa DiFalco is, and she will tell you that in her own words very shortly. Rest assured no person or group, regardless of their political background, race, ethnicity, or religious persuasion should fear that they will be in any way looked at less favorably than anyone else under DiFalco’s tenure.?
Those who do need to worry however are the ones committing criminal offenses who heretofore have been given a free pass and are so brazen in their activity because they believe they will not be prosecuted by DA Walsh.? They are the criminals who are involved in conducting illegal electrical and building inspections, who are violating building codes, who are ignoring fire codes, and who are operating the slum landlord properties blighting even the quietest neighborhoods of Clarkstown. ?
County Executive Day denounced these activities on the first days he ran for office over a decade ago. Ed Day needs a District Attorney who will work with him to ensure that the seven deaths that have occurred on his watch will be the last of such deaths.? Why do I believe this?? I had first-hand experience as the campaign manager for one of Ed’s campaigns.? The days of evasion of the zoning and building codes will be coming to an end if you work with me to have DiFalco elected with a massive write-in vote.?
A write-in campaign is 100% an uphill battle. We will be putting out posts soon that will clearly articulate how one completes the ballot to ensure your vote counts for DiFalco. But first things first, we need to get all those disenchanted residents of Rockland on board so we don’t miss any opportunities when people go to vote, whether in person during early voting, on election day, or by way of absentee ballot.
So spread the word. Whatever social media you are on - Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Nextdoor, and so on. If you are in groups online share these posts and spread the word wherever you can. If you can’t get political in the group at least try to steer them to either this page or the CWTDWYTK page on Facebook.?
We need to let all people, and especially our seniors, know that Theresa DiFalco is running and she is THE choice for Rockland!
Stay tuned!