Tony Nunziato for NY State Assembly - Searching for Marge Markey

“Marge Marketing” let this article be the first to blow the whistle on your superficial facade of being a hard working elected official. Normally we don’t mind when elected officials either overstate, exaggerate or lay claim to accomplishments they had little to do with. Most of us in civics have become accustomed to that elected official trick. However, in Marge Markey’s case it is reprehensible. She has made a career out of using political clubs to get where she is and cushioning her future.

Before her “appointment” to the State Assembly she was given the important job of Director of Queens Tourism, hardly a background for elected official leadership.

Political cronies and hacks are a dime a dozen. Markey has not earned her title nor her office. After this article you may begin to see Marge Markey appear in the local papers with more self-created photo-ops to do damage control. You may also get more meaningless newsletters from her that of course will be paid for from your tax dollars. What Assemblywoman can’t repair is over 7 years of inaction and Assembly seat-warming.

In the meantime we will continue to search for Marge Markey. We may have upset her enough to flush her out of her hiding place in her classy office on 69th Street in Maspeth (that we all paid for) especially if she gets a little nervous that her constituents may just start holding her accountable and demand more leadership out of their State Assembly Member. Stay tuned, the search is officially on for Marge Marketing.

Read more: Searching for Marge Markey, by Edward Kampermann, Juniper Berry, December 2005