In LWV Forum, Feiner Faces Off Against Challenger McGoey—And His Own Record

Barrett Seaman | The Hudson Independent | 5/30/26

If the in­cum­bent [Paul Feiner] was un­aware of just how dam­ag­ing his ad­mis­sion of ad­min­is­tra­tive dys­func­tion was to him per­son­ally, his op­po­nent was not. Above and be­yond his tal­ents as a lawyer and ac­coun­tant was his “col­lab­o­ra­tive” man­age­ment style, Mc­Goey claimed. “Most im­por­tantly,” he said, “I have the abil­ity to work with peo­ple to solve prob­lems....”

In re­sponse to a ques­tion about in­sur­ance buy­outs, Feiner ac­knowl­edged the need to rein in in­sur­ance costs, in­clud­ing who gets to buy out of the Town’s in­sur­ance pol­icy and at what price. He blamed the board for grant­ing them­selves a gen­er­ous buy­out op­tion even though they are part-time. Mc­Goey said he has “never seen any­thing as gen­er­ous as the health in­sur­ance buy­out” avail­able to Green­burgh em­ploy­ees, but he noted that the vast ma­jor­ity were uti­lized by union­ized work­ers. “That has to be rene­go­ti­ated,” he said, adding, “Feiner is now blam­ing every­one else for a cri­sis he should have averted.”

Asked about Edge­mon­t’s on­go­ing ef­fort to in­cor­po­rate as a vil­lage, thereby di­vorc­ing it­self from the rest of Green­burgh’s un­in­cor­po­rated com­mu­ni­ties, Feiner re­it­er­ated that it would be “dev­as­tat­ing.” He then ac­cus­ing Mc­Goey of ac­cept­ing “sig­nif­i­cant sup­port from the Edge­mont cor­po­ra­tion.” Mc­Goey re­sponded by say­ing that he too was op­posed to Edge­mont in­cor­po­ra­tion and that he was not re­ceiv­ing any fi­nan­cial sup­port from them. Then he added, “Mr. Feiner is the poster boy for why they want to in­cor­po­rate.”

In his clos­ing state­ment, Mc­Goey re­turned to his core mes­sage: “I bring strong skills in bud­get­ing, plan­ning and work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tively with oth­ers.” Feiner used his fi­nal re­marks to crit­i­cize Mc­Goey for be­ing “to­tally un­known in our com­mu­nity” and for never at­tend­ing or spo­ken at a board meet­ing. Mc­Goey opted to re­but that, say­ing he had “too much re­spect for the process of gov­ern­ment to go to a town board meet­ing and en­gage in cir­cus-like ac­tiv­ity.”

In­stead, he promised: “I’m go­ing to shut the cir­cus down.”

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