Time to retire, Mr. Dinowitz

To the Editor:  

Two weeks in a row! Even sound bite Senator Chuck Schumer doesn’t seem to get the news hogging coverage and really strident letters published like our very own local Assemblyman and Ben Franklin not-so-reform Democratic Club de facto leader. 

Chill out Mr. Dinowitz. Take a step back. With all due respect, people in this great country of ours get to have opinions, which differ from yours. They even get to express them in papers like this. It’s called the First Amendment. 

And guess what, Mr. Dinowitz? You also do not speak for all Jews when you express your opinion on the terrible war in Gaza. That is what we Jews call “chutzpahdik.” What nerve! As if you never heard the old tired line of “for every 2 Jews there are 3 opinions”!

From a distance it seems to any rational person reading your screeching letters, that you have lost contact with reality-some would say you have lost  your mind. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.  

Let’s just say it really shows how you have overstayed in your posts, and can’t let go of the power you seem to be unable to live without. Yes, it seems that you are addicted to power for power’s sake.

FYI: Your job as Assemblyman, like most elected officials, falls under the rubric of “public service.” Apparently in your screeching +seething anger you appear to have stopped serving the public in the 81st AD. It seems instead that you have started attacking your constituents, the very same ones whose vote you ask for. Wow. A real novel political approach.

Think of former state Sen. Jeff Klein, whose greed (his passion was for money-yours seems to be your power) cost him his seat-even as you had his political back. 

Then contrast your diatribes to a letter posted by District Leader Abigail Martin (in the same edition of this paper as your second missive) concerning the impact of Local Law 10 on local 10463 based co-ops. Now that’s a real expression of serving her public.

It’s time to let open, engaged, enlightened and intelligent leadership step in: not your son, daughter or any other Dinowitz family member. Public service sir, is not a family business as you have taken it to be. The time for nepotism is over here in the NW Bronx, and the time for fresh leadership with participation from younger, caring and concerned grass roots neighbors is now.

Have a nice retirement, sir. You’ve earned it. 

Adam Stoler