[img]1805|right|Kathy Paspalis||no_popup[/img]A lazy kind of Sunday afternoon at a home around Lindberg Park, a gathering of casually dressed friends of School Board president/re-election candidate Kathy Paspalis.
It is late enough in the day that whatever warmth visited the neighborhood earlier now has been swallowed by the billowing end-of-afternoon breezes.
In an easy chair in the backyard, Ms. Paspalis, battling a cold, is bundled in an off-white wool sweater.
No one is going to work today, so you dress down – except for a single visitor.
State Assembly candidate Chris Armenta – the former City Councilman who is competing in a special election on Dec. 3 – was faultlessly attired in a suit, starched-looking white shirt, fashionable necktie.
Typical – because Mr. Armenta routinely looks as if he just has stepped out of a Brooks Brothers show window.
Authentic smile always at the ready.
“I worked with Kathy when I was on the Council through the school liaison position,” Mr. Armenta said.
[img]1294|left|Christopher Armenta||no_popup[/img]“We worked on a number of issues together – particularly on joint agreements. Kathy has done a fabulous job. We were able, for example, to get School Board meetings in Council Chambers once a month (as tomorrow evening’s 7 o’clock School Board meeting will be).
“What is most impressive about Kathy is that she and I served in elective office during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were able to keep the ship steady,” said Mr. Armenta.
“From a budgeting standpoint, she and from experience, those are the kinds of qualifications we have in common.”
