Richard Schwartz: Our upstate friend
Anybody kicking Vito in the head is okay in my book.
MONEY: Vito Fossella is the Paris Hilton of Congress: looks good, gets some attention, but has he really done anything?

Nope. The little Fauntleroy hasn't done jack for Staten Island when it comes to the big stuff:
•Overdevelopment/infrastructure inadequacy? "Huh?"
•Homeport? Still a mess.
•Ferry Crash? Zipped lips, which actually is smart, since his old man created the patronage/cronyistic culture that predicated the inevitable, horrific catastrophe that ensued.

It all goes straight to the doorstep of Guy Molinari. When the Verrazzano opened, The Great White Guy was a real estate lawyer. He got fat on the building boom, got himself into politics, and allowed his "boys" to go hog wild at the trough. When he got bored with the SI-DC commute, he returned to the scene of his crimes and put his ditz of a daughter in his old Congressional seat. When that proved a cramp to her money hunger, he tapped Vito to fill the void. We'll be paying for Guy's dirtbag, "Goomba" Machiavellian crap for years.