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General News: Helen Bunt Explains Her Positions on Election Eve
September 17, 2007
On the eve of the primary election, Helen Bunt, who is running for the Republican nomination for Cornwall town supervisor, called to talk about how she differs from her opponent, Kevin Quigley.
The main difference between the two, Bunt said, is that she has experience running the town from her two years in the town supervisor’s office during 2000 and 2001. “The employees, the department heads know who I am,” she said, “We can pick up and go from there.” She pointed out that she knows how to handle a big budget and deal with financial issues.
Helen Bunt also said she differs from Quigley on consolidating any town and village operations. Quigley thinks the town should get out in front of a consolidation move before it is mandated by the state. Bunt said that she would listen if someone brought her a proposal to consolidate services but she won’t initiate any moves in that direction.
“The village is the village and the town is the town,” she said, “and people like it that way. I am opposed to people losing their identity”
Bunt would like to see the town write new codes and enforce the existing ones on Main Street and get the empty, abandoned-looking storefronts to clean up. Any sprucing of Main Street, she notes, would have to be a group effort by the business community and the town and not on the taxpayer’s back. Even county funds, she added, come from the taxpayer.
Bunt has been an independent businesswoman since moving to Cornwall with her husband and two-year-old son 39 years ago. She grew up in Newburgh and started working in an insurance agency even before she graduated from the Newburgh Free Academy.
She went on to run her own insurance company and helped run the Butterhill School, which she now owns along with Dream Dance and Ariel’s Child. She has managers in place who run all the businesses and she keeps the books. Bunt said the managerial experience has taught her how to get the most from employees by showing them respect, an approach she will use in the town, if elected.
Bunt is confident that she has a good shot at winning in Tuesday’s primary, but believes it will be a close vote. She predicted that Republicans will vote along block line, explaining that “he (Quigley) has his block and I have mine.” The crucial step on Tuesday, she said, is for each candidate to get his or her group of supporters out to vote.
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