Walt Shepperd is a veteran of Central New York's political scuffle, having covered government and politics in Syracuse for more than four decades before being asked for press credentials.
He is the Senior Editor of the City Eagle and the Mayor of Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse.
Shepperd is also the producer of the The Media Unit, Central New York national award winning teen performance and production troupe.
Samadee is his alter ego. At least that's the rumor.
Lady Green was so obsessed with her mission that her application arrived too late to qualify for an absentee ballot in the September 5 New York Democratic primary. A radical militant feminist, she had been an early celebrant of the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton. But her politics placed her well beyond the status of genderal team player. “I’ve been watching Clinton make herself more and more accessible to the center,” she told Samadee as they sat waiting for the kitchen to open at Quigley’s after 6 p.m. on a weekday night last week...
Samadee had abandoned his presidential aspirations. There just seemed no appropriate time or place to announce his intentions, and the Democratic primary contest had taken on the trappings of a down to the wire pennant race before cheating became an issue in baseball. Besides, the congressional seat had opened up in his district. Peter Cappuccilli had called him before issuing a press release that he would seek the Republican nomination, perhaps, Samadee thought, to scare him off. The Sunday morning before Cappuccilli’s press conference, Samadee and Lady Green sat for brunch at the bar in L’Adour, crowded with WinterFest weekenders. He had become partial to the Atlantique, poached eggs and salmon with tiny potato cubes and a stuffed tomato slice...
The last time Samadee saw a hockey game he and Lady Green caught a ride down to Hamilton to see Colgate and Cornell, his and her respective almamammies. The game was scoreless until the last 37 seconds. Colgate called time out to make sure they wouldn’t make a mistake. And they made one. Jay Downs, who owned the Crown Hotel before Armory Square got hip, stopped by to schmooze, noting that his son was playing defense for the Big Red. On the face off after the time out the young Downs stole the puck and started the play, which resulted in the game’s only goal...
