Liz Johnson

The Journal News

Few Rockland elected officials have found themselves in the public spotlight as often as Frank Sparaco, a Republican Rockland County Legislator who was charged Monday with falsifying election petitions.

Here is a look at a few of his pithier quotes over the years.

"I've been better, judge." – in response to Clarkstown Judge Howard Gerber asking how he's doing at the start of his arraignment on 38 felony counts, November 2014

"I am new and fresh and young…We can't afford to lose more races with the same old candidates." —Announcing his candidacy at age 30 in a letter to the Clarkstown Republican Committee, January 2007

"They (the Democratic leadership in Albany) have attempted to plant in the media the despicable and preposterous idea that somehow I am linked to organized crime." —Reacting to a story in The Journal News that reported he had accepted campaign donations from individuals and businesses reputedly associated with a crime family, based on public records, October 2010.

"I'm very excited about my new job. My favorite part of the job is helping people." – On his post with the Clarkstown Highway Department, a part-time job paying $75,000 annually, August 2012

"My integrity is not for sale. Political corruption is occurring at every level and I could not stay silent as I saw it unfolding before me." – after announcing he had secretly audio and video taped elected officials he accused of trying to bribe him in order to help a Democratic candidate, July 2013

"Democracy works." - his comment after failing to take over the Clarkstown GOP Committee, losing to County Executive Ed Day's supporters 191-13 and failing even to secure himself a seat on the committee, September 2014.





"A useless law that accomplishes nothing." – Why he voted against a proposed law to ban the use of artificial trans fats in food prepared or served anywhere in Rockland, June 2010.