Westchesterites slam ‘ridiculous’ Biden fundraiser that shut down town: ‘No thought for the people’
NY Post
Residents of a small Westchester community fumed Friday after President Biden’s high-dollar fundraiser left some stuck in traffic for hours, closed businesses and denied at least one man entry into his own home.
Matt Figliola, 57, was on his way home from work when he was turned around by police because he lived too close to the fundraiser, which was held at the Irvington mansion of Hollywood stars Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
“I was uncomfortably in awe that a private citizen could host the president in his home, in my town and block me from going home,” Figliola told The Post.
Figola, a custom car builder, explained that he was unaware Biden, 81, was planning on coming to Irvington Thursday and was caught off guard by the massive inconvenience it would end up causing him and several others.
“There was quite a bit of traffic on my way home from work, which I figured was an accident,” he said. “I went through my normal back roads to get to my house, and I was blocked at every road.”
“I was nearly home and the police turned me away. I gave him my address and said, ‘I live right down here, I’m literally a minute away from home,’ and he said, ‘No, there’s a two-mile cordoned-off radius’. It was crazy.
