You have fought the good fight, Ken, in confronting the Qsby Town Board ethics conflict , in person, and in print. It’s up to us to register our dissent with our votes now. (I included 4 write-in names on my absentee ballot.)
Over the past 2 weeks, The Post Star has been publishing written summations of Warren, Washington and Saratoga county-wide candidates’ positions in response to the editor’s multiple questions. Though not “live interviews”, it’s the most inclusive coverage since your retirement. They’re also continuing to publish our letters to the editor supporting John Strough and further exposing the ethics issue infecting the Qsby Town Board.
FYI: North Country NPR reported Stefanik’s new/first book “Poisoned Ivies - The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot of America’s Elite Universities,” will be released in a few months.
The title alone reflects a level of retribution exercised by her hero Herr tRump. Frau Elise has become a consummate grifter, milking the moral bankruptcy inherent within angry MAGA cults and greedy gazillionaires intent on perpetuating the atrocities within this regime, while filling the country- wide candidate accounts of the GOP psychophants. (mis-spelling intended)
There’s little doubt there’s a GOP ghost-writer who created this book/strategic attempt to get Elise into NY State- wide elite bookstore settings (with expensive security escorts) over the next year of her Governor candidacy ……. since she ‘s been too cowardly to show up at her own district town meetings during her faux-representation of her NYS constituents.
That could be the catalyst for a “NO QUEEN” movement aimed at NY state and nation-wide book stores urging them to BAN her book of twisted revisionist history and blatant lies.
Belated payback for all the valuable books ripped from the shelves of community libraries, schools, churches, military academies… in efforts to WHITE-Wash our military and civilian histories… and heroic actions of multicultural/multi-colored female and male true patriots.
Re: food banks. We served 35+ families on Wednesday evening in two hours at a Saratoga County food pantry that serves northern Saratoga County towns. Many of the adults -- veterans, seniors, disabled, working poor -- expressed lots of anxiety and worry over SNAP's potential demise. Many also thanked the volunteers profusely, saying they don't know what they'd do if not for the various food pantries. The pantries don't care about political affiliations, beliefs, etc... Yet MAGAts flood social media with the stereotypical response to those in need: "Go get a job." "Get off welfare." Disgusting that so many so-called Americans simply hate everyone else.
and if you watch the first one you will see that bd, is not even aware of Cashman's history and actions..... while at the same tie bd, has no plans.. but does a good job of repeating republican talking points (mind you talking points have failed in the past and will fail in the future.)
During the pandemic the Warren County Democratic Committee donated $1,000 to the Regional Food Bank which provides assistance to all or nearly all of the food pantries in Warren County. The Committee does not typically have much money in the bank but felt that the community need was great.
A few weeks ago at the full county meeting the Democratic Committee, concerned about even greater need today and the threat of loss of funding for programs like SNAP, authorized the executive committee to make another donation.
While it is great that Governor Hochul has committed to providing funding for those in need, the needs always seem to be greater than government can resolve. I’m proud of fellow Democrats who resolved unanimously to use some of our funds to directly help residents throughout our county in a meaningful way, to feed the hungry.
"In recognition of the critical food emergency, the Warren County Democratic Committee has contributed $1,000 today to the Regional Food Bank to assist food pantries immediately throughout Warren County. As we have demonstrated before, the Warren County Democratic Committee’s top priority is food for our families. We democrats join Governor Hochul in her critical support of NY Families in Need."
The QBY Republicans McNulty and Dixon are classic examples of why REPs are in trouble nationally. It's obvious that Trump wants to be a dictator but the damage he is wreaking on the country is horrific from every point of view. What is sad is that so few people are running for offices anymore. And IMO, the worst group is at county level for WC County Supervisors board. (Washington County is just as bad). The incredible mismanagement and spending problems in both counties is coming home to roost in 2026 budgets and tax increases. Guess what? It's time to expose ALL the bad decisions being made!!! I ran in Lake George last year as the ONLY DEM candidate. LG is almost 2 to 1 in favor of REPs. While there are almost as many REPs as DEMs and INDs combined, there are only REPs on the town council. In other words, the council is NOT a fair representation of the community (and sadly because the LG Village residents get to vote for town positions) I doubt the possibility of merging the town and village will ever happen.
You are correct that few understand who or what a Queensbury Supervisor At Large is. There are 4 of them and they represent residents on the county board of supervisors. When I ask people who their county supervisor is I am generally met with blank stares. Some might guess the town supervisor, which is correct but not the full story because there are also the 4 county supervisors who have no role in town government. Unlike the town councilpersons who are elected by Ward, county supervisors are elected town wide, at-large. So effectively they each represent everyone in town but also they don’t really seem to directly represent anyone because almost nobody can name their county supervisor.
It is a system that minimizes accountability. You vote for 4 of however many are running so if only 4 run they all get elected, but if 5 run then in effect they are all opponents of each other even if they are members of the same party.
It would be a better system if county supervisors were elected by Ward. Harrison Freer attempted to move toward that system but was stymied by the inertia of the current system which makes it very hard for new candidates to run a campaign for what is a part time job but requires a large investment of time and money in order to be successful. Typically the race is over within the town GOP caucus when they endorse candidates.
Here’s the thing, each of the 5 supervisors from Queensbury represents all 29,000 residents. But they sit on a board with 15 other elected supervisors who represent anywhere from 633 to about 4,000. It is a terrible system that cannot be resolved by weighted vote when voting on resolutions.
A solution would be for these archaic, politically perverted county "Board of Supervisors" to convert into a county Legislature, though it still wouldn't prevent decrepit political parties from running the system. But it would mean that elected town supervisors would NOT be on the county Legislature and extending their iron grip on two legislative bodies. I've long been amazed how these "part-time" elected officials manage to hold down two seemingly FT positions while often holding FT jobs. Maybe they've found the Fountain of Youth and a way to extend 24-hour days into 48-hour days. Or maybe they just don't bother to show up for all those committee and regular board meetings; instead, they await word from their party bosses on how to vote.
You are absolutely correct that we should switch to a county legislature.
The reason supervisors don’t vote to switch is that they would all lose the extra paycheck, which for most of the supervisors would mean losing a majority of their income.
The supervisor system props up local governments that are much too small to be efficient for the citizenry. Warren County could eliminate maybe 5 supervisors, town clerks, highway superintendents, and merge a lot of departments if smaller towns merged with their neighbors.
I've notified Stefanik's office about the credible complaint from a retired Navy Chaplain about rampant antisemitism at the US Naval Academy tolerated by its chain of command. If she doesn't pursue this as vigorously as she did, famously decapitating 3 Ivy "woke" universities that had alleged antisemitism, I'll need help hoisting her on her own hypocritical petart. I saved the emails at vandeusenn@aol.com, should anyone have the best use for them.
All those on this network concerned about the proposed new artillery firing range, should contact WWNYTV7 & the Watertown (NY) TIMES about their reports on the forest fire caused by exploding artillery shells at nearby Fort Drum, that they've HAD SUCH A HARD TIME PUTTING OUT! That should give you some ammo (sorry) to oppose this new impact zone.
Before food stamps, there was surplus food. Both my parents working full-time still were paid low enough to get those almost yard-long boxes of "Gobermint cheese." The #10 huge cans of peanut butter. The flower that yielded fresh-baked bread, the fumes wonderfully filling the whole kitchen. No wonder I enlisted in the Navy at 17 to get out of "the projects."
And I owe the Navy much more than they owe me. A year in Iceland where the Navy said we were needed there, more than in Vietnam. 6 crossings of the Atlantic, the 2 best by ship. Iceland's now a top tourist spot. A free "R&R" to England, to see every tourist sight in London. Then Italy 5 times, Spain 3 times, a master's degree on the GI Bill, tax break on our house, and credit for 50% more years towards a NY State pension from the prison system.
People still "Thank (me) for my service." No need. In 1968, "Hey, Jude" was the first new tune as we picked up on US radio, my ship taking me home to a wartime honorable discharge, alive, in one piece, and I didn't have to kill anyone to come home. I'm thankful each time I hear it.
The absence of local journalism in either of the newspapers serving Queensbury makes it even harder to figure out who to vote for. All both offer is candidates speaking unchallenged in their own words (and usually saying nothing of substance). Transcription, not journalism.
I twice read an article on the Facebook Jail victim and still can't understand how the poor guy -- a former cop -- was imprisoned at all. He should get at least that $2 million in bail from the county, hopefully more. The victim should lead outraged residents in seeking a recall election of the sheriff (better yet, demand his resignation and authorities indict Sheriff Gomer for false imprisonment and a host of other charges), unless Tennessee doesn't elect its county sheriffs, just appoints Bubba's brother or cousin. The timing is suspect, too, after Diaper Donny's thugs said they'd start scrubbing ordinary citizens' social media for derogatory comments about Trumpty Dumpty.
I suppose StefaniQ's rigged conservative-organized polls will soon be claiming that her upcoming book is No. 1 on every bestseller list, too. Imagine how this shyster who supports elimination of the U.S. Department of Education has the gall to pass off such garbage on the American public. It's undoubtedly being written by her thug campaign and regular staff, something King Andrew Cuomo could testify about, though she certainly had lots of free time to write it herself as she hasn't spent any time representing the 21st. I'm a huge supporter of the First Amendment since most of my professional career depended on its application, but hers is one book that should form the basis for a bonfire. I'd even bring hot dogs and s'mores for all to enjoy.
I’m surprised nobody (but me) has pointed to the ACTUAL conflict of interest of councilman McNulty when he voted for Hilary Stec to replace Rachel Seeber as county supervisor.
“Conservative-affiliated poll.” AKA, biased to burnish conservative-affiliated pols. Double-plus ungood.
You have fought the good fight, Ken, in confronting the Qsby Town Board ethics conflict , in person, and in print. It’s up to us to register our dissent with our votes now. (I included 4 write-in names on my absentee ballot.)
Over the past 2 weeks, The Post Star has been publishing written summations of Warren, Washington and Saratoga county-wide candidates’ positions in response to the editor’s multiple questions. Though not “live interviews”, it’s the most inclusive coverage since your retirement. They’re also continuing to publish our letters to the editor supporting John Strough and further exposing the ethics issue infecting the Qsby Town Board.
FYI: North Country NPR reported Stefanik’s new/first book “Poisoned Ivies - The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot of America’s Elite Universities,” will be released in a few months.
The title alone reflects a level of retribution exercised by her hero Herr tRump. Frau Elise has become a consummate grifter, milking the moral bankruptcy inherent within angry MAGA cults and greedy gazillionaires intent on perpetuating the atrocities within this regime, while filling the country- wide candidate accounts of the GOP psychophants. (mis-spelling intended)
Well said Susan. Thank you
With such an expansive district it's amazing Elise Stefanik finds the time to write a book.
There’s little doubt there’s a GOP ghost-writer who created this book/strategic attempt to get Elise into NY State- wide elite bookstore settings (with expensive security escorts) over the next year of her Governor candidacy ……. since she ‘s been too cowardly to show up at her own district town meetings during her faux-representation of her NYS constituents.
A book tour will take Elise Stefanik nationwide which will also set her up for a presidential run.
OMG…😱
As crazy as that sounds, I'm sure that the long-range goal.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Doesn't the country suffer from enough pollution?
Since she does not interact with constituents I imagine she had plenty of time.
Well said Susan...
Prediction: Stefanik’s campaign will use funds to purchase thousands of copies of her book putting it on “best seller” lists.
That could be the catalyst for a “NO QUEEN” movement aimed at NY state and nation-wide book stores urging them to BAN her book of twisted revisionist history and blatant lies.
Belated payback for all the valuable books ripped from the shelves of community libraries, schools, churches, military academies… in efforts to WHITE-Wash our military and civilian histories… and heroic actions of multicultural/multi-colored female and male true patriots.
That sounds about right.
The game-plan for most political candidates for high office is to write a book right before they run - I guess she is running.
I nearly spit out my Cheerios when I read that last line!!! Thanks for that! :0)
Re: food banks. We served 35+ families on Wednesday evening in two hours at a Saratoga County food pantry that serves northern Saratoga County towns. Many of the adults -- veterans, seniors, disabled, working poor -- expressed lots of anxiety and worry over SNAP's potential demise. Many also thanked the volunteers profusely, saying they don't know what they'd do if not for the various food pantries. The pantries don't care about political affiliations, beliefs, etc... Yet MAGAts flood social media with the stereotypical response to those in need: "Go get a job." "Get off welfare." Disgusting that so many so-called Americans simply hate everyone else.
It's going to be a big issue in the coming weeks and maybe months.
Things I have been noticing...
ª candidates are less likely to make it clear which party they belong to..
ª Yet are overwhelming financed by a certain party.. but pretend they aren't obligated to them
ª less and less pushback over the lies
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not in your wheel house, but should be noted (115th district)
Michael Cashman running as a Democratic Party and Working Family Party canditate (https://ballotpedia.org/Michael_Cashman), but his web site (https://cashmanforassembly.com/) highlights the color green
Against bd (republican or mak e that 'Conservative Party)
Several things stand out ...
bd says he doesn't owe anyone but has received a lot of money from the republican paty (https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/local-news/2025/10/last-minute-donations-flood-assembly-race/), but claims Cashman is owned by Kathy Hochul, which bd can not back up... and could NOT back up during the debate bd is weak and depends on lies
in both debates I've watched Cashman wipe the floor with bd's dishonesty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNixuS-qcSc
https://www.pbs.org/video/ny-115th-assembly-district-debate-2025-uxegjx/
and if you watch the first one you will see that bd, is not even aware of Cashman's history and actions..... while at the same tie bd, has no plans.. but does a good job of repeating republican talking points (mind you talking points have failed in the past and will fail in the future.)
During the pandemic the Warren County Democratic Committee donated $1,000 to the Regional Food Bank which provides assistance to all or nearly all of the food pantries in Warren County. The Committee does not typically have much money in the bank but felt that the community need was great.
A few weeks ago at the full county meeting the Democratic Committee, concerned about even greater need today and the threat of loss of funding for programs like SNAP, authorized the executive committee to make another donation.
While it is great that Governor Hochul has committed to providing funding for those in need, the needs always seem to be greater than government can resolve. I’m proud of fellow Democrats who resolved unanimously to use some of our funds to directly help residents throughout our county in a meaningful way, to feed the hungry.
This from the Democratic county chair:
"In recognition of the critical food emergency, the Warren County Democratic Committee has contributed $1,000 today to the Regional Food Bank to assist food pantries immediately throughout Warren County. As we have demonstrated before, the Warren County Democratic Committee’s top priority is food for our families. We democrats join Governor Hochul in her critical support of NY Families in Need."
Lynne Boecher,
Warren County Democratic Committee Chair
The QBY Republicans McNulty and Dixon are classic examples of why REPs are in trouble nationally. It's obvious that Trump wants to be a dictator but the damage he is wreaking on the country is horrific from every point of view. What is sad is that so few people are running for offices anymore. And IMO, the worst group is at county level for WC County Supervisors board. (Washington County is just as bad). The incredible mismanagement and spending problems in both counties is coming home to roost in 2026 budgets and tax increases. Guess what? It's time to expose ALL the bad decisions being made!!! I ran in Lake George last year as the ONLY DEM candidate. LG is almost 2 to 1 in favor of REPs. While there are almost as many REPs as DEMs and INDs combined, there are only REPs on the town council. In other words, the council is NOT a fair representation of the community (and sadly because the LG Village residents get to vote for town positions) I doubt the possibility of merging the town and village will ever happen.
You are correct that few understand who or what a Queensbury Supervisor At Large is. There are 4 of them and they represent residents on the county board of supervisors. When I ask people who their county supervisor is I am generally met with blank stares. Some might guess the town supervisor, which is correct but not the full story because there are also the 4 county supervisors who have no role in town government. Unlike the town councilpersons who are elected by Ward, county supervisors are elected town wide, at-large. So effectively they each represent everyone in town but also they don’t really seem to directly represent anyone because almost nobody can name their county supervisor.
It is a system that minimizes accountability. You vote for 4 of however many are running so if only 4 run they all get elected, but if 5 run then in effect they are all opponents of each other even if they are members of the same party.
It would be a better system if county supervisors were elected by Ward. Harrison Freer attempted to move toward that system but was stymied by the inertia of the current system which makes it very hard for new candidates to run a campaign for what is a part time job but requires a large investment of time and money in order to be successful. Typically the race is over within the town GOP caucus when they endorse candidates.
Here’s the thing, each of the 5 supervisors from Queensbury represents all 29,000 residents. But they sit on a board with 15 other elected supervisors who represent anywhere from 633 to about 4,000. It is a terrible system that cannot be resolved by weighted vote when voting on resolutions.
You are right. They should be selected by the ward they represent.
A solution would be for these archaic, politically perverted county "Board of Supervisors" to convert into a county Legislature, though it still wouldn't prevent decrepit political parties from running the system. But it would mean that elected town supervisors would NOT be on the county Legislature and extending their iron grip on two legislative bodies. I've long been amazed how these "part-time" elected officials manage to hold down two seemingly FT positions while often holding FT jobs. Maybe they've found the Fountain of Youth and a way to extend 24-hour days into 48-hour days. Or maybe they just don't bother to show up for all those committee and regular board meetings; instead, they await word from their party bosses on how to vote.
You are absolutely correct that we should switch to a county legislature.
The reason supervisors don’t vote to switch is that they would all lose the extra paycheck, which for most of the supervisors would mean losing a majority of their income.
The supervisor system props up local governments that are much too small to be efficient for the citizenry. Warren County could eliminate maybe 5 supervisors, town clerks, highway superintendents, and merge a lot of departments if smaller towns merged with their neighbors.
Think of the tax savings.
I've notified Stefanik's office about the credible complaint from a retired Navy Chaplain about rampant antisemitism at the US Naval Academy tolerated by its chain of command. If she doesn't pursue this as vigorously as she did, famously decapitating 3 Ivy "woke" universities that had alleged antisemitism, I'll need help hoisting her on her own hypocritical petart. I saved the emails at vandeusenn@aol.com, should anyone have the best use for them.
I would not hold my breath.
All those on this network concerned about the proposed new artillery firing range, should contact WWNYTV7 & the Watertown (NY) TIMES about their reports on the forest fire caused by exploding artillery shells at nearby Fort Drum, that they've HAD SUCH A HARD TIME PUTTING OUT! That should give you some ammo (sorry) to oppose this new impact zone.
Before food stamps, there was surplus food. Both my parents working full-time still were paid low enough to get those almost yard-long boxes of "Gobermint cheese." The #10 huge cans of peanut butter. The flower that yielded fresh-baked bread, the fumes wonderfully filling the whole kitchen. No wonder I enlisted in the Navy at 17 to get out of "the projects."
And I owe the Navy much more than they owe me. A year in Iceland where the Navy said we were needed there, more than in Vietnam. 6 crossings of the Atlantic, the 2 best by ship. Iceland's now a top tourist spot. A free "R&R" to England, to see every tourist sight in London. Then Italy 5 times, Spain 3 times, a master's degree on the GI Bill, tax break on our house, and credit for 50% more years towards a NY State pension from the prison system.
People still "Thank (me) for my service." No need. In 1968, "Hey, Jude" was the first new tune as we picked up on US radio, my ship taking me home to a wartime honorable discharge, alive, in one piece, and I didn't have to kill anyone to come home. I'm thankful each time I hear it.
Also consider whether you want a right-wing culture war injected into town politics as candidate Dixon has promised to do.
Some of the Warren Country Republican posts on Facebook have gone down that road.
That's all Republicans have to offer. Anywhere.
The absence of local journalism in either of the newspapers serving Queensbury makes it even harder to figure out who to vote for. All both offer is candidates speaking unchallenged in their own words (and usually saying nothing of substance). Transcription, not journalism.
I twice read an article on the Facebook Jail victim and still can't understand how the poor guy -- a former cop -- was imprisoned at all. He should get at least that $2 million in bail from the county, hopefully more. The victim should lead outraged residents in seeking a recall election of the sheriff (better yet, demand his resignation and authorities indict Sheriff Gomer for false imprisonment and a host of other charges), unless Tennessee doesn't elect its county sheriffs, just appoints Bubba's brother or cousin. The timing is suspect, too, after Diaper Donny's thugs said they'd start scrubbing ordinary citizens' social media for derogatory comments about Trumpty Dumpty.
I suppose StefaniQ's rigged conservative-organized polls will soon be claiming that her upcoming book is No. 1 on every bestseller list, too. Imagine how this shyster who supports elimination of the U.S. Department of Education has the gall to pass off such garbage on the American public. It's undoubtedly being written by her thug campaign and regular staff, something King Andrew Cuomo could testify about, though she certainly had lots of free time to write it herself as she hasn't spent any time representing the 21st. I'm a huge supporter of the First Amendment since most of my professional career depended on its application, but hers is one book that should form the basis for a bonfire. I'd even bring hot dogs and s'mores for all to enjoy.
I’m surprised nobody (but me) has pointed to the ACTUAL conflict of interest of councilman McNulty when he voted for Hilary Stec to replace Rachel Seeber as county supervisor.