I was in attendance at the GF Protest 50501. Despite the rainy weather, the group remained encouraged by the mostly positive responses from the honking cars and waving passengers. There was one man who came with a gas powered chainsaw menacing the crowd. Fortunately GFPD was quick to respond, handcuffed the man and hauled him away. Some social media posts are disappointing when people just don't understand the threat we are under from our own Government. Hence, the situation for migrants right here in our own backyards. They seem to continue through life as if things are normal and those of us out in the streets are abnormal.
"The commission found that during Muller's 2022 election campaign, he presided over more than 40 cases in which one of the lawyers had hosted a fundraiser for him, or in which his campaign finance chair or co-chair appeared before him."
This also raises the issue of inherent corruption in how our elections are funded through campaign contributions. As long as our justice system holds that money is speech, those with the most money will speak the loudest.
I understand and agree with your condemnation of a judge failing to recuse from a case where a substantial donor is representing one of the parties. I don't understand your argument that no elected official should be involved in a political party. I'm curious as to why you have this concern about elected officials in Queensbury.
Is the fact that these elected officials hold leadership positions in a political party the stumbling block for you? Would you be less concerned if they were simply active members of the respective party?
We have a political system dominated by parties, as do most democracies. In a parliamentary system, the leader of the party becomes head of state. It is very hard for someone to get elected without the support of a party.
Small town politics are as messy as large scale politics, which you know from your years of reporting. I don't know how you solve it except by shining a light on questionable conduct, as you are doing in this newsletter. Thank you.
In 2017, Queensbury Town Board member Tony Metivier was instructed by the chairman of the Warren County Republicans to vote for a Republican-sympathetic lawfirm to represent the town or face the consequences. Metivier stood up to the chairman and for years was denied the endorsement of the local Republicans and the help in gathering signatures. Since Tim McNulty is chairman of the Warren County Republicans that makes him Metivier's boss. He holds a power over their votes. That has the "appearance" of a conflict of interest and that is a violation of the town's ethics policy. It played out in real town at the last Town Board meeting where Metivier at first seconded a candidate for cemetery superintendent, but after McNulty voice concerns, changes his vote in response. That is a HUGE "appearance" of a conflict of interest. So year, it is the leadership position that is the problem. Either give up one of the two positions or change the town's ethics policy.
Sorry, I'm not fully aware of Queensbury politics. This certainly sounds fishy.
I still don't understand how you propose to solve this. Officials all over are known to vote with their political party's wishes - that's one of the reasons we have parties.
If the leadership is exerting undue influence, wouldn't it still be happening whether or not they were holding elected office?
I don’t think it’s an issue of attempting to eliminate all corruption in politics. I’m not sure that’s a reasonable expectation. Rather, it’s an issue of addressing known conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interest — conflicts that have been exposed.
Why wouldn’t residents want such conflicts to be addressed?
There are no magic solutions to dealing with this, if that’s what you’re looking for.
Raise the issue with the board in a public meeting, file a complaint with the town’s Ethics Board, receive a determination, publicize the determination, continue to raise the issue with the board, and work to publicize the issue with voters for the next election.
If we ignore it because "that’s how politics is," then politics will always be that way..
I think it should be an agenda item for a town meeting so the public gets to hear where all the board members stand on the issue. Let the public weigh in as well. That's how these things are supposed to work. The board has not done any of that.
I don't think I recommended shrugging or ignoring the issue. I think you have said that one or more of the board members should resign from their posts, and the reason you gave was that they were—by definition—unduly influenced by the presence of the party leader on the board. And that there should be a restraint against having party leaders in elected positions. (Please let me know if I'm putting words in your mouth.)
My point is simply that this is not a workable solution. I agree that if there is a concern about ethics it should be aired and dealt with in public. I'm not familiar with this particular issue, so don't have much more to say about it.
(Are there any levels of government that don't have issues of corruption? It almost can't avoid drawing backroom deals. And the people who go into politics usually have some sort of tolerance for it.)
They are in violation of the town ethics policy. Why have an ethics policy if you are not going to abide by it? I never suggested anyone should resign from the town board. That would certainly be a solution. So would resigning from the leadership position with the party. And I think there are many local public officials who repeatedly do the right thing and are not made to vote a certain way by their parties. Not everyone is corrupt.
The Queensbury Republicans are also trying to take over the Warren County Conservative Party. Brady Stark has had most of his family members enroll in the Conservative Party in order to vote Carol Birkholz out of office and put Brady‘s family in charge of the Queensbury Republicans. This is illegal party raiding. Mr. McNulty and Mr. Dixon need to answer why they are doing this.
I have no sympathy for Carol Birkholz and the Conservative Party. Obi Wan Kenobi said it best: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
In 2022 the Queensbury, Glens Falls, and Warren County Democratic Parties passed a resolution preventing committees from endorsing Democrats who would also be running on other constituted party lines (candidate formed parties are fine) such as the CON party. I was proud of being a strong supporter of that resolution. Unfortunately, the way the resolution was worded it did not include judicial races.
Despite clear evidence to the contrary local political figures claim that they “need” the CON party line to win. When candidates insist a falsehood is true despite clear contrary evidence constituents should question their motives.
Unfortunately, the Qby Dems rescinded their resolution before making endorsements earlier this year. I refused to be a party to that decision and walked out of the meeting.
It’s been a while since I read it. I’ll have to go back to read your quote.
But my reason for posting was to provide information to readers, and the picture of Judge Muller seemed apropos.
I didn’t stick around to hear the reasons, but it was clearly because there were candidates who intended to seek the CON line. Again, I don’t know for a fact who they were, but if you Google “Queensbury candidate arrested for petition fraud” I suspect you might find one.
The whole gist of the Times Union article was the fact that the Conservative Party endorsed two democrats for judge in 2022, including Judge Muller, which turns out to have been a bad decision. Anytime the Conservative Party endorses a Democrat, all hell breaks loose. The Republicans think they own the Conservative Party, I want to Conservative Party doesn’t rubberstamp the Republican candidates thet go nuts. We have fusion balloting in New York State, and unless goes away there will always be people mad at the Conservative Party for endorsing them.
I think you miss the point of THIS article: conflicts of interest are moral dilemmas. The problem with CONs endorsing Dems is that they are philosophically opposed political movements - so when a CON endorses a Dem they show they can’t be trusted, and when a Dem seeks the CON endorsement they show they cannot be trusted.
With judges, and at the local level, we would hope national politics and ideology would not be the driving factor. Although as our country becomes more polarized, it will become harder and harder for conservatives and Democrats to work together. The question we at the Conservative Party are faced with is do we endorse a good and decent center left Democrat, or do we endorse Republican that is either incompetent or unethical or both. Democrats seek the Conservative line for purely electoral reasons.
You infer a good point, that fusion voting should be eliminated, which would end this sort of conflict.
You provide no evidence that McNulty and Dixon have anything to do with Brady Stark’s relatives registering as Conservative Party members. In fact, the Stark family is well known to be conservative, proudly conservative. So I think it would be hard to prove, or if it is even the case, that this would be illegal party raiding.
The real issue is that the CON party in Warren County at least, hardly functions as a true independent entity. If they were a true party they would regularly contest elections with registered Conservative Party members - something that is a rarity, in fact, when actual registered Conservatives run for election they are often spurned by party leadership under Carol Birkholz. Why would the local CON party refuse to endorse Brady Stark, anyway? Especially when they generally endorse candidates who are closely politically aligned?
Except that they also, weirdly, endorse one or 2 local Democrats who are, seemingly, ideologically not well aligned.
Maybe, in fact, an effort by ideological conservatives to follow proper procedure and elect new leadership would create a local party with more consistent principles.
Running a conservative only on the Conservative line would do nothing but elect Democrats. We don’t have enough numbers to be a standalone party.
Brady Stark is a Republican working in Albany for Will Barclay, the leader of the Assembly Republicans. They are behind Brady as is the local Republican establishment. This is not a secret.
But it’s interesting to hear you believe that electing a Democrat is such a threat that you don’t want to endorse principled conservatives for fear that a Democrat might win…which seems somewhat in conflict with your assertion about endorsing center left Democrats.
It sounds to me that you don’t have an actual set of principles except that you don’t want people who you don’t have political sway over to office.
In addition to the protests that you mentioned, there were more than 200 of us protesting in Johnstown, the county seat of deep red Fulton County. Our protest was the lead story on the front page of the Sunday (Schenectady) Gazette. In addition to the well crafted article written by the Gazette’s newest reporter Eden Stratton, the Gazette had a photo of many of us protesting in front of the oldest court house in the state.
J D weaseled his way into a brief audience with the Pope yesterday, after having to settle for a meeting with the Pope’s #2 cardinal the day before. He created his own motorcade security vehicle traffic issue on the busiest weekend in Rome’s calendar year.
His not-so-subtle intent on grabbing a photo-op, before Francis succumbed to his myriad of health conditions, was evident in the White House website post, just hours after the pope died this morning. There was Yesterday’s photo of J.D. , smiling broadly at a very pale grim-faced Francis…aligned next to a 2017 photo of tRump with the pope. Like a friggin’ campaign poster!
J D’s short term Catholicism, with his sudden conversion in 2019, was seen by many as his way to garner Catholic votes for his political career. He intentionally became a thorn in Pope Francis’ side over the past year ++ , harshly criticizing and mocking Pope Francis for his support of Ukraine, and his pleas for the rights of all immigrants and all human beings.
The hypocrisy inherent within our current VP’s desire for center stage today…as if he were the “chosen one” to be the last statesman to be at Pope Francis’s side yesterday… is shameful and sinful. But I doubt he’ll be seeking forgiveness in any confessional.
Pope Francis was the bigger man in relenting and allowing J D those few minutes yesterday. He was true to his mission of Forgiveness in his last hours…just as Jesus was to the thief hanging on the cross on Calvary next to him…
P.S. If Pope Francis hadn’t been so ill…my inner-conspiracy-theorist would have wondered if one of Putin’s potions might have been transferred by J.D. via the handshake with the pope.
Gotta pray no American Cardinal is selected to be the next Pope…or he might become one of “The Supremes”… singing in their choir to undo Pope Francis’ good will…and the vestiges of our democracy.
Since Trump is going to be the skunk at Pope Francis’ funeral that’s a wonderful opportunity for the rest of the world’s leaders to show their feelings for him and shun him completely. Let their inner mean girls come out.
In addition, we'll see if any leaders publicly kiss up to Trump in an effort to curry favor or demonstrate their authoritarian sympathies as Queen Bees....
Ms Tenney was the rep for our district a while ago - seemed to follow the Republican line at all times! That is not meant as a compliment. So yeah - honest labor experience would be a good thing.
Appreciate the report on the corruption displayed by Muller and McNulty.
I’d read about the ICE actions at CWT Farms previously. This business that’s being destroyed by the blundering actions of Donald Trump is in the district of fellow Ultra MAGA extremist of Elise Stefanik, Claudia Tenney. Tenney recently made a grandstanding visit to Trump’s concentration camp in El Salvador to celebrate the illegal rendition of people from our country.
Congratulations to voters in her district and ours who will continue to reap the whirlwind for their votes for autocracy.
Ken, thank you for talking about this issue. Because you did, I emailed all the Town Board members asking them to address the issue. I am now in an ongoing email conversation with Tim McNulty about how to resolve the issue. For me it comes down to this: the Ethics Board ruled that there is an inherent appearance of a conflict of interest when the leader of a political party is also a Town Board member, and so Mr. McNulty and Mr. Dixon, at least at this point, appear to be ignoring the ruling because they don't agree with it, and the Board as a whole is just not dealing with the matter. What, then, is the point of having an Ethics Board if no one is going to act on or abide by it's ruling?
Exactly. It is an insult to everyone on the ethics board and not many people volunteer to serve in that capacity. If they don't agree with the ruling, they should change the language in the ethics policy, but that would show what they truly believe. That they are above being held accountable.
Wow, good thing we've deported all those chick hatchery workers. I'd much rather have a million dead chicks than any of those awful (brown) tax-paying migrants.
The Republican dominated Q town board won't care. They just approved the cemetery director recommended by the town GOP chair. The town GOP vice-chair (Dixon) and county GOP chair (McNulty) voted as instructed.
Speaking of startling, the Chronicle actually does a little journalism now, which is useful considering the decay of the Post-Star in the last few years. According to the Chronicle, it was (surprise surprise) four Republicans voted one way and Democrat Strough voting the other way.
I was in attendance at the GF Protest 50501. Despite the rainy weather, the group remained encouraged by the mostly positive responses from the honking cars and waving passengers. There was one man who came with a gas powered chainsaw menacing the crowd. Fortunately GFPD was quick to respond, handcuffed the man and hauled him away. Some social media posts are disappointing when people just don't understand the threat we are under from our own Government. Hence, the situation for migrants right here in our own backyards. They seem to continue through life as if things are normal and those of us out in the streets are abnormal.
Thank you 🙏
"The commission found that during Muller's 2022 election campaign, he presided over more than 40 cases in which one of the lawyers had hosted a fundraiser for him, or in which his campaign finance chair or co-chair appeared before him."
This also raises the issue of inherent corruption in how our elections are funded through campaign contributions. As long as our justice system holds that money is speech, those with the most money will speak the loudest.
I understand and agree with your condemnation of a judge failing to recuse from a case where a substantial donor is representing one of the parties. I don't understand your argument that no elected official should be involved in a political party. I'm curious as to why you have this concern about elected officials in Queensbury.
Is the fact that these elected officials hold leadership positions in a political party the stumbling block for you? Would you be less concerned if they were simply active members of the respective party?
We have a political system dominated by parties, as do most democracies. In a parliamentary system, the leader of the party becomes head of state. It is very hard for someone to get elected without the support of a party.
Small town politics are as messy as large scale politics, which you know from your years of reporting. I don't know how you solve it except by shining a light on questionable conduct, as you are doing in this newsletter. Thank you.
In 2017, Queensbury Town Board member Tony Metivier was instructed by the chairman of the Warren County Republicans to vote for a Republican-sympathetic lawfirm to represent the town or face the consequences. Metivier stood up to the chairman and for years was denied the endorsement of the local Republicans and the help in gathering signatures. Since Tim McNulty is chairman of the Warren County Republicans that makes him Metivier's boss. He holds a power over their votes. That has the "appearance" of a conflict of interest and that is a violation of the town's ethics policy. It played out in real town at the last Town Board meeting where Metivier at first seconded a candidate for cemetery superintendent, but after McNulty voice concerns, changes his vote in response. That is a HUGE "appearance" of a conflict of interest. So year, it is the leadership position that is the problem. Either give up one of the two positions or change the town's ethics policy.
Sorry, I'm not fully aware of Queensbury politics. This certainly sounds fishy.
I still don't understand how you propose to solve this. Officials all over are known to vote with their political party's wishes - that's one of the reasons we have parties.
If the leadership is exerting undue influence, wouldn't it still be happening whether or not they were holding elected office?
If you want to solve a problem you first have to admit there is a problem. Shrugging your shoulders is not a great solution.
I don’t think it’s an issue of attempting to eliminate all corruption in politics. I’m not sure that’s a reasonable expectation. Rather, it’s an issue of addressing known conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interest — conflicts that have been exposed.
Why wouldn’t residents want such conflicts to be addressed?
How would you deal with this issue?
There are no magic solutions to dealing with this, if that’s what you’re looking for.
Raise the issue with the board in a public meeting, file a complaint with the town’s Ethics Board, receive a determination, publicize the determination, continue to raise the issue with the board, and work to publicize the issue with voters for the next election.
If we ignore it because "that’s how politics is," then politics will always be that way..
I think it should be an agenda item for a town meeting so the public gets to hear where all the board members stand on the issue. Let the public weigh in as well. That's how these things are supposed to work. The board has not done any of that.
Exactly.
I don't think I recommended shrugging or ignoring the issue. I think you have said that one or more of the board members should resign from their posts, and the reason you gave was that they were—by definition—unduly influenced by the presence of the party leader on the board. And that there should be a restraint against having party leaders in elected positions. (Please let me know if I'm putting words in your mouth.)
My point is simply that this is not a workable solution. I agree that if there is a concern about ethics it should be aired and dealt with in public. I'm not familiar with this particular issue, so don't have much more to say about it.
(Are there any levels of government that don't have issues of corruption? It almost can't avoid drawing backroom deals. And the people who go into politics usually have some sort of tolerance for it.)
They are in violation of the town ethics policy. Why have an ethics policy if you are not going to abide by it? I never suggested anyone should resign from the town board. That would certainly be a solution. So would resigning from the leadership position with the party. And I think there are many local public officials who repeatedly do the right thing and are not made to vote a certain way by their parties. Not everyone is corrupt.
The Queensbury Republicans are also trying to take over the Warren County Conservative Party. Brady Stark has had most of his family members enroll in the Conservative Party in order to vote Carol Birkholz out of office and put Brady‘s family in charge of the Queensbury Republicans. This is illegal party raiding. Mr. McNulty and Mr. Dixon need to answer why they are doing this.
I have no sympathy for Carol Birkholz and the Conservative Party. Obi Wan Kenobi said it best: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
In 2022 the Queensbury, Glens Falls, and Warren County Democratic Parties passed a resolution preventing committees from endorsing Democrats who would also be running on other constituted party lines (candidate formed parties are fine) such as the CON party. I was proud of being a strong supporter of that resolution. Unfortunately, the way the resolution was worded it did not include judicial races.
Despite clear evidence to the contrary local political figures claim that they “need” the CON party line to win. When candidates insist a falsehood is true despite clear contrary evidence constituents should question their motives.
Unfortunately, the Qby Dems rescinded their resolution before making endorsements earlier this year. I refused to be a party to that decision and walked out of the meeting.
Here is a pertinent TU story: https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/In-this-judicial-district-Conservatives-wield-17429762.php
I am familiar with the TU article as I am quoted in it. Why did Queensbury Democrats rescind their policy of not taking the Conservative line?
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It’s been a while since I read it. I’ll have to go back to read your quote.
But my reason for posting was to provide information to readers, and the picture of Judge Muller seemed apropos.
I didn’t stick around to hear the reasons, but it was clearly because there were candidates who intended to seek the CON line. Again, I don’t know for a fact who they were, but if you Google “Queensbury candidate arrested for petition fraud” I suspect you might find one.
The whole gist of the Times Union article was the fact that the Conservative Party endorsed two democrats for judge in 2022, including Judge Muller, which turns out to have been a bad decision. Anytime the Conservative Party endorses a Democrat, all hell breaks loose. The Republicans think they own the Conservative Party, I want to Conservative Party doesn’t rubberstamp the Republican candidates thet go nuts. We have fusion balloting in New York State, and unless goes away there will always be people mad at the Conservative Party for endorsing them.
I think you miss the point of THIS article: conflicts of interest are moral dilemmas. The problem with CONs endorsing Dems is that they are philosophically opposed political movements - so when a CON endorses a Dem they show they can’t be trusted, and when a Dem seeks the CON endorsement they show they cannot be trusted.
With judges, and at the local level, we would hope national politics and ideology would not be the driving factor. Although as our country becomes more polarized, it will become harder and harder for conservatives and Democrats to work together. The question we at the Conservative Party are faced with is do we endorse a good and decent center left Democrat, or do we endorse Republican that is either incompetent or unethical or both. Democrats seek the Conservative line for purely electoral reasons.
You infer a good point, that fusion voting should be eliminated, which would end this sort of conflict.
You provide no evidence that McNulty and Dixon have anything to do with Brady Stark’s relatives registering as Conservative Party members. In fact, the Stark family is well known to be conservative, proudly conservative. So I think it would be hard to prove, or if it is even the case, that this would be illegal party raiding.
The real issue is that the CON party in Warren County at least, hardly functions as a true independent entity. If they were a true party they would regularly contest elections with registered Conservative Party members - something that is a rarity, in fact, when actual registered Conservatives run for election they are often spurned by party leadership under Carol Birkholz. Why would the local CON party refuse to endorse Brady Stark, anyway? Especially when they generally endorse candidates who are closely politically aligned?
Except that they also, weirdly, endorse one or 2 local Democrats who are, seemingly, ideologically not well aligned.
Maybe, in fact, an effort by ideological conservatives to follow proper procedure and elect new leadership would create a local party with more consistent principles.
Running a conservative only on the Conservative line would do nothing but elect Democrats. We don’t have enough numbers to be a standalone party.
Brady Stark is a Republican working in Albany for Will Barclay, the leader of the Assembly Republicans. They are behind Brady as is the local Republican establishment. This is not a secret.
Sounds like Elise Stefanik, and she gets the CON endorsement. 🤷🏻♂️
But it’s interesting to hear you believe that electing a Democrat is such a threat that you don’t want to endorse principled conservatives for fear that a Democrat might win…which seems somewhat in conflict with your assertion about endorsing center left Democrats.
It sounds to me that you don’t have an actual set of principles except that you don’t want people who you don’t have political sway over to office.
In addition to the protests that you mentioned, there were more than 200 of us protesting in Johnstown, the county seat of deep red Fulton County. Our protest was the lead story on the front page of the Sunday (Schenectady) Gazette. In addition to the well crafted article written by the Gazette’s newest reporter Eden Stratton, the Gazette had a photo of many of us protesting in front of the oldest court house in the state.
Thank you and the Gazette. 🙏
I love the word gazette. It can also be used as a verb I found. I’m off now to try to work into a sentence today.
“The PS today gazetted a story on Pope Frank today that rivals Dewey defeats Truman.” 😬
In their defense, it was Easter Sunday and you never know who will die in the middle of the night. They also have ridiculously early deadlines.
Just messing with them. It was nowhere near Dewey/Truman. I’m sure the late pope had enough of a sense of humor that he would’ve appreciated it.
I see somewhere that Vance met with Francis yesterday. Not one of the last people I’d want to see.
The more interesting part is that VP Vance met with Pope, then he died.
J D weaseled his way into a brief audience with the Pope yesterday, after having to settle for a meeting with the Pope’s #2 cardinal the day before. He created his own motorcade security vehicle traffic issue on the busiest weekend in Rome’s calendar year.
His not-so-subtle intent on grabbing a photo-op, before Francis succumbed to his myriad of health conditions, was evident in the White House website post, just hours after the pope died this morning. There was Yesterday’s photo of J.D. , smiling broadly at a very pale grim-faced Francis…aligned next to a 2017 photo of tRump with the pope. Like a friggin’ campaign poster!
J D’s short term Catholicism, with his sudden conversion in 2019, was seen by many as his way to garner Catholic votes for his political career. He intentionally became a thorn in Pope Francis’ side over the past year ++ , harshly criticizing and mocking Pope Francis for his support of Ukraine, and his pleas for the rights of all immigrants and all human beings.
The hypocrisy inherent within our current VP’s desire for center stage today…as if he were the “chosen one” to be the last statesman to be at Pope Francis’s side yesterday… is shameful and sinful. But I doubt he’ll be seeking forgiveness in any confessional.
Pope Francis was the bigger man in relenting and allowing J D those few minutes yesterday. He was true to his mission of Forgiveness in his last hours…just as Jesus was to the thief hanging on the cross on Calvary next to him…
P.S. If Pope Francis hadn’t been so ill…my inner-conspiracy-theorist would have wondered if one of Putin’s potions might have been transferred by J.D. via the handshake with the pope.
Gotta pray no American Cardinal is selected to be the next Pope…or he might become one of “The Supremes”… singing in their choir to undo Pope Francis’ good will…and the vestiges of our democracy.
It’s still ETTD. Just waiting for JD’s turn on the karmic wheel.
Since Trump is going to be the skunk at Pope Francis’ funeral that’s a wonderful opportunity for the rest of the world’s leaders to show their feelings for him and shun him completely. Let their inner mean girls come out.
In addition, we'll see if any leaders publicly kiss up to Trump in an effort to curry favor or demonstrate their authoritarian sympathies as Queen Bees....
J.D. was denied access to the pope the day before…but he hung out in Rome ( with his wife and 3 kids) determined to be admitted to see him.
And apparently snarling traffic on one of the biggest holidays of the year in Rome.
I suspect a lot of late night punch lines there.
I suggest Jefferson County Supervisors get out to the chicken hatchery and personally provide the labor needed to save this important business.
Claudia Tenney is their rep. She should be there too to experience some honest labor. 😉
Ms Tenney was the rep for our district a while ago - seemed to follow the Republican line at all times! That is not meant as a compliment. So yeah - honest labor experience would be a good thing.
Appreciate the report on the corruption displayed by Muller and McNulty.
I’d read about the ICE actions at CWT Farms previously. This business that’s being destroyed by the blundering actions of Donald Trump is in the district of fellow Ultra MAGA extremist of Elise Stefanik, Claudia Tenney. Tenney recently made a grandstanding visit to Trump’s concentration camp in El Salvador to celebrate the illegal rendition of people from our country.
Congratulations to voters in her district and ours who will continue to reap the whirlwind for their votes for autocracy.
They deserve sympathy and compassion - to make up for her lack!!
Ken, thank you for talking about this issue. Because you did, I emailed all the Town Board members asking them to address the issue. I am now in an ongoing email conversation with Tim McNulty about how to resolve the issue. For me it comes down to this: the Ethics Board ruled that there is an inherent appearance of a conflict of interest when the leader of a political party is also a Town Board member, and so Mr. McNulty and Mr. Dixon, at least at this point, appear to be ignoring the ruling because they don't agree with it, and the Board as a whole is just not dealing with the matter. What, then, is the point of having an Ethics Board if no one is going to act on or abide by it's ruling?
Exactly. It is an insult to everyone on the ethics board and not many people volunteer to serve in that capacity. If they don't agree with the ruling, they should change the language in the ethics policy, but that would show what they truly believe. That they are above being held accountable.
CHICK HATCHERY LIBERATION:
Wow, good thing we've deported all those chick hatchery workers. I'd much rather have a million dead chicks than any of those awful (brown) tax-paying migrants.
The Republican dominated Q town board won't care. They just approved the cemetery director recommended by the town GOP chair. The town GOP vice-chair (Dixon) and county GOP chair (McNulty) voted as instructed.
Wow! That is startling. Do you know the vote?
Speaking of startling, the Chronicle actually does a little journalism now, which is useful considering the decay of the Post-Star in the last few years. According to the Chronicle, it was (surprise surprise) four Republicans voted one way and Democrat Strough voting the other way.