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June Woodard's avatar

That would be AWESOME if you wrote a Letter To The Editor! I just wrote one last night for pretty much the same reason you just mentioned. A letter writer was thanking Stefanik for reversing the decision to close Washington County Correctional. HUH???? I had to burst her bubble by stating the fact that E'lies did NOT reverse anything. The only thing she DID do was use the rally as a political stunt to bash Democrats. You know..............the usual.

On another note, we , The North Country Light Brigade will be at Exit 19 tonight. 😊

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mike parwana's avatar

I suspect Magowan won’t run for office again in a year, but I wouldn’t count on voters punishing him if he did. We keep voting for Trump. Stefanik is busy excoriating our Governor over a Chinese spy Hochul fired and turned in even as Stefanik herself protected Trump, who has many ties to Russian operatives, from impeachment.

Remember Lake Luzerne Supervisor Vic Grant? He was an insurance agent who sold the town insurance without a competitive bid. He said he was giving the town the best deal but when a competitive bid was forced his was not the best deal. He had another neat trick. He would gas up at the town pump then collect mileage from both the county and the town. That is called “double -dipping,” collecting pay for the same thing twice.

Each time the county supervisors meet the 11 town supervisor are collecting a paycheck from both their town and from the county. I call that double dipping, but it is often a conflict of interest in making decisions for the county that also profoundly affect the interests of their town.

I’m not sure how the supervisor system of government is effectively any different from what Brad Magowan did.

Some years ago supervisors investigated switching to a county legislature. Not surprisingly they did not vote to switch to a system of government that would take away one of their paychecks and other benefits. I would call those votes conflicts of interest.

Ethically town supervisors should be recusing themselves from nearly all votes at the county and that would mean they are collecting a paycheck for a job they cannot ethically perform.

It’s a conundrum.

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