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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Breaking: John Parete, former Ulster County Party Boss and Legislative Chairman Calls on Cardinale to Step Down as Dem Boss
County Legislator John Parete who chaired the Ulster County Dem committee for over ten years, when the party was still winning elections, called on embattled Party Boss Frank Cardinale to step down as Chairman. It's been close to a week since Cardinale has been seen, what is he in Witness Protection over here or what?! More later!
City to Merge Bus System w Ulster as part of Sales Tax Agreement
A more detailed story later. We are happy that Mayor Noble is agreeing to a plan that we presented on this blog two months ago. This merger will be a huge savings to city taxpayers. More later.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
NY Times Picks up story Kingston Goodfellas Broke in 2014!!! Ulster County Democratic Committee In Hot Water-- Cardinale and Hayes Clement on Hot Seat, Must Stand Down and Resign in Short Order
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| Frank Cardinale circumvents election law with his pal Hayes Clement to try and secure a win for Senator Tkazck |
First read this article by the NY Times just click this sentence.
Than click this sentence from 2014 a post our blog did on this almost two years ago!
Excerpts from NY TIMES:
The inquiry into the 2014 donations is based on a state ban on contributions to a party committee if they are given or solicited for a particular candidate, with an intent to evade individual contribution limits. Party committees can receive contributions of up to $102,300, far more than the $11,000 general-election maximum from individuals directly to for State Senate candidates. And the committees are not restricted in how much they can transfer to candidates.
In
all, the Democratic committees in Putnam, Ulster and Monroe Counties
raised at least $1.2 million in large donations from union political
action committees, private companies and individual donors, state
records show, and sent money to four Senate candidates in close races.
Cecilia
Tkaczyk, who received money in October 2014 from the Ulster County
committee during her unsuccessful re-election campaign, said the state
party’s efforts, which included fliers attacking her opponent, ended up
working against her. She declined to comment on whether she had gotten a
subpoena from state prosecutors, which people familiar with the
investigation said had gone to some candidates in tight races that year.
NY DAILY NEWS excerpt:
The News previously reported the Ulster County Democratic Committee
on Oct. 14, 2014, took in $364,000 from four labor unions and a
Manhattan-based corporation. Days later, the committee turned around and
sent the money to the campaign of Tkaczyk.
“Unions like the powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1199, SEIU 32BJ, the state Nurse’s Association, and the Communications Workers of America were among those who gave big amounts to the county committees though they never had before,” The News reported.
The News reports that an email shows that Tkaczyk’s campaign manager Matthew Lerch contacted Hayes Clement, the treasurer of the Ulster County Democratic Committee, to find out if a $60,000 check from the state Nurse’s Association had cleared. “Below is our banking info, we need the 60 transferred over ASAP please,” Lerch wrote in the email, according to The News.
Tkaczyk received a total of $330,000 from the Ulster County committee, The News said.
It's very clear that the Ulster County Democratic committee broke the law in a big way, it's a felony to give money to a party committee with the purpose of circumventing individual campaign contribution limits. That's exactly what happened! The committee under Dem Chairman Frank Cardinale accepted 330k to his committee and every penny of it was transferred to Senator Tkaczyk's campaign days later.
Hayes Clement was the treasure, he did what Cardinale told him to do, he owed Frank, Frank as City Chairman put his neck on the line for him in his unsuccessful run for Mayor. Cardinale asked Hayes to return the favor and he did. I feel bad for Hayes because a scum like Cardinale will have Hayes Clement take the fall, he's the treasure, he wrote the check! It's so funny now to watch becasue when Hayes Clement ran for Mayor he ran saying he was this buisness leader with zero ties to the good ol' boy network and it was a lie all along. Shayne Gallo knew it and so did his supporters. Cardinale and Clement need to resign immediatly from their committee seats and executive postions. No one has given the Democrtatic Party in Ulster County a black eye the way these two have. People like John Parete and Shayne Gallo are vindicated more every day. Gallo may be a crazy psychopath but he's our crazy psychopath and more importantly say what you will about him, he's honest and above any of this shit here.
I don't get why Cardinale and Clement thought it was cool, they reported it as if they did nothing wrong. It would have been smarter if they gave the money in cash in a Macy's bag. If you're gunna break the law why leave a clear trail back to you. That's Cardinale's fault for firing Andrew Zweeben as the party's attorney. Not only would of Zweben advised against reporting this, he would have delivered the bag of cash to Senator Tkaczyk and there would be no proof.
“Unions like the powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1199, SEIU 32BJ, the state Nurse’s Association, and the Communications Workers of America were among those who gave big amounts to the county committees though they never had before,” The News reported.
The News reports that an email shows that Tkaczyk’s campaign manager Matthew Lerch contacted Hayes Clement, the treasurer of the Ulster County Democratic Committee, to find out if a $60,000 check from the state Nurse’s Association had cleared. “Below is our banking info, we need the 60 transferred over ASAP please,” Lerch wrote in the email, according to The News.
Tkaczyk received a total of $330,000 from the Ulster County committee, The News said.
It's very clear that the Ulster County Democratic committee broke the law in a big way, it's a felony to give money to a party committee with the purpose of circumventing individual campaign contribution limits. That's exactly what happened! The committee under Dem Chairman Frank Cardinale accepted 330k to his committee and every penny of it was transferred to Senator Tkaczyk's campaign days later.
Hayes Clement was the treasure, he did what Cardinale told him to do, he owed Frank, Frank as City Chairman put his neck on the line for him in his unsuccessful run for Mayor. Cardinale asked Hayes to return the favor and he did. I feel bad for Hayes because a scum like Cardinale will have Hayes Clement take the fall, he's the treasure, he wrote the check! It's so funny now to watch becasue when Hayes Clement ran for Mayor he ran saying he was this buisness leader with zero ties to the good ol' boy network and it was a lie all along. Shayne Gallo knew it and so did his supporters. Cardinale and Clement need to resign immediatly from their committee seats and executive postions. No one has given the Democrtatic Party in Ulster County a black eye the way these two have. People like John Parete and Shayne Gallo are vindicated more every day. Gallo may be a crazy psychopath but he's our crazy psychopath and more importantly say what you will about him, he's honest and above any of this shit here.
I don't get why Cardinale and Clement thought it was cool, they reported it as if they did nothing wrong. It would have been smarter if they gave the money in cash in a Macy's bag. If you're gunna break the law why leave a clear trail back to you. That's Cardinale's fault for firing Andrew Zweeben as the party's attorney. Not only would of Zweben advised against reporting this, he would have delivered the bag of cash to Senator Tkaczyk and there would be no proof.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
The Omerta Report
What is going on with the sales tax agreement?! We have not heard anything since Hein and Noble said they were communicating and reaching a deal, what's up with that?
Speaking of Hein he will have to cancle his reservations at the Mayflower hotel in D.C. this fall because he wont be going to the convention for Hillary Clinton after Sanders and his delegates destroyed Clinton in upstate and across NY, if you look at the numbers Sanders won 51 of 62 counties in New York State, Hillary should thank her lucky stars for NYC. We voted for Hillary and even Hein on Tuesday because Sanders would be a disaster as President and Hillary at least knows what she is talking about God forbid Trump is not elected President.
Mayor Noble's appointment of Rennie Scott-Childress has to be the worst decision Noble has made thus far. Scott-Childress will be a one term Alderman without question. Mr. Childress is probably more liberal than even Brad Will was, he may be more liberal than Mayor Noble and that Ward is pretty moderate. First off he takes his wife's name as part of his own Scott is his wife's name and Childress his own...If your gunnna do that you might as well put on your driver's license: Im a big fucking pussy,really what guy does that? Mr.Childress also is a new resident to the Ward, in 2010 or so Rennee's wife ran for Alderman while they were living in Ward one, narrowly losing to Andi Turco Levin. Mrs. Childress probably would have won the election but thought lawn signs were not good for the envirnment or some shit and lost by less than twenty votes to Andi Turco Levin who was widely favored to win by a big margin after taking the GOP nomination practically by force from incumbent Alderman and Minority Leader Al Teetsil.
So with that being said it's a bad choice, besides being a left wing socialist and being new to the ward he has no experience in government but than again neither does our current Mayor who appointed him. I expect that Ward 3 will be a Republican pick up next year and that will be on Noble's hands.
The Kingston Common Counsel Laws and Rules committee recommended not to change the draconian 1978 law that is keeping Dr. Soyers from building his private gun range in Kingston. Ms. Martin and her kool aid drinkers were in full force at the laws and rules committee which drew a crowd of about 200, evenly divided among supporters and the Martin fringe group KingstonCitizen's.org. I found it funny that members of Martin's group gasped when a guy spoke out that was from Hurley because he was not a Kingston resident. Is this not the same group that Martin runs that had half of Woodstock come and protest the Niagara Water company? So it's only ok for people trying to stop business in Kingston from speaking up but not those that support bringing business in???. What the fuck are we dealing with? Its such a backwards logic, when people from other communities come to speak out against a buisness there opinion should be taken with a grain of salt beecause they have no stake in what happens but they have the right to express their opinion nonetheless. However when residents from other communities comes in to speak in favor of a proposed business in our community it should be welcomed with open arms, IT'S CALLED TOURISM. Which in a bedroom community like Kingston, tourism has to be a number one priority in building as far as job creation is concerned. These people are saying, we will come and patronize this business if it is built and while we are here we will shop at your other local businesses in our community. That's what we want, that's what the common counsel should look at, not their leftest philosophical beliefs.
However Mayor Noble and his veto proof counsel will vote to adopt the laws and rules' recommendation not to change the law when it goes to the full counsel for a vote next month. Remember who the Aldermen were that voted against it and also remember the other two, Alderwoman Mills and Alderwoman Brown that pushed to try to bring business in the city. Say what you want about Mayor Gallo but he was not anti business Mayor by any means.
Mayor Noble gave his wife Julie a raise recently that she should have gotten years ago but did not under the Gallo administration, and while a lot of anti Noble people were pushing this story myself included, it ended up being less than $400 a year for significant more work than what she had been doing prior. We were wrong to assume that she was getting something she was not entitled to. Our apologizes to the Mayor and first lady.
Speaking of Hein he will have to cancle his reservations at the Mayflower hotel in D.C. this fall because he wont be going to the convention for Hillary Clinton after Sanders and his delegates destroyed Clinton in upstate and across NY, if you look at the numbers Sanders won 51 of 62 counties in New York State, Hillary should thank her lucky stars for NYC. We voted for Hillary and even Hein on Tuesday because Sanders would be a disaster as President and Hillary at least knows what she is talking about God forbid Trump is not elected President.
Mayor Noble's appointment of Rennie Scott-Childress has to be the worst decision Noble has made thus far. Scott-Childress will be a one term Alderman without question. Mr. Childress is probably more liberal than even Brad Will was, he may be more liberal than Mayor Noble and that Ward is pretty moderate. First off he takes his wife's name as part of his own Scott is his wife's name and Childress his own...If your gunnna do that you might as well put on your driver's license: Im a big fucking pussy,really what guy does that? Mr.Childress also is a new resident to the Ward, in 2010 or so Rennee's wife ran for Alderman while they were living in Ward one, narrowly losing to Andi Turco Levin. Mrs. Childress probably would have won the election but thought lawn signs were not good for the envirnment or some shit and lost by less than twenty votes to Andi Turco Levin who was widely favored to win by a big margin after taking the GOP nomination practically by force from incumbent Alderman and Minority Leader Al Teetsil.
So with that being said it's a bad choice, besides being a left wing socialist and being new to the ward he has no experience in government but than again neither does our current Mayor who appointed him. I expect that Ward 3 will be a Republican pick up next year and that will be on Noble's hands.
The Kingston Common Counsel Laws and Rules committee recommended not to change the draconian 1978 law that is keeping Dr. Soyers from building his private gun range in Kingston. Ms. Martin and her kool aid drinkers were in full force at the laws and rules committee which drew a crowd of about 200, evenly divided among supporters and the Martin fringe group KingstonCitizen's.org. I found it funny that members of Martin's group gasped when a guy spoke out that was from Hurley because he was not a Kingston resident. Is this not the same group that Martin runs that had half of Woodstock come and protest the Niagara Water company? So it's only ok for people trying to stop business in Kingston from speaking up but not those that support bringing business in???. What the fuck are we dealing with? Its such a backwards logic, when people from other communities come to speak out against a buisness there opinion should be taken with a grain of salt beecause they have no stake in what happens but they have the right to express their opinion nonetheless. However when residents from other communities comes in to speak in favor of a proposed business in our community it should be welcomed with open arms, IT'S CALLED TOURISM. Which in a bedroom community like Kingston, tourism has to be a number one priority in building as far as job creation is concerned. These people are saying, we will come and patronize this business if it is built and while we are here we will shop at your other local businesses in our community. That's what we want, that's what the common counsel should look at, not their leftest philosophical beliefs.
However Mayor Noble and his veto proof counsel will vote to adopt the laws and rules' recommendation not to change the law when it goes to the full counsel for a vote next month. Remember who the Aldermen were that voted against it and also remember the other two, Alderwoman Mills and Alderwoman Brown that pushed to try to bring business in the city. Say what you want about Mayor Gallo but he was not anti business Mayor by any means.
Mayor Noble gave his wife Julie a raise recently that she should have gotten years ago but did not under the Gallo administration, and while a lot of anti Noble people were pushing this story myself included, it ended up being less than $400 a year for significant more work than what she had been doing prior. We were wrong to assume that she was getting something she was not entitled to. Our apologizes to the Mayor and first lady.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Alderman Will Resigns In Ward Three
Alderman Brad Will the controversial Alderman of Ward Three resigned today. Wow! We have to wonder why he resigned. Alderman Will fought tooth and nail to keep his seat on the council even after he was found guilty by a Kingston panel for ethics violations in regards to voting on matters he had a vested interest in. Alderman Will settled the matter last year by paying a $1,000 fine. There was also residency questions surrounding Will, in court fillings Alderman Will claimed his primary residence was different than the Ward he represented although there was little question in anyone's mind that Will did in fact live in Ward three.
Alderman Will was a staunch supporter of Mayor Steve Noble's campaign and frequently was at odds with Mayor Gallo's administration. Mayor Gallo twice unsuccessfully ran Andrew Champ Doran in Ward three in an effort to unseat Will. Champ Doran who was destroyed in last years Democratic primary came very close in the general election, running on just the Independence party line, Doran came within single digits of unseating incumbent Brad Will who at the time was plagued by the ethics violations surrounding his votes on the Pike plan.
With all that being said, this is a shock, you don't go through a tough primary, an even tougher general election and fight scandal after scandal being thrown your way and than resign months later out of the blue. It had seemed Alderman Will had prevailed in all of the issues and criticism he faced last fall. He got a slap on the wrist by the ethics panel, and Council President Jim Noble had to be practically forced to enforce a censure and fine on Will. Brad Will clearly had the support of the council and this new administration and big things had been planned that he was very much going to be a part of. It had looked like the only loss Will took on the chin was not becoming Majority Leader, in the months leading to the priamry election last year he was viewed as the odds on favorite to replace outgoing Majority Leader Matt Dunn who chose not to seek reelection.
Bill Carey the Alderman in Ward 5, who at the end of the day was elected Majority Leader for the current session, also expressed shock, Carey went on to say: ''but I understand why". That's nice that Majority Leader Carey understands why but the general public and the residents of Ward 3 would like to understand why too! Alderman Will made no reference as to why he was resigning in his letter to Mayor Noble and we deserve answers. Alderman Will blasted Gallo for two years for having a lack of transparency and than resigns with zero explanation? We respectfully request that Alderman Will abide by those same standards of transparency he demanded in others, and extend those standards to himself and the office that he represented. We don't think he did anything wrong or are we suggesting that, this is probably related to his work as an Architect, could he be involved with the restoration of the Booth House, which he recently convinced Mayor Noble and the council to give a sweet heart deal to?! Whatever the reason the public should know and if it is about his job it's very comical. He attacked Gallo and Champ Doran the entire campaign saying there were no conflicts.
There has been no official word on who Mayor Noble will pick to replace Brad Will, some of the names I would assume that are being floated by Party Boss Joe Donaldson include former Alderman Charlie Landi, who launched a jihad against Gallo to elect Steve Noble. I would also be willing to bet that Andrew Champ Doran will express interest to Noble, after all, the residents of that ward know the guy, where he stands on the issues and the Ward came within five or so votes of electing him as their Alderman less than six months ago. It would be wise of Mayor Noble to reach out to former Mayor Jim Sottile who lives in the Ward and ask that he consider filling the vacancy. Mayor Sottile brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to both the new administration and the new common council that are mostly freshman and appointing Sottile would guarantee that Ward three remain a Democratic seat. Which is no sure thing, Republicans like Jancowski and Nate Horowitz have held that seat, it very much is a seat the gop could pick up.
Two other names that should be strongly considered by the Mayor both live on the same street in Ward three, on Delta Place off Linderman Ave. The first is Al Nace, who works for Kingston Hospital in an executive position and has strong ties to the civics of our community here in Kingston. Nace has worked hard to promote the Kingston Police Athletic league and donated countless hours to the cause and a lot good positive results have come from his work at the Andy Murphy Center, Nace is also the founder of the tour de Kingston and tour de Ulster bike rides, they are both hugely successful and both were started from scratch by Nace over ten years ago. The other Delta Place resident is Kingston School Board President James Shaugnessy, who is a genius, for real he's an actual genius, he's an MIT graduate served on Mayor T.R. Gallo's technology committee and may have even been the first to run the committee, I don't remember but I believe T.R. put this committee together and had Shaugnessy run it, he also founded and ran a technology business in Uptown Kingston for several years and is a single father of another very brilliant daughter Larissa. Jim Shaunessy was also instrumental in the restoration of the Carnegie Library which is a gem in our city. Both Nace and Shaughnessy are more civic minded than they are politically minded. In other words they would care more about the city than the politics of the City and isn't that what the voters always say they want? Either would be a breath of fresh air.
After Mayor Noble appoints a replacement, a special election will take place in November to fill the rest of Will's term. It's a pain, the person has to run this year and next year and if there are primaries forget it, it's a lot of hassle. This has happened twice before in recent memory, Shelly Zimbler was appointed by Mayor Sottile to fill the seat vacated by a Judge in Ward one when Chris Burns ran for a seat on the county legislature in a different part of the city. The appointment of Zimbler expanded the Democrats' majority on the council to 9-0 but it was short lived, Al Teetsil defeated Zimbler in the special election later that year. Tom Hoffay was also appointed by Mayor Sottile, Hoffay filled the vacancy of Alderwoman Jenifer Ringwood who moved out of the area shortly into her second term. Hoffay went on to win the special elected defeating Phil Cosme and went on to serve several terms and was also the councils Majority Leader. As for people that may run in the special election that Noble would never appoint: Elen DiFalco and Lenny Walker are both residents of the Ward and we could see either of them making a go for it. Don't anyone underestimate Walker who has wom Ward three as both a Democrat and a Republican, Walker gave up his Aldermadic seat to run a suicide mission, Walker ran as Alderman at Large w Rich Cahill who ran with him for Mayor both losing badly in 2007.
Alderman Will was a staunch supporter of Mayor Steve Noble's campaign and frequently was at odds with Mayor Gallo's administration. Mayor Gallo twice unsuccessfully ran Andrew Champ Doran in Ward three in an effort to unseat Will. Champ Doran who was destroyed in last years Democratic primary came very close in the general election, running on just the Independence party line, Doran came within single digits of unseating incumbent Brad Will who at the time was plagued by the ethics violations surrounding his votes on the Pike plan.
With all that being said, this is a shock, you don't go through a tough primary, an even tougher general election and fight scandal after scandal being thrown your way and than resign months later out of the blue. It had seemed Alderman Will had prevailed in all of the issues and criticism he faced last fall. He got a slap on the wrist by the ethics panel, and Council President Jim Noble had to be practically forced to enforce a censure and fine on Will. Brad Will clearly had the support of the council and this new administration and big things had been planned that he was very much going to be a part of. It had looked like the only loss Will took on the chin was not becoming Majority Leader, in the months leading to the priamry election last year he was viewed as the odds on favorite to replace outgoing Majority Leader Matt Dunn who chose not to seek reelection.
Bill Carey the Alderman in Ward 5, who at the end of the day was elected Majority Leader for the current session, also expressed shock, Carey went on to say: ''but I understand why". That's nice that Majority Leader Carey understands why but the general public and the residents of Ward 3 would like to understand why too! Alderman Will made no reference as to why he was resigning in his letter to Mayor Noble and we deserve answers. Alderman Will blasted Gallo for two years for having a lack of transparency and than resigns with zero explanation? We respectfully request that Alderman Will abide by those same standards of transparency he demanded in others, and extend those standards to himself and the office that he represented. We don't think he did anything wrong or are we suggesting that, this is probably related to his work as an Architect, could he be involved with the restoration of the Booth House, which he recently convinced Mayor Noble and the council to give a sweet heart deal to?! Whatever the reason the public should know and if it is about his job it's very comical. He attacked Gallo and Champ Doran the entire campaign saying there were no conflicts.
There has been no official word on who Mayor Noble will pick to replace Brad Will, some of the names I would assume that are being floated by Party Boss Joe Donaldson include former Alderman Charlie Landi, who launched a jihad against Gallo to elect Steve Noble. I would also be willing to bet that Andrew Champ Doran will express interest to Noble, after all, the residents of that ward know the guy, where he stands on the issues and the Ward came within five or so votes of electing him as their Alderman less than six months ago. It would be wise of Mayor Noble to reach out to former Mayor Jim Sottile who lives in the Ward and ask that he consider filling the vacancy. Mayor Sottile brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to both the new administration and the new common council that are mostly freshman and appointing Sottile would guarantee that Ward three remain a Democratic seat. Which is no sure thing, Republicans like Jancowski and Nate Horowitz have held that seat, it very much is a seat the gop could pick up.
Two other names that should be strongly considered by the Mayor both live on the same street in Ward three, on Delta Place off Linderman Ave. The first is Al Nace, who works for Kingston Hospital in an executive position and has strong ties to the civics of our community here in Kingston. Nace has worked hard to promote the Kingston Police Athletic league and donated countless hours to the cause and a lot good positive results have come from his work at the Andy Murphy Center, Nace is also the founder of the tour de Kingston and tour de Ulster bike rides, they are both hugely successful and both were started from scratch by Nace over ten years ago. The other Delta Place resident is Kingston School Board President James Shaugnessy, who is a genius, for real he's an actual genius, he's an MIT graduate served on Mayor T.R. Gallo's technology committee and may have even been the first to run the committee, I don't remember but I believe T.R. put this committee together and had Shaugnessy run it, he also founded and ran a technology business in Uptown Kingston for several years and is a single father of another very brilliant daughter Larissa. Jim Shaunessy was also instrumental in the restoration of the Carnegie Library which is a gem in our city. Both Nace and Shaughnessy are more civic minded than they are politically minded. In other words they would care more about the city than the politics of the City and isn't that what the voters always say they want? Either would be a breath of fresh air.
After Mayor Noble appoints a replacement, a special election will take place in November to fill the rest of Will's term. It's a pain, the person has to run this year and next year and if there are primaries forget it, it's a lot of hassle. This has happened twice before in recent memory, Shelly Zimbler was appointed by Mayor Sottile to fill the seat vacated by a Judge in Ward one when Chris Burns ran for a seat on the county legislature in a different part of the city. The appointment of Zimbler expanded the Democrats' majority on the council to 9-0 but it was short lived, Al Teetsil defeated Zimbler in the special election later that year. Tom Hoffay was also appointed by Mayor Sottile, Hoffay filled the vacancy of Alderwoman Jenifer Ringwood who moved out of the area shortly into her second term. Hoffay went on to win the special elected defeating Phil Cosme and went on to serve several terms and was also the councils Majority Leader. As for people that may run in the special election that Noble would never appoint: Elen DiFalco and Lenny Walker are both residents of the Ward and we could see either of them making a go for it. Don't anyone underestimate Walker who has wom Ward three as both a Democrat and a Republican, Walker gave up his Aldermadic seat to run a suicide mission, Walker ran as Alderman at Large w Rich Cahill who ran with him for Mayor both losing badly in 2007.
Monday, April 4, 2016
The Omerta Report
We apologize that its been so long since our last update but we've been really busy...what's news?
Kudos to Minority Leader Debbie Brown and Alderwoman Maryann Mills for fighting for the opening of a shooting range in Kingston. As a made member of the family we have used our share of guns allegedly but we don't particularly like it. One minute things are well, the next a guy owes us money and commits suicide with two shoots in the back of the head but we digress. Our point is we don't like guns. This issue is not about guns, its about a draconian law Rebecca Martin and her Jim Jones followers are citing to prevent another business from coming into our city. The spirit of that law was not to prevent gun ranges to come in and well all know that. I honestly don't think Ms. Martin cares about the gun issue either, I think she just hates buisness. Let's say that it's about the guns for a second, this shooting range is not being opened up by some fringe NRA nuts, it's being opened up by two Doctors. They sign that Hypocratic oath thing to do no harm, do you really think a Dr is going to not have safe regulations and provide training for people to use their weapons safely? Who do you think knows more a wannabe artist with too much time on her hands or a medical Doctor? Hmmm.
Speaking of Ms. Martin, she is going on and on about changing the city charter to have a city manager form of government. It's moronic, a city manager would be hired by the common council and that city manager would be beholden to them. It would essentially eliminate the Executive branch of government in our city and turn it over to a pencil pusher that is afraid of their own shadow, doing whatever the council asked of him. We already have one of those in City Government he's our city comptroller John Tuey. Seriously though, this is a bad idea, and this broad has been talking about it for six years and has done nothing to get it done. She's all talk. If you are so serious about this Ms. Martin go out and get the 5% of the City to sign the petition to change the city charter. Let the people decide. Get your kool aid drinkers to get the signatures for you, she wont because the measure wouldn't even get 30% of the city electorate and she knows it. Kingstonians voted for a strong Mayor form of government and they believe in that tradition. Electing a Mayor that they know and trust. You wanna know why Ms. Martin's candidate Hayes Clement didnt beat Gallo in 2011? Because he wasn't one of us, and I am sick of these part time residents like Ms. Martin that think they will come in here and take over this city. Hayes and Noble have a lot in common obviously but the difference was that Noble is one of us, we all have one in the family it doesn't change the fact he's a Kingstonian. I'm not against outsiders coming in, we welcome you to be part of our community but don't think you're gunna come here and run our city or change our system of government.
Speaking of our flamboyant Mayor. Our City is in mourning over a tree falling in his yard this morning. Noble was in tears as he talked to the local press about the death of his beloved sycamore which perished. The first tree will lie in state at city hall this weekend. It was not all a lose, we hear First lady Julie Noble was able to make part of that tree into a beating stick for when Steve doesnt follow her orders.
We hear conflicting reports about a high priced truck that was being driven by DPW Superintendent Schupp to and from work, the truck was said to cost between 30-48k which is ridiculous. Last week rumors surfaced that his son was caught driving the city truck in Highland where they live and a photo was on its way to Mayor Noble. Schupp after driving the truck on a full time basis back and forth to work stopped driving it home. We wonder did Noble (who has no love for Schupp) tell him to park the truck and good for him if he did, or did Schupp stop driving under pressure of what he knew was coming. The bottom line is this is an expensive truck and he was using it to drive back and forth, we hear he had a plow on it but who is he kidding when is the last time Schupp did any grunt work like plowing?? The only grunting and plowing Schupp has going on is in the civil service office at City Hall. This was an inappropriate purchase and h did not need a vehicle that seats 6 people to get him back and forth to work. Also allowing non employees to drive the vehicle is extremely poor judgement of a Department head if that is true he should resign.
Kudos to Minority Leader Debbie Brown and Alderwoman Maryann Mills for fighting for the opening of a shooting range in Kingston. As a made member of the family we have used our share of guns allegedly but we don't particularly like it. One minute things are well, the next a guy owes us money and commits suicide with two shoots in the back of the head but we digress. Our point is we don't like guns. This issue is not about guns, its about a draconian law Rebecca Martin and her Jim Jones followers are citing to prevent another business from coming into our city. The spirit of that law was not to prevent gun ranges to come in and well all know that. I honestly don't think Ms. Martin cares about the gun issue either, I think she just hates buisness. Let's say that it's about the guns for a second, this shooting range is not being opened up by some fringe NRA nuts, it's being opened up by two Doctors. They sign that Hypocratic oath thing to do no harm, do you really think a Dr is going to not have safe regulations and provide training for people to use their weapons safely? Who do you think knows more a wannabe artist with too much time on her hands or a medical Doctor? Hmmm.
Speaking of Ms. Martin, she is going on and on about changing the city charter to have a city manager form of government. It's moronic, a city manager would be hired by the common council and that city manager would be beholden to them. It would essentially eliminate the Executive branch of government in our city and turn it over to a pencil pusher that is afraid of their own shadow, doing whatever the council asked of him. We already have one of those in City Government he's our city comptroller John Tuey. Seriously though, this is a bad idea, and this broad has been talking about it for six years and has done nothing to get it done. She's all talk. If you are so serious about this Ms. Martin go out and get the 5% of the City to sign the petition to change the city charter. Let the people decide. Get your kool aid drinkers to get the signatures for you, she wont because the measure wouldn't even get 30% of the city electorate and she knows it. Kingstonians voted for a strong Mayor form of government and they believe in that tradition. Electing a Mayor that they know and trust. You wanna know why Ms. Martin's candidate Hayes Clement didnt beat Gallo in 2011? Because he wasn't one of us, and I am sick of these part time residents like Ms. Martin that think they will come in here and take over this city. Hayes and Noble have a lot in common obviously but the difference was that Noble is one of us, we all have one in the family it doesn't change the fact he's a Kingstonian. I'm not against outsiders coming in, we welcome you to be part of our community but don't think you're gunna come here and run our city or change our system of government.
Speaking of our flamboyant Mayor. Our City is in mourning over a tree falling in his yard this morning. Noble was in tears as he talked to the local press about the death of his beloved sycamore which perished. The first tree will lie in state at city hall this weekend. It was not all a lose, we hear First lady Julie Noble was able to make part of that tree into a beating stick for when Steve doesnt follow her orders.
We hear conflicting reports about a high priced truck that was being driven by DPW Superintendent Schupp to and from work, the truck was said to cost between 30-48k which is ridiculous. Last week rumors surfaced that his son was caught driving the city truck in Highland where they live and a photo was on its way to Mayor Noble. Schupp after driving the truck on a full time basis back and forth to work stopped driving it home. We wonder did Noble (who has no love for Schupp) tell him to park the truck and good for him if he did, or did Schupp stop driving under pressure of what he knew was coming. The bottom line is this is an expensive truck and he was using it to drive back and forth, we hear he had a plow on it but who is he kidding when is the last time Schupp did any grunt work like plowing?? The only grunting and plowing Schupp has going on is in the civil service office at City Hall. This was an inappropriate purchase and h did not need a vehicle that seats 6 people to get him back and forth to work. Also allowing non employees to drive the vehicle is extremely poor judgement of a Department head if that is true he should resign.
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