Word is that the Town Clerk and Supervisor are desperately trying to find a way to cancel the October 16th town board ordered vote on the Supervisor’s plan to bail out his Conservative Party benefactors who hold the overspent, mismanaged Water District 14 contract. Whether the panic is a result of their failure to exercise the legal responsibilities of their office in the execution of the vote, or fear of the impact a defeat of the referendum would have on their re-election effort, is not yet known.
What is known is that the town clerk, Kathryn Connolly has been down the referendum road before when she ran a similar referendum ordered by the town board for WD 14. To say she knows the ropes would be a fair assessment. So why the fear of this vote? Why the desire to get it legally cancelled?
The best guess lies in the two theories above. Either the two officials were negligent in performing the necessary requirements of Town Law in executing the vote which includes notification of the State Comptroller by the Clerk and an application executed by the Supervisor or they know the bailout of Evers political benefactors in Casale Excavating will likely be hammered in the vote, in effect, a pre election referendum on Evers and his Casale Excavating running mates.
Whatever the reason, the Clerk has had months to prepare for this election, to send notifications to voters, run legal notices, establish the eligible voter list and retain election inspectors. The County Board of Elections verified in a letter to the Board when the vote was set that voting machines would be available on October 16th and the Town Board acted on that availability in setting the date.
Let’s not forget that the law requires this vote to take place since town residents signed and presented a valid petition objecting to Evers referendum which would allow the borrowing town wide of $830,000 to pay for the overspent and mismanaged contract held by Casale Excavating whose principle Michael Casale, is Chairman of the town Conservative Party and who has endorsed Evers and Casale’s Vice Chairman, Lou Desso, for town board seats.
The town clerk is said to maintain what has been referred to as a “spelling challenged” or “hate” blog in which she routinely trashes her political adversaries and critics. Newest among her adversaries is Town Attorney Josh Sabo whom she calls dishonest and lacking integrity. Strange, that the same town clerk was so grateful to Sabo for going to court on her behalf in 2005, to stop her town board adversaries from removing her for failing to sign her oath of office. Now Sabo is trashed on a near daily basis on her bizarre blog, characterized by hate and driven by paranoia. She repaid his loyalty by voting for Evers at the Democratic Caucus instead of her fellow Democrat who did so much to save her skin in 2005.
That’s standard for Connolly who stabs everyone in the back sooner or later for the furtherance and convenience of her political agendas. Look at her past comments about Dan Ashley and CB Smith who did so much to defend her act of omission in failing to sign her oath of office. Now they are treated as outcasts as she tries to run the Democratic Party while selling it out to the Republicans and Developers she once opposed.
We’ll keep an eye on this one and provide readers with the Town Law governing the pending or soon to be wished away referendum on the incompetence of Mark Evers and the greed which drives his political benefactors.
Late Financial Disclosure
Kyran Devery
Today is Day 81 for the North Greenbush Democratic Committee violation of State Election Law requiring the on line filing of a Financial Disclosure Report due July 15, 2007. Laws apparently don’t apply to the “reformed” democrats under Jeff Spain and his Treasurer, Tax Collector Kyran Devery.
Hint, we're told a lawsuit will be filed very shortly to force the filing of this report. Way to go Kyran!
9 comments:
Maybe if Connolly stopped anonymously defending herself on this blog and writing her own vicious blog, she would have time to do her job! We've been waiting for this referendum for months, what has she been doing? The only conclusions are either she doesn't want the vote to take place or is completely incompetent.
No surprise here. Instead of doing their job Evers and KC manipulate and scheme in an effort to achieve their desired outcome(s).
I stumbled upon the "other" blog one day. It can only be characterized as childish and unprofessional. I have never met C.B. Smith but the blog is nothing more than an opportunity to personally attack him. I have paid attention and observed Smith's letters and political efforts for years. He is someone who knows the law, the workings of the government and will put forth great amounts of time and energy to expose and uncover the truth. Those who he attempts to hold accoutable don't like this so they attack him and try to discredit him. As I said, I've never met him but any intelligent person can read through the "anti-Smith" attack letters and attack blog. His works and fact finding are a public service. The louder the public officials shout at Smith and attack him, the more it demonstrates to this voter that they fear his words and that there is truth in his words. If his comments weren't accurate, they'd ignore him and move on. The efforts they go to to bash him, only prove his points.
we need to focus on the positive things EVERS,CONNALLY,KERN,SPAIN have done for the community.
1.WOLF ROAD LIKE TRAFFIC BEFORE
4-43 PROJECT IS EVEN FINISHED.
2.TOTAL CORRUPTION OF THE SYSTEM.
3.MISTRUST BY THE TXPAYERS.
4.WATER PROJECTS THAT DISTROY THE COMMUNITY.
5.COMMUNIST LIKE PARTY TAKOVERS TO ELIMINATE CHOICE.
6.DISTROY PEOPLES LIVES WHO GET IN THEIR WAY.
GREAT 2 YEARS YOU PEOPLE HAD- HOPE THE VOTERS REALIZE THE PLOT YOU COMMUNISTS HAVE WOVEN TO TAKE THEIR RIGHTS AWAY BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
I understand she has been meeting behind closed doors with Louie. Isn't that the trap Marky Mark fell into. Black Widow tactics. Save yourself, Louis- run, run, run.
Love the top 6 reasons not to vote for Evers. Now if someone would just get that list out to the voters they might actually come to the poles.
My vote is that she doesn't want the vote to take place and she is totally incompetent!
I am told by more than a few town employees that the first thing done every morning is to get on the blogs and write comments. Be careful Katty, someone is looking over your shoulder. Katty certainly isn’t literate enough to write the other blog, but she contributes to it’s vacuous and vitriolic prose (and probably does the spell check).
Blogging at work...hmm...very dangerous. Technology has come a long way since the town office was a school. The employees must not be aware of today's technological devices. Oh well...it will be easier to find out what's going on at "work" than getting a FOIL request.
i agree she needs help with the blog...let's face it she just needs help...impeach katie
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