We believe the purpose is to pay their favorite water contractor who runs the Conservative Party. Our sources say the Evers gang plans to spend $70,000 and perhaps another $40,000 in INTEREST! What are friends for. We can't imagine what accounts will be fleeced to make such a payment.
Never mind that the bonding and borrowing authority for WD 14 is exceeded and there is no voter approval to spend more. Never mind that State Comptroller's audit due out in a few short weeks that will likely dissect the mismanagement of the payments and contract itself. About the only thing different this time is that Evers will not be going down to the comptroller's office to demand a check from a town employee without town board approval. This time he has 3 other board members who also do the bidding of the politically connected contractor.
Yes the threat of litigation must have done the trick. Don't bother trying to defend the town and the taxpayers, just pay the contractor.
Evers Protects his Shadow Government in today's Metroland
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New Face of Justice
If you came to town court last Tuesday night and peered through the glass door into the unused court room, you’d have seen an attorney with a criminal record sitting at a judge’s bench reviewing and presumably plea bargaining cases for the town. We only know a portion of the criminal record and can only wonder what else is in his past. But that didn’t stop Mark Evers, Ernie Kern, Al Spain and Lou Desso from appointing Joshua Ehrlich, a Latham resident, as a Deputy Town Attorney.
We don’t know if the attorney drove himself to court of had someone else to the job since his license is presumably still suspended from his convictions in Colonie Town Court on January 11, 2006. Nor is it known whether the attorney is on probation in Albany County which is usually required after such a serious conviction as occurred in Colonie.
None of this apparently matters to the Board Majority but it is certainly an embarrassment to the two distinguished judges who must work in this environment created by the town board. So it was that case after case got pled down which is standard procedure in town justice courts throughout the State. You’ve got to wonder what Mr. Ehrlich is thinking when he arranges a plea for an offender reducing a 6 point set of moving violations to a no points violation of say, illegally parking on the pavement. Gee if I could have only gotten myself a better deal in Colonie! We doubt the new Town Board Majority will be recruiting Mr. Ehrlich or anyone with his unique set of credentials, as a Deputy Town Attorney, any time soon.
So the challenge remains to demand accountability from Evers and his gang of allies who caused this embarrassment. Who were the members of the so called transition team who forwarded and recommended Ehrlich’s appointment? What did they know about his criminal record? What else, if anything, remains undisclosed in his background which would further erode his standing as a town attorney? Should someone be demanding a thorough background check? You bet.
Stay tuned…
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