Political Pickins'

A Hefty Agenda

It appears the new town board majority has other things to do besides resolving some of the many problems confronting the town. Their so called agenda for the Workshop meeting this Thursday list but one item. Is this because they have no legislative agenda or because they are simply avoiding discussion of the many issues confronting the town.

Not a word, for example, on exactly what they find wrong with the Comprehensive Plan that the Board saw the need to dissolve the two year old Committee and replace it with a new one. Objective: Keep the community in the dark.

Perhaps the Board would like to finally shine some light on their mysterious Transition Team of 12 political apostles who they refuse to name and who recommended the controversial appointments including an non resident attorney with a criminal record and a disgraced former Troy judge to prosecute cases in town court.

Then there’s always the status of a new town comptroller. It’s clear there is no one on staff with the academic or professional qualifications to handle the town’s finances and prepare reports for the State Comptroller as well as prepare the town budget. Maybe the Supervisor will have to let the town clerk do yet another budget that she is unqualified to do while he seeks a fiscal officer in the want ads.

Of course they could also explain their plan to wind down Water 14 once the work is complete. It’s long overdue to be completed and the delays mean the taxpayers continue to pay for an inspector at $40k plus whose job is to inspect the work of the contractor and whose salary comes from the taxpayers of the water district.

Tom Connolly Fined by the State BOE

The State BOE website identifies Tom Connolly’s shadowy committee set up to solicit funds from contributors. It has never filed a report and like many committees, including Jeff Spain’s Democratic Committee, was fined $100.00 by the State.

This business enterprise is run from a private residence, as listed below. It’s the residence of Tom Connolly. Hmm, did he need a variance for that???? Better ask sister Katie. Tom, file your financial reports. You don’t need more bad publicity.

A21531 THIRD PARTY CHAIRMAN'S CLUB 19 Dobert Court Wynantskill NY 12198 Status = ACTIVE

The Ehrlich Saga

Yesterday we noted that Jeff Spain’s favorite “Democratic” attorney was busy helping the GOP retain a State Senate seat in western NY. We did not tell you that Joshua Ehrlich has been on the State Senate payroll on the staff of Democratic State Senator Krueger. Yep, a Democratic Senator has two GOP operatives on his staff working to keep the Democrats out of the majority and the GOP in the majority. The other GOP operative on the Senator's staff, why Tom Connolly, of course. Wouldn't you love to see those job applications!

Incidentally, the Republican lost and the Democrats are now just one seat away from becoming the majority. Not such a good job boys. You can read the results here.