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Farley and his newfound friend, Pedro Espada

    I would like to know why our Sen. Hugh Farley voted for Pedro Espada to be president of the New York Senate, the person first in line of succession to the governor? [July 4 Gazette]
    Mr. Espada is the most disreputable member of a not very distinguished body, and Mr. Farley is willing to entrust him to one of the highest political positions in the state.
    It has recently come to light that Mr. Espada has used his position to funnel millions of dollars to non-profit organizations created by Espada, which in turn then enriches the senator; to make matters worse, they don’t even pay the taxes they own.
    A case in point is the Comprehensive Community Development Corp. created by Espada and friends, which receives millions of public dollars and yet owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. In addition, and in my opinion more outrageous, the corporation employs Sen. Farley’s friend, Mr. Espada, as CEO of that publicly funded organization to the tune of $460,000 annually!
I have also read that Mr. Espada attempted to obtain $2 million in member items for some newly formed, socalled nonprofit organizations, which were so suspect that the state Senate Democratic leadership refused. Does that, perhaps, explain why Mr. Espada jumped political ship and joined his newfound friend, Sen. Farley?
I think Mr. Farley and his cohorts have a lot of explaining to do.

ROBERT SANDERS
Schenectady The writer is the Woodlawn Democratic Committee president.     

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00904

Paterson failed his bar exam 2 or 3 times. He is not a recognized lawyer in NYS. Cuomo graduated top in his class and passed his bar exam. So who could be right here on what is unconstitutional and what isn't.

Hey Robert while your at it take a look at the rest of the Dems from the NYC area, could it be you just don't like sharing power with any other party.

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ALBANY - Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. will return to the Democratic conference, potentially bringing an end to the month-old struggle for control of the chamber.

     
The Bronx Democrat, who continues to be the subject of a several investigations into his professional and political activities, has claimed the post of Senate president pro tempore since joining with Republican senators on June 8 to try to take control of the chamber.

It is unclear if the Democratic conference, which is currently meeting, will allow him to hold onto that position.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=818312

I would like to know why our SENATE DEMOCRATS voted for Pedro Espada to be president of the New York Senate, the person first in line of succession to the governor?


Robby, check with Chrissy-boy for your next letter to say what a blessed and patriotic leader sen. Espada is and how mean the republicans were to him. The slobs at the opinion page at the DG (Pravda) will slavishly print the bull you put your name on that Chrissy writes in a few weeks. Kind of like the trumped up "back taxes" you wrote a letter about against George Amedore when the Rotterdam assessor made a 'mistake' and declared that Amedore owed all kinds of back taxes on his Heldeberg ave. property (problem was he didn't own it anymore and didn't owe taxes, actually. Really.)


BUT, it made a for a great republican-brain bashing for the few days the gazette and your pals ran with it!

How come they always make YOU sign the real crappy letters that aren't true? Don't they appreciate you enough to give you good letters to sign? Now look how embarrassing it all is when the take him back into the fold and love him like the long lost son!  

Re: George Amedore Jr(R) State Assemblyman       Posted by: Admin
Date Posted: January 3, 2008, 8:57am

Re Dec. 16 letter, “On the right course, thanks to Amedore”: J. Peter Manikas praised Assemblyman George Amedore Jr. for purportedly getting a sign for St. Johnsville. Mr. Manikas called on readers to express their thanks by emailing him. Let’s look at the rest of Mr. Amedore’s record.
    The Daily Gazette, on Oct. 12, published a legal notice containing the names and addresses of delinquent taxpayers. Among the delinquent taxpayers were two separate properties owned by Amedore Homes Inc., which employes George Amedore Jr. as a vice president. Why couldn’t Assemblyman Amedore’s company fulfill its most basic civic responsibility and pay its taxes? Perhaps they were too busy; the same excuse Amedore gave in a radio debate for never voting a single school election or on a single school budget.
Accordingly, we have replaced a giant in the Assembly, Paul Tonko, with an individual who is unable to fulfi ll even the most basic obligations of citizenship. Maybe we should tell him our opinion of that in November.
ROBERT SANDERS
Schenectady
The writer is president of the Woodlawn Democrats.


later THIS came out:

Re: George Amedore Jr(R) State Assemblyman       Posted by: Admin
Date Posted: January 4, 2008, 9:39am      Word-Hits
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    SCHENECTADY COUNTY
    Amedore’s firm billed in error
    Official: Assemblyman’s company owes no back taxes
    BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter
    Reach Gazette reporter Michael Lamendola at 395-3114 or lamend@dailygazette.com

        Contrary to an earlier official notice, State Assemblyman George Amedore Jr.’s company, Amedore Homes, does not owe Schenectady County nearly $10,000 in delinquent taxes for 2006-2007, a county official said.
        The name of Amedore Homes Inc. appeared in an Oct. 12 public notice of unpaid town and school taxes, submitted by the Schenectady County commissioner of finance. Each year, the county makes towns and school districts whole and then collects delinquent taxes itself. It prints the public notice as a legal requirement.
        Bob Zych, CPA, director of treasury systems for Schenectady County, said Amedore Homes does not own the property listed at Country Walk Road, Rotterdam, which owes $2,638, and that the second property on Helderberg Avenue, Rotterdam, which owes $6,051, never should have been taxed in the first place.
        Zych said Amedore Homes remained on the Country Walk Road deed due to an error and that it paid at least six years’ worth of taxes on the property before correcting the error. He said J. Lucarelli Land Development Corp. owns the property and is legally responsible for the taxes.
        Amedore said his company conducted a title search on the property when it received the delinquent tax notice from the county earlier this year. Amedore said he was in the process of correcting the error with the county when it printed the public notice.
        As for the Helderberg Avenue parcel, which is undeveloped, Rotterdam never should have included the land on its assessment rolls, both Zych and Amedore said. The parcel is part of a condominium complex and is considered “common land” under property tax laws, Zych said.
        “It should never have been taxed; common areas are not assessed,” he said. Amedore said the condominium owners pay the cost of the property through their fees.
        The Schenectady County Legislature in December acknowledged the assessment error and removed the property from the rolls.
        Nevertheless, the Oct. 12 legal notice offered an opportunity for some to take a shot at Amedore, a Republican who won election to 105th District of the state Assembly in a hard-fought special election last summer. He defeated former Schenectady County Legislator Edward Kosiur, D-Schenectady. The seat formerly belonged to Paul Tonko, D-Amsterdam, who took a job with state government.
        Robert Sanders, who said he and Kosiur are close friends, read the notice and wrote a letter to The Daily Gazette, printed Thursday. The letter accused Amedore Homes of “not fulfilling its most basic civil responsibility and paying its taxes.”
        Sanders is a Democratic ward leader in Woodlawn who ran unsuccessfully against state Sen. Hugh Farley, R-Niskayuna, in 2002.
        On Thursday Sanders said he when he wrote his letter last week he was unaware the county Legislature removed the Helderberg property from the Rotterdam tax rolls and that Amedore did not own the County Walk Road property.
        “I didn’t know. I was trying to expose some hypocrisy. I wouldn’t want a mistake like that to happen to me. I am not out to preach ill will,” Sanders said.
        Sanders said the tone of the Assembly campaign and its effect on his friend prompted him to write the letter. “I did not like how the whole thing went down for Assembly,” he said.
        Amedore said Sander’s motives for writing the letter are suspect. “The year 2008 is a year of re-election, and I’m running for re-election in the 105th. I’m not saying it was an opening shot against me, but I wonder if I was not elected to office would the letter had been written?” he asked. “They better get their facts straight before they go out writing things.”
        Amedore said the “political attack” on him is “half the reason why we can’t get good people involved in public service. We need business people and people who are in touch with the community who understand the pain we all feel and who want to start serving and being involving in public office.”


I rest my case on the validity of former GOP stalwart Bob Sanders information and his overall veracity.