I have to say this is gonna be a  interesting election year.......the best is still to come......stay tune folks

with a team like this no repub will win anything because the people in the town know who to put into office to make the taxes lowers and get the things working better in town and that plus we need people who can deal with the higher ups and such at the county and state and federal levels who are in the know

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RPD is attempting to stack the deck to make sure they can continue to ride that gravy train.  I'm not so sure for how much longer we can continue to pay our chief $140K to manage 45 officers in this current economy.  RPD is no longer satisfied playing politics through the Conservative Party proxy, now they are attempting to run their own to hold office.  I believe the residents will see this move as overstepping, and an unpopular consolidation of power.  But time will tell.

Niskayuna has a higher median income among their town residents, and they don't pay their chief as much as Rotterdam.  Rotterdam Police do a great job, but can we get the same great service for less??  I believe so.

Yea, I think we should put it out for bid.  Lowest bidder should get the job.  I didn't know that contracts were negotiated by the residents' median incomes.  Who negotiated this contract on behalf of the town anyway?

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Ok, you can forget the republicans endorsing one of our conservatives (Viscusi is not one of ours) – but there will be three real conservatives running:  two retired RPD officers and one party official.  They will all get the Dem endorsement and the conservative line and maybe independent lines.  By the way, don’t think that we forgot who tryed to take us out, all bets are off and it’s the perfect storm as the republicans take each other out.  Remember, loyalties change every five minutes and Rotterdam will be in for shocker when the Dems announce their supervisor candidate and even more shocked when the conservative party endorses him.  End result, next years board will have two conservatives, one democrat, one republican and one former republican turned independent!  Oh, and when the one current republican not up for reelection resigns they will replace him with another - you guessed it - Conservative!  Conservatives will be calling the shots and remember20this politics make strange bedfellows.  

So  would you like to share  the names of the people who are running

this here is something you will read in the paper and weep - WEEP HARD

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Yea, I think we should put it out for bid.  Lowest bidder should get the job.  I didn't know that contracts were negotiated by the residents' median incomes.  Who negotiated this contract on behalf of the town anyway?

How would you suggest a town determine how much to pay their workers?  

Most if not all private industry determine their pay rate on the industry average of similar businesses in the surrounding geographical area.  Based on the report in the Gazette, Rotterdam is much higher than the industry average in the Capital District.  How and why do you think that happened?

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Ok, you can forget the republicans endorsing one of our conservatives (Viscusi is not one of ours) – but there will be three real conservatives running:  two retired RPD officers and one party official.  They will all get the Dem endorsement and the conservative line and maybe independent lines.  By the way, don’t think that we forgot who tryed to take us out, all bets are off and it’s the perfect storm as the republicans take each other out.  Remember, loyalties change every five minutes and Rotterdam will be in for shocker when the Dems announce their supervisor candidate and even more shocked when the conservative party endorses him.  End result, next years board will have two conservatives, one democrat, one republican and one former republican turned independent!  Oh, and when the one current republican not up for reelection resigns they will replace him with another - you guessed it - Conservative!  Conservatives will be calling the shots and remember20this politics make strange bedfellows.  

wow, that sounds like a lot of b.s. if i ever heard some.

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wow, that sounds like a lot of b.s. if i ever heard some.

Of course it is...consider the source. (Is there really anyone on this forum who doesn't know who it is?)

Actually I don't know. Who is it?

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You conservs are a lot dumber than most thought. First, the way I understood it, no one was trying to 'take down' the
present conservparty the way some think. It was nothing more or nothing less than bringing the party back to its original ideology.
which it obviously does not have right now.

Second, the present conserv party is doing nothing more than prostituting itself to the dems. The dems are using the conserv party...
plain and simple. And the conservs are so blinded with power and greed, that they can't even see it!!!!!! The dems will eat the
conservsup and spit them out when the time is right. The conservs ain't seen nothin' yet!!!

It's a very very sorry state of affairs when political manipulation is in the forefront OVER AND ABOVE the benefits of the taxpayers!!!
You should ALL be ashamed!!! IMHO

You are absolutely right, Bumble. Rank and file Conservatives want the Conservative Committee to serve it's intended purpose - to
endorse and support conservative candidates for public office. And unlike the current leadership, the reformers would have made
every effort to include the entire committe in its discussions and decisions. Instead, the current leadership changed our bylaws for the
sole purpose of excluding all Commitee Members from Party business, which really leaves the Committee with no purpose for existing-
other than to re-elect its officers. Not that they were ever included anyway, these bylaw changes simply make the exclusion official.
You are also right about the leadership prostituting itself to the Kratz. It would be inaccurate, however, to say that the Kratz are using
them, since they knowingly sold their souls to the Kratz in the first place. They wouldn't be there if they didn't because the Kratz own
the Conservative Party and its union operatives. And yes, they are completely absorbed in their perceived power and their greed. And
yes, the Kratz will use them for as long as they need them and then kick them to the curb - just as they did with their predecessor,
Smokey Brown.
"Sorry state of affairs" is putting it mildly...

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How would you suggest a town determine how much to pay their workers?  

Most if not all private industry determine their pay rate on the industry average of similar businesses in the surrounding geographical area.  Based on the report in the Gazette, Rotterdam is much higher than the industry average in the Capital District.  How and why do you think that happened?

Again, who negotiated this contract on behalf of the town?  I assume the answer to that question will help you...

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Of course it is...consider the source. (Is there really anyone on this forum who doesn't know who it is?)

nope, no idea but he/she is clueless about the CP.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

Actually I don't know. Who is it?

I'll give you a hint: He only wore "black" 5 days last year and made a whopping 90G.

hahahahaha, who knows but i doubt it. They don't wear black down there............

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hahahahaha, who knows but i doubt it. They don't wear black down there............

Well how are we supposed to know what they wear when they're unseen, holed up in someone's apartment during their shifts...