What's up with the gangsta's and gumba speak? And there is NOTHING quaint about Rotterdam. You want quaint--move to Massachussets. FDG doesn't need the whole town to back him. ST never had that. He just needs one more vote than all the others to win. I believe he will get it.
It COULD be quaint with good planning......the gangsta and gumba reference comes from the Hatfields/McCoys.... just different words.....you put posse' in it's place too......it's always about the: "well, I know him/her...I dont know how good they are, but, I dont know the other guy/gal, they are new."--(note to self, must vote with rest of posse', gangstas, gumbas etc)..................
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Incumbent Supervisor Steve Tommasone has received endorsements from the Republican, Working Families, and Independence parties, but is facing a tough battle for a third two-year term. He is being challenged by Brian McGarry, a registered Conservative running on the independent No New Tax Party line, and successful businessman Frank Del Gallo, another neophyte at town politics with endorsements from both the Conservative and Democratic parties. Tommasone points to his successes during his two terms as supervisor and hopes to continue adding to his record with a third term. But his leadership has given rise to challenges from McGarry and Del Gallo, who both believe they can bring a new dynamic to Town Hall. In remarks made last week, Tommasone pledged to maintain a low town tax rate and continue to foster growth through economic development if he is re-elected. He also promised to support the Rotterdam Emergency Medical Services Inc., the non-profit ambulance company that is now financed through the town’s general fund, but could soon receive funding through a taxing district. “We have a great system in place and we need to continue supporting it,” he said. Tommasone, 45, also pointed to a number of improvements that have occurred throughout Rotterdam during his leadership. These include a new water tank now under construction in Rotterdam Junction, the paving of more than 130 town roads and groundwater drainage projects on Houlton Avenue and Horizon Boulevard. “Obviously, there’s much more work to do,” he said. Tommasone characterized his administration as being one that has fostered economic development and modernized Rotterdam’s municipal functioning. Prior to being elected supervisor, he said, the town offices were woefully outdated and thoroughly unsuited to streamline or attract the development needed to expand Rotterdam’s tax base. “There were a few things that were accomplished over the years but not much,” he said. “The town didn’t even have voice mail.” Tommasone credits his administration for modernizing Town Hall functions. He spearheaded initiatives to update the town’s archaic phone system and install new software that allows information sharing between departments. But most of all, Tommasone lauds his administration for its part in creating more than $100 million of new tax base for the town. He said the increase in tax base has allowed the town to maintain a fl at local tax rate.
This was printed on the on-line version of the Gazette today and was emailed to us for posting:
Current supervisor stands by his record — lower taxes
Every election year brings us challenges and issues to overcome. Every election year I’m subjected to negative, false and misleading statements made about me and my record over which I have no control. My family gets upset over this, but I accept it as the way politics unfortunately is in Rotterdam. During my tenure in town government, and particularly as town supervisor, I’ve established open communication and good working relationships with the superintendents, their administrations, and members of our school boards. Many of them are my friends and I know how dedicated they are to the education and well-being of our children. We share mutual goals of enhancing our community, creating opportunities for our children, and increasing our commercial tax base to keep taxes low while bringing in good jobs for Rotterdam’s families. We work together to ensure the safety of our children through the DARE program and Rotterdam police school resource officers — town police officers who instruct and care for our children so they can obtain a great education and develop the skills necessary to succeed in life. For the record, I am a proud graduate of Schalmont Schools. Our three daughters have flourished as students, with two graduating from Mohonasen and now attending college, and our youngest just beginning high school. One piece of paper, one political flyer, one false comment can begin to undo all the good will and all the positive things we have accomplished — independently and together for our town. Like many of the flyers and offers you receive in the mail, unless the statements are footnoted, the validity of the mailing should be questioned. Today I received a mailer, which I did not create, edit, approve, or know was produced. A statement that attributes the ranking of Schenectady County as one of the highest-taxed counties in the nation is certainly true; however, it attributes the same as caused by “local school boards,” which in Rotterdam’s case is false. With all the mandates the schools are required to uphold, many of which make absolute sense, and some which are at the very least questionable, both of our school superintendents and school boards have strived to keep tax rates stable. They’ve worked hard to control costs and at the same time made needed improvements to both campuses, which have benefited our children and our town. This year, our school tax rates decreased. So why did our tax bills increase? Answer: New York state decreased our STAR property tax exemptions and eliminated the STAR rebate check. Analyze your tax bills from the last three years and you’ll see our residential town tax rates and school tax rates declined. If the STAR exemptions had been the same year-to-year, our tax bills would have decreased! Further, it’s a fact that both our school boards and superintendents have lobbied tirelessly seeking reforms of our school property tax system and the way in which aid to schools is awarded. So while the state wallows in the red because they cannot make the tough choices, know your town officials and both school administrations are doing so in Rotterdam.
With all the mandates the schools are required to uphold, many of which make absolute sense, and some which are at the very least questionable, both of our school superintendents and school boards have strived to keep tax rates stable. They’ve worked hard to control costs and at the same time made needed improvements to both campuses, which have benefited our children and our town. This year, our school tax rates decreased. So why did our tax bills increase? Answer: New York state decreased our STAR property tax exemptions and eliminated the STAR rebate check. Analyze your tax bills from the last three years and you’ll see our residential town tax rates and school tax rates declined. If the STAR exemptions had been the same year-to-year, our tax bills would have decreased! Further, it’s a fact that both our school boards and superintendents have lobbied tirelessly seeking reforms of our school property tax system and the way in which aid to schools is awarded. So while the state wallows in the red because they cannot make the tough choices, know your town officials and both school administrations are doing so in Rotterdam.
this IS all the way up......time to remove peg by peg by peg by peg........
VOTE ROW F
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Steve Tommasone proudly accepts the endorsement of the Working Families Party. Here is a brief description of the WFP and how they were founded and what they represent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Families_Party
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The Working Families Party (WFP) is a minor political party in the United States founded in New York in 1998. The party also has chapters in Connecticut, South Carolina, and Oregon, and is working towards establishing itself in Massachusetts and California[1]. New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions, ACORN and other community organizations, members of the now-inactive national New Party, and a variety of public interest groups. The party blends a culture of political organizing with unionism, 1960s idealism, and tactical pragmatism. The party's main issue concerns are jobs, health care, education and energy/environment. It has usually cross-endorsed Democratic or Republican candidates through fusion voting, but has occasionally run its own candidates. In the 1998 election for governor of New York, the party cross-endorsed the Democratic Party candidate, Peter Vallone. Because he received more than 50,000 votes on the WFP line, the party gained an automatic ballot line for the succeeding four years. [2] In 2000, Patricia Eddington of the WFP was elected to the New York State Assembly. In the 2002 election, the Liberal Party, running Andrew Cuomo (who had withdrawn from the Democratic primary), and the Green Party, running academic Stanley Aronowitz, failed to reach that threshold and lost the ballot lines they had previously won. This left the WFP as the only left-progressive minor party with a ballot line. This situation will continue until at least 2011 following the party's cross-endorsement of Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 election, in which he received more than 155,000 votes on the Working Families Party line, more than three times the required 50,000. The Working Families Party endorsed Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) in the 2008 presidential election.[3] As of 2006, the executive director of the WFP is Dan Cantor. The party's Co-Chairs are Sam Williams, UAW Region 9 CAP director; Bertha Lewis, ACORN's executive director; and Bob Master of the Communications Workers of America. The WFP also has a powerful alliance with Dennis Rivera and Local 1199/SEIU (Service Employees International Union). The intensely activist union is known to contribute more than $100,000 a year of the party's $1.4 million annual budget.
Steve Tommasone proudly accepts the endorsement of the Working Families Party. Here is a brief description of the WFP and how they were founded and what they represent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Families_Party
if this jerl gets in the town workers will be going to the picket lines you can be sure and the boys in blue will also strike over the mis -treatment the voters want to give the people WAKE UP PEOPLE HE IS RUINING OUR TOWN
there has to be an attourney general investigation WHERE IS THE FBI PEOPLE WE NEED TO FIND OUT HOW HE GOT THAT LINE AND HOW HE HAD THE POLUUTION DUMPED IN THE SWER PLANT LAST WEEK AND HOW HE TOOK OVER THE SENIOR CENTER LIKE HE DID LAST NIGHT WAKE UP PEOPLE GET EGO IN JAIL SOON
That's right Sal--put him in jail. Then I could go visit him because I am on the jail visitation team with an area organization. Imagine the look on his face when I would show up? Maybe Fr. Young could then get him a job. We could rehabilitate him...do you think that would be possible?
We could rehabilitate him...do you think that would be possible?
Look who's calling the kettle black!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
You could never be rehabilitated....there is no cure for stupid!!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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