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Maybe a new approach would have been better....LIKE WORKING TOGETHER for the betterment of the communities and not attacking and chopping off the heads of DEMS because they could.

Puddy ~ are you telling us that Fran will be working with the Republicans?  Come on.

As far as Ego and Howdy Doody creating Mertz, it's my understanding that Surhada (the one who took him out) is the one who asked Mertz to get into local politics in the first place.  Ego, Howdy Doody, the Faithful one and Mertz all created this disaster by not getting along.  So, at the end of the day Ego and Mertz are out of office, Doody shows he can't win a county seat for the party and the Faithful one gets _ _ _ t canned by the new Supervisor.

All in all, I think these four guys will probably get invitations to be guests of honor at the Democrat victory party.

(Just ask former councilwoman Marco or future/again councilman Godlewski)

Diane Marco has her own agenda fellas.....She is working to be town clerk and her niece is working to get the deputy town
clerk position.  Hey Diane the public is on to you.

Quoted from marymagdelene1234

(Just ask former councilwoman Marco or future/again councilman Godlewski)

Diane Marco has her own agenda fellas.....She is working to be town clerk and her niece is working to get the deputy town
clerk position.  Hey Diane the public is on to you.

Funny....this was mentioned on this site a long time ago.

No Felipe--this is not about her losing her job at the senior center.  That was a totally unethical and planned move on the part of Tommasone, Mertz and Buchanan to dissolve that position to save money and then hire a legal team that was three times as much as she was being paid. Additionally when she left, every account line for the seniors had money in it.  Because she watched out for the Town's $$$$. That "baggage" should have been a red flag to the town about HOW Tommasone would govern.   Sticking DeGiorgio back in was only to put a warm body in that place. And speaking of being competent in the job she had a Master's
degree and had been a director of a community center in one of Albany's most crime-ridden areas.  In the
end it became an "O" Henry ending.  She lost her job at the senior center and then became the Schenectady County Chair of the Long-Term Care Advisory Council and also became the expert that was sought out to put together an aging-in-place program for seniors.  Baggage is one thing--calling a shot a shot another.  And BTW Vellano was the deciding vote on the reval although she tried to convince senior citizens otherwise.  And now that I know the persona of Howdy Doody--Oh please--he couldn't even keep his
job at the Assembly.

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  Ego, Howdy Doody, the Faithful one and Mertz all created this disaster by not getting along.  So, at the end of the day Ego and Mertz are out of office, Doody shows he can't win a county seat for the party and the Faithful one gets _ _ _ t canned by the new Supervisor.

All in all, I think these four guys will probably get invitations to be guests of honor at the Democrat victory party.

  Invitations if they pay $100?

  This is the HD REP "plan" to let the whole County go down the toilet, refuse to oppose incumbent DEMS, refuse to back fiscal CONS -in order to retain power in this town. Now the enemy is at the gates. Anyone who dared question was disloyal and ignored. Another emperor's new clothes.

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It would seem to me that it took more than John Paolino's signature to "pass" a long needed reval.  Didn't Steve Tommasone's current Comptroller chair a committee of bi-partisan residents that recommended a reval??  Is he still there?? Didn't a Republican member of the past Town Board cast the deciding vote??  Doesn't she have relatives in the Town Admin??  They still there too??  Cmon Cissy wasn't it the entire Town Reps on the board who gave us the sh** storm called Surprise???  Wasn't it the current REPS on the town board who put in a police commission, gave out promo's and hired A councilman's son over the objection's of our CHIEF!!!  C'mon Cissy the heat is gettin to ya.........   This is about decent people paying the price for what?  Because of a reval???  Because John Paolino took another job?  Because John DeGeorgio and Mike Greasemer made big political contributions?  This is about money and more money and more money.

Whose lining their pockets??  Parisi is; I am sure of that....

Don't look at me to defend the Republicans.  I agree with you.  I support the NNTP.  

I know that the Democrat and Republican parties are pretty much the same, as they exist currently.  So voting in Democrats does nothing more than return us to the days of when contractors and cops ran the town, or for more of a vivid description, the days of Jimmy.  The Democrat Party is virtually the same as it was back in the days of Jimmy.  Just without Jimmy.  

For those of us who choose to live in this town, and are not looking to gain anything because of political connections, I suggest voting the No New Tax Party.  As you can see, much of the opposition to the current administration is due to the fact that those who are currently in power replaced town employees who had jobs under previous administrations.(Republicans replaced Democrats)  Some people have sour grapes, and their vitriol is based on their personal loss that occurred during this transfer of power.  Whether it's the cops bitching about a police commission and having their salaries questioned. Or the failed assessor that was sent packing.  Nobody from the Democrat Party or the Republican Party care about the town, they just care about themselves, and how much town money they can pocket.

Nobody will vote on the NNTP line.  How can you view them as better than the other two.  Mertz was with
them and he is as big a screw-up as Tommasone!  So if the NNTP was willing to accept Mertz, than what does it say about the rest of those folks.  Sorry Ciccero, the "sour grapes" theory doesn't hold water at all.  That theory is only employed by folks who refuse to admit that decent people who were doing their jobs
successfully for the town lost them because of backroom politics and they stood idly by and watched so they could get what they needed from corrupt Tommasone and partners. And vitriol you say, I think not.  The
problem most folks have with Liberals is that although they sometimes can suffer from righteous
indignation they mostly welcome everyone to the table. The town is bankrupt because Tommasone and the
rest of the crowd, Mertz and Vellano, were morally bankrupt.  Yes Constantino was not any
better.  NNTP is a wasted vote for everyone.

There are more of us than you think out there that are going to vote row F this year because if you vote for either of the other parties it will be just more of what we've had for years.

Mertz actually had the backbone to stand against his own party on spending and the new taxing districts.  And we can see how that settled with party leadership.  If Mertz were as morally and ethically bankrupt as Tommasone and the rest of the Republican leadership, why would the Republican Party leaders circle the wagons and railroad him out of office?  It doesn't make sense.

Mertz, O'Connor, McGarry, and Littlefield are not donating their time and money so they can personally take care of friends and family through their access to government.  No personal axes to grind(maybe Mertz), for the most part these gentlemen decided to get involved to give the Rotterdam and District 4 residents a choice.  

I have still not heard ONE good reason on why not to vote for st. Again I am NOT voting for st, but this is all just repeated political rhetoric. I'm not voting for him or anyone else that is supporting a tax district for rems. I consider that an informed realistic reason that decides my vote.

The BS on who he/reps booted out and welcomed in....is exactly what the dems are claiming they will do.

They are all one in the same. It is all nonsense at best!

Hogwash Cissy....the REPS knew Mertz was DOA and are trying to save face.  Something to hang on to County wide.  You don't seem to undersatnd that you are blinded by your own wants and needs and that is why the NNTP is doomed.  Mertz is an anchor, a cigar store indian, an albatross.  He will ultametly hurt OConnor in the genereal unless Mike cuts him loose.

Brad, Brian and Mike should have been smart enuff politically to cut Mertz loose the way Tom and Gerry did but they are green and blinded by John Boy's covert vindictivness.  You watch and see how much Mertz "stands" up to the EGO and crew over the next few weeks.  It ain't gonna happen!!!!

There is a certain feel of hope when you cruise around town these days.  Hope that the people's best interests will soon be served by people with heart and soul for the town they live in.  Unlike Steve and crew!.  Mark my words

puddy....there goes more of that rhetoric spin that is going nowhere. Your bitterness over powers your reason.

And the NNTP has much more support than you think! People are very concerned over the 'back to the good old days' nonsense. Why do you think they voted the dems out and the reps in? That's a no brainer. Do you honestly think that the people want that back again?

People actually prefer the reps status quo, as opposed the the 'good old days'. Really! These people actually believe that they are better off now than they were 8 years ago. And they lay the reval and the tax issues at the dems feet.

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I have still not heard ONE good reason on why not to vote for st. Again I am NOT voting for st, but this is all just repeated political rhetoric. I'm not voting for him or anyone else that is supporting a tax district for rems. I consider that an informed realistic reason that decides my vote.

The BS on who he/reps booted out and welcomed in....is exactly what the dems are claiming they will do.

They are all one in the same. It is all nonsense at best!

Try Craig Surprise out for a good reason.  Ask around town there bumble.  How bout Steve bringing Mertz to every ice cream social event the year Dianne smoked em.  How bout encouraging MDV to run for office and then rarely showing up for a meeting.  How bout paying his town att and town chairman six figures, the highest salaried town attornys in the history of Rotterdam Gov.  How bout hiring a "relative" in exchange for the Indep endorsement?  How bout having his bro receive a HUGE  assessment reduction site unseen while 80 yo srs. get wallopped with a BS omitted tax.  Spare me Bumble You in that river in Egypt called DA NILE

"If Mertz were as morally bankrupt as the others"--he is one step below them (thank G-d) because he was
on the "ethics board" when many of us (me included) thought there was hope for that committee.  He was a
disappointment then and it only got worse.  The Republican Party in Rotterdam lost its "gravitas" when they pushed Gus Leshen out.  He was a Republican who understood balance in the party.  O'Connor, Littlefield and McGarry are probably decent men.  (if they were really decent they wouldn't  be interested in
politics.)  The first thing you need to do is work on behalf of anyone who will pull the plug on the "Tom and Jerry" show.   Then kick "howdy's butt to the curb.  Next you need to work to insure
Suhrada will not be part of Rotterdam politics.  (Does he even really live there?)  Let's draft "Shrek!"

Good one Cal I used the Shrek thing years ago and the way Joe Sue Rah Rah was eating cider donuts at St Gabes that Eddie Murphy Donkey better tell him to visit Jenny Craig!  HeHeHe