Well, DV, everyone else is weighing in. What is YOUR position on the financially struggling people paying the taxes for the rich businesses downtown whilc city services are cut and crime is rampant throughout the city?
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Re Dec. 16 article “Hull’s Alliance Party to target Democrats”: Reading about the new Alliance Party and the principal players reminds me of a “white collar” tea party, with the goals of capped or lower taxes, balanced budget and reduction of expenses through consolidation of services. It’s difficult for a new party to gain enough votes to be successful. The national tea party did it through supporting the Republican candidates, while infl uencing their platform. That’s one way the Alliance Party can end “one party rule,” if that’s part of their goal, by supporting an existing major party and injecting their own candidates into the mix.
Well, DV, everyone else is weighing in. What is YOUR position on the financially struggling people paying the taxes for the rich businesses downtown whilc city services are cut and crime is rampant throughout the city?
And DV still has not weighed in on this
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Well, DV, everyone else is weighing in. What is YOUR position on the financially struggling people paying the taxes for the rich businesses downtown while city services are cut and crime is rampant throughout the city?
Don't hold your breath waiting for a response MC1. Besides who cares? The best thing for the whole County is competition for every single elected office and an end to one party DEM stooge rule.
I know that city hall is 'the people's' house. But didn't anyone find it rather strange that Hull got an exclusive right inside city hall? The city hall group that granted Hull many tax exemptions while under his watch at union college? The one who benefited from the same people that presently hold office in city hall?
So does this mean that any and all candidates who choose to run for mayor or a city council seat will be allowed to announce it from inside city hall?
Just wonderin'.
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
I know that city hall is 'the people's' house. But didn't anyone find it rather strange that Hull got an exclusive right inside city hall? The city hall group that granted Hull many tax exemptions while under his watch at union college? The one who benefited from the same people that presently hold office in city hall?
So does this mean that any and all candidates who choose to run for mayor or a city council seat will be allowed to announce it from inside city hall?
Just wonderin'.
It will make it hard for him to run as a reform candidate when he got all those tax exemptions for Union College. Kind of like running the fox as a candidate for guardian of the chicken house.
On the other hand, Mr. Hull has executive experience - that counts for something.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
ALLIANCE PARTY SCHENECTADY — The Alliance Party of Schenectady will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11, in the Price Chopper Community Room on Eastern Avenue.
New party, old faces Schenectady group billed as effort to renew city politics has GOP support By Lauren Stanforth Staff Writer Published: 12:00 a.m., Monday, January 17, 2011
SCHENECTADY -- Former Union College president Roger Hull is painting his run for the mayor's office, and the creation of a third party around his candidacy, as a chance to bring fresh voices to a one-party government that is in fiscal crisis.
But Hull's Alliance Party includes many faces that voters have seen before.
Many of the party's supporters are Republicans who either ruled before Democrat Brian U. Stratton entered the mayor's office in 2004, or who have tried to break the decades-long Democratic control of City Council.
One organizer, Michael Brockbank, was Republican Mayor Albert P. Jurczynski's city attorney from 1997 to 2003 at a time when Hull and Jurczynski worked closely together on city revitalization efforts. Hull is not enrolled in a party.
Last month, Price Chopper CEO and Republican backer Neil Golub was at Hull's mayoral announcement. The two have been allies since 1992 when they first organized Schenectady 2000 -- a working group of city business people that led to the creation of what's now the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority. Shortly after Metroplex's creation in 1998, then-mayor Jurczynski said in a New York Times article, "I think we should all be marching to the steps of Roger and Neil."
Golub said last week he's considering putting money behind Hull's mayoral campaign, but that he's not involved in the Alliance Party efforts.
Jurczynski, who decided in 2003 not to run for a third four-year term, said he's not involved in politics anymore -- but that he will be a huge supporter of Hull's come November.
"The Republican Party in the city has not been effective for years," said Jurczynski, who is still a registered Republican. "They've been unable to field a slate of candidates. It's pretty pathetic to be honest."
Republican Peter Guidarelli, who narrowly lost to Stratton 2003, is considering running for mayor as well, but he hasn't made an announcement. Stratton has not said yet if he'll run for a third term.
As for other Republicans, former City Councilwoman (and now city school board president) Cathy Lewis is involved in Hull's efforts as is her husband, Republican Brad Lewis, who ran unsuccessfully for a City Council seat in 1999 and is on the Metroplex board. Another party backer is insurance agency owner Brian Merriam, a Republican who ran for City Council and lost in 1999.
"The idea that's new for Schenectady is working across party lines," Hull said Sunday. "What I've tried to do from day one is ensure we have equal numbers of Democrats, Republicans and independents."..................>>>>.......................>>>>...................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/New-party-old-faces-960447.php#ixzz1BI6UbiOi
Alliance Party introduces City Council candidates By PAUL NELSON Staff writer Updated 06:17 p.m., Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Former Union College President Roger Hull, center, whose running for mayor under a third-party Alliance party with candidates for Schenectady City Council (back row from left) Jacqueline Jacquie" Hurd, Madrea Chaires, Vince Riggi and Phil Tiberio during a news conference at Schentady City Hall Tuesday afternoon March 22, 2011. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
SCHENECTADY-- A former General Electric worker, a business owner, a paralegal and a self-proclaimed "unofficial ombudsman" for the people from three political backgrounds were announced as City Council candidates of the Alliance Party led by mayoral hopeful Roger Hull.
"We are people who have strong views but agree on the basic tenets of the Alliance Party," said Hull Tuesday moments before he introduced the quartet to a gathering in the City Hall rotunda. "This is truly an attempt to change politics as usual and an attempt to reach across party lines.
Council candidates Jacquie Hurd, 70, and Vince Riggi, 65, are lifelong city residents who grew up on the same street in the Bellevue neighborhood and are political independents. Hurd is co-founder of the Bellevue Preservation Association and serves on the Schenectady Board of Zoning Appeals. Riggi wants to be an official ombudsman and believes one-party dominance in municipal government is a bad idea.
"There is a lot of energy on this ticket and it's fresh and new," said Riggi, adding that development downtown around Proctors needs to extend into the neighborhoods.
It was a theme underscored by another candidate, Madrea Chaires, 27.
"I think I can offer an younger perspective on issues that plague neighborhoods," said Chaires, a Democrat who lives in Hamilton Hill. She is the niece of Police Chief Mark Chaires.
Rounding out the Alliance slate is Republican Phil Tiberio, 54, who owns Eastern Office Supply in Schenectady and lives in the GE Plot where Hull also resides. Tiberio aims to make the Electric City more business friendly....................>>>>......................>>>>....................Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....03.php#ixzz1HNDEoVNs
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Don't hold your breath waiting for a response MC1. Besides who cares? The best thing for the whole County is competition for every single elected office and an end to one party DEM stooge rule.
