Watch the council meetings....you can get a leg up....especially facial expressions from Brucker.....and the one that sits on the diaz like a dummy....


are we in America or not ????.....we ALL have a voice no matter to what party one belongs......dictatorship is not an  option.

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uhhh, actually it IS an option. The only one people seem to want right now, actually.

how complacent and brain washed is this society...what good did education do......just book smart and nothing else.......there doesn;t seem to be that hope of a decent government.

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uhhh, actually it IS an option. The only one people seem to want right now, actually.

How many other towns/cities/villages you know where a Mayor fires people for going public with public information? Or where an independent voice gets one booted off the re-election ticket? Or where a lone-independent Council member is excluded from the budget discussions?


Dictatorship def: Government by a single person or by a group that is not responsible to the people or their elected representatives.


Patches, Schenectady IS presently a dictatorship.

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a decent government.

That's an oxymoron...

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OFC you fail to even recognize that Hull is part of this destruction process when he founded Metroplex.

But please continue....

you are correct. And although the original goal of the METROPLEX/GILLEN has gone by the way side.....let's not forget...that if the reps were in power, they would be doing the EXACT same thing. It would just be a different 'friends and family' club!

dems or reps.....they are ALL part of the same corrupt system!!!

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How many other towns/cities/villages you know where a Mayor fires people for going public with public information? Or where an independent voice gets one booted off the re-election ticket? Or where a lone-independent Council member is excluded from the budget discussions?


Dictatorship def: Government by a single person or by a group that is not responsible to the people or their elected representatives.


Patches, Schenectady IS presently a dictatorship.

Yet the mayor attends a dinner at the state museum on world wide open government

INTERESTING AND...........PRICELESS!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Watch the council meetings....you can get a leg up....especially facial expressions from Brucker.....and the one that sits on the diaz like a dummy....are we in America or not ????.....we ALL have a voice no matter to what party one belongs......dictatorship is not an  option.////

Schenectady has been run like a turd world city for decades. Wild borrowing, a Taj Mahal Garage, Millions to narrow Erie for nonexistent pedestrians, stopping Walgreen's from opening on State and dumping
millions into the suburban playpen at Proctor's. Just Brucker? Add Proctor's DEM stooge Perazzo, charity shop killer Marion Porterhouse and Karl Erickson. You reap what you sow. Karl sat there for 5 years voting as
instructed  by the capo and McCheese. The sad part is he could have done more. He knew and went along for the ride. That the DEM morons are finished using him is no surprise.

Democrat Carl Erikson, who runs the council's finance committee, pushed his colleagues to make deeper cuts in the budget, which included eliminating some raises for administrators and not filling positions. A contracts manager connected to General Electric, he was appointed by McCarthy in 2010 when one of the only budget critics in the last nine years, City Councilman Mark Blanchfield, a Democrat, left to become a city judge.

"It's funny that everyone says 'what's going on?'" said Erikson about this year's budget debate. "But it's what's supposed to happen."

It also didn't hurt that a rogue element is at work in City Hall. City budget analyst Jason Cuthbert, who was eventually fired for publicly lambasting McCarthy for his sales tax deal with Schenectady County, passed along his spreadsheets that showed some of McCarthy's budget lines were purposely overstated. Most of Cuthbert's suggestions made it in the City Council's final budget.

Meanwhile, McCarthy's behavior during the budget process has appeared perplexing. He vetoed the council's budget last Friday. But when he had the chance Oct. 30 to voice his concerns during the council meeting when they whittled down his budget, he sat silent.

Perazzo said if the mayor had communicated his opinions about the budget throughout, there might have been a more collaborative relationship.

"It's just the style of the current leadership," Perazzo said. "That was I think part of what made this process different."

And then after Tuesday's vote, McCarthy was almost cheerful about the override, saying that the council must have confidence he'll come up with enough revenue to balance next year's spending plan.

"We want to be at the same place," McCarthy said after the vote. "But we're going down two different roads to get there."

When asked about McCarthy's motivation, Erikson said McCarthy perhaps had no problems with the council's changes, but was attempting to appease certain people with his veto — such as employees whose raises got cut by the City Council.

Either way, Erikson said he's not too concerned with how his party views him, even if he's up for re-election in 2013. "I'm not thinking politically for me next year," Erikson said. "If that was the case, I would have gone with Gary's budget."

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Personally, I appreciate that Erikson is not the run-of-the-mill DEM puppet and he's proven it time and time again. He actually knows about contracts..has a real job (not at Proctors)..has a college degree and is standing up to the injustices the DEM machine has been pushing through the Council for decades.

We lose Erikson, might as well just pack up and leave the City now...oh wait...just ask Parent. It's happening all the time!!!

[quote=891]Meanwhile, McCarthy's behavior during the budget process has appeared perplexing. He vetoed the council's budget last Friday. But when he had the chance Oct. 30 to voice his concerns during the
council meeting when they whittled down his budget, he sat silent. Perazzo said if the mayor had communicated his opinions about the budget throughout, there might have been a more collaborative
relationship.

"It's just the style of the current leadership," Perazo said. "That was I think part of what made this process different."

And then after Tuesday's vote, McCarthy was almost cheerful about the override, saying that the council must have confidence he'll come up with enough revenue to balance next year's spending plan.

"We want to be at the same place," McCarthy said after the vote. "But we're going down two different roads to get there."

They all want to be in bankruptcy court? That's where they are headed. McCheese has style? That's a good one. Nobody wants to use the word  incompetent. The one honest person is removed from office
by the police. As far as Erickson he was right once in 5 years. He is the best of the bad DEM lot. Next to Marion or Proctor's Perazo anyone looks good. Remember Erickson voted for every tax and fee increase
and is head of the pathetic Council Finance Committee. Got taxes?

We're going to have to agree that we disagree on this one Benny.

Here's an appointed guy like Erikson swimming upstream instead of playing brain-dead DEM and voting party line. Have to admit, the man has a backbone...seems like Riggi is a good mentor! Not a Proctors employee, not swayed by political 'duty' but rather, he is a fiscal conservative. Probably the only DEM with fiscal competence within the entire County for that matter!!

He doesn't play politics, he does his job in the best interest of the taxpayers.

http://blog.timesunion.com/localpolitics/14181/schenectady-dems-discuss-council-elections-saturday/

We’ll likely know after Saturday if City Councilman Carl Erikson will get the endorsement of his party, as the committee is interviewing and endorsing incumbents at a lengthy meeting that day. As we reported, some in the party appear none too pleased with Erikson – who has spoken out on financial issues facing the city.

Democrats are also interviewing possible candidates for City Councilwoman Barbara Blanchard’s seat. Democratic committee chairman Richard Naylor said he won’t reveal the candidates as they haven’t declared their intentions publicly yet. But a party insider said they’ve heard that David Fronk, a county legislature employee; Jean T. Carney, an attorney in the Schenectady County Public Defender’s Office of Family Court (and DA Robert Carney’s sister); and former City Council candidate John Mootooveren have expressed interest. Naylor said there won’t be an endorsement vote on those candidates, however, for a couple of weeks.

Will be interesting for sure